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Regardless of how bad or good the 737 MAX was conceived, none of that matters because of regulatory capture of the FAA by way of millions of dollars of bribes paid to hundreds in C…

Clickbait, contrived nonsense. If housing is taken care of, the real minimum-viable wage for San Francisco is $35k/year. Anything beyond that is either exorbitant discretional livi…

Whale blubber and mammal livers are high in vitamin c and considering primates lost the function of the GULO (L-gulonolactone oxidase) gene, one could surmise from megafauna extinc…

If the sentiment you express in Western social media is political and outside of the manufactured consent, you are very likely to be put on one of the many American watchlists with…

There's no technical panacea to this undesirable behavior. Sanctions against party elites would be a start by preventing them from banking or traveling freely.

Less scary than pervasive surveillance, Orwellian "social credit," millions in concentration camps and on-demand executions for organ harvesting.

I think the bigger chilling effects (ie deplatforming of controversial figures) have been consequences of: 1. Depending on advertiser-model corporations for public commons during t…

If you don't know who Casimir Pulaski was, no worries, The History Guy has you covered: https://youtu.be/l1WDK_5D7kc

China is far, far worse with the sex ratio being incredibly imbalanced due to the past one child policy. There's a number of documentaries about the craziness and competitiveness o…

Hedges mentioned that when capitalism is in doubt, the panacea "answer" that often turns into a wedge-issue is whether to replace the previous socioeconomic order with more fascism…

This doesn't go far enough. As reported by Al Jazeera in 2010, critical structural elements of the 737 NG that were supposed to be CNC'ed were handmade and grossly out-of-spec, lea…

People don't seem to get: the world isn't anywhere close to this lie of meritocracy they've been sold. There's a small fraction of society with the right pedigree who don't have to…

Regardless of acquisition price point, this is almost always what happens when employees take these third-rate shares. The solution is employees need to insist on the exact same cl…

That processor is really old 6th gen and underpowered. I got a faster and newer quad core 8550U in a Lenovo T480 with 9 hours of battery life in dual batteries. Plus, I have a 1 Ti…

Dude ran a drug trafficking platform and allegedly took out six (6) assassination contracts, therefore the dude is a dangerous criminal. Trying to portray him as some "innocent civ…

Nawh, it's definitely Nabiru ;) Thanks for the heads-up.

Corollary to Dunning-Kruger perhaps: the productive view themselves as inadequate, leading to a number of insecurities, while the boorish liabilities view themselves as masterful, …

MentourPilot is a great channel... I subbed before the Max debacle. https://mentourpilot.com It makes sense that even with two pilots trying to manually spin the trim wheels from a…

It's analogous to police "searching" a homeless person by throwing, tearing up and destroying all of their property without even reasonable suspicion... they do it and get away wit…

"Digital archeology" isn't the right term, "digital preservation" falls under archival science, whether formally or informally.

From my measly perspective, fame suuucks... there's really no upside. Anonymous obscurity seems a better camouflage rather than people getting up in someone's personal business doc…

There's something to be said for explicitly commuting the least distance (constrained by affordability) and not when everyone else is: 1. less time wasted -> a. more time to be pro…