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Social contagion can result in surprisingly self destructive behavior. > For the first time that I am aware of, we are seeing clusters of people seeking voluntary amputations of he…

> This completely changes our perception of T. rex as a dinosaur that was insensitive around its mouth, putting everything and anything in biting at anything and everything includi…

To build on this; Is code equivalent to speech? Is Bitcoin free speech?

yt-dlp is a good fork. https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp Any other recommendations?

You think John Carmack, a legendary engineer who had his own aerospace company and has likely toured others, is wrong that it's extremely impressive? Which would be relative to oth…

Do you see how this escalating though? Already concerns are being blithely dismissed, and it only starts as optional and non essential. In Australia you can see the next step alrea…

Does the first part matter in the context of what the OP was talking about? If Trump mandated it many would not take it on that basis alone. That’s the point I’m responding to. “If…

You don't even have to imagine. Kamala Harris: "But if Donald Trump tells us to take it, I’m not taking it." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dAjCeMuXR0 The same thing was broadly …

Here's how meaningless this smear campaign is: > Palantir worked with Cambridge Analytica on the Facebook data it acquired Google, PG&E, DoorDash, Edible Arrangements, worked with …

If that's the case, then why is student debt such a problem? Or is that equally overhyped?

Is that the only explanation? Or is it possible they see weakening institutions, weakening petrodollar and want to get ahead of the curve or diversify?

How is that marketing? When I'm in Mexico things are priced in pesos, but I pay with dollars and crypto.

Now that they got a small fish at Netflix, how about looking into the whales in congress? https://unusualwhales.com/i_am_the_senate/congress

Is Boston Dynamics primarily a viral video company? If not, why do they keep getting bought and sold?

The optics are so bad it comes across as a joke. But it's the Insider, not the Onion, so... Is the article 1) unaware to a comical degree or 2) a psyop?

How does that work? How do they get the ID? And is it location accurate enough that it would not get confused with another phone a few feet away?

North America US And when you are solving a problem, do you sort by % ascending or descending?

That's important perspective. What did it look like in the early days of the shortage tho? Did it start off as minor and become more severe over time? Or did it go from plentiful t…

Yes, exactly. Fundamentally it's a way to attract attention. If the claim is getting less attention, you would expect it to die out.

Furthermore, how many US industries and companies are compromised? Hollywood, the NBA, Blizzard, are a few that come to mind. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/10/10…

Do people still make claims about alien abduction? Or has that been made extinct by the ubiquity of smartphones?

What are these investors invested in, exactly? So we know what we should invest in, because they will no doubt push it in a direction that's self interested.