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Will be useful for the inevitable war against the offworld colonies.

The amount of school administrators and non-teachers have increased at 10x the rate of teachers relative to students since 2000. I have no doubt funding keeps going up but virtuall…

I was asking it rather specific research questions about a stock the other day and kept getting equivalents of "Would you like to know one weird investment trick that most people d…

I used to subscribe to some podcasts that were distributed to subscribers via the app.

That bathroom layout has become extremely common in normal hotels in parts of Asia and the Middle East.

They are likely being pressured to meet minimum obligations as part of NATO membership. Canada's military realistically isn't going to be called on for defense of the homeland but …

I have a gut feeling sycophancy would become a huge problem if I were ever to ask any AI assistant with even a vague idea of my political opinions to start summarizing news stories…

It's probably much higher than that in reality if you look at assets spiking compared to the dollar. Gold is going completely parabolic right now. Real estate shows no signs of slo…

The hand-wringing in this article about Republicans signing up election monitors and having lawyers on stand-by is absurd. Both parties pour huge amounts of resources every electio…

This is great! Is there a way to set the visualization to the present moment and real-time?

I recently migrated to Obsidian for personal use and configured it to sync my data to a private git repo that I can access across my devices. The data is all in markdown so I figur…

Screwworms could probably be eradicated in theory but it would require spreading the sterile fly program to the entirety of the Americas which isn't going to happen. There would al…

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.

They're knowingly contributing to abuse of the discovery process to violate privacy and drive the cost of litigation through the roof. They're absolutely bad guys along with the ju…

I'm sure they're doing it domestically too, but due to the relative size of the markets and currency conversions what amounts to a serious disruption in the Indian stock market wou…

Probably by if you're cooperative and lucid enough to file the papers ahead of time and schedule your visit.

Because the author's worldview requires him to compel other people to do what he wants, and if they're not doing what he wants that's a problem.

The whole point is to get rid of government employees. Going on strike is just volunteering your members for the chopping block.

Incredibly sad. The people of Myanmar were already suffering a terrible civil war.

I live in Mexico City and a large part of this is the odd compulsion that chilangos have to put concrete over absolutely everything. It rains but there is very little unpaved surfa…

We can let them dominate us but feel smug and morally superior in the process.

All the seasonal content gets automatically flushed too, which means even if an expansion is retained you lose like half of the activities and story anyway. I jumped back in to pla…

I take this to mean that the assets exist and could be compiled back into the game, but doing so would be a pretty intensive undertaking that isn't worth it for what appears to be …

Anthony Fauci is a big reason for the hate against people like Anthony Fauci.

I remember a presentation at DEFCON some years ago on this topic. Most of the state death registration systems had virtually no security or verification at the time. It's probably …