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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you could add, remove, or alter one single bodily function, what would it be?⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Remove need to sleep. You would get ~33% more time every day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i have been living in middle east for almost 20 years and would like to be an american/canadian citizen, how can i become 1? how much will it cost? ar there other western nations which have easyproces⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re 15 years late for Europe.

  Do you have any special qualifications like a doctorate in something?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Slowly but surely grown over the years but Covid probably contributed a lot in a short time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could human stomach acid be bioengineered to break down microplastics?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m fairly sure you would not want to break them down so your body could absorb whatever is in them more easily.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  About three times the usual speed on a highway.

  And a highway is about three times the allowed speed of a school zone.

  So roughly the same as driving highway speeds in a school zone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  2 or 4 depending on how strict you are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m no expert in trafficking but I generally agree with you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's so important about keeping military operations secret?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Attackers get to choose where and when to attack. Defenders get to dig in and prepare defenses.

  The attacker don’t want the defender to know where and when, because then they will just reinforce that area. Defenders don’t want the attackers to know where and when they are weak (eg troop rotation)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hypothetically, if you are in prison and want to communicate with the outside world without being detected, what are some ways to hide a message within an innocuous letter?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re important enough they won’t let you send letters at all.

  If you’re unimportant, well anything you agreed on beforehand should be okay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this true? Software companies had diversity quotas to meet, and realized it was easier to turn autistic men into women than it was to turn women into software engineers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Troll grade: C-.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can’t HVAC be made smarter?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What kind of sensor do you suggest for measuring that? I’m genuinely curious why they are not industry standard.

  My guess is price and/or robustness. The RTCs we use are cheap and durable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can’t HVAC be made smarter?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are a lot of smart engineers that design those.

  If you have an external temperature measurement it helps. But it can’t see the difference between a cloudy day and a sunny day.

  If you connect it to an online weather service that helps, but it’s still hard for it to know how much the sun heats your home due to big south facing windows for example.

  This is something AI could be useful for. Feed it forecast, inside, outside temp and let it figure out how to balance those against each other for your home. I’m not sure there are many systems like this on the market yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does leasing the land pay enough to make it worthwhile? Gives you time to think.

  If it’s fertile land you should probably use it, or lease it, to grow food.

  Farming is not easy. Until you learnt to be good at it you’ll put in a lot of hours into making not much money after costs have been paid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you do this Technically?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  By prosecuting people/companies who does not label their AI generated content?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a Russian stock market people invest in?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And to answer the other part of the question about trust: All stock markets are risky. If you think one exchange is more risky you will not buy any stock on it until it’s cheap enough to make up for the risk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s illegal get the law enforcement involved.

  Mob justice is not a good idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could authoritarians rule with capitalizing on fear, hate, and ignorance?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there any example that shows it would work in practice?

  Why would they not just be a democracy if people would choose to keep them in power regardless?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can autocracy exist without a media apparatus?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a few millennia where kings, chieftans, emperors and the likes were more common than not before we had media. So I’d argue it’s easier to be autocrat without media.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do new US Tariff on Steel/Aluminium apply only on the metal weight or on all the engineering work to design the metal part ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I buy steel for $1000 and pay 10% tariff the total cost is $1100

  If I make a car out of the steel and sell it I don’t pay any tariff. But I’ll charge $100 more because my steel cost was higher. (If someone abroad buys it their government may force them to pay a tariff, but I don’t see that directly).

  If I buy an engine I’ll pay the engine tariff, they don’t care if it’s made of aluminium, steel, wood or whatever. The custom officer will look at it and say that it is an engine and therefore it will be subject to engine tariffs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people give their unwaivering support to autocrats?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A minority of the population benefits from an autocracy.

  And/or they will be seen as traitors to whatever comes to power after the autocrat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can a military buy fighter jets that the seller has kill switches for?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t need them.

  Stop selling spare parts and they will soon be useless.

  They are incredibly maintenance intense even in peace time. In wartime even more so because even minor combat damage adds up.

  Iran bought 79 F-14 in 1974. Revolution and arms embargo 1979. In 1984 they had 15 airworthy planes kept in shape by taking parts from other F-14s.

  They have since got some spare parts from hostage deals and the black market. Probably reverse engineering too so they have about 40 of them flyable. But the 5 first year has 80% of the fleet grounded should say something about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it a common thing for people who have left authoritarian countries to still feel the fear of their now-former country?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They could assassinate you on foreign soil, and they have (Khashoggi comes to mind, any others I should be aware of?)

  But how common is it unless you’re a major regime critic?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's easier to shoot, a bow or a firearm?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I bet it would take me 15 minutes to teach you to put 80% of shots on a dinner plate target at 100m with my 50 year old hunting rifle I got for free of an old man who moved to the city.

  Classical bows require strength to use. They have no sights either so you have to go by feel. Modern compound bows are easier to shoot but the arrow still drops much more than a bullet, so shooting at longer ranges is harder.

  Smaller caliber guns can be suppressed to be fairly quiet. A bow will be quieter but not by an order of magnitude.

  The advantage of a bow is that it’s easier to find somewhere to practice because even the most reckless shot the arrow does not travel as far before it drops to the ground. You can also reuse your arrows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does it make sense to buy a lifetime supply of honey?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s probably better to buy it along the way.

  Yes inflation will make honey more expensive over the coming 50 years or so. But it will make everything else more expensive too.

  I’ll keep my money on a savings account instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The memes, they write themselves.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In a way they answered your question.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re not allowed to ask that question. You have been fined $120. Please deposit this amount in bitcoin here:…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Having a baby? Use this one weird trick!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We don’t recognize birthright citizenship. You’ll have to fill in the paperwork like everyone else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just posting some memes that would have hit hard in the 1920s-30s⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Could also split them into two factions that have a little war between each other with your town as a battlefield.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨imagine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t one argument against GMO that they could spread and outcompete other crops? In that case a terminator gene would even be a good thing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The one drawback to walking at night⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I like to do a fun exercise every time I read something like this.

  Swap the word for who you are accusing with some other group. If this make the statement distasteful then the statement is distasteful in it’s orginal form.

  The Left like to blame men, the right like to blame immigrants so for example: “it’s a shame immigrants love to commit murder”.

  Why is it okay to say men love to murder but not immigrants?