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The article explicitly describes the ways in which others mandate/control changes?

Place an online order ahead of time?

> a bored ape is pleasant to look at Subjective of course, but couldn't disagree more. These things are hideous and frankly epitomize, to me, that hype and not artistic value is dr…

Yeah, I was very close to buying an Advantage 2 in the last week. Saw this, got super excited, then realized it wouldn’t be in my hands for another 5 months

That seems a lot like a work event, where people are there in a professional capacity.

This seems like a positive to me?

Not sure what you're trying to imply with this comment. Outside of the workplace, I don't think anyone considers it inappropriate to get chatting with someone (read: NOT a coworker…

Similar propaganda being pushed by LAPD union leader: https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2021/12/07/we-cant-guarantee...

Good thing we were able to avoid billions of deaths without nuking every major USSR city?

This is the _biggest_ thing holding MacOS back?

Re: " Looking back in time, any plan that doesn't involve being mean to some of them won't work.", History and Public Policy researchers at UCLA seem to disagree with you: https://…

Bro people need money

With recent events and a relatively free summer ahead of me, it feels like an excellent time to give back and support causes I feel are important. I've been browsing local voluntee…

What I've found in using the technique is that anything lost in focus is more than made up for by insights gained during the break. Taking your eyes off of a problem for a short ti…

Care to expand on what you mean by risk vs. return of caffeine?

I liked the writeup + seeing it come together, but this project struck me as pretty wasteful. How big of a bed do you really need? (even if "you" is two people).

I'm unsure whether this is exactly grade inflation, but both of those graphs can be explained by increased access to information. Obviously people studied before, but our collectiv…

Ever hear of the Highway of Tears? Canada has its own racial issues.

Whether or not they live up to that purpose is another discussion, but at a base level the government exists to serve the people while (for-profit) corporations exist to make money…

Two of your anecdotal experiences don't speak for the overall effectiveness of charity organizations.

Protest is just another form of expressing free speech - besides that, I fail to see what Milo being a "gay Jew who only dates black men" has to do with anything?

He's retiring very soon.

Are you not depriving HBO of the money from the subscription you would presumably buy if not for the free copy you obtained?

I very much agree with this. The hardest part BY FAR is getting started on the task. Once I'm in the groove of say, doing Calc HW, I don't want to be interrupted by stuff like redd…

I haven't seen many good arguments against Snowden either - but your comment here is a huge strawman. Just because you feel strongly about what Snowden did doesn't mean everyone wh…