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seriousquestion··on Eric Carle has died
There's something to that and getting experience with all components of your craft.
seriousquestion··on Eric Carle has died
> I was a little disappointed in twitter marking his "happy Hanukkah" drawing as "sensitive content

Ugh. I hope that's a mistake and not foretelling a future where anything that isn't completely universal is censored.

seriousquestion··on Eric Carle has died
Thanks for sharing!
seriousquestion··on Manifest v3 Update
That could be, it's just easier for Edge to follow Google.
seriousquestion··on How I raised a $5.1M seed as a first-time, female, solo founder for a biotech co
Why is that disastrous, given that you have to be obsessed and highly risk tolerant to found a new moonshot company? That's why men are more common here. It's not some conspiracy. They are simply more likely to be obsessed, unbalanced and take on risk. Crazy, if you like. See also the most dangerous jobs, and a curious lack of concern about those being dominated by men.

VCs don't care about gender or any other irrelevant attribute one bit when investing and that notion is simply absurd. Just as absurd as thinking that prisons are biased against women as a way to explain why it's mostly men in jail.

seriousquestion··on [dead]
Think we'll finally see some 3rd parties emerge?

I've never seen so many on the right fed up with Republicans, nor so many on the left fed up with Democrats.

seriousquestion··on YouTube Will Monetize Videos Without Paying Content Creators
Why did people flag this thread? Strange one to flag.
seriousquestion··on Texas to allow unlicensed carrying of handguns
SF and NYC are supported by the government around them, and look at the explosion of violence and crime in those cities over the past year. Not so in Austin.
seriousquestion··on Texas to allow unlicensed carrying of handguns
Both can be true. Texas fears too much centralized power and Abbott likes cash. Texans put up with the latter because of the former.
seriousquestion··on Texas to allow unlicensed carrying of handguns
Yes, if that's what the residents want. Similar to how some businesses don't allow weapons, that could just begin at the city line.
seriousquestion··on Texas to allow unlicensed carrying of handguns
In cities that works because you can get police response in minutes. Not so in the country.
seriousquestion··on Texas to allow unlicensed carrying of handguns
Where are attacks like that increasingly happening aside from SF and NYC?
seriousquestion··on Consumer Prices in U.S. Increase by Most Since 2009
GFC was a tiny blip in comparison, it hardly registers;

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL

seriousquestion··on Consumer Prices in U.S. Increase by Most Since 2009
On what timeline?
seriousquestion··on Why do older individuals have greater control of their feelings?
That, combined with the wisdom one gains from having spent many fucks on the wrong things. When you examine the fucks you gave 10 or 20 years ago, you realize how clueless you were.
seriousquestion··on Why Billionaires Don't Pay Property Taxes in New York (2015)
Both have their billionaires, but dems do have the majority of rich households in broad terms.

"Democrats now represent 65% of taxpayers with a household income of $500,000 or more, according to pre-pandemic Internal Revenue Service statistics."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-19/democrats...

seriousquestion··on Hatetris – Tetris which always gives you the worst piece
It seems like it, but eventually you'll get other pieces.
seriousquestion··on Hatetris – Tetris which always gives you the worst piece
They don't accept your birthdate without a credit card or ID? Wow.
seriousquestion··on Opposition to net neutrality was faked, New York says
The chances of a group of unarmed people, and a LARPer with zip ties, overthrowing the most powerful government in history is 0.0%. Even if that was the intention of the group. Which it clearly wasn't.

That otherwise logical thinkers are getting caught up in such hysterics is unnerving.

seriousquestion··on Opposition to net neutrality was faked, New York says
That was a protest that devolved into a riot, armed with phones for selfies and a viking LARPer as the centerpiece. Please see Myanmar for what a coup looks like;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Myanmar_coup_d'%C3%A9tat

edit; Myanmar is implicitly an example of both an attempted coup and successful coup. If they failed, it would still be an example of what a coup looks like. It's not protesters and rioters with iphones. It's soldiers with guns and vehicles. The capitol riot was terrible and should be denounced (as it has by almost everyone), but to describe it as an attempted coup is straight up gaslighting.

seriousquestion··on Japan should cut losses and tell the IOC to take its Olympic pillage elsewhere
Why do you oppose the Olympics in general?
seriousquestion··on Motorcycle airbag vest will stop working if you miss a payment
The SaaS of the future; Safety as a Service
seriousquestion··on LSD, cargo shorts and the fall of a tech CEO
Agree, but still, trying it for the _first_ time in that context is... unwise.
seriousquestion··on Blizzard has lost almost 29% of its overall active playerbase in three years
And that accelerated with the Activision merger. Historically they were better aligned with gamers.
seriousquestion··on Send: A Fork of Mozilla's Firefox Send
Thanks, useful site!
seriousquestion··on Signal Tries to Run the Most Honest Facebook Ad Campaign Ever, Gets Banned
Is anyone else getting concerned about Signal's trustworthiness lately?
seriousquestion··on How Basecamp Blew Up
Interesting. They added that 2nd definition just last October. Here it was prior to October 2020;

https://web.archive.org/web/20200901223507/https://www.merri...

seriousquestion··on How Basecamp Blew Up
white su·prem·a·cy; the belief that white people constitute a superior race and should therefore dominate society

de·fund; prevent from continuing to receive funds

Courtesy of the dictionary. This is not hard. Stop entertaining people who redefine words.

seriousquestion··on How Basecamp Blew Up
Here's a twitch partner, just earlier today, illustrating how DEI is racist. Expect to see a lot of this;

"Kinda sad, found out I was accepted into a twitch team because of my skin colour so that “diversity” can be preached & not for my values or the blood, sweat n tears I’ve put into my work. Plus then being left out of everything & watching from the sidelines continuously..." https://twitter.com/Sharesee/status/1389522366515056641

seriousquestion··on Inside the all-hands meeting that led to a third of Basecamp employees quitting
"Two employees told me that they had found themselves crying and screaming at the screen."

What...

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