ctrlalt_g

59 karma · joined March 3, 2016

You use the level 1 or 2 crying for normal stuff and you crank it up to a 4 or 5 for the rare occasions

ctrlalt_gon Four hundred miles with Tesla’s autopilot forced me to trust the machine

Is that written, or just your opinion (professional or otherwise)?

ctrlalt_gon Google's Paris HQ raided in tax probe

My moment of epiphany and shock in law school was on realizing that right and wrong don't exist. As my professor used to say, "It's all theater."

ctrlalt_gon Poultry Workers in Diapers as Bathroom Breaks Denied, Oxfam Says

I'm not sure that being a vegetarian protects you from the effects of poor working conditions in American factories. As long as there is widespread exploitation of undocumented or otherwise vulnerable workers, I think conditions like these will continue to be fairly common.

ctrlalt_gon Told reading tests are a game, boys score higher

If the parents are gendered, how can they possibly present a gender-neutral environment? They would have to cross-dress, vary their speech and mannerism, vary the length of their hair, be androgynous...

Perhaps the parents you're referring to are failing to realize just how strongly gendered their lives are.

ctrlalt_gon Italian court rules food theft 'not a crime' if hungry

The state isn't mandating anything. Store owners can physically prevent people from stealing their wares if they wanted to.

ctrlalt_gon Italian court rules food theft 'not a crime' if hungry

A few days is nothing. Fasting for a few days actually feels great. Weeks and months of being constantly hungry, though, probably feels awful.

ctrlalt_gon Time Machines

Oh, it's definitely not cool to force people to do things. I didn't know it was like that. Someone probably thought that it's a really important problem, though. Like, if it were up to me, I'd be okay with forcing students to take a course on global warming, since I think global warming is a really important problem. But that's just me though. Anyway, I'm sorry you had to spend time doing stuff you weren't all that interested in.

ctrlalt_gon Time Machines

Hi, I'm just some dude, but wouldn't it be best for everyone to work on the problem until the problem is solved? Also, what about philosophers who are also physicists? I had a physics professor in college who had a degree in philosophy, and she didn't seem to mind talking with non-physics philosophers about physics-related topics.

ctrlalt_gon An Experimental Autism Treatment Cost Me My Marriage

Do you have any reading recommendations for your practice?

ctrlalt_gon On asking job candidates to code

Good luck!

ctrlalt_gon Peanut allergy theory backed up by new research

> It may be anecdotal and specific to me

Just stop right there.