boondoggle16

You'd need to define that something special, else you sound really racist.

...I think that says more about you than me.

hnbad

Not in Africa. The plan is to have billions of Africans migrate to Europe to do the work instead, due to the climate crisis.

When they get to Europe, they are going to expect the same quality of life that Europeans have historically enjoyed. So, just because Europeans aren't reproducing, doesn't mean that they aren't being superseded by a new group of materialist consumers.

There is something really special about European development. Chinese history is absolutely fascinating with a lot of super cool inventions, but nothing stands close to European history and it's power.

That really doesn't sound healthy. Babies need real interaction, they don't need to slap a screen and make funny noises. Screens are flat, they have no texture.

Sadly, babies which are underexposed to stimuli often display developmental delays compared to peers.

This is actually kinda true with doordash etc. Those drivers are completely unvetted, they don't even have an interview.

The kind of people that can't get a job at a pizza place.

Personally, I never order delivery through these services. The incentives are all wrong. Not to mention the costs are super high: restaurants don't make any money, I pay out the @$$, and the drivers are given sub-minimum-wage pay after taking on the risks of delivery driving.

Continual selection of entities which survive. For example, sand is the natural evolved substrate of beaches. Shells get ground into sand, anything heavier sinks to the bottom of the ocean.

I'm not understanding, your statement reads like a non-sequitur to me. Evolution has nothing to do with life.

I'll leave that as an exercise to the reader. Imagine how our society would change if these liars and grifters were not constantly brainwashing our friends and family on the topics of:

- Economics - Climate - Health - Social wellbeing

Actually, the earth is subject to evolutionary pressure in a sense.

This is the only planet that supports life (that we know of). That's because it's natural properties endured through billions of years to support life.

It's not exactly an arms race. And it's a different, but similar mechanism. But I think the underlying principles are the same.

In this case, evolution won't look like the earth changing over time. It's more like, there are billions of potential earths out there, and over billions of years, some of them will more subtly change to support life.

So, we may destroy our earth, but that doesn't impair the ability for other earths to evolve. We just may not see it.

Very very poignant comment here.

Personally, I just use my instincts. If my instincts are wrong, well, there's always another lifeform that will evolve someday, even if that's billions of years from now.

Hopefully they will be smarter than myself. If not, a few billion more years and we may get another shot...

Not the op but, I've seen this for lots of reasons.

Sometimes just a roll of the dice. Large companies tend to lay off more. If you've only worked in startups, it's very possible you may never be laid off. I've never been laid off despite working 20 years in industry.

Working in banks, FAGMAN, etc, you are much more likely to be laid off. I guess you could consider that high-risk, but those jobs are low-risk overall imo, because they pay a lot more than startups.

So what do you do in a situation like this? I mean really? Total punisher mode, make other judges think twice and sacrifice yourself?

don't forget the civil war!

Dumb and wild are also slurs, it's not possible to call someone "weird" without using a slur, because all words like "weird" were originally slurs, they have just undergone reputation recycling over the years that we forgot about it.

No, no, no. Being nice to our family and kin is what made us strong.

Being nice to the whole world? Not so much.

Strange, I rarely break any of mine, and even when I do, I just replace it

I do my best with honest intentions and open mind. If some make it through, so be it.

Sure they used their brains. But "brains behind the operation" is a term of art.

Is the McDonald's cashier the "brains behind the operation" because they count change as part of their duties?

Counting change accurately is very important to the continued successful operation of a retail establishment. But it's menial work.

Even Wikipedia agrees with me:

Alan Turing described the "human computer" as someone who is "supposed to be following fixed rules; he has no authority to deviate from them in any detail."

I think the term "human computer" is extremely misleading without the cultural context behind the term, i.e. that these people were essentially doing 5th grade math worksheets all day. Reading numbers, plugging them into a calculator (yes, really), and writing down the results.

Usually we call these mechanical turks?

except for some of us, the notion of "tribe" has been enlarged to include a vast number of people By "some of us", do you mean people of European heritage? China, Russia, Israel, and most of Africa are incredibly xenophobic.

Then we would live in a high-trust society, like the United States and Europe used to be 100 years ago. Or like Singapore is now.

But we don't, and never will again, for very complicated reasons.

This, more rules for thee but not for me.

Pepsi can pay $10MM for the main character in a kid's movie to drink a Pepsi.

But if a small board game company sends an influencer a free board game, an influencer is not allowed to review it.

Personally, I think having "background" props is much more insidious. At least with social media I know I can expect grift. Seeing someone drink Pepsi in a movie is more like seeing your friend drink Pepsi.

John likes Pepsi, and he's cool. Think I'll drink some.

Quote from imdb movie description:

mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history

In this case, aren't they more like hands than brains?

The brains should be the ones who created the code. These people are just processing it, it's like manual labor.

Sadly, the internet is entirely filled with "wow that's really impressive" on absolute bunk. So my first instinct is to kill, kill, kill whatever is in front of me.

What survives, is true.

Myself and my friends have personal responsibility already :shrug:

If I found out a friend drove drunk, I'd berate the hell out of them and shame them. What a dangerous, selfish thing to do.

Sorry you have friends like that. If I were you, I'd find new friends.

If you fall asleep drunk with flammable objects, you deserve everything coming to you. This isn't discaution, it's up there with drunk driving.

Tessier-Lavigne’s salary at Regeneron

Wait, the company that re-sells "medical waste"? e.g. foreskins, cord blood, placentas? Body parts that should reside with their rightly owner, but doctors butcher and steal for self-enrichment?

Yes but you can say this about literally any idea in any field ever.

Great! That's why it's fun to say.

I do find the prospect of scientists using a bit more amusing than the average employee, however, as the public expects them to be holy.