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My first character was a Lion Warden too. :) I always get a kick out of running into another wotmud alumni in the wild.

Wotmud is still going strong. Come join the discord!

One day they'll write a similar article about the iPhone. It's amazing how ephemeral these incredibly complex manufacturing networks are.

When I was in college, a philosophy degree was seen as excellent training for a career in Law.

The article had Don DeLillo vibes. > And this is where we wait together, regardless of our age, our carts stocked with brightly colored goods. A slowly moving line, satisfying, giv…

Yeah... I went to an ivy league school and I've never felt remotely that way, nor did any of my friends. Sure, some of my classmates were snobs, and there was probably a higher con…

The efficacy of US democracy has eroded over time, and it's clear we're going to need reforms to preserve democratic governance for future generations. Every branch of the federal …

In 2011 Netflix announced it would split its DVD-by-mail and streaming businesses. The DVD business would be called "Qwikster", which was mocked. Eventually they reversed the decis…

Yes. Here is the proxy statement with the proposals: https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0000789019/0... You have to scroll down a bit to page 83 to get to the one the …

Some additional details: The proposal was submitted by an individual shareholder. She requests that the Board "commission a report assessing the implications of siting Microsoft cl…

I had trouble getting one. I thought I was prepared. I brought in my passport, my social security card, my paystubs, and stacks of utility bills to prove my residence. They told me…

The AirPods have been my biggest source of tech wonder in recent years. The noise cancelation features, and now the live translation function? So cool.

Uber might be the wildest cultural shift of the last 25 years. Nobody blinks twice nowadays at getting into a car with a total stranger.

The Senate is in a permanent state of gerrymandering. There were only 13 states when the Constitution was ratified. It was never envisioned to be as disproportionate as it is today…

Gerrymandering is at the heart of the rot.

We're remodeling our kitchen, and for some reason so many stoves come with wifi and bluetooth.

That is such a long latency period. I wonder if it slowly progresses over time, or if it develops opportunistically once some other bodily system that keeps it in check breaks down…

WhatsApp has really taken on this role for me, now that mention it. I have a channel for my neighborhood, another for the parents at my children's school, another for my extended f…

Birds are more difficult to clone than mammals. I don't think we've been able to clone one yet. I hope to see a passenger pigeon one day though.

The US has a lot of cheap natural gas and China does not. Natural gas is hard to transport and often needs to be liquified to travel overseas, so global prices vary widely.

When I was a kid, I used to imagine if that society ever developed AI, there would be widespread pushback to the idea that computers could ever develop consciousness. I imagined th…

Under the 3-factor economic growth model, there's three ways to increase economic growth: 1) Increase productivity (produce more from the same inputs) 2) Increase labor (more peopl…