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Certainly the Mormons won’t show up, nor JWs with their watchtower pamphlets./s If there’s one thing Christians love, it’s inviting strangers to dinner. It’s biblical. They will also pray for you and thank God for the good food and company. Some find this “do good always” attitude horrifying, but probably because they’ve never been exposed to good Christians. Remember, most humans are good, even the Christians!

Seems like nuclear power is always the elephant in the room. Wish people that like to post emotional comments about climate change spent similar time pushing for nuclear power. Some change in public sentiment around nuclear power would be much more impactful than “Because of my political opponents, we’re all gonna burn alive!” I tend to think we will need some sort of geoengineering solution, but I think nuclear power has to be part of any effort to reduce emissions. No easy answers.

Be careful what you wish for.

People don’t want the government to say what they can and can’t do to their own bodies. I can see why people want to draw that particular line in the sand. Despite my personal desire that everyone do the moral, patriotic and practical thing and get vaccinated, I also don’t really want big brother super involved into individuals medical decision making. People should have autonomy over their own body, not the state. It doesn’t seem too unreasonable to think that reducing funding or even eliminating specific state managed health programs might be a great way to curtail such government encroachment and incentivize the massive health care system already in place to do its job so the big brother doesn’t have to step in and break everyone’s freedom.

“reason I just cut in line is because I am, at least somewhat, generally a jerk.”

The research doesn’t support this though. Behavior seems to be mostly a function of the social context, as milgrim learned. We would love to be snowflakes but we are all pretty much the same.

Here’s the definition of populism: “a political approach that strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups.”

Does that not describe both of our political parties?

Self improvement requires not falling into the mindset of blame. It’s “them” destroying the planet, rather than “us” solving the hard problems together. I think only human understanding and mastery of ego will determine the fate of the planet. We can do it, if we work on ourselves first.

Most wine today is fake and terroir isn’t as important as micro-aeration or various additives like oak chips or mega purple.

Also -Open source is better for serious work -Excel is notoriously buggy and shouldn’t be used for anything important, yet it is and the costs are enormous. Many articles on this.

How do I find these movies? Amazon has some old, mostly low quality movies, but nothing good or recent. They got rid of the criterion collection years ago. Sincere question: How does one even find or acquire films today? I’d love to watch a movie, but literally don’t know how to go about it anymore. Netflix is not an answer as most of their content are not movies and basically spam to me.

The parties can be improved without dismantling. In fact, that’s exactly what must happen and indeed the fate of our democracy depends upon it happening.

“Art Garfunkel music video, and was then recommended a highly-sensationalised political video titled “Trump Debate Moderator EXPOSED as having Deep Democrat Ties, Media Bias Reaches BREAKING Point.”

It was much harder to figure out the connection on that one. But seriously, most of this is just demographics. It’s not like there’s a conspiracy to control information or anything crazy like that. I remember the panic about the creepy kids cartoons. It’s just algorithms doing their thing. Get used to it.

Intelligent design.

Exactly, educated doesn’t mean schooled/credentialed. The word for this is “discrimination”— the more educated people we produce the less discriminating our institutions must be. If academia doesn’t discriminate the few from the many, it’s non-functional. Colleges are not to educate the public, they’re supposed to advance human knowledge. These are incongruent goals.

That’s very reassuring. I was worried they’d just keep “doing what the other guys do” and not try to invest in info sec as a specific business strategy. However I do wonder if average people won’t ultimately side with the small businesses, their dentist or local mom and pop, over rich young programmers, cyber gangs and their bitcoins.

But the company said, "We don't believe that they were in our network,"

They wouldn’t say that if they weren’t 100% certain right? /s

Only properly fitted n95 masks, which require professional training to use properly.

“ China has already “gone first” ”

Nobody believes this. China has a horrible record when it comes to pollution, and to make the opposite claim is a bit outlandish.

Here’s a question: why does 75% of all Bitcoin mining occur in China[0]?

[0]https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22256-3

Or those who talk about supply and the need for environmental deregulation to stimulate supply but never consider questions about what exactly is driving demand (hint: it’s not increasing birth rates), before you give up on environmental impact protections.

I think part of the problem is this misconception that the solution to climate change issues require winning a war of hearts and minds. Let’s assume you cannot educate everyone, but instead climate change will be a problem understood and solved by a subset of people, maybe a single person. It may be the case we can never get the majority to care or understand; then what?

Yes, we do both and yes honest working poor people think about it often. All debt cancellation is regressive. Only wealthy people and children (who are still used to having wealthy parents) support corporate and other “million dollar” bailouts.

If it’s not “million dollar”, just $10-20k or something it wouldn’t require a bailout.

Bailouts are for rich people.

“ groups of individuals accomplish collective action (1, 2, 26). This phenomenon has been studied in a variety of disciplines, from anthropology, social psychology, sociology, political science, management, communication studies, economics, animal behavior, and sociobiology, to computer science, statistical physics, and the emerging domain of computational social science”

Everyone is a psychologist they just don’t want to admit it. :) He leaves out marketing, which is weaponized psychology. If we have any hope, it’s mass brainwashing via Facebook and nbc. The marketers and “engagement” algorithms will be our salvation.

Troll?

Gmail tells its users to use sms. So if it’s true what you say, sms is not secure, and it’s true that Gmail pushes users to use it, then it’s must therefore be true that Gmail isn’t secure.

Correct my logic, please.

The word “troll” has lost all meaning. It’s worse than “hacker”. I now reflexively disregard the people who use the term. I’m sure they’d say that anyone who disagrees must be “trolling” too. A bad word that impedes thinking.

It’s a canary. Gmail isn’t secure. People need to know that.

I like the way this piece highlights the network effects involved in the art industry. The primacy of “politics and intrigue” over aesthetics or craft, is so sad to me. It’s good to see some of that truth make it’s way to the surface, if only unintentionally.

It seems like a quick easy study, not trying to be more than it is. Why not gather some data before and after. That said, jama could do more to protect its reputation.

“ these can't be used to make weapons, so it's actually a win/win if they get used or stolen.”

I don’t know anything about it, but I worry about who is making those safety assessments and what their conflicts and incentives are. It seems like a lot of things can be weaponized or used to nefarious purposes. I can imagine a portable energy source having a lot of potential uses, say powering small sea craft or whatever.

Agree with everything but also want to note pulling levers for 30 years is correlated with unionization in those industries. Jobs were protected by unions even if it meant higher costs and lower productivity.