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Thanks for the positive comment. I sometimes wonder what it feels like to be the parent of a child murdered in these communities, like the moms I see on Twitter occasionally doing …

Centrist candidate for Governor of California Michael Shellenberger, who has interviewed many addicts on the streets of SF and has a credible plan to address homelessness and open …

Are those emergency telephones, or the "press big button, speak into mic" public safety call posts? Can't order a pizza or call a cab on the latter I'm afraid.

Dismissing what people living in Oakland, southeast D.C., and the north side of Milwaukee know from frequent painful experience to be true as "white nationalist talking points" say…

>Canada is the U.S.'s neighbour and is probably closer, culturally, than any other nation. Your point about cultural similarity holds true mainly for descendants of European immigr…

>His books all have a scientist doing evil because of their lust for grant money. How unrealistic. Scientists like Peter Daszak and the EcoHealth Alliance would never do anything e…

Here's how the actual executive order defines "inherently divisive"- seems worth a tip line to me: >For the purposes of this Executive order “inherently divisive concepts” means ad…

Did you know that iPhones also say "Made in China," and include Chinese-manufactured components?

Israel doesn't need Anduril. They have a large domestic drone industry with decades of experience and a strong export sector. Israeli drones gave Azerbaijan a decisive edge in that…

You mispelled "Theranos." >The man is passing a Chinese RC toy as his own development. Citation needed

Young developers often propose large-scale rewrites with little sense of the costs or risks involved. Changing old code often has unintended side-effects.

In what regard is Skyrim's gameplay emergent, aside from the OP link's fox example? As I understand it, Radiant AI is a framework for fixed and relatively simple finite state machi…

At least in the US, military officers don't make a lot of money relative to similar positions in private industry. Their total compensation is often underestimated as it includes h…

Worthing noting that Morrowind, and presumably also this mod, is now playable in VR thanks to the OpenMW project: https://uploadvr.com/play-elder-scrolls-morrowind-vr-openmw/ https…

Twitter use is near-ubiquitous among journalists, politicians, and those who wield or seek to gain influence. Corporations fire people, companies terminate business deals, and univ…

How many times a year do you watch C-SPAN? How often do you browse the press release page for your local elected official, much less someone else's? Whatever you think of this part…

In terms of fashion, Japan's Uniqlo is quite popular in the US and continues to grow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniqlo#United_States Americans remain fascinated with all aspect…

>If you removed that button people would copy and paste or screenshot and share. And this already happens, often between people who've blocked one another yet want to continue the …

This is the third time you have misunderstood and misrepresented my thesis. I will not respond to a fourth time. >You said the reason we don't hear about those West African empires…

>the other caused by mismanagement and frankly jaw droppingly pigheaded incompetence which would also never happen in a country like Germany. Are you sure? One example: https://www…

You ignored the explicit meaning of my comment, rewrote it to mean something entirely different, and now claim to have disproved that version of it. I'm not sure what you're trying…