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I can't believe there is even a discussion. The better you look, the better people treat you and being better looking also means being of a normal weight. I literally have a weight…

Non-sense. In China, you obey. There is no way to challenge the orders in courts or even with your local party official. It's written into law and companies that disobey are shutdo…

This is what I did after struggling to get llama.cpp working at a decent speed on my M1 Macbook. The secret is to very specific with your needs and targeted in what you are using l…

The Toy Museum of Munich is pretty cool and it is near a major tourist site in Munich, Germany. My wife and I went in to kill an hour while we waited for others and it was really n…

The plumbing systems in commercial buildings are not big enough to handle residents usage. Residents use more water and the outbound sewage systems need to be larger.

An RV is just a nicer tent, it is not a house. If people won't transition to housing, then they need to leave SF. If they can not afford SF, then they need to leave SF and live som…

No way. You need an immigration system that has a "try before you buy" aspect to it. Not all educated immigrates are going to like the US and are not going to be a fit for the US. …

No, they have to pay it. Everyone has to pay payroll tax on all employees.

It's too expensive and too crowded. DMZ is such a better deal.

Replacing a Tesla with a Chinese EV is like replacing a person who wants to commit genocide with a person who actually commits genocide. Chinese EV's do not have any moral superior…

> Is a big problem for passenger trains in the US, freight has priority. This simply not true. Federal Laws says that Passenger trains have priority but the law is never enforced. …

> But a Bao-feng handheld that costs around $40 or so can work the local repeaters on 2m or 70cm and is a fine way to get started, learn the lingo, etc. Baofeng makes a $25 radio t…

A lot of these medicines that require patients to inject themselves come in a self administrating auto-injector. There are really simple to use, I mean literally anyone can inject …

Two things I took away from visiting Pompeii that I did not know from reading books and watch History Channel videos. Like you said, Pompeii was pretty large and it was covered wit…

This is a well known tactic to do to Chinese scammers or any person you don't want to talk to that is in China or has to go back to China.

If someone in China starts harassing you or threatening you, just start sending messages that the two of you are conspiring to overthrow the Chinese government and the messages wil…

> There's a reason we cast secret ballots in elections, You get one vote and the other people get one vote. With Dark Money, one side gets access to control a million votes and you…

> Well, now we know. Sam Altman matters to the rank and file, and this was a blunder by OpenAI. Not just the Rank and File, but he was really was the face of AI in general. My wife…

There are no legal GPS jammers in the USA. In fact, the one of two things that will get the FCC on you really bad is to mess with GPS or Cell Phone signals. For Example, US Prisons…

This article is from 2019 and second, I don't think anyone questions the validity of the results of Big Pharma, just the price, transparency and lack of willingness to allow the US…

But not as bad as Korea or Japan.

What a simplistic view of the world. The Chinese government will use their control of TikTok to allow them to have as much control and influence as possible and they won't subscrib…

> As an example: The Boring Company. Are they doing a better job that anyone else? Also, anything they make appears to have to be paired with Telsa's, which for mass transportation…

There are an insane amount of rice varieties everywhere.

$49 a year is pretty damn cheap in IMHO. Also, when the new version comes out, you don't have to put another lump of cash up front to get it, you just upgrade your subscription and…