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Well, being pedantic, my favorite hobby:

Frozen water represents a state change and that different state commonly gets its own word: ice/water/steam equates to solid/liquid/gas

Boiling/freezing water represents the state of the liquid, not the transition. Its descriptive. Water boils away into steam, or freezes into ice.

Should we consider luke-warm water also singular? What about body-temperature water? cool water? It makes sense not to treat adjectives/descriptive words combined with the subject as singular because the definition already exists in the root of the words (meaning of adjective word + meaning of subject word). Blue clay is another example, why would that be a singular?

It really only makes sense to me in the rare cases where the combination words represent something different or non obvious than the combined meanings of the two words (i.e to 'give up')

Companies are actively not hiring expecting AI to compensate and still have growth. I have seen these same companies giving smaller raises and less promotions, and eliminate junior positions.

The endgame isn't more employees or paying them more. It's paying less people or no skilled people when possible.

That's a fairly massive disruption.

This is interesting, but a few issues jump out at me.

There are fundamental issues mapping Biological Evolution to the formation of the universe. Evolution fundamentally works on 'introduce random variations into an environment with selective pressures and/or competition and if that variation produces a change that benefits the animal relative to those pressures and competition, it will more likely survive and reproduce' and that reproduction ultimately is what defines the fitness of that evolution. How does this apply to a uniform CMB, the sudden collapse to make supermassive black holes? The eventual formation of smaller black holes? The formation of planets? The expanding universe? Where is the competition? Where is the reproduction? Where are the selective pressures that define evolution? Where does this show branching and dead branches of evolution's failed attempts.

You repeatedly refer to evolution directing, favoring, having reproductive strategies etc. showing either a fundamental misunderstanding of evolution or a casual use of the terms that will confuse many readers. Evolution is a random and non-directed process. You describe a singular chain of events where those events are just as likely to be random and unconnected but try to imply strongly directed evolution because you approached it with the view that evolution would optimize this process and combined theories that could indicate a more optimized process (while not actually proving that optimization or any form of selection for it).

It fails to address observations backing the existence of dark matter while criticizing existing theories for failing to address observations that do not line up with their predictions.

Beyond that, are any of the predictions you make novel to just your story, or are they ultimately the combined predictions made by the various theories you are basing this on? I didn't see any that did not lead off the existing work that doesn't always require throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

Ultimately this feels like a new interpretation combining a number of exciting and new discoveries that make predictions that JW is backing, approaching them with a philosophical view giving potential novel insights, but failing to disconnect the philosophy before engaging actual science and misunderstanding the difference between a good sounding science story and good science while on-boarding a fair amount of personal skepticism and frustration with the existing methods.

Its not to say that some of the theories its based on aren't correct, or that the existing theories aren't problematic, but it certainly feels like its leveraging the predictive power of other theories to do its heavy lifting.

Oh we agree.

Honestly we're well past effective anti trust laws but the EU is leading the way at least in many ways at getting back to somewhere sane.

It's a horseshoe. At some point regulatory capture comes in and makes the environment too expensive to enter let alone compete with established players

No regulation and too much regulation have terrible impacts, but identifying the middle ground is it's own problem.

This I believe is the root of enshittification.

VC/private equity requires growth levels that are unsustainable and the focus on that destroys the long term prospects of a lot of companies that otherwise would provide great value and support themselves.

So the ones that game marketing for revenue (badly developed or designed features, overselling, etc) win over those that provide real value.

The presumption that RTO is driving the wave of 'we need to be profitable' is myopic. The article rightly attributes it to financial liquidity. RTO is more expensive for most companies than remote which is often overlooked.

Now that that liquidity is lower, companies are incentivized to cut back excess they created. In many cases they aren't capable of actually determining value by employee, so most of these layoffs are impacting hard working and often critical employees (aka not coasters) that then struggle to find new jobs because both the market conditions and idiotic assumptions about these layoffs actually being performance related.

The performance narrative is literally to reduce the cost of regular layoffs which they now do almost yearly to attempt to inflate stock prices at key times, while not admitting that a fairly significant portion end up being hired back over the next 12 months (boomerangs lmao) to fill the critical holes they created.

The hype in the industry and the shit outcomes aren't the fault of employees but bad leadership and executives caring more about short term profit through deceptive marketing than creating value. And that's why as an employee creating value for a company is no longer enough to justify job security. If you care about value and not profit or margins than you are a coaster these days.

There will be more busts, but the narrative that coasters or entitled employees have anything to do with it is bunk.

I would rate Europe over US by far for car UX. My north American vehicles universally have the worst interfaces. My European Cars typically the best and Japanese/others in between.

Enemies define themselves by a actions.

This administration is an enemy to Canada, all Americans are not.

But it shows we need to reevaluate this friendship and move apart going forward.

Like Ukraine and Russia right?....

Right....?

Chuckles. We're all in danger.

Consumption isn't the only driver of inflation.

The excess private borrowing to pay tariffs or higher cost supply lines to keep business moving, especially where the govt is using the money to give tax breaks to people already well above the income/consumption curve, is going to drive a spike in inflation.

As we've seen with covid and post covid cycles companies will adjust margins and increase profits after these spikes rather than reduce costs further increasing the length and impacts of inflation spikes.

On top of that I expect more performative crap like checks sent out in Trump's name that aren't enough to actually help for more than a single grocery bill, but drive debt and inflation up further overall.

It'll be a fun ride.

We negotiated already last trump term on similar tariffs based on similar false premises.

It's time to stop negotiating and start finding new trading partners is the view of many Canadians.

So you're entire point is the US economy and population is larger, so it can bully its allies and economic partners more despite having a trade surplus in excess of 90 billion (including services which simpy makes sense, especially considering the size dichotomy you point out). That's a salient point in today's political climate, the US doesn't have allies or partners anymore.

Showing just how uninformed you are, Prime Minister Trudeau resigned already, and mostly unrelated to the US. Canadians were going to vote the out the Liberals largely over increasing dissatisfaction with his leadership long before the election. His resignation is allowing new leadership to take over the liberal party (being voted on this week), and then federally we will likely be going to the polls in the coming months to decide between them and the Conservatives (who are closer to your Democrats than most of you realize)

Whichever party wins, all of them are unified in standing strong against bullying tactics. You can hurt us, but you'll be surprised how resilient we are and how willing we are to fight economically or otherwise.

We look forward to being friends with most of you again after this bullshit is over.

I'm going to walk the middle ground here as another Canadian.

The US has been our 'closest friend and ally' for 70+, hell nearly 100 years now. We've sought economic and military integration, to our benefits certainly, but also to our detriment.

It has gone too far, and all it takes is a bully being elected to slap on unjustified tariffs and destabilize the relationship with the goal to squeeze more out of allies rather than negotiating a fair deal for all. Hell he's doing it a second time, and now with the more nefarious undertones of political annexation which the vast majority of Canadians do not want.

Our goal moving forward should be to continue being polite and friendly as we are to most other counties, yet also to divorce our military and economy from American control at every step.

Does that mean in some cases trading more with China? Yes, but we should focus on commonwealth and European integration with like minded countries that value democracy and their citizens.

Yields are real impacts from cross pollination and has zero to do with politics.

CBD only strains with THC, vice versa. Lower strengths etc. All impact product quality and impact.

When traveling you already are making a bunch of sacrifices in that vein, often happily.

Most Hotels are short term bedrooms/bathrooms with some extras.

Where air b&b competes is against medium/long term stay hotels that try to give a more normal living environment.

Initially airb&b had price attractiveness for even short terms stays but that's largely gone now as it became a business opportunity rather than a side income option.

Fake, made up consequences don't count.

Caste Discrimination is like any other form of discrimination. It's wrong.

Pretending being opposed to it is racist is hilarious. I've read your shallow arguments.

There is no case by case basis needed for any segment we see as a protected class now, and caste fits perfectly in there.

While there may not be a large amount of abuse I have personally witnessed caste discrimination and work in an environment where it happens regularly enough I see the value of these laws and regulations filling in where companies are too scared to step up and address it on their own as many are.

There was a lot of backlash against anti racism laws too. That doesn't justify it.

Many similar arguments were made against laws protecting race and other classes we now legally protect. The supposed future actions of a bigoted few is not an argument that stands against refusing to protect another group or stand up against a wrong.

Fundamentally cultural incomparability is not racist. Your arguments for, and tolerance of caste discrimination, are not compatible with western ideals.

You may keep your views and culture and live how you like. I wish you and others no ill will. I will advocate for others around me to respect you while disagreeing with what you say or how you act in this case.

Caste Discrimination is wrong and is not welcome in the society were currently discussing legally. If you require that ability, or the toleration of that, then you are not welcome in said society.

See recent push for operating margins needing to be at arbitrarily high levels etc and companies facing activists investors groups this year.

It's not about making money. They need to make more of it, by pushing margin growth.

It's an absolute value extraction play from investment groups that hurts every company it touches.

I remember a vocal group predicting the economic bubbles would burst while pointing to them growing for a while. The only real disagreement was on when not if.

While no one has a crystal ball it was known pre pandemic that bubbles were there and unsustainable and not far from being at bursting levels.

I know many in my circle were talking about when the dominoes would fall and which ones would topple which others in 2020-2022 as the pandemic raged on. The inevitable outcome of the social supports on top of the economic bubbles happening and then both likely ending at similar times was predictable in anyone thinking in longer terms than the next quarter and next fiscal year.

Meanwhile CEOs took advantage of conditions to go on insane M&A deals, hiring sprees and personal project schemes with little framework for any of that succeeding long term, and burning tons of cash with stock buybacks to keep up with the expected growth targets.

Once the 'Bubble' everyone saw about to burst met the realities of the pandemic and costs rippled through supply chains no one should have been surprised. Unfortunately the tech segment is way too much follow the leader/money right now and once the few big names start moving it happens regardless of it being good or bad.

I can't see any negative outcomes from legally preventing discrimination by caste.

Either it doesn't happen/doesn't happen enough for a law so this is most effectively virtue signalling without any negative outcomes.

Or it does happen and this can help take steps against it.

There is no situation that allowing discrimination by caste to continue is a benefit to anyone other than those that are at the top of the caste system. That is inherently against western social views and anthema to equality.

Being forced to defend a stance that legitimizes discrimination against a group is not itself discrimination.

One almost hopes it happens solely to shut up the crypto bros that still refuse to accept the primary use case for crypto is scams.

Sure it can be a distributed concencus/ledger system/smart contract system almost no one important needs or will use, or will reuse the idea internally themselves if it's useful.

Anything important won't be built on something they can't control or manage. Crypto by definition is that. So you have to really consider what this built on it and who's profiting from it.

None of this addresses control of code base, limited exchanges handling the majority of traffic, or the scam aspect.

Sure eth solved some of bitcoins issues, it also increased the scope of crypto scams to a whole new level.

The fact that a crypto 'currency' is supposedly operating at prices irrelevant to it's value is not an argument that helps you in any way in this situation.

Expanding on that, scrum is a religion. Like many/most religions, it requires faith, and that a lack of faith is singularly responsible for any failure of said belief/religion to deliver its promises.

Most of the energy used to put it into space was to push the fuel and delivery vehicle mass not the payload, that is not present on return.

Considering they engaged legal representation and it sounds like Apple rather than fight it restored their account.

So we can probably safely assume it wasn't a glaringly obvious or serious breach of the terms that Apple felt it could defend. I don't imagine Apple would make cost benefit decisions about who can break their terms of service with nothing more than a letter with a legal letterhead.

That being said we will know for sure as the plaintiff seems to be bound to make Apple foot the legal bill one way or another. Good for them.

I would in fact argue that exact point.

How much you control something directly relates to how much you own it mentally and practically.

Is using AI to search for missing children in social media posts the same as 24/7 tracking? Is limited application really as bad as the worst case outcome?

It hopefully raises conversation on the value of property ownership generally in society and the benefits of communal/public property.