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- Comment on 4 days 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 6 days ago:
I should know the ‘/s’ is mandatory online but it was obvious enough in my head at least
- Comment on cycle 6 days 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?? 1 week 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?? 1 week 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?? 1 week 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?? 1 week 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?? 1 week 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 1 week 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. 1 week 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. 1 week ago:
That would exclude Mulan
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 1 week ago:
The best kind f camouflage
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 1 week 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? 1 week 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) 1 week 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] 1 week 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? 2 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? 2 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
- Comment on Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed? 2 weeks ago:
Right. For example my browser did a perfectly cromulent job of translating what you just wrote into a language I can read …… unless you weren’t talking about a plot to take over the world
- Comment on Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed? 2 weeks ago:
Or sometimes just to have a sane conversation.
Given practically any forward looking or quality of life topic: here it’s dominated by politics, illegal program cuts, incompetent leaders selected only for personal loyalty, breaking it for the sake of breaking it. Can’t we discuss things like adults?
- Comment on Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed? 2 weeks ago:
Even as an American and as a supporter of the freedom of these federated model, I have to wonder if there should be a mandated taxonomy. I don’t want to restrict anyone’s freedom of expression, but I want there to be some basic organization such that I can be an informed consumer
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Why should that be it? Throw in Deism to understand the attitude of the US founders, then round out most of the population with Islam, Hindu, Jainism, and probably many more. You have to cover Judaism because of its influence on Christianity. And of course agnostics and atheism to round out the beliefs. You’ll never hit all the possibilities but perhaps it would be ok to cover families of beliefs, such as if native belief systems are similar (I have no idea and that’s a shame)
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Personally I do think it should be required to post some amount of Islamic concepts. Among the many ways we are too provincial is seeing everything through the eyes of a single religion family. Even our friends and neighbors seem alien when we aren’t even aware there are other religions.
Let’s require at least some comparative religion study, perhaps in social studies and history. The major religions have had a huge impact on the development of our societies and we should all be more familiar with beliefs held in common or u destined where they’re actually different (and not just the Fix News version)
- Comment on They made his car "cease & desist" 3 weeks ago:
In any sane world that would be a trivial lawsuit to win
- Comment on I resigned to my last job and now I need to talk to my former boss to get the job back. Any recommendations? 3 weeks ago:
Apparently a plaque of an apple with lots of gold can buy a pass
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 3 weeks ago:
For sure, that’s the whole reason for being willing to tip. Employees asre most likely to be scammed and at least tipping makes it right for one subset of those
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 3 weeks ago:
Then you’re assuming a clear pattern of fraud, not just one server cheating. That’s bigger than just not tipping
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 3 weeks ago:
Bullshit. Hopefully it’s one server and management should take care of it. But it’s appropriate to complain to the right authority so they can see if it’s a pattern in need of enforcement.
This is how things get done. A single instance of food poisoning can be a mistake, but a pattern of food poisoning is potentially in need of enforcement and remediation. But they can’t see a pattern if no one complains
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 3 weeks ago:
Not only that but that waitress at a diner is probably providing a hell of a lot better service than that bartender where I have to wave money just to get served
- Comment on What is the maximum number of potatoes you could grow in your house or on property you own before it becomes a crime? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah but a large electric bill seems to be enough to get a warrant