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In for a penny, in for a pound. Unless you are extremely crafty, you don’t get to retire from this sort of criminality. Everyone who enabled you wants more and you have a semi-perm…

Despite the person you responded to playing the fool, I found this discussion very interesting. I had never thought about a built in queue as a solution here.

Erotica is a whole separate class of smut than porn (in the cultural sense, that we understand the term “porn”). It’s literally like calling a book a movie. It’s also, on the whole…

I have thought about your position more and I realize I basically agree. More data isn’t strictly good, but in the right hands it is useful, and that choice should be left to indiv…

That’s funny, I thought you were referring to the Shaw quote [1], I had never heard that one from Heinlein. [1] “Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty, and the pig likes it.”…

I think there’s actually a difference between getting a battery of tests from a set of doctors (overseen by the government) tailored to your risk factors and a company trying to se…

A counter point: a fixation on medical diagnoses can be counterproductive to living a good, happy, and healthy life. My implication is that data will lead to self-diagnosis, when m…

The article contrasts it with a manufacturing process known as “shark skin.” I wonder if it’s entirely identical to the skin of a shark or a marketing term?

I am not saying the gambit is correct. I am purely trying to reason about what those in charge may believe. If you know your enemy’s position strengthens with time while your posit…

That scraggly tag team of allies, the US, China, Russia, and India. I can only see two natural allies here (US and India) and clear reasons why Russia and China benefit from the cu…

I don’t think this argument really makes sense tbh. When you own the justice department and congress, what matter does it make? Epstein stuff was going to to stale regardless, as m…

I vacillate between two potential rationales: - there is a concerted effort to target and topple oil producers which China relies on as a form of containment of the Chinese economy…

I understand the point you make but I would counter that being happy doesn’t mean you aren’t aware of the world and injustice around you. It doesn’t mean that you condone it, think…

I think the first step is admitting that, even with any incidental value you get out of these services, it is an addiction and you are addicted. I don’t say this with negative conn…