Dirlewanger

I can't imagine the incredible amount of man-hours that were wasted on detecting if your video has fucking copyrighted material in it. Absolute shame.

The reason why is right in plain sight: because most women aren't actually interested in tech jobs. And before you start fuming and downvote me, go look at Scandinavian countries (countries that have the most gender equality in the world) and look at the gender disparities in tech/nursing/schoolteacher jobs. It's not the 50/50 utopian vision you think it is.

It's better to pick a region (or if in the West, maybe a state) and just visit that. Many foreigners don't realize how big the US really is. Doing cross-country roadtrips is a great way to suck up time doing nothing but driving.

Do something like visit New England for a month and stay in a new state each week.

A company that is nowhere near being profitable (on top of virtually no cash flow) is going public?

Li-ion batteries have been the same for like 40 years, they've just gotten smaller.

Why are you OK with one of the world's largest marketplaces banning children's books while also allowing the sale of stuff like the Anarchist's Cookbook and all the ingredients to make a nail bomb?

This is what happens when sheltered white people on Twitter get bored.

In a way, it's absolutely hilarious. The fact that people were so outraged by this (which was a bait attempt at a meme a rational person could see a mile away) shows they're willing to be controlled by the very people they hate.

You sound like someone who'd have a problem with someone because their last name is Lynch.

Yup, try using the words niggle and niggardly in a public setting.

Doomsday Clock is a politically-driven relic from the Cold War era. We don't trust politicians to be experts on the climate, so why do we trust a bunch of scientists to be foreign policy experts?

I contend there's a lot of potentially existential threats out there, but to use it as a crutch for not having children is weak, especially when people still procreated through much worse times.

Yup. A bit offtopic, but these kinds of legislative plays are why something like the military-industrial complex is so hard to break.

Yeah, it'd be great to shut down that UTC plant that subsists entirely on defense contracts, but it's been in the community for 50 years and provides thousands of jobs. Good luck running for that district on a platform of wanting to kill local jobs.

Seriously, people need some fucking perspective. Yeah, things aren't too hot right now, but that's because all you do is consume the 24/7 newscycle and worry about what some nobody on Twitter is agonizing over about Disney's latest TV show. The world is the safest it's ever been. Aside from Covid, many massive killers of the past are no longer a problem. Our ancestors would be shaking their heads if they saw the prosperous times we live in now, but don't choose to have children.

The alternatives of which are largely plastic-based.

Yeah, this is what the environmentalists don't really get.

Cheap meat available to the masses isn't going away. Pandora's Box has been opened, we have to deal with that. The only thing accomplished with making meat prohibitively expensive is pissing meat-eaters off (thus them resenting any environmental reforms even more), and most importantly, making it accessible only to the wealthy.

It's fine to offer healthier alternatives, but don't expect to be moving mountains. Focus more money and effort on lab-grown meat.

Most legislators would LOVE to hear from their constituents

Yeah, I'm sure that desire to hear from them is only up to a point, at which they love the lobbying dollars more.

Well, that starts to get into the hairy territory of what women say they want vs. what they actually want. And due to inflated standards from dating applications (constant swiping due to thinking there's something better around the corner), I think you see what I'm getting at.

A decade ago, OKCupid used to be half-way decent application . You actually heard about people meeting/getting married on there. Now that all the big dating applications are owned by the same company, and they all copy Tinder, it's practically worthless.

Not everyone will hold forever. BTC's situation is really no different from gold's: it's seen as a store of value, but in the case of BTC, there's a lot of hype around it. The GME situation is related, but doesn't have the overtly greedy hedge funds at the forefront.

Everything on the planet uses energy. Why are people so obsessed with Bitcoin's energy usage in particular?

I mean, America being the world police is a meme, but also has some truth to it...

Is the person who wrote this high? They conclude that "it was false to frame that recommendation as a mandatory directive from ODE to teachers, or to suggest the department itself said the standard idea of “showing work” is a form of white supremacy". Why would the Oregon state government spend all this money and effort to create this PDF and not have it be a recommendation for their teachers? So that teachers can maybe use it? So that they can watch Ben Sharpiro lose his shit over it?

I'm sick of these mealy-mouthed contrivances that are everywhere today. They simply can't admit that Oregon is 100% in the wrong and that they published racist pedagogy documents.

The media targeting Wal-Mart allowed them to pump themselves up as a viable alternative. Also, people like their cutesy red and white commercials.

Unbelievable. This is petty shit you'd expect from 100+ years ago when companies were breaking strikes by killing people. Might as well rename this country to the Corporate States of America. No level of government has any backbone against the private sector.

You on the AWS Social Media Team or something? People don't want to do business with Amazon.

Controlling your weight is in your control. Going bald isn't (at least not in the same side effect-free way that controlling your weight is).

The pie can be grown at the same time that it's sliced more ways.

Except the exact opposite has happened.

There's also the whole frightening frame of thought that as people who were alive to see nuclear detonations being performed in the 50s/60s continue to die off, as a society we're going to slowly forget what makes nuclear weapons so awesome (in the original definition of the word), and the willpower around their restraint will slowly be eroded away until it's too late.

We're in the beginnings of a new Cold War with China, and we're not winning.

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