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As a person who has been censored by Facebook for wrongthink, watching them stare down the barrel of Apple "being a private company, and doing what they want" is like watching a ki…

The standard populist playbook of conflating "rise in value of an asset a person owns" with "income".

Desal is inefficient and hugely destructive to the environment. This old saw comes up in California every now and then, but if we were able to build the most efficient desal plants…

This is why folks on the right roll their eyes when folks on the left say "trust the science!". What it really means is "trust the TV", which many people on the right are unwilling…

With water sequestration specifically, we've already built all the cheap dams. It's significantly diminishing returns at this point.

> The stupidest thing California does is treat water rights as economic land for farmers that simply waste obscene amounts of a valuable resource. We need to tax that economic land…

Fixed pie fallacy.

What relics of my existence will be news in the year 4421? The pocket knife I lost? My car keys? Code I've written?

> Life is more enjoyable to me when I can spend without care knowing I'm always increasing my skills, fulfillment, and by consequence earning potential. "Believing" is more accurat…

Stimulant use is one of those things that everyone knows, but nobody talks about. Silicon Valley, like the German army in WWII, runs on amphetamine.

In the wake of Parler, etc., "If you don't like it, build your own X" is no longer a valid argument.

> One-in-five Americans is “credit invisible”... The article makes this out to be a _bad_ thing. It's great that so many people exist outside of a database.

"They are private companies, they can do what they want!"

Twitter is a haven for the "kill all white people" and "Republicans all deserve to die" supporters.

Mostly peaceful security researcher?

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"This computer is my property, I should be able to run whatever programs I want on it." This was the hacker ethos from the 90s. Where did that go?

At least they can keep the electricity on, which is more than we can say for California.

We're only beginning to understand the effects that this diverse, readily-accessible, in-your-pocket degeneracy has on people. A 16 year old boy today will be able to see more nake…

It's only a matter of time before Substack gets enough pressure from its employees or its payments provider and starts censoring "inappropriate" content. (The definition of "inappr…

> Church goers regularly give up 10% of their (gross) income to be part of that group. We sorted out the tithe issue a while ago. Heads rolled. You can show up to any Christian chu…

The nuclear family is the reference implementation for this.

Second original co-author of OpenEMR here. He's telling the truth.

That’s a bit racist.

Equal pay for equal work. The concept swings many ways, even inconvenient ones.