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>Don't be that guy. Be a better guy. Don't patronize an adult like a child. We have an entire propaganda system from both sides. Even if news wasn't "fake", it'd still be trash by …

>If software is eating the World, it's important the people building and operating it are as diverse as possible, otherwise there is a risk it unconsciously or consciously becomes …

They lost the battle when they failed to realize that having power in the real world is better than playing the game of "activist". A meat eating shitlord legislator in Nebraska ha…

Merry Christmas! But social atomization and poor health turn out to be terrible dance partners for people who expected more hype their age. Our society is too willing to consider t…

The world has been broken since agriculture. The system has gotten less rigged than its inception. Imagine instead if a middle class existence, you only had a life of slave drudger…

Caro's first book on him is excellent and I'm ashamed to say I haven't continued beyond that. Inefficient time scheduling and all that. It's eye opening to see how far and calculat…

So what comment of mine tripped the downvote sensors? The first line was somewhat of a half joke, half truth. Have you ever dealt with HR and interoffice politics?

In this day and age, often the same. The older I get, the more I understand Turner's thesis on the frontier. Without a frontier, ambitious people turn into ever-more specialized re…

Or you can find sane people to have a relationship with. Most women my age (late 20s and down) have been utterly ruined by smartphones. When you come across compulsive narcissism, …

The failure of aspirational thinking was by its own doing. Aspirational thinking doesn't arise in a world where apes look at screens showing the screens where apes... I just see a …

One problem is that we put our ancient brains in the midst of unparalleled stimuli in the public sphere. I can guarantee (aka I would put down a bet) a city person has far more str…

How could it not be terrible? Black america is screwed. The rate of fatherlessness is apocalyptic. Especially when you combine that with the fact that single parent households, wit…

Pre-apartheid: SA has working first world infrastructure Post-apartheid: SA is mired in governmental incompetence and degradation of infrastructure. Not to mention highly elevated …

Pre-apartheid: SA has working first world infrastructure Post-apartheid: SA is mired in governmental incompetence and degradation of infrastructure. Not to mention highly elevated …

How are they not justified? A cynical understanding of human nature and society serves a person far better than the opposite. People want to do less work than more work. For people…

It's not merely sitting down. It's seeing the code monkeys of life being manipulated by people who are adept at manipulating humans and getting higher status and pay for it. Think …

You're not making a convincing argument. Why are the capabilities of plumbers to mentally map various causes and effects and points of failure not subject to the same forces of tho…

But you're not promoting "diversity of thought", you're promoting BS signals. How is it promoting facts when you're searching for superficial signs of diversity? You're promoting a…

Schools are for the benefit of of people who rarely have anything invested in the growth of any one student. It's robbing taxpayers, demanding draconian control of kids, both physi…

Public Schools are horrific squanderings of societal wealth and innumerable years of cognition. They socialize children into diets that bring on pre-diabetes and diabetes. It's abs…