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I didn’t realize the LinkedIn feed was a problem for people. Literally the only thing that makes me use that site is when the safety/shelter tier of Maslow’s pyramid is at risk.

Pretty sure you can rig something far better than radar if you have the ability to detect extremely tiny gravitational waves via an array of hyper-accurate clocks.

In my case I wasn't even reporting ads. These are plain old Facebook accounts and groups using very obvious AI-generated slop images of pets for 'adoption' or 'rehoming', so Facebo…

Seems very naive to think that people who have access to immortality technology aren't going to have children, and if you're immortal of course you're not going to watch your child…

If I'm any kind of indicator of where Youtube users are headed, their AI chatbots in the video pages are going to kill their business model. There are so many videos with hooks/tea…

Facebook literally trolls you when you report criminal activity, rampant well-documented scams, on their site. They write back and tell you it's not violating their policy and ask …

At a population level, humans getting rid of their off switch is about as good of a thing as your own pancreas cells getting rid of theirs.

Regardless, Russia is far weaker today then when it was in the USSR, and China is far stronger than what it was when it was getting into shoving matches with the USSR. It's relegat…

The Soviet Union's relationship with China was more of a peer rivalry situation. The Russian relationship with China is nowhere near parity. Russia would fold tomorrow if China wit…

My takeaway is that Russia, China's vassal, wanted to use nukes and China told them they can't[1]. I don't believe Russia really cares about the rest of the planet. At the same tim…

> All that money we’re coughing up for rooftop solar and batteries at home would be better spent investing in grid scale electricity generation, of any technology. In my city we li…

> They didn't fall for it, this is what they want. If it's what they wanted it's very odd that the winning candidate's platform swore no new wars. It's also weird that his approval…

There is one economic class that controls essentially all mass media, and even if their chosen candidates are 'out of touch' they can just blast every channel with propaganda until…

US voters chose to reduce their taxes by a margin they won't notice in exchange for increasing their energy prices by an amount they will absolutely notice. The wild thing is that …

The fun part of this is the crack spread doesn't care about the relatively low price that crude is selling for. Refined petroleum is going for eye-watering prices, and will continu…

It's certainly the closest we've come to directly taxing the hope of the downtrodden. This goes back to my original point, that legalizing gambling happens after economic downturns…

> or are people just realizing It's a stretch to say that gambling is truly anyone's best option, so 'realizing' isn't the right word here. I'd go with "delusionalizing."

Gambling legalization historically happens in waves following economic downturns because society’s tolerance for exploitation increases. It’s fundamentally a regressive tax that he…

> I don't think we have the same reading of the paper. Strong agreement here. > Scientific facts inform ethical decisions, they are antecedent to them. Sometimes, as your paper is …

The whole point of this paper you're citing is that the scientific definition isn't relevant to the ethical debate. You're taking this paper and saying "Aha! See but the scientific…

Of all the debate tactics, citing a paper that is very much not in support of your view point as a trump card is certainly one of them.

I agree, but for a sizable chunk of the population who've had it drilled into them from the time they were a toddler, it's an article of faith. So for people who won't debate on an…

> Hang on, how is listening to the heartbeat mental torture? How about if the state decided that it wouldn't force you to donate your organs to some dying person who needed them, b…

From what I understand, random interactions with wild pathogens can prime the immune system in the wrong way, leading it down the wrong path. This is why some people can get lucky …

The US is already under an authoritarian regime, the only thing keeping the wheels on the bus is a very tired and barely-effective judiciary. This is a temporary situation because …