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- Comment on peach: frozen 21 hours ago:
Maybe the problem is the internet. It used to be easy to say that speech should be free, no matter what. But the internet has given a bigger stage while distancing people from real life consequences, allowing them to do real harm to society.
Kirk is a great example. He could have preached his hatred alone on a corner in a small village, but he got a pulpit, he faced no real life consequences, and he caused harm increasing our divisiveness, pitting neighbor against neighbor, encouraging hatred, and that is before the effect on government services.
- Comment on Important update: It's 10 poptarts 2 days ago:
You have to buy frosted. You have to toast them. Otherwise they’re just cardboard: you can’t really tell them apart from the box
- Comment on What’s the actual reason neurodivergent people are sometimes discriminated against or bullied? 3 days ago:
Usually neurodivergent isn’t relevant. People are bullied because they’re different and because they’re an easy target, regardless of why they’re different
- Comment on How popular/important do you have to be for your death by homicide to be labeled as an "assassination"? What if the homicide is for a private matter that's separate from their importance? 4 days ago:
government leaders and other prominent persons for political purposes
I guess it depends on who you call prominent but yes, the billionaire? CEO of one of the biggest healthcare companies in the US was in a prominent (important) position regardless whether anyone knew who he was. And yes there is evidence of a political purpose.
I have to say that going into this my reaction was no, this is not an assassination. However looking at the linked definition and thinking it through changed my opinion
- Comment on THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come 4 days ago:
false flag operation
Claims like this give both too much credit for action and too little to strategy.
- there’s no reason to believe this specific action was a false flag operation when in the current environment it’s simple to believe a radicalized individual
- isn’t that one of the benefits of the continuous hatred, outrage, divisiveness, chaos? There’s always going to be stuff like this happening, so you always have an event to capitalize on without the risk of doing it yourself
- Comment on Clock logic 4 days ago:
It only solves a small part of the issue at the cost of less convenience and consistency. Propose a “metric” time that solves more of this issue problem and I’m all for it
- Comment on For people who relocated: when did you realize you want to live in the new place long-term & why? 4 days ago:
Hahaha. When I was in college I visited the Boston area and fell in love with it. It took me a couple of jobs but I eventually made it and would never turn back
- love the history
- love the academics, more youthful society
- love the politics, quality of life issues
- I’m in tech so I love the job opportunities
…. And yes I love the mild weather. While this is essentially the same latitude I grew up at, being on the coast moderates it a lot. It never really gets cold (relatively), never has much snow, and the snow melts quickly. Although I don’t like the humidity
- Comment on Is there an increasing trend in the fear of germs/contamination (Mysophobia/Germophobia) ever since Covid-19, or is it just me? 4 days ago:
I definitely am, and other people seem to be, more aware of germs, epidemics, etc. it’s not just the effects of COViD but the ongoing efforts to deny science and modern medicine.
Every time taco don disbands another public health agency or brain worm spouts nonsense, it reminds me how easily we lost so many people. We not only didn’t learn anything but are somehow worse off, but I’m reminded to wash my hands better and more, seek out annual vaccines, get a supply of masks for the winter
- Comment on How come butthole scratches doesn't get infected with poop bacteria ? 5 days ago:
You’re not supposed to use regular paper
- Comment on Make America Great! 1 week ago:
Historically separation of powers worked. We’ve never had such a naked power grab by the executive branch, so many illegal orders, ignoring the courts, a sycophant congress. Agency leaders were generally competent and tried to fulfill agency missions. There’s never been such blatant bribery, spite based action, conflict of interest, profiteering off government roles, insider trading. Previous administrations mostly followed the constitution.
Sure we have our share of unethical actions by the government but they generally stayed within the legal structure of the government and were somewhat accountable.
- Comment on Make America Great! 1 week ago:
As recently as 3 years ago I was inspired by huge investments in renewable energy and climate change, starting to work on a huge backlog of infrastructure work, there was hope for high speed rail, incentives to bring manufacturing back to the us, support for unions, we had an ethical fact-based government, the rule of law and primacy of the constitution, respected all people and were working on quality of life improvements ……
Remind me again why we voted to tear all that down?
- Comment on If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties? 1 week ago:
Even if your costs only break even, you’re building equity
Often the difference in profitability is whether you pay for a property manager or do the work yourself
I know a couple people who did it and made money, fwiw. They gave up so they didn’t have to deal with people
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, maybe I’m fooling myself but it really seems like hanging back more makes me have to do more sudden braking. Traffic seems smoothest when I’m close enough to discourage cut-ins …. Even if that means Im more at the mercy of traffic in front flowing down a bit
- Comment on cycle 2 weeks ago:
I should know the ‘/s’ is mandatory online but it was obvious enough in my head at least
- Comment on cycle 2 weeks ago:
Of course. What if she doesn’t have a man nearby to explain how she feels? Women need this
- Comment on Why aren't you creating more workers?? 3 weeks ago:
It’s only a dumb question if you’re looking at all the people now. Birth rates across the board are declining and most developed countries are well below replacement. We’re just not noticing yet because people live like 80 years.
Most population projections have us peaking in 25-50 years, then population declines. That’s not all bad but how steeply does population decline and when does it stop? How does it impact economies, politics, who had influence and power. It looks like it could be steep and disruptive, with no prediction on when it will level off.
However if we start mitigating that, start encouraging people to have children, provide more support for raising children, give more hope to potential parents, working together for a brighter future consistently for the next 50 years perhaps we can manage the decline for least disruption. Perhaps we can find a sustainable population to level off at which is still big enough for today’s rapid advancements
- Comment on Why aren't you creating more workers?? 3 weeks ago:
But we’ve usually made up for it with relatively high immigration, so we’re ok for now as long as we don’t screw with that ……
- Comment on Why aren't you creating more workers?? 3 weeks ago:
But that’s the thing - it will take 50 years …. After we start.
Continuing to make it more of a challenge to raise kids is not an auspicious start
- Comment on Why aren't you creating more workers?? 3 weeks ago:
Children also do disgusting things but they usually grow out of it, whereas a cat can be joking up hairballs its entire lufe
- Comment on Why aren't you creating more workers?? 3 weeks ago:
It’s always economically viable, just a matter of tracking all the expenses and adding it to the child’s debt. As soon as it’s old enough to work you can garnish it’s wages for all that unpaid debt
- Comment on Kirkland strong 3 weeks ago:
Except Kirkland peanut butter is a miss. It tastes great but is mostly oil. Something like Teddys has a higher proportion of peanut solids
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 3 weeks ago:
the mean person uses about 1.7mg per day
So we can solve drug abuse by being nice?
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 3 weeks ago:
That would exclude Mulan
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 3 weeks ago:
The best kind f camouflage
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 3 weeks ago:
I used to read analog clocks to the nearest five minutes. It’s just a quick glance and you (used to) rarely need to be that exact.
However my kids never got used to analog clocks despite an annoying number scattered throughout our house. It takes them too long to process what I mean by “quarter of”. They’re in college this year so it’s time to surrender in that battle. Now I’m the one who spends too much time reading analog clocks, trying to read them to nearest minute.
With digital clocks everywhere, gps exact trip times, scheduled meetings, society has gotten much more exact with time anyway. Being within five minutes is no longer good enough
- Comment on What’s even the appeal of Linux? 3 weeks ago:
Similar here but in reverse
- macOSX on my work laptop
- windows n my home laptop
- raspbian and Ubuntu on my home servers
- but realistically most of my non-work activity is on iOS
- Comment on My IP address is apparantly suspicious? What? (Real IP, not a VPN) 3 weeks ago:
My tablet is running afoul of the Netflix “home” network lock. I speculate it’s either that I have location disabled or Apple Private Relay. Perhaps you have similar?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I have to say, I feel some regret for doing that to my kids. I understand it’s not really my choice and height is a shallow characteristic, but I’m 6’3” and my sons ended up 5’7” and 5’9”. Sure it’s about average but the one physical plus I could have given them, and I married someone 5’2”
- Comment on How would one exit a black hole? 4 weeks ago:
As a jet of energy, assuming you haven’t actually crossed the event horizon
- Comment on Why is "mythology" in the public domain in the first place? 4 weeks ago:
There’s also the difficulty of a identifying any originator, since “mythology” usually means many versions known by many people, and is typically an oral tradition before being printed