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I have been electrocuted twice once as a kid (which I don't remember but my parents reminded me) and once as a teenager which I definitely remember. My country's voltage was 240 vo…

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I agree with you. When I was younger, I spent many many years in evangelical Christian work and went to seminary. It is not difficult to manipulate people especially if one orates …

Accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid needs to flush waste from brain operation hence the need for rest/sleep.

I have always felt this way too. Our personal choices do not move the needle on fossil fuel and plastics. One could embrace aversion to these out of a sense of sustainability to si…

Land acknowledgements are common in Canada especially in provinces that did not sign treaties with indigenous people prior to taking their land.

The process you describe above is highly vulnerable as Ponzi scheme. The goal would be to raise total revenues, to paint a certain financial picture to meet targets for cashing out…

Oh boy, offering a draw so he could annihilate Caruana in the next phase is a totally gangsta move.

Kinda where AI is today.

Proving once again an ugly man can get the ladies if they have compensating traits.

A prescient example from this thought exercise of The Ethics of Belief.

Thank you for sharing this work. I look forward to reading it.

How's your hand?

I consider him the Graham Hancock (see Netflix's Ancient Apocalypse) of pop culture topics. Gladwell is trying to do for pop culture which Freakonomics did for economic topics whic…

This feature of a dark desktop wallpaper is underappreciated.

OMG, I've lived this long and used the web without knowing about this.

I think in times past, the achievements of woman in STEM were downplayed and disproportionately overshadowed by men of their same era. You have to assume that most reporters and jo…

This. Coffee with a teaspoon of coconut oil or butter if preferred. The oil increases satiation (feeling full). Then get at it. Whatever you need to do or narrative to tell yoursel…

Some may think it primitive but your workflow is fast, efficient, backups up easily (I write a simple DOS batch file which copies all new or updated files to a USB stick) and backs…

Yes Xtree! Oh my major flashback...

Aaron Schwartz, you did not die in vain. RIP.

Agree. Emacs is so much more than a text editor, it is more accurately described as a lifestyle. Operating systems are merely bootloaders for Emacs. ;D

The far right and far right behave similarly -- except the language used differs.