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Doesn't take much to understand why people don't want high electricity bills and a 100Db dull roar inside their homes at all times

The subway should be free, and continuous fare hikes when you're already double paying with your eyes because of all the advertising they shove in front of you is more incentive to turnstile jump. Overpaid do-nothing senior adminstrators and lawmakers who are in the pocket of privatization are the problem, not that 17 year old.

If you don't want to use it, don't use it

Not sure if you've noticed, but none of that SpaceX stuff is going to happen

It's just our shitty food system and sedentary lifestyle but everyone is projecting their weird hangups on it

That is not how biology works

Put the skull calipers down

This is Norway, not the US. They have standards and a functioning social contract.

Great write-up. Java is getting so good. The improvements over the last decade have been unbelievable. The negativity here is bizarre. Just a reflex I suppose.

On desktop does flutter have native access to the machine it's running on? Can it talk to printers for example?

Solar and progress on better batteries is a more consequential and useful technological revolution than AI. Should be a huge story, but there's not enough money to be made via speculation so it's not.

Managers, like police and prosecutors, are enforcers for the capitalist class. This is why they are not part of the working class. Managers do the job of squeezing surplus value from workers, rather than producing real Value themselves. Relationship to capital determines class.

The nouning of verbs is a very annoying type of corpo speak

Individual contributor i.e., non-management

Great read. Being an engineer in the mid 20th century must have been fun and satisfying.

We pay for a diaper service. The price is comparable to disposables. The population density where I live helps with the price I'm sure.

Ok great let's get rid of non-renewable powered AI _and_ stop eating animals.

Security vulnerabilities for one obvious example

Oh well when you put it that way, I guess it's good that kids are dying of measles again.

Damn it's really an infringement on our rights that they cracked down on people yelling "fire" in a crowded theater

Point being that things of high quality that are enriching sometimes require an investment

Moby Dick is too hard to read. They should make it shorter with a limited vocabulary.

Mountainhead was a documentary.

"Bureaucracy" isn't blocking new and better treatments, privatized healthcare and research is.

Also a great rec

Maybe that describes the people who hired her but I think she thought she was going to succeed in ratings and business. She is internet-brained and has no self awareness.

Bari Weiss. Not a smart person.

Read cat's cradle to understand the comment

The West Bank is governed by the PLO, not Hamas, so it sounds like your concern is that you just don't wish to hear about it because it's an inconvenience.

If OP finds this compelling, please consider a Quaker church to avoid the dogmatic and political baggage.

Or perhaps a Unitarian church or Buddhist temple.

It's the year of our Lord 2026 and people are still making personal responsibility pitches to fix the CO2 levels which haven't been seen in 300 million years

Most LLM users are not techies