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I thought I read that this is where they deploy new changes first. Can anyone confirm?

> I do not understand why designers are so insistent on making tools so difficult and unpleasant to use. Because they need something to pad their resume. In fact, most of the thing…

If you had read the entirety of that article, you wouldn't have posted it as an example.

Every public figure has been called names. It comes with the territory and usually it's not worth mentioning. It's part of the deal and shouldn't be surprising to anyone who has de…

How are the complicit media organized? Is there a secret WhatsApp thread going on between the hundreds of media organizations? Who runs the organization? How do they keep it a secr…

The guidance from the CDC has been relatively clear: closures depend on the state of the local hospital system and transmission rates. Closures that avoid overwhelming health syste…

She was correct if you don't consider children as a vector for COVID-19 transmission to parents and grandparents. Hundreds of thousands more people would have died if schools weren…

I think there was almost a good system in place: a variety of ad-supported sites that professionally reviewed new products, and a variety of ad-supported forums where you could get…

> As far as I can tell, you just made that up. Literally no Google hits NAFTA was passed in the very early days of the internet. Here's a great quote about it from former president…

Buy a Brother Color Laser printer. $250 and the ink never dries. I haven't thought about printing other than pressing "print" in 6 months.

Because people in debt are easier to control. It's the same reason we are the only nation that does not provide healthcare as a right. Millions of people would quit tomorrow if the…

According to Leonard Susskind[1], fine tuning is a compelling argument by itself[2], and the strongest case is the cosmological constant.[3] In a nutshell it is a sort of repelling…

> A CDC Whistleblower leaked they had found over 40k vax-induced deaths in medicare data back in July I don't know what FaceBook feed you are mainlining, but you should probably st…

Trump claimed the election was stolen, held a rally on the day the vote was being formally accepted by Congress, told a crowd of thousands to march to the Capitol, and then that cr…

In addition to your points here, I found the hypothesis below very interesting. In a nutshell, American governments are incentivized to zone for expensive land that doesn't require…

Not too worried about it. It only happens during wartime for G20 nations, the last being in the 1920s/1940s. When those nations were on the gold standard. https://en.wikipedia.org/…

> Would you be happy with no paper certificates for gold and just use gold coins? From your earlier argument I suspect the answer is no. Everyone's answer is no. Even during the pr…

> Gold is a currency trusted by all, fiat is a currency of force. > You have to trust that banks or governments aren't going to steal your gold. If you don't trust them you change …

> It is a terrible idea for a civilization that exists in a system with finite resources to use a currency that is unbounded and exponential. The disconnect between the nominal eco…

> More gold or an increase in gold value is required to represent greater wealth. Not true. A restriction in supply can raise the price, and the discovery of new sources can lower …

Who said economic growth cannot happen on a gold standard? I said it's a useless technology for civilizations that have better ones. You responded with an incoherent argument and a…

> Modern monetary theory isn't doing fine and neither are the countries with fiat currencies. They're all in absolute crisis because their economies are built on ever-shifting quic…

The US was on the gold/silver standard from 1792-1850. Was that the reason it continued the genocide of millions of indigenous people, took their land, and then imported millions o…

Gas is more expensive because fossil fuels are more difficult to extract, we have some environmental standards instead of none, consumption has skyrocketed, and there's an organiza…

The gold standard was abandoned because it is a terrible idea for civilizations that have technologies like accounting systems and currencies that are difficult to counterfeit. Tyi…