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Have people been getting rewarded with hustling more than their peers? Promotions that aren't popularity contests are exceedingly rare from my experience.

Have you been to Canada? It's not hard to walk in a pharmacy and get it.

Trump only won thanks to the electoral college, not because of democracy.

But neutrality is imaginary in reality. Because law is a flawed reflection of society's morality

How is it a symbol of fear? Masks for infection control have been used since the late 1800s. It's purely practical. Maybe a little fear would be healthy for some people if it makes…

The things we do to avoid covid also help with avoiding other respiratory infections as well, all of which are pretty terrible to get in case anybody forgot about them. But saying …

I personally wasn't, but I turned 17 during the 2008 financial crisis, so that jump started getting engaged with things. My sisters are way more aware of the world than I was at th…

Teens are either far more informed about the world than their parents or completely oblivious to it. Not much in between.

It's about non destructive editing, a very powerful tool for professional workflows especially for fine tuning changes and making things repeatable.

They spend more time iterating on existing products rather than replacing them, not perfectly, but Google will throw away something good for seemingly no reason.

Sounds like he's just trying to speak Elon's language to me.

The first thing to try is to bring that up. By stating that you struggle to trust people, you can ask them to help you examine what thoughts you have that are associated with trust…

Calling what therapy does as "creating delusions" helps nobody. Therapy offers a number of tools that helps a person get grounded in reality, helps a person create boundaries, and …

Right. Humans are animals. Trying to make a distinction on a biological level is always going to be tenuous.

A phrase I've heard that demonstrates that concept is "hiding your power level"

How exactly do you determine who is a woman though? Because appearances alone don't cut it, and the more you pick things apart, the less you can make any hard lines. Simply put, tr…

Blocking trolls is good though. Plenty of people want to watch the world burn and avoiding that is just fine.

What strikes me the most about the anti vaccine argument is how it relies on not understanding basic fundamentals of biology and ignoring that individual choices have impacts outsi…

Only the most extreme cases would end up on the street because the rest will die. That's a fundamentally antisocial approach that will lead to people being exploited to death.

Come on, give them a chance to make fun of the things the youths enjoy

You don't do do science by being skeptical of things. You do it by asking questions and by developing experiments that can test the hypothesis within ethical bounds. How do you sta…

It's hard to see sarcasm when people also genuinely hold the belief.

What distinctions between men and women are being denied that you feel need to be made? Have you done any work to asses your biases along these fronts? What makes you think that th…

Sociology teaches the sociological imagination, which is specifically a form of critical thinking. This isn't something people tend to just pick up on without higher education

First question: with what money?