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balt_s··on China, Leverage, and Values
> a threat to the whole world

This is rich. In modern times, how often has China intervened in the affairs of a foreign state? I am writing this from America btw.

balt_s··on Alexis Ohanian speaks out against “always-on” work culture
> the people who start companies are the most individualistic members of society.

So they're all like each other in that they are all unique individuals, like the lads in Dead Poets Society!

balt_s··on Seattle police use family DNA, latest science to identify killer 52 years later
This is a faith statement not based in objective fact. Materialism has this to say about the dead; other religions express their beliefs differently.
balt_s··on US Ride-Share Drivers Ready for Countrywide Strike Ahead of Uber IPO
> What new system will we use (..)

Starvation, if human history is any guide.

balt_s··on Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWars and Others
> A lot of clones do exist.

Name three.

balt_s··on Microplastics Are Blowing in the Wind
"Give it fifty million years, and all that will be left of our era will be a layer of rock an eighth of an inch thick with an unusually large number of radioactive isotopes and some odd carbon compounds."
balt_s··on 2.7M Americans Still Get Netflix DVDs in the Mail
Wow only 60 USD/year! They're practically giving this publically-funded resource away!
balt_s··on A huge fireball exploded in Earth's atmosphere in December, according to Nasa
Everyone else likely missed it, but I want you to know I appreciate this joke.
balt_s··on Tumblr has lost 30 percent of web traffic since December
Oh please, so they're suddenly far more moral than snap/insta/insert-photo-share-site-here? What an absurd reach
balt_s··on John Ioannidis Aims His Bazooka at Nutrition Science (2018)
That's racist.

/s

balt_s··on How the US has hidden its empire
We're a bit past that right now.
balt_s··on Unemployment is low only because 'involuntary' part-time work is high
> I really don't care for this model. Hope something comes about to intervene.

Nature bats last.

balt_s··on What it’s like to pursue a dream for 30 years and fail
This guy has led what sounds like a charmed life -- flying to places such as Spain, France, England, Denmark -- while having enough disposable income to pursue his passion project (which project is not bullshit, nor does he sound like a bullshitter). Is this really what we moderns call "failure"?
balt_s··on Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made [pdf]
I am more than a little frightened that many would find this an acceptable solution.
balt_s··on It’s probably time to learn Chinese
Where would you rather live and work: a random African country, or China? Does this answer change in 50 years?
balt_s··on Amazon Promised Drone Delivery in Five Years Five Years Ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=seattle+apartments+with+dron...

Sounds dubious.

balt_s··on Monarch butterfly populations in U.S. west are down an order of magnitude
> If you're a fan of this line of reasoning, I recommend the author Charles Eisenstein.

Check out John Michael Greer for another very clear and cogent writer on this topic.

balt_s··on RPG.net bans posts in support of Trump
> Intolerance of intolerance is the only acceptable form of intolerance.

This seems vulnerable to a meta-level attack: "who gets to decide what is intolerable?"

balt_s··on Bypass Paywalls – A Firefox extension to bypass paywalls of many news sites
> Realistically though, the answer is that paid journalism disappears, or the Internet as we know it disappears. Increasingly lately it's looking like both will happen.

Seems a touch hyperbolic. My question would be: what part of the internet depends on paid journalism and how would the disappearance of paid journalism effect e.g. buy stuff online, looking at pornography, or accessing social media?

balt_s··on Time to End Factory Farming?
Conspecifics are more important than other species.
balt_s··on It’s better to be born rich than gifted
> Should parents be allowed

To paraphrase: "the question is not who will let them, but who will stop them?"

balt_s··on Tech Workers Now Want to Know: What Are We Building This For?
Assume you live in a "first-world" nation, how do you propose to become a subsistence farmer?
balt_s··on Spice is throwing up problems not seen with other drugs
Thanks for the anecdote, baby.
balt_s··on Ranch Nation
In the decades to come, men will look back on articles such as this and curse the existence of we moderns for our extravagant wastefulness.
balt_s··on Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads
You could try the browser addon "Keepa" which show some historical price data -- very useful.
balt_s··on Can We Survive the Next Financial Crisis?
That's a pretty unfair moral judgment to throw out; considering that every use of resources involves at least an implicit tradeoff, I'll go ahead and risk damnatio by wondering aloud how many people in poor countries could be saved by the use of a fraction of this resource expenditure.
balt_s··on Why work has failed us: Because no one can afford to retire anymore
Let's see what happens in a decade.
balt_s··on How the EU may force all artists to use Youtube forever
> We need a new internet

Let me know when it's done; seems you've got your work cut out for you..

balt_s··on Some Techies Are Shunning Silicon Valley for the Japanese Dream
I just want to say thank you for this detailed and informative account; you have surely aided a number of people today.
balt_s··on Are we alone? Tiny spacecraft will head to Alpha Centauri to find out
> a comics megaweapon capable of blowing spacecrafts from orbit

So it does have some use other than just launching probes..

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