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> The dream society would be where we all just work less hours. Everyone can get a job but doesn't have to burn every workable hour of their life. That's not the world our Overlord…

They also have a nice API where you can pull the raw weather data and fancy it up any way you like graphically. Great for building your own entirely custom weather widget for your …

> The pure quackery doesn't get them as far because most of their customers are too poor to regularly spend on woowoo crap. Yeah, but them very same type of folks (like where I gre…

> ... and this American people have gotten what they voted for. Probably one of the biggest flaws of a Democratic system is that a voting majority can mandate a situation that harm…

> What's an example of an ethnic minority that's better off in Canada vs US Considering our current "leadership" here in the USA, probably any minority with any shade of "brown" to…

> If you were gullible before, you will keep on being gullible. AI (supposedly) being a "10x multiplier"-type tool, if you were gullible before, then with AI assistance, you're at …

> Very few managers are good leaders. I saw (a black & white hand-drawn version of) this image [0] a while back and found it a really effective visual to easily explain the differe…

Thanks for this. I read the written version while listening to Nimoy's reading in the background. :)

> Nature will be better off once it happens. As long as "it" happens before we poison or otherwise harm our planet beyond some "tipping point" after which Earth becomes "inhospitab…

> Allies don't exist apparently. Aren't our only "allies" Russia and North Korea now?

> A screen with an ad on it is objectionable enough, even if the ad is untargeted. Especially these days when pretty nearly the entire advertising industry has a whole library of "…

> When consumers have clear utility, however, most give away privacy quite willingly. Exhibits 1, 2, and 3; "Smart" phones, "Smart" watches, and pretty much 90% or so of "apps" peo…

> Where do you see there that 25% of the U.S. population cheered for nuclear annihilation? Anecdotally; Growing up in the NorthWest USA, I knew entirely too many (crazy to my mind …

I feel like it's much the same for bad habits broken, too. If you allow yourself to fall back into a bad habit (smoking, drinking, gambling, etc for example) it feels really challe…

> "Ah I was hoping I could add photos from my favorite place in my city, but alas." Just down the page it says "Ideas, collaborations, and questions: chef@ramen.haus" so I suppose …

> "Lizard people." I so yearn for "the good ol' days" when "tinfoil hatters" were ridiculed and statements like yours were still proper humor and not almost logical and halfway bel…

Some downright drool inducing photography there. So many truly delicious looking ramen bowls.

> The cookie preference pop up on this site is unacceptable - 1 click to accept all cookies, SEVEN clicks to reject all cookies. Yeah, that kinda dark pattern / malicious complianc…

@shusaku> "The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know to whom you should ascribe a quote." Well, so far I see variants of this particular quote from Aristotle, Einstein…

> What makes an open-weight LLM dangerous? Same thing that makes any LLM dangerous. The intent and actions of the person using the LLM to do bad things. Any tool can be dangerous i…

"The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know." — Aristotle

Mad Max + 1984 + Terminator + Fahrenheit 451 all rolled together into one fantabulous dystopian death planet.

The world where entirely too many of our "leaders" and their "cult members" wish for the "Mad Max" future rather than the "Star Trek" one.

All fantastic ideas! I bet you we could get our illustrious U.S. "Department of War" right on that without too much effort spent tryin' to convince 'em.

"American Ninja Warrior" gameshow looks a lot like it to me; It looks like a pretty direct copy of "Takeshi's Castle" in many ways in fact.