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> People seem very committed to "shades of gray", moderate thinking to the point that it's viewed as always correct, which is well, just wrong. > And for the record I'm definitely …

> the Nuremberg trials are a fantastic blueprint for what to do, though. Some would argue that the Nuremberg trials did not go nearly far enough, as there should also have been sim…

Just use any AI speech generator, should be close enough :)

I am with the author on how people get radicalized, but he could not have picked a worse example that Marxism as an example of extremist idea. Equating Marxism to labor theory of v…

Calhoun's mouse utopia experiment is looking more and more real by the day. > The "Beautiful Ones": Younger mice withdrew entirely from social interaction, spending all day groomin…

> Yes, when the effects on the environments are so bad that there can be no denying anymore because they affect everyday life of almost all people. I can't reconcile 2 things here.…

> so that in the future when the shit really hits the fan we have enough energy and assistance from AI to create a scalable technology to pull CO2 out of the atmosphere proactively…

> Is this the same "media" that Trump and his dullards claim is so corrupt and contrary to The Truth? Are you influenced by this "media"? I don't read The Guardian or Jacobin, but …

Do you have a graph that extends to 2020? https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/lumber Roughly ~400 index pre-Covid. Roughly ~580 index the past year. 45% inflation, compared to 3…

Not sure why you're being downvoted. Moscow metro is a work of art (the older stations anyway). The only feelings that NY or DC metros ever evoked from me is "how fast can I get th…

If you can find a sugar mommy, sure.

> I can drive from NYC to Boston on ~10 gallon. NYC to Boston is only ~220 miles. You can drive literally any car there for 10 gallons. Or did you mean there and back?

Then the most optimal solution of all is to have a lawn that doesn't need mowing at all.

It's also important not to put too much faith into ancient sayings and aphorisms. As a civilization, we are currently brushing up against the physics of efficiency. In many areas w…

You need to tell them in high school, before their brains finish developing. If you don't instill critical thinking into people by the age of 17-19 at the LATEST, it's already too …

Given the state of the US healthcare industry and how little shit some doctors give (and some are legitimately overworked), this isn't as absurd as it sounds.

Just ask Claude if they are secure.

Yeah, that's just TMI. I don't think anyone ever pressed for more details after a coworker said "I had some issues with my health". People show empathy, and move on. No need to ask…

> It’s pointless to try and force-fit LLMs into the present day American-centric two party political spectrum. Yes, thank you! Especially when using a weird set of simplistic "vibe…

Man, this is tiring. There's a certain category of people who seem to be unable to have any thought or perform any action without first having a mini culture war and annoying every…

> If the cost for sodium batteries is similar to LFP, that alone would be a reason to switch. Why would that be a reason to switch, given the LFP batteries typically have better op…

Windows 10 LTSC IOT will be the last Windows I ever use. As I grow older, I simply do not have the patience or the will to do all these workarounds and tweaks to my OS to turn it f…

> would someone a million in the future be able to tell that today's bananas, corn, watermelons, cattle, dogs etc. were the result of selective breeding by an intelligent species? …

> If there are 10x and 0.1x engineers, you bet there are 10x and 0.1x doctors. So if we already have a massive doctor shortage, including 0.1x doctors, you can begin to guess how a…

> Read the Docs, a non-profit that hosts documentation for open-source software, who watched a single crawler download 73 terabytes of zipped HTML in one month, costing it over $5,…