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by roughly 5d ago
Vance’s problem is that whenever he walks into the room at least half the crowd covers their drinks. He’s got absolutely negative charisma. It’s the same reason Ron DeSantis, Mike Pence, and Ted Cruz couldn’t win the big chair - for all Tru
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by roughly 5d ago
The bet is that the democrats won’t have the spine to force AI companies to eat a loss on half a trillion dollars worth of data centers, and it’s frankly a pretty good one.
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by roughly 6d ago
And also we have a large overabundance of CO2 we need to figure out something to do with, and using it in the heat pumps we’re all going to need to adjust to our overabundance of CO2 seems like a quite parsimonious arrangement.
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by roughly 11d ago
You know, as a follow-up to “democratic populations making sacrifices at scale” - have you _looked_ at the US lately? Our lifestyle is atrocious - we work shitty jobs too many hours, drive everywhere, live in isolating suburbs in crappily-b
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by roughly 11d ago
You’re underestimating both the size and the heterogeneity of those cultures. Politics attains anywhere with a population that exceeds Dunbar’s number, and both of those cultures were easily in the tens to hundreds of thousands. They’re als
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by roughly 11d ago
I mean, I damn sure hope we can do both in parallel, because if we’re gonna wait for everyone to reach enlightenment, we’re sure not gonna make it in time.
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by roughly 11d ago
I think the problem is not recognizing the assholes as a separate problem from the ignorance. Ignorant people hear “giant impending calamity that will harm you and your neighbors” and think, “oh, we should do something about that!” They’re
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by roughly 11d ago
What’s always struck me as interesting about these conversations is that both you and I and many, many of the other people we talk to are willing to make significant life changes to deal with this problem, and yet we all seem convinced the
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by roughly 11d ago
There are long histories of cultures managing collective resources democratically over extremely long periods. Both the water temples of Southeast Asia and the rituals around salmon runs and controlled burns in the Pacific Northwest maintai
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by roughly 11d ago
I think the conversation here is making me more depressed than the news. The number of people who don’t believe collective action is possible, who somehow believe the current techno-capitalist model is determined by god or history or whatev
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by roughly 14d ago
If anyone was wondering what editors do, it’s this.
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by roughly 14d ago
I think the fact that this post is marked as #long is the most salient detail in the entire thing.
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by roughly 14d ago
You’d think, but in practice their entire policy prescription seems to come down to “well if they didn’t want me to have it, they should’ve bolted it down, this is really an incentives problem, if you look at it.”
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by roughly 14d ago
Ah yes, reward the people generating the value less, that should be a neutral move vis a vis the value of the product.
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by roughly 14d ago
This is why nobody likes economists.
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by roughly 15d ago
There’s an old mantra from organizing: “no permanent enemies, no permanent allies.” You will never align with another group or person 100% on all things; the secret to making change is to build a coalition of those with whom you agree on an
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by roughly 15d ago
I had the same surgery and would make the same recommendation. Shockingly safe, very high success rate, quick in & out, and easy recovery. A whole lot better than playing tachycardia whack-a-mole for the rest of your life, and those inc
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by roughly 16d ago
I suppose that depends on whether you’re a human being who lives in a place or an investment portfolio. A lot of people seem to get confused about that, but as a human, I’d say I don’t love the outcomes here, personal portfolio performance
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by roughly 16d ago
I’ve never mugged someone either, I suppose I should give it a shot before I go passing judgement.
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by roughly 16d ago
Contingency exists, I get that, and if you're truly in that state, sure, I don't judge necessity. A lot of our cohort seems to confuse a studied disinterest in looking beyond the end of their own nose for the sage wisdom of adulth
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by roughly 17d ago
Wait, so you’ve been the person who wanted to keep people from scraping your site, the person who’s trying to scrape your site, and the person getting paid to help someone scrape your site? Brother, what are you doing with your life?
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by roughly 18d ago
I am a big booster of both solar power and electric vehicles, but boy, Aptera’s trying to thread a needle I just don’t think we’ve got the technology to thread yet. The efficiency of solar panels isn’t high enough to consistently generate e
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by roughly 19d ago
What’s interesting about this is, as you point out, the “negative impact” side of this is extremely situational - many of the most talented engineers I’ve ever worked with were very much on the spectrum, and within the bounds of the work
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by roughly 19d ago
Tbh the jay would be more likely to eat the hat than wear it. He also was extremely clear that the bounds of our friendship did not include me touching him at all, but he’d usually just peck my finger, not actually fly away.
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by roughly 19d ago
> Armed conflict by residents and citizens against the state is usually a serious criminal offense everywhere. I think it’s worth considering that you’re much more likely to be a resident or a citizen than a state when you’re deciding ho
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by roughly 19d ago
A friend is someone you’ll spend time around given other options. If you’ve spent any time getting to know crows (or jays, or any other corvids), it’s quite obvious this is the case. I had a scrub jay who’d perch on my foot while I read in
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by roughly 20d ago
Oh interesting, I didn’t know that was the distinction - thanks!
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by roughly 20d ago
From what I know of cell biology (read: committed dilettante), the notion that one gene does X is rarely correct. The way to think about genes and the proteins they encode for is less “blue eyes” and more “metric socket wrench #5” - the pro
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by roughly 20d ago
Ok, that makes sense - so ASD is basically that we’ve noticed some prototypical behaviors, which is where the grouping comes from, but it’s possible what we’re seeing is sort of the “carcinization” of mental operating modes - many different
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by roughly 20d ago
Out of curiosity, what leads us to treat ASD as an actual single disorder, as opposed to a billion different individual neurological profiles? I'd expect one of the things that makes this difficult, too, is that there's a missing

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