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Were used to it in Malibu. The publicly owned shoreline can be reached through the legally mandated passageways, if you can make it through the locked gates and avoid being seen by…

You should have bought in when Prop 13 went into effect, you’d only be paying $3k in property taxes today instead of $40k.

Another statement that I would have simply accepted as fact a year ago, but now I believe is false. The US government is now primarily one person, and occasionally a small set of p…

But tires are black, and black carbon has additional climate effects — even once the aerosol lands, it can still have effects like black carbon on snow.

Yeah but no matter what, you gotta pay for the bear necessities.

I often wonder if it would be best for English to lose grammatical gender entirely. Encoding assumptions about gender is leading to endless debates about pronouns which other langu…

Or in other words, educators in red states are more effective in suppressing sinister tendencies in children.

Did you miss the day they taught ethical calculus in maths class?

Lighthouses fulfill roughly the same purpose as hazard signs on freeways — everyone makes more money when ordered goods actually arrive. Rocks on the sea are more dangerous than fa…

Running a browser without an adblock extension is an even worse cybersecurity issue, since tracking online is so extensive. I live in a country where the government routinely buys …

> black holes are essentially perfectly sticky Black Hole brand adhesive: when you absolutely, positively need something stuck down for eternity.

Sir, are you aware that this very website is run by VCs as an advertisement for hustle culture? You are, in fact, “anywhere near” this particular vast wasteland.

In America, a skilled tradesman is middle class. There would be no reason to treat a member of the group any differently. (Incidentally my grandpa was a plumber.) A teacher is lowe…

Wealth is not the same as class, either. Even in America. A teacher with an annual salary of $60k is higher class than a plumber making $100k annually. Unless the teacher is black,…

See, it builds character! Kids get really dull scissors, shared with other kids. Of course they’re difficult to use.

Of course not. AGI has advanced to the point it can topple governments with a single embarrassing meme.

I think they were referring to metals like carbon and oxygen, but I’m sure Led Zeppelin is important too.

We are getting back to the original meaning of hacker from a millennium ago, one who chops, cuts, and hews apart, especially hacking apart our fellow man.

The damaged interpret internet censorship and route around it.

It’s exactly that. In fact, information propagates along with the winds. If you don’t observe upstream, you instead propagate an information hole. Each new model run incorporates t…

It was already pretty likely, considering Pope Formosus was put on trial months after his death, and he was in attendance.

If you’re looking for the original reference, it’s moved from 1d4chan (dead) to 1d6chan: https://1d6chan.miraheze.org/wiki/Peasant_Railgun

The idea must have had some currency in the middle of last century, since Tolkien decided to place Hildórien, the birthplace of the Edain, in the Far East. https://tolkiengateway.n…

Honestly I’d just walk downhill. Most human settlements are on rivers, most roads take the lowest passes. At night, I’d just walk in the direction of the sky that’s glowing the mos…

Yeah, that many pennies would be really heavy. Similarly, I always love it when small women smuggle suitcases full of gold in movies, when it would be heavy enough to break the han…