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I would imagine statistically that having conversations about people's lives all day is more appealing to women than men in the ideal for the job. Once you are on the job though yo…

I mean clearly youtube has poor control if a group of some sorts does an attack on a specific user to lower views. With that said I just watched Timothy Nguyen's video about Eric W…

anti-car? people need to quit social media. It is rotting your brain.

My personal life is wonderful. The country? This chart from the Fed is just astounding. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFSD

I have lifted for 35+ years now. The only thing I don't like is how popular powerlifting has become. Everyone I know that has been into powerlifting for a long time including mysel…

Spot on. I stopped using social media because I was sick of having this critic in my brain constantly judging if an experience is worth posting on social media. Of course this is a…

People still think it is 15 years ago that it took a week of tinkering to figure out how to get sound from your sound card. I just don't care enough to become a linux missionary/pr…

I have no idea what you are installing or if you are talking about the year 2005. KDE Neon in 2021 on SSD takes me about 15 min to reinstall completely with no configuration.Everyt…

This is like people reading research in the 50s that smoking causes lung cancer. Even if true what are we going to do? Everybody smokes so lets just keep smoking instead of trying …

Yea I think this is a bit harsh. I don't think it is quite such a trivial task to figure out when a FPV drone has such degrees of freedom. It can basically change to any direction …

There are no options obviously. I am fully vaccinated, if you offer me a booster I will take it. If you offer me whatever, I will take it. At that point I have done all I can do. I…

Honestly, Hunter Biden's art is quite good. I think that attack is foolish really. There are all kinds of crazy prices being paid for collectables right now.

I mean I am fully vaccinated and ready for a booster even if offered but these attacks on skepticism are crazy. Are we looking to go back to medieval times that skepticism is not t…

As someone who hasn't used social media in 5+ years, what do these social networks need to do to make you quit using them? There has to be some threshold but I just don't understan…

He also thought we would soon be able to completely control the weather. To me, his thoughts on the weather are some of his most interesting things to read just from the fact even …

The killer app of VR has always been virtual sex. We have made no progress towards this. You can't do reality with just sight and sound. I suspect a 100 years from now people will …

I am just not sure people are more educated at this point. For sure not kids graduating high school this year. We have the technology that anyone can take classes at the best schoo…

I think this is exactly the spot audio books come in. When I am driving in the car, cutting the lawn, walking for exercise..I am "reading". I make time to walk 50 min a day without…

Yuval Noah Harari had a great quote on the history of misinformation in his talk with Natalie Portman that all religious people in history think all religions are fake news besides…

My job opportunities are limited to what my real connections and friends can help me get. If I want to expand my opportunities I have to add nodes and strong ties in my network. No…

From talks I have watched, China is dumping money into quantum computing because Jian-Wei Pan and his team are genius. I don't think China has the same problems we do that people a…

I just don't understand why people are so terrified of opinions they don't agree with. I am just so glad I am old enough to have been exposed to a wide variety of different opinion…

Exactly. This is a terrible idea. This is exactly the opposite of what we need as a society.

I quit smoking cigarettes 10 years ago and social media 5 years ago. Once you are addicted you forget how good life is without. You don't notice how much of your behavior has chang…

I take issue with the entire concept that "normal" people can "follow the science". Most scientific fields I know I can't follow because I don't have enough background. I love read…