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To keep people engaged, social media platforms have shifted from showing you content from people you know to prioritizing viral content. The algorithms know viral content offers an…

It's one thing to enforce contracts but another for government to dictate how private platforms monetize their own property. If ads make the service worse, the answer is competitio…

Public photography is not a crime, nor should it be. However, that doesn't mean your likeness can be used for just any purpose.

I subscribe to Bertrand Russell's hypothesis that the earth was created five minutes ago. Events that you remember do not necessarily have to have happened; memories were put in ou…

The only reason I do it is because if you get on the plane last, there may not be any room for your bag in the overhead compartment near you.

Based on the grammar and spelling mistakes in your post, I suspect that your written communication skills might be holding you back. It's quite easy to paste those paragraphs into …

You can't say that from these statistics if the statistic in Norway does not include murder by spouse.

This is a slippery slope. These policies had a vast affect on the lives of millions of people. Business were shut down. Schools were closed. People were instructed to stay in their…

That's why I didn't see Dune 2 in the theaters. No way I can sit for three hours straight. It's just not fun after two hours.

> Fully automated luxury mansplaining It's surprising to see gendered, pejorative language thrown around in an article that has nothing to do with gender.

6 years is not enough jail time for this.

New York City had laws on the books until 2017 banning dancing in bars that don't have a "caberet license." I remember going out to bars and seeing signs on the wall that said "No …

> If kids and young adults lose access to piracy they will develop other interest Entertainment is a lot more fungible than these companies realize. Pour cold water on movies and p…

> Dating sites can do a "DEI" and brute force more variety into skew percentages of click throughs through mere exposure effect. Why stop at forcing people to choose different race…

As anecdotal evidence, I went on a strict keto diet three months ago and my mental state is far more stable. When I have a cheat day, I feel noticeably more anxious.

To be fair, there are both positives and negatives. The positive is that the barrier of entry is almost negligible. For less than 20 bucks, anyone can get their song onto the large…

From Wikipedia: SLU-PP-332 is a compound which is a potent but non-selective estrogen-related receptor (ERR) agonist, acting most strongly at ERRα with an EC50 of 98 nM. It was fou…

How do you define 'unethical conversation'? I have a hard time visualizing such a thing. Sounds like unpopular ideas or ideas you disagree with.

Great animated 10 minute video of him summarizing his ideas: https://youtu.be/OqmdLcyES_Q?si=fljPKtgaU9XoHczZ

I drank orange juice with every meal growing up. I'm not overweight but I feel like it may have contributed to the severe acid reflux I experience now as an adult.

While 23andMe may not be culpable, they certainly look culpable, particularly to the layman. Their messaging in response to this is terrible.

I've been riding an electric unicycle for years and I don't think I've gotten a single negative comment, aside from riding somewhere (they thought) I shouldn't have. But those same…

To be able to actually ride, it took me about two weeks, practicing 30 minutes per day. But then I was still pretty wobbly for a month or so.

Did you even read the article? The point was that it's a false dichotomy to say one side believed the science and the other side didn't. Just because someone questions a specific m…

I'm friendly with people at work but I tend to keep boundaries on what I share. I wouldn't, for instance, discuss a romantic problem with them but I would tell them what I did for …