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Not entirely convinced that outside the torment nexuses used in industrial meat farming, natural suffering is any lesser sans humanity.

40mg Rosuvastatin + 10mg ezetimibe + leqvio did this precisely for my n=1.

Is anyone surprised when YouTube shows a million "you won't believe this one simple trick involving lemon juice to reverse diabetes" type ads?

I'd be shocked if now was the time to have standards of any sort.

Topical, with RAGBRAI just around the corner. I'm constantly awed at just revolutionary the bicycle seems to be from an industrialization perspective. To me, bicycles and smartphones are two real thick lines to draw on when the world became something different.

As much as I like to scientifically validate my drug dependency, is the EEG work here really that much more rigorous than a polygraph? I see a lot of domain specific terms like "FOOOF algorithm", filtering signal spectra etc. and the geist of my schooling asks me whether the elephant is wiggling its trunk.

I can understand his distaste for the indefinite, but does he actually make a strong case for the opposite?

To me this reads as claiming "making fragile choices is good", which outside of very niche situations I'd say is bad advice: like telling a college basketball player to not waste time outside of practice and later watching him go undrafted in the pros.

This does make me wonder what kinds of secrets can and can't be kept; on the face of it, that a critical bit of insider information would be kept for oral transmission at particular times (something like a mystery cult) leads me to think that keeping such a secret is at least possible.

At the same time, people love gossip.

Of course, the only secrets we know from the past were by definition not exactly well-kept.

Thank you for this; surprised I haven't heard much about him prior, since I've been digging into political economy lately.

Specifically, his notes on consumption / full employment are refreshing - it never sits right with me that the goal of economic policy at a high level is so often at odds with doing things in a "smart" way (measuring projects in jobs created, for example).

Is it worth the effort for any individual poster though? The unreachable segment (read only, doesn't comment) which already makes up the vast majority of audience is practically un-engageable. Among commenters, there's the blend of low-effort 'this'-type posts, soliloquizers (though possible therapeutic for the poster), and lizardman-constant/flame type reactions. It seems that in most venues, the effort to read through all comments and find anything valuable to engage with has a low social ROI.

Reminds me vaguely of the end of brave new world in that living there would be to some a prison and to others paradise, and I'm not quite sure which bucket I'm in (or how to find out)

Growing up in one felt like prison. That is, until I started getting away on my bike. Until I got hit by a car.

Fraud is bad, generally.

I'm partial to the Pierce Quincuncial [0] projection myself. Actually, any conformal projection that tiles really.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peirce_quincuncial_projection

My least favorite taxes right now are those that apply based on location.

In theory, my tax return requires about 4 extra states and a few cities, and a bunch of state registrations, and my payroll provider doesn't support the operations; so the net result is a Helleresque fever dream.

In practice, I never leave home on paper.

When the Allman Brothers chartered the plane, they found "Welcome Allman Brothers" written on the plane's bar in lines of cocaine once they boarded.

I wonder how that looks on an expense report

Can also recommend the Ted Chiang story Understand [1], which adds in a dash of The Most Dangerous Game.

[1] https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?40835

Side note, but knowing that this is Michigan your story further cements my impression that the dealership cartels are unusually toxic in this state.

I had tPRK in June for a similar reason. Astounded with the outcome.

One bit of historical fuzziness I'd hope someone could clear up:

How do the Georgist Progressives tie into 1910's progressivism tie into modern progressivism?

I recall a bunch of Midwestern georgist mayors were called progressives at the turn of the century, but I don't recall anything I've read on the progressive era explicitly noting any georgist influences.

what's the secret of green apple in champagne?

Isn't this mean reversion? The US seems to have exhausted much its cheap developable land near major city centers, and I think you'll eventually see the same pattern that seems to play out through the bulk of the world: Extremely expensive land relative to salary, and an entrenched (hereditary?) land-holding baronage.

So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors.

With all due respect to mister Fuller, this sounds like bullshit from someone that hasn't worked in manufacturing.

Quality manufacturing processes are hard, and this complexity only increases with the sophistication of what's being produced. Usually, the measurement systems in place are a tradeoff between cost, efficacy, and regulatory requirements - and I guarantee if an inspection can be removed, some engineer is begging to do it.

I think part of it was the movie being mid

This seems to be blowing up all over, but as much as I Want To Believe™ I can't help but feel skeptical.

unique atomic arrangements and radiological signatures

Seems like something a non-expert would glean from a misunderstanding.

identify [UFO] crashes/landings and retrieve the material for exploitation/reverse engineering.

Seems like good standard operating procedure for any state that detects something crashing in their territory, be it mundane or not.

Not to say I can rule out extraterrestrial intelligence, which my Stellaris playthrough says bodes poorly.

ECC?

The consequences of having zero property tax are (maybe unintuitively) extremely awful. Ignoring all of the arguments regarding commons and market liquidity, you essentially cede enormous amounts of power to large landholders who can cheaply (relative to the average citizen) monopsonize local real estate markets.

EDIT: Maybe in practice oligopsonize, but either way on a long timescale you can say goodbye to widespread freeholding.

If only Detroit had stuck with Augustus Woodward's hexagonal grid plan.

This is why I can’t play any games which require grinding (looking at you Eve)

Eve actually broke my desire to play a lot of games for this exact reason.

Ultimately, you get what you incentivize

I've already claimed this for my tombstone

Question - Why would they remain so committed to a dividend if:

1. They're losing money

2. Things are not going to improve near-term

3. Debt is currently (more) expensive

4. They're in a hugely capital intensive business and are on a current spending spree for competitiveness reasons.

Other than some hand-wavy 'optics' rationales it seems like a bad idea, but I guess this is why I don't sit on the board of an F500.

edit: should also note that tax drag is another malus against the dividend concept, altogether (rightly or wrongly) telling me the story that "we really don't have anything better to do with the money".