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So this content mill website is selling online courses? I skimmed it, and I have no idea what I was supposed to take away from it.

Most rental agencies won’t let anyone under 25 rent a vehicle. I can’t imagine trying to insure an 18 year old for a $100,000+ truck and it’s cargo.

Facebook causes terrorism, murder, and rape? What evidence was the basis of that conclusion? I’m guessing the solution is a global network of unaccountable mandarins to institute a…

Programmatically generating geometry is very cool, but I don’t know of anyone doing real work with it. OpenSCAD is probably the best power-hobbyist software I know of for this purp…

“Why don’t I have total control of what every else says, writes or thinks?” Aw, shucks, I guess we’re just going to have to adopt global despotism to stop this crisis of rude behav…

If there are disputes about consumption and production across national boundaries, who resolves that? Different parts of the world don’t even have similar objectives within the ene…

For 20-30-somethings that probably read a pop-dev news aggregator? Probably not. Or are most of us in our 80s? There is also substantial variation in reported IFR between political…

I don’t think there are many wheel guns that would give you 249,999/250,000 odds of survival. The number of people killed or injured by mRNA treatments is also not zero.

Are populations with large majorities of people who’ve received 2-3 injections seeing total or near eradication of coronavirus? I’m not aware of any examples.

I think the hope is to market pharmaceutical products to people who do not currently see a benefit to them given their naturally acquired antibodies. Large quantities of product is…

I’ll invest in some black and white Nikes. Will punch be served?

You’re thinking about Peter the Great. The Czar. Also, if you think you can get credible reports from Pravda, about a country with Potemkin villages of all things, then I don’t thi…

60 million people die of some cause every year. What is your threshold for global despotism to be an acceptable response?

"How can we put a meter on it?" -JP Morgan (he/him)

There is a data indicating masks are not effect source control for respiratory illnesses. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-0994_article I think the single study that suppo…

It seems like someone makes a “novel” discovery about Roman concrete every few months. I’m curious what the real reason for that is.

Regulation is going to be particular to your municipal or county government. Unless you’re in a major city, the permits desk will probably be approachable and will take the time to…

> Nuclear bomb shelters were an irrational response to unjustified fears stoked by the media. We need to have a talk about COVID-19…

Well 20% of US uranium production capacity was sold for charitable donations to the benefit of a certain former Secretary of State. I’m not sure how much has been plundered during …

Only about 16% of Maine has active agricultural operations. Or if you want to take out the guesswork, buy some downtown blight in some city, demolish it, vegetate the site and dona…

Or maybe buy land, plant some clovers and stick some bee hives on it. The pervasive attitude of dealing with problems real or imagined with “who can the state punish?” rather than …

Urbanites in their concrete jungles inflicting punishment on farmers for having destroyed bee habitat is so absurd on its face that it’s completely plausible.

In many jurisdictions in the US, interfering with criminals in any way is itself a crime, even if it’s with cool LTL tech. If you’re fortune enough not to live in one of those plac…

There is also a really slick website for capturing sweet VC bucks: https://photonicsentry.com/ Real. Soon. Now.

I don’t know how you can look at the telecom market and make the determination that it’s “unfettered capitalism”. AT&T has an extraordinary amount of special market privileges that…