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Yeah our willingness to sanction Russia and all their oil, plunging europe into shortages kinda falsifies that theory. I wonder what the actual reason is :)

If I heard that on the first day I would have left the classroom before the professor had time to correct the statement.

Think about all the american politicians who visited jeff epstiens island and then backed bills to allegedly fight pedophilia.

Why do people care so much about GDP, the number is higher now than for my parents generation but it is much harder for people now to buy a home/start a family. A recent thought I had is that less durable consumer goods actually increases our gdp by the same factor that it makes us poorer. If you have to replace a refrigerator every 5 years instead of 10 you are spending twice as much to have a fridge but GDP says you are twice as rich.

GDP is kinda like measuring a programmers productivity by LOC production. It is correlated with productivity when you are not judging based on it but once people start optimizing for it it no longer correlated.

What is it that we actually want from society?

Awesome if true. However it is unlikely we are getting sodomy laws back, republicans never actually get wins. They just exist to slow down the lefts agenda. Not that long ago Obama publicly said that he thought gay marriage should never be legal, something he obviously did not believe. I think people forget just how much things have changed in the last 10 year.

Maybe i am alone with my kloc+ .emacs.d with multiple patched functions but this website seems to miss the whole point of configuring emacs to me.

Yes slave is derived from the word slav as they were the victims of the brutal ottoman slave trade for hundreds of years. We should be nicer to our slavic bretheren.

Atheist Christian doesn't make much sense last time I checked.

How short sighted.

I recently had an experience where I specifically ordered a part from the US for fast shipping. Something like a week or two later there was no activity on the shipping label, turned out it was being shipped from China. I called customer support and was told they would give me a refund. So I bought a replacement under the assumption the refund would process. The part mysteriously showed up the next day even though the shipping label said it was still in china.

I eventually got my refund and returned the product to seller, but it took something like 4 hours of phone calls over 11 different calls and 3 weeks and threatening a charge back. I haven't shopped at newegg since then and have been using Amazon since. Not ideal but they are much more reasonable about returns.

And Yet I see noone here talking about the (more) cruel experiments on dogs that Faucci supported. People find their principles whenever its convenient to attack someone they dislike for other reasons.

The chirp doesn't go to infinite frequency. The last rotation of the two black holes happens in some finite time, a time scale that gets longer the larger the black holes are.

I know with some bacteria (which I work with for evolutionary biology) they can intentionally mutate at higher rates when under stress.

My (non google) browser stores my history just fine.

This strikes me as wishful thinking, adblockers are such a small minority. They are just following the incentives they would always follow, adblockers or no.

And yet just the other day on the python 3.10 migration in arch stuff broke and I wasted a good day hunting the error down. The solution was installing python 3.6, which should hopefully work for a year or two until THAT is left unsupported.

Why is this so downvoted? I really missed the days of python 2.7, I spent far less time debugging breaking version changes and spent more time on my actual work.

For security critical work, like web services, it makes more sense to constantly upgrade to the newest version. But for scientific work, which is a huge audience of python users, who often use obscure poorly supported libraries there is a lot of value in a stable foundation.

delusion is a funny thing.

I hope this is sarcasm

Personally I am ok with both crypto and Casinos existing, just because some people are stupid doesn't mean i should have my freedoms restricted. Stupid Should Hurt.

As an aside crypto has the potential to change the world for the better if it ever becomes used as a real currency. I think the people that stand to lose in that situation love spreading FUD about crypto. However it is probably not bitcoin that is going to become that imho, but rather some POS coin.

thats like, your opinion bro. In all seriousness I am ok with crypto punishing gamblers, eventually people will learn to stay away from it, or be forced to stay away from it because they have nothing left to gamble. I don't see how this is more morally repugnant than casinos which are legally accessible in most of the US.

I use pass. The provided password manager in linux. passmenu provides a great workflow for inputting the passwords.

Its racist against the group that you "can't" be racist against

Depends if they like the person that did it or not.

You know why.

And know that method by the fruits it produces, the replication crisis, and more broadly an overwhelming number of papers that are not wrong but totally pointless. I'm not saying the quote is totally right but there is something about that temperament that produces researchers who are less inclined to publish things that they know are wrong/meaningless, just to get ahead in the publish or perish paradigm.

different person, also have aphantasia. My dreams are completely devoid of sensory content except sometimes the entire dream is music.

I kinda doubt that, given that I and my father have it. And to my knowledge neither of us are circumcised or had any appreciable childhood trauma.

Proprietary software with no competitors (Nikon Elements Cough) creates situations where you have to depend on very unstable and buggy software.

At some point your body starts making modest amounts of ketones overnight/until you eat, so you can still be productive without eating.