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> My friends would try every angle to weasel their way out of a $100 light hearted bet! I mean, the guy went to court to weasel out of the bet.

The US army spends about $700 million on recruitment [0]. While that number has been higher recently since becoming an all volunteer army recruitment has been an expensive challeng…

I suspect someone joining the military after being in college and private industry has a higher chance of completing the pilot program than someone 18-20 years old which make up th…

> I suspect we'll see a change to WFH, not because workers like it, but because it is cheaper and production doesn't change (not to mention it quickly reveals whose "production" is…

> Interestingly, when I lay it all out like that and add it up, the US monetary policy looks like a big business's bureaucratic system, the kind that'd be ripe for disruption by a …

Imagine a world where one county underfunds infrastructure because of 5G health fears, but another country does not. Wouldn’t the county that implemented the infrastructure have a …

Imagine not paying and losing access to childcare when you need it again.

What are the chances that these strikes can lead to a union? I imagine a grocery store workers union could do a lot for the health of its workers now.

Look at Trump’s press release today.

How is this not an infringement on the right to assemble?

Right, the actual number of cases is almost certainly over 1. The parent comment just said Idaho had no reported cases which is factually incorrect. The first reported case was on …

Small nit: Boise has one recorded case. It was recorded Friday.

(a) and (c) sound like problems that are solved with very common household equipment.

I moved from Seattle to the midwest. I’ve seen a lot of very intolerable lines in the suburbs. It’s not unusual for me to wait 15 minutes to checkout at Target or Costco and last D…

The fake screenshots and the fake videos are both troublesome. How do we know what’s true and what isn’t? How many false facts do you believe? I can imagine a world where false twe…

Sometimes I get conned into buying a game that’s a large series of cutscenes with poor gameplay elements, but there are actually a large number of really good games released every …

I greatly prefer the longer lasting psychedelics — a six hour mushroom trip feels a bit rushed for me. I have a theory that a large part of the benefit of psychedelics is taking so…

Electrical plugs also haven’t had any real innovations since the ground wire. I hope to see innovations in power/data cables to cellphones more frequently than that! Edit: even if …

You say that like writing plugins is hard or undesirable.

> Do you think you represent most people? I've seen poor push notification quality increase uninstall and churn rates. I think the lesson is that many people are quickly annoyed wi…

Cool! This feature was not available when I last used Spotify, which was admittedly years ago.

Can I rip my own CDs and import them into Spotify or am I limited to the music provided by the Spotify streaming service? I think this is what is meant by a “music library”

I have a very sparsely furnished and decorated single family home. I felt intense pressure to buy because the cost of houses was increasing faster than my salary. Purchasing a home…

Or maybe there was a whole lot more fossil fuel in the past.

You gave a great answer to my question. Thank you.