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- Comment on Can the public expect to get to see Luigi Mangione's 3 page manifesto in its entirety in a reasonable timeframe? 1 week ago:
I missed a lot of he’s already on #3
- Comment on Torrent of Hate for Health Insurance Industry Follows C.E.O.’s Killing 2 weeks ago:
I think you’re right. I was imagining what a meeting of executives would be like in the wake of this, and I can just see them continuing to follow the almighty dollar, because that is the one true incentive that all others lead to. Anybody who proposed taking a hit to revenue to be more moral would be fired by the board.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 2 weeks ago:
The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid “dens of crime” that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. CS Lewis - Screwtape Letters (preface)
- Comment on Torrent of Hate for Health Insurance Industry Follows C.E.O.’s Killing 2 weeks ago:
If you’re going to quote that you should quote the rest of it:
but almost always from health complications or accidents. A targeted attack could have much larger implications.
They’re not begging for sympathy, they go on to talk about the effect this act will have on the health insurance companies, which is what we all want to see.
- Comment on Torrent of Hate for Health Insurance Industry Follows C.E.O.’s Killing 2 weeks ago:
Ex US attorney Preet Bharara says that an important boundary is when a fantasy “graduates”, going from protected free speech to credible threat.
- Comment on Gnorts 2 weeks ago:
We can be heroes. i.imgur.com/hdT6mQm.mp4
- Comment on Diptera 2 weeks ago:
It took me way too long to read this. I was like “wtf are hou-selfies?”
- Comment on I just watched the wrong version of Drive (2011), and didn't realize until the last 10 minutes. Any similar stories? 3 weeks ago:
This happened to me with The Godfather in the Italy scenes.
- Comment on Please Disable Your Ad Blocker 4 weeks ago:
“Disable your ad-blocker” is the internet’s “hey kid, want some candy?”
- Comment on Is there any point for current US-based "skilled immigrants" to stay in the US? 4 weeks ago:
Immigrants often have families in their new country. You can’t think about those people as individuals because they would likely stay for their family, which would be hard to move.
- Comment on rollin' deep 4 weeks ago:
Skaters of the world unite!
- Comment on Great except every delivery estimate at every point said Friday, November 22 4 weeks ago:
It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be REDUCED to twenty grammes a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 5 weeks ago:
theguardian.com/…/power-grid-battery-capacity-gro…
US power grid added battery equivalent of 20 nuclear reactors in past four years
- Comment on the lifestyle 5 weeks ago:
It me, but excel is the bad option and plotly is the good option.
- Comment on Are there opposing institutions to things like the Heritage Foundation? Are there liberal policy think-tanks? 1 month ago:
Yes. For instance www.brennancenter.org recently did a tabletop exercise where they looked for all the worst things that could happen during a trump second term and looked for ways to stop them from happening. See (or rather hear) youtu.be/9SlnDvGHhBw
- Comment on Stop Wasting Pumpkins! 1 month ago:
Pumpkin curry is sooooo good.
- Comment on Peak performance 1 month ago:
Tell that to the people driving the dirt road outside my neighborhood.
- Comment on Has Dr. Strange ever given a diagnosis mid fight? 1 month ago:
For a second I read this as “Dr. Strangelove” and was really confused.
- Comment on What does this emoji mean? Is this a British thumbs up? 1 month ago:
It may be the Shaka, but in emoji it’s “call me” emojipedia.org/call-me-hand
- Comment on Proud globohomo 1 month ago:
Yeah, chapter 1 page 2 actually haha but the whole book is good.
- Comment on Proud globohomo 1 month ago:
This is so Carl Sagan.
And so we got to talking. But not, as it turned out, about science. He wanted to talk about frozen extraterrestrials languishing in an Air Force base near San Antonio, “channeling” (a way to hear what’s on the minds of dead people—not much, it turns out), crystals, the prophecies of Nostradamus, astrology, the shroud of Turin … He introduced each portentous subject with buoyant enthusiasm. Each time I had to disappoint him: “The evidence is crummy,” I kept saying. “There’s a much simpler explanation.” … And yet there’s so much in real science that’s equally exciting, more mysterious, a greater intellectual challenge—as well as being a lot closer to the truth. Did he know about the molecular building blocks of life sitting out there in the cold, tenuous gas between the stars? Had he heard of the footprints of our ancestors found in 4-million-year-old volcanic ash? What about the raising of the Himalayas when India went crashing into Asia? Or how viruses, built like hypodermic syringes, slip their DNA past the host organism’s defenses and subvert the reproductive machinery of cells; or the radio search for extraterrestrial intelligence; or the newly discovered ancient civilization of Ebla that advertised the virtues of Ebla beer? No, he hadn’t heard. Nor did he know, even vaguely, about quantum indeterminacy, and he recognized DNA only as three frequently linked capital letters.
- Comment on why does every single flashlight have multiple settings that you have to scroll through? 2 months ago:
I picked up some stranded skaters in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night because they flashed SOS with their headlights after I drove past them. They had been there for like 8 hours. I’m sure they would’ve rather had a flashlight to do the work for them.
But I agree that there should be another UI for getting to the emergency flashing. Like hold for 5 seconds or something unlikely to be used during normal operation.
I have a flashlight that has multiple flashy settings, but they are disabled after like 5 or 10 seconds of idle power on time. So the first click turns it on, and if you wait a while, the next click turns it off.
- Comment on Man Resigns on First Day After Indian Boss Expects Overtime Without Pay: Work-life Balance is 'Western Behaviour' - News18 2 months ago:
But when you’re paid, do you always see the job through?
- Comment on All the Disney+ films and TV shows that have been deleted from the service 2 months ago:
Your body count?
- Comment on All the Disney+ films and TV shows that have been deleted from the service 2 months ago:
The list is way smaller than I expected.
- Comment on Why do all languages share the same intonation for questions? 2 months ago:
They append the word “no” to the statement.
“How are you?” Is “you’re good, no?” But the word “no” does not have a rising tone.
Tonal languages are hard for non-tonal language speakers to pick up because of this. On the flip side, it can be tough for tonal language speakers to grasp the tonal inflections in English, and sometimes speak like robots before they understand how to use them.
- Comment on Why do all languages share the same intonation for questions? 2 months ago:
Vietnam’s doesn’t. The rising tone that you hear at the end of an English language question can change the literal meaning of a word in Vietnamese.
- Comment on What's his DJ name? 2 months ago:
50 Dinar
- Comment on What can I do with US$10K that is a good investment? 2 months ago:
Second vote for VTI.
- Comment on Phonebooks 2 months ago:
I hated how these were delivered to you whether you wanted them or not. So much junk.
They made really great fires though if you tore each page out and crumpled them up.
Also interesting, I took one about an inch or so thick and shot it point blank with a 12 gauge shotgun and tiny yellow circular confetti came out, which was neat to see.