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Google’s unofficial/official core policies are great too!

Like the well know “all discussion must be self destructing or cc the attorneys so no one can find our evil plotting”

Here’s an interesting cautionary tale on radioisotopes. The goiania incident: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident

Not saying the batteries would be this bad, but having widespread sources of radiation in the hands of people who know nothing is a bad idea. Even relatively benign ones like Ni-63 can go sideways if someone ingests it.

These batteries seem to be intended only for very specialized niche applications, which is as it should be.

For a polar bear? I guess in theory it’s possible but I’ve never heard bear spray recommended for polar bears.

If you want to go backpacking in Svalbard I’ve heard you need to rent a gun and also set up alarm trip wires around your camp. Polar bears are built different.

As far as groups of people selecting the “dumbest” people for a task goes, wapo’s selection of subject matter experts barely registers in terms of consequentiality compared to a lot of examples.

I’m going to have say any flavor of anarchy falls under religious utopia.

most seem to require utopian ideals like do no harm principles.

Too bad there’s not a real life example of any alternative people can point to. Wonder why that is, perhaps it’s because they are only possible in dreams.

What is the proposed alternative to governments? Some Religious utopia?

Yeah he RBG’d American real hard. Not only the late drop out after the primary, but also he put in D- effort into selling his work during his term. I think he did many decent things, but sold them like a wet sock.

lack of good messaging around the economic policies was also a big factor during Harris campaign. They could have attacked Trump on tariffs but mostly gave him a pass. Also mostly gave him a pass on not debating. Was puzzling.

Being from California, I couldn’t see what the ads were like and I’m extremely curious about something.

Were there a bunch of ads explaining why tariffs are going to cause pain and raise prices? And would be likely to spike inflation again?

I’m guessing no due to the election result but please confirm.

Stop start engines on non-hybrid cars are a shock. Takes that delayed throttle response to a new level.

That sounds like a setup for a bank robbery in a novel

Those are wild conspiracy theories. This should be a wake up call.

Well in antiquity one could also cast unwanted babies in the river so I prefer debating based on modern standards and terminology.

And a lot of cultures celebrate like the 100th day of life with some ceremony because so many babies died before that in antiquity. Humanizing babies, and I mean actual babies, is also modern. Heck, until recently people could be treated as property so even humanizing humans was a recent turn of events.

Shall we judge things by antiquity standards, is that really smart?

It’s divisive to not want loaded language that is almost exclusively used by anti-abortion advocates rather than the general terminology?

Using the divisive terminology is what’s divisive, not the comment complaining about the divisive language

They are fetuses, the term unborn baby was until recently has been almost exclusively used by anti abortion advocates. Perhaps they are becoming successful at normalizing the terminology.

Good.

Oh and “unborn” babies is a weird term for fetus that is a politically loaded term… and is as much logical sense as calling the living “undead” or “unburied”

That pretentious “above the fray” belief some news orgs and reporters have is awful and harmful.

NYT is particularly guilty of that behavior.

How one contextualizes a story and presents the attention grabbing headline puts a massive thumb on the scale of how the topic is perceived.

Because of what the article mentions or doesn’t mention, provides context for or no context for, the exact same core story centerpiece is biased and leading. Any impression the author wants to convey is easy to bring out in the “neutral” writing. This is simply a fact of writing.

And yet some reporters and news orgs, like the NYT, profess they are neutral observers as if from the planet zorg recording a miraculous unbiased story.

No, that is impossible and everyone knows it. Claiming to be neutral is gas lighting.

While a minimum wage worker would feel giving up $200, I wouldn’t notice giving up $1k-2k. While that’s less than 5 for me%, the utility of money diminishes as one’s money increases. I’m certain no one making >$50M feels any difference from another $5M-6M.

With the abortion thing, it’s not pick people completely at random - It’s arbitrarily pick x number of women, of child bearing age, at random and make them die or suffer grievously.

I don’t think the predominantly male lawmakers in those states would have made the same choices had it been men not women who would be affected.

Ugh that’s bad - one shouldn’t need to be a materials scientist or health physicist to spend 10 minutes to ask what the composition of the product one’s selling is and if there are any concerns.

Cheap jewelry often has lead problems, sounds like this is basically the same and might be the subject of a lawsuit or recall if the lead content is that high. Sounds like a prop 65 lawsuit waiting to happen anyway.

Don’t bring your daughter to bars that call themselves libraries? Not sure what libraries your town has but that’s not what I’ve seen from libraries.

Walking is horrible when traffic is going 50+ mph and everything is a mile apart.

Anyway, yes some people do like Irvine. But the article is about being city like, it’s not and isn’t going to be. It’s upscale suburbs with apartments.

I admire this authors optimism but I don’t see Irvine becoming less suburb like in at least the next 4 decades.

All new development is very car oriented. The shopping plaza areas are all either strip mall style or mall style. As the author noted there is no downtown and that was by design. It’s an un-walkable place and does not have any sort of city character feel. It feels sterile, HOAd into bland brownness and grass. It’s like living in a 2000’s office park.

I do not get the impression there is an effort to make it more city like with any downtown area or less sterile feeling.

Look, once again that’s not how rates work.

What you’re describing is segmentation, which is another way of saying geico charges the people without speeding tickets less than those with speeding tickets.

If ACME co decides to charge everyone the same, then the drivers without speeding tickets will go switch to geico leaving ACME holding the bag of speeders… and losing a ton of money since prices weren’t set for that.

Switch speeding tickets with hard breaking or whatever other thing correlated with accidents.

Also, as far as fairness goes, using actual driving behavior sound far better to me than using credit scores. But strangely I don’t see nearly the same level of complaints about that

Thats flat out wrong.

That’s not how insurers are permitted to set rates by state regulators and also it’s a good way to go out of business due to what’s known as adverse selection.

In addition to following your doctor’s directions, It can’t hurt to also check your diet is including enough vitamins and minerals - magnesium for example is a common deficiency and effects insulin. Although also make sure you doctor is aware of the supplements !

Regardless of what infographic makers declare, the NYT newsroom is not “left” leaning.

Their coverage is much more complicated than left vs right, but one theme is they don’t question the loudest narratives, and they hold grudges when they perceive someone to not give them enough access.

The right tends to be louder and more uniform and persistent in messaging, so that coloring often gets unconsciously added to articles rather than the journalists taking a step back and analyzing the whole picture.

It’s the quick/lazy way to write stories after all, and journalists have deadlines. The author may be left leaning and some of that may even show, but a little left leaning flavor doesn’t mask that it’s based on the right’s take.

The choice of coverage also is very herd like, not left or right.

The NYT also goes out of the way to appear fair and balanced, trying to find the “average” in stories. But as anyone but the NYT knows, averages are skewed easily.

What is going on? And why in the world is the “glitch” part still mentioned in headlines?

The headlines should just be tiktok convinced large numbers of gullible people to commit easily caught bank fraud.

TikTokkers convinced people to kite checks - the only “glitch” appears to be they could do the first half of committing the fraught easily for a time, the glitch had no impact on the second step fraudsters usually care about - not getting caught.

It’s barely different than if TikTok videos claimed you could walk into banks unarmed but with a note that said “this is a robbery” and then get “free” money.

Apparently the Dunning Krueger effect was inspired by a story of bank robbers who thought lemon juice would make them invisible… this event is just as bad.

Not the whole picture - razor burn caused by too close a shave is a lot easier to happen when there’s 3-5 blades

But why would one ever shave with dry skin in front of a mirror? Walking barefoot on burning hot asphalt is also a nightmare and coincidentally also not how it’s meant to be done.

Not all blades are the same - I bought a sample pack when I first started using double edged razors 12 years ago - 9/10 of the brands were horrible. Eventually I found the feather double platinum to be great, ordered a large amount from a Thai seller on Amazon because otherwise they were expensive.

Also I’d say the razor burn and nicks are all down to technique, and perhaps skin/hair type. For me, even from the get go, the old school safety razors did not cause razor burn while the 3 to 5 bladed monstrosities always did because they results in a far to close shave.