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TV has always been a loss leader for propaganda, so why not? This comment brought to you by Ovaltine.

We already live in Harrison Bergeron's world, for anyone forced to, say, watch the NBC broadcast of the Olympics' opening and closing ceremonies. "Don't go having unsanctioned thou…

Elitism and selectivity were actually features of the early Internet. High barriers to entry (tech savvy, literacy) ensured that there was a high signal to noise ratio, and thus yo…

As a Millennial, I'm sad to say that it wasn't even older generations' fault, but our own (+Gen X). The tipping point was letting in normies who traded in photos and money instead …

Yeah, that's pretty much The Plan.

The problem is the high stress generated by the one-shot approach. There has to be a balance between the objectivity of a single test and practical concerns (like choking because y…

In many instances, attractiveness is tantamount to having social skills. It's not even a matter of developing a more sophisticated skillset; attractive people (and all the people w…

Doesn't matter. Not all have the same level of influence. The ones with the most clearly follow GP's characterization.

Right. And tree coverage is not the be-all-end-all. My family visited the plantation where a few of our ancestors were enslaved; it had been turned into a state-run forest preserve…

Only if Trump gets his way. https://www.ars.usda.gov/northeast-area/beltsville-md-barc/b...

>It’s becoming The Capitol from Hunger Games. DMV residents deserve jobs. The USDA provided valuable high school internships to many of my peers, and we did not go to the most well…

I hate everything about this, please use your time on this planet to make life better for people instead of worse. It is better for a million AI crawlers to get through than for ev…

Edge case: people who are in the process of changing their body size/shape. Growing children, people losing weight, people gaining weight (they're out there), will all occasionally…

...Headline inflation, as opposed to core inflation. Not literal headlines. "Close attention," indeed. Reading the reports "beyond just the headlines" implies that you're still jus…

>There is a separate issue where for the last 2-3 years, the BLS's later revisions to jobs numbers have been almost entirely downward, instead of evenly distributed like they used …

Seems like something that shouldn't be left up to a consumer market.

I just want everyone to understand that part of why everything is so expensive today is because our elite funneled the surpluses from the electronic revolution into boondoggles tha…

Interest on debt; shoring up the financial vehicles and insurance through which they diffused the catastrophic losses of their bad bets from the past few decades; stockpiled for th…

I expected it. I also expect it to get revised even lower, and the gains from the last couple months to disappear. I really wish people would realize that prolonging this farce is …

Hey, I enjoyed reading about the spausdintuvu and power banko.

Tbf Spore's acclaim comes with the caveat that it completely failed to live up to years of pre-release hype. Much of the goodwill it's garnered since, which is reflected in review …

Change "sales tactics" to "pickup attempt" and I think you'll find it a lot harder to dismiss it as a reason - not because it's true, but because of how much of a headache it is to…

I don't have strong feelings either way, but I can see the perspective that underscores should suffice, and that introducing white space into filenames makes certain file and data …

I think there's something to be said for the loss of institutional knowledge, as that was the time when the first set of Baby Boomers would have been transitioning out of operation…