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It’s quickly being understood as a ploy for mass surveillance.

Right, and it's quite possibly not even very relevant to the book.

It seems like a gem to me. For those who don’t “get it” just think about what it evokes and follow those thoughts. That’s all there is to it.

Everything but that stubby, sawed-off, blunted rearend looks pretty good

I bet the victims had their socks on too

My son's life was saved when he had a severe asthma attack and helium treatment helped him recover. The doctor told us about helium scarcity and how much she hated party balloons. ;p It certainly is a precious resource.

Their detailed explanation of compliance issues in the space is interesting and enlightening.

Following this thread to this comment has been one of the biggest disappointments of my week. Your paranoid pedantry is not helpful.

When I learned this, I also learned that in the Appalachian Mountains, the valleys were the peaks originally and the peaks are what were the valleys. This has to do with the type of rock and the erosion that has happened; the original peaks were a softer rock. That mountain range was extremely tall at one point.

This is the way. Obviously as mentioned, a calendar is a pre-requisite and for me so are various note-taking/writing systems such as a physical notebook, more .txt files, and sometimes heavier stuff like Google Docs. But those are only for deeper work or archival stuff. Most everything starts and and ends right in thst one .txt file. Each day new stuff goes at the top. Sometimes I go through it and delete things that have become meaningless or will never be useful.

Nobody wants it, and we all have a sense of the dark future ahead. Why they think we would think this is an acceptable way to sell burgers is crazy.

As I’ve ALWAYS suspected

I’ll do as I like.

The angle that has always perturbed me about EA is the implication (or outright accusation, really) that the entire philanthropy world is full of useless bozos ineffectually stumbling around failing to help people.

While greater efficiencies are always welcome, it seem immature or unwise to bring the “Well I tell ya what I’d do…” attitude to incredibly complex messy human endeavors like philanthropy. Ditto for politics. Rather get in there and learn why these systems are so messy…that’s life, really.

The title says exactly that, does it not?

Indeed, the takeaway I get from this is how we tend to underestimate how long healing takes. People expect major injuries to be healed in 6 weeks, but it often takes that long to simply turn the corner toward full healing.

Is art within your sphere of awareness?

When universal opt-out isn’t available https://simpleoptout.com/

We can bomb immigrants and protestors. Let your imagination soar in these innovative times!

No there isn't.

Haha yes because it went on for a couple weeks before disappearing.

Man I went straight for psydub info. Back about 5 years ago I stumbled onto so some really interesting “psydub” playlists on Spotify with very strange song names and I thought I’d really found something good. Then poof! they disappeared one day and nothing labeled “psydub” seems to hit the mark and I don’t know what the hell that stuff was that disappeared.

Well she’s done a massive service exposing these absolutely imbecilic people at Facebook. It’s depressing, but aslo helpful to know definitively that our next step as a culture can safely be to end the cult of the billionaire. They do not deserve our admiration, and there is no place for them in public policy.

It is so true. Pick up any well-regarded book even quick short ones and the depth of information, insight, and connection you get put most online things to shame. Like it’s not even close compared to good blogs, podcasts, and videos…books run circles around them.

Good point

Wow so it's down to the building level? I wonder how he did those and how accurate they are. Dimensions seems right on.

Well then his death proved Stern wrong. Soooo many people in my feeds out of seemingly nowhere talking about much they liked his videos, and that aligns with reports of how much money he made at it.

The same can lead one to making a martyr out of a despicable voice.

Off the top of my head, I do several things:

1) tell stories of how I came to enjoy something I previously had not

2) don't make anything contentious...respect preferences while insisting they can change those preferences if they want to

3) help them gain competence quickly in anything they may not love at first

4) exposure and enthusiasm about lots of things

5) never trashing things and never ever shitting on other people's likes.

Good taste should be intriguing, so you might be doing it wrong.