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I use a podcast manager to listen to all of my podcasts. Do you have a feature that would allow me to syndicate a feed to my podcast app?

Nailed it.

> Though the window of opinions you can express publicly has narrowed in the last decade, it's still much wider than it was a few hundred years ago. The problem is the derivative. …

What saddens me about this topic is the large amount of hatred coming at cyclists from drivers in the opinion page of the local newspaper (Seattle Times). Why not have some gratitu…

I’m in the middle of this right now. They detail a scenario that starts off pretty convincing but takes a turn into a sci-fi feel when this fictional model starts strategizing on h…

Is it the end of the world or just Davos?

I love this because it explains so much about the human mind. Rationally, it was the medication. Emotionally, it was Jesus.

> When we ponder upon this, it boggles down to the fact that it's notoriously hard to distinguish "value creation" vs "value extraction". This is an excellent frame to think about …

I have to wonder, too, if this partially describes why "Make America Great Again" has been such an effective slogan. The greatness that most Americans long to return to is a time w…

“Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.”

Terrorism is the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims. It was a different world when you were a kid. People wer…

In the United States, stochastic terrorism is neither a statutory offense nor a term of art in criminal codes; it is an analytic label used in scholarship and practitioner writing …

It’s unsettling to think that humanity has lost knowledge it once had, but it happens all the time. Anyone here know how to harness a horse to a buggy?

Gen Z discovers nostalgia.

True that a majority of the electorate voted for and should have expected this, but Presidential approval rating is in the cellar.

I think your take makes sense. Thanks for laying it out. I worry about the containment aspects of this. Sure, the capex for this is coming off corporate balance sheets, but a bad e…

I came here with a similar thought. Given that we don't have a really precise definition of that transition from living to dead, I wonder if this could be it.

Only the prices paid by my side are unfair or absurd. The prices paid by their side are justified. Meanwhile the lines dividing us become deeper and wider.

Wedge issues, deployed by both political parties, do exactly this. Wealthy donors express their political desires by funding politicians who become dependent on their continued fin…

I live in a somewhat small community (~25k) and I commuted into the city on public transportation for about 15 years. 10 years ago, I started working from home full-time. I often s…

Currently, due to the Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare, health insurance companies are prohibited from setting rates based on individual risk (except they can charge higher premiu…

I'm a nope for space flights. I'm a nope to time travel. I'm a nope for snorting nanobots. I guess I'm just too 20th century for all that stuff.

Fair point. We _currently_ exist in a time of choice, but that is only due to the recent availability of effective birth control methods. Some choose to do it the old fashioned way…

Personally, becoming a dad was the single best thing that ever happened to me. I haven’t loved every minute of it, but it added abundant love and purpose to my life and gave me wha…

I read only as far as the abstract. What would motivate an adult to feign ADHD symptoms? Is it access to prescription drugs? Disability benefits?