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That makes sense and could explain a lot of it. The time spent is essentially compressed in memory making it seem smaller than it is.

It's funny seeing so many people who spend hours every day on social media or Netflix or Steam claim that they have no time. We can see the data on how many hours are being consumed.

What explains that?

Male giraffes evolved to impress females by fighting each other with their necks.

Male humans evolved to impress females by sending them a text message about how male giraffes impress female giraffes.

Seriously tho, how are people affording these mortgages? Is everyone living paycheck to paycheck or what?

if you need a house, buy a house - because you do need a place to live.

What is functioning as a good store of value in that environment? Gold? Bitcoin? Stocks? Real estate?

What did it say?

The root cause may be bullying and ostracization combined with the media contagion effect. This is a repeating pattern.

Bullying: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/05/25/uvalde-texa...

The gunman in Tuesday’s elementary school massacre was a lonely 18-year-old who was bullied over a childhood speech impediment, suffered from a fraught home life and lashed out violently against peers and strangers recently and over the years, friends and relatives said

In middle school and junior high, Ramos was bullied for having a stutter and a strong lisp, friends and family said. Stephen Garcia, who considered himself Ramos’s best friend in eighth grade, said Ramos didn’t have it easy in school.

“He would get bullied hard, like bullied by a lot of people”. Ramos’s cousin Mia said she saw students mock his speech impediment when they attended middle school together. He’d brush it off in the moment, Mia said, then complain later to his grandmother that he didn’t want to go back to school.

Contagion: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mass-shootings-ar...

What happens in 3-6 months?

What happens if Tether fails, realistically?

There's a lot of doomsaying around it, but after seeing the crypto market shrug off the loss of Terra Luna without contagion or bailout ala GFC crisis, the fear may be overblown. Terra was backed entirely by hot air, whereas Tether is mostly backed. Wouldn't the net loss be similar or even less?

What happened to the FDA? Why would they block a healthier option? This must be incompetence or corruption.

European formula is healthier than the dorito mix formula sold in the US. I was shocked to see that some have corn syrup and high oleic sunflower oils as the first ingredient. If I was a parent in the US I'd be looking for an underground formula railroad.

That's literally heresay. We don't know what happened.

I'd bet $1000 that it's another half true, half exaggerated "awkward nerd misreads woman and makes her uncomfortable" story.

None of those are banned.

What a lazy and completely unsupported talking point.

Who shut down the public schools resulting in catastrophic learning loss and depression? I'll give you a hint. It wasn't Florida.

I find it powerful too and it raises the question of whether it reflects an artist in decay or an artist at his peak.

How would we know the difference?

Why no sunglasses?

What about the actual contents of the publication or article in question?

Many don't know the USA has a very large safety net. Medicaid, medicare, social security, SNAP, TANF, SSI, LIHEAP, EITC, rent vouchers, pell grants, job training programs, etc.

Status games are multiplayer, zero-sum, hierarchical, judged socially. Get grades, applause, titles now — emptiness later. Natural games are single player, positive-sum, internal, judged by nature/markets.

Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep. Money is how we transfer time and wealth. Status is your place in the social hierarchy.

Understand that ethical wealth creation is possible. If you secretly despise wealth, it will elude you.

Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.

(from Naval)

Please, someone introduce Sam to the economist Thomas Sowell.

What is the point of messing with scrolling behavior? Do people find this to be an improvement over the default?

The current model of NPCs have a limited dialogue tree. Saving CPU cycles by sticking to the script helps maximize their ESG score.

And dynamically typed languages.

Pinker's response reflects the majority of scientists and rational thinkers, but appears to be in the minority because of widespread preference falsification*.

That he's so well credentialed and respected may trigger a preference cascade. Then we can get back to science.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preference_falsification

That was jarring I have to admit. 3 of the 4 sections are injecting unrelated political or religious incantations? By the end I almost forgot what the article was supposed to be about.

In January 2013, President Barack Obama issued 23 executive orders directing federal agencies to improve knowledge of the causes of firearm violence, what might help prevent it, and how to minimize its burden on public health. One of these orders directed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to, along with other federal agencies, immediately begin identifying the most pressing problems in firearm violence research.

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/18319/priorities-f...

If you've ever played The Witness, it's a lot like this. Which raises the question; is beating The Witness an IQ test?

This is a rift between digital only natives and digital hybrids. The hybrids know the tradeoffs of both. Digital only don't have the lived experience to know what they're missing.

If that's true, the country is over. It's the last authoritative institution.