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by Fricken 6mo ago
Yeah but western powers have been threatening, bullying, murdering and undermining Iran and it's people since they nationalized their own damn oil three quarters of a century ago. How do you expect an abused dog to turn out? It's
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by Fricken 6mo ago
Sophisticated propaganda is designed to radicalize people into having an emotional reaction to something before they have a chance to think rationally. Many US citizens experienced an outpouring of emotion over Tank Man 37 years ago, and no
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by Fricken 6mo ago
Possibly you're just not cynical enough to appreciate the need it could solve. Get it working on cows then move on to people. This is Peter Thiel we're talking about.
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by Fricken 6mo ago
Huge amounts of effort go to feeding our desires, and to feeding our fears, but it actually doesn't take much to meet our needs. Only 2% of our efforts as a society go to getting food out of the ground. The reason to have a job, to own
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by Fricken 6mo ago
Technological progress had to invent poverty before it could reduce it.
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There was a man on the moon in 1969. 65 years of so-called technological progress and the US is worse than it was before, so we can rule out an interest in technological progress as a reason for any of this. Getting all teary eyed about a s
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by Fricken 6mo ago
Are they going to land, to get out, take a look around? No. We have moon rocks at home.
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by Fricken 6mo ago
My old Galaxy note had a swappable battery and microSD. I don't think the rest matters. Your phone is already a swiss army knife of components and there is a whole galaxy of apps out there to make those components do cool and novel thi
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by Fricken 6mo ago
Careless indeed. Mark Zuckerberg and Meta are complicit in the Rohingya genocide https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-faceb...
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by Fricken 6mo ago
This is just HN. We're explicitly not productive or constructive. We're not solving the world's problems. We're just shooting the shit. This is a forum for wasting time. I guess it wouldn't be HN without the delusio
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by Fricken 6mo ago
Did you never noticed how there's always a little Arab Spring to provoke whatever regime the US has decided to bomb next?
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by Fricken 6mo ago
We have a need. We need to be able to send people with head problems to a head doctor that can fix them up and send them on their way like a regular doctor can with physical ailments. The job of a psychologist is to pander to that fantasy
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by Fricken 6mo ago
Then why did you make it?
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by Fricken 7mo ago
The 2nd amendment types are a little too impressionable for their guns to be of much use. They were soundly defeated in 5th generation warfare without the need to fire nary a shot. Less gullible americans tend to not own guns, so they were
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by Fricken 7mo ago
Also nukes. We've got the whole place rigged to blow in case a few of us just doesn't feel like it anymore.
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by Fricken 7mo ago
Usually when people are seeking advice they aren't really seeking advice, they're seeking confidence. They already know they need to make changes, and are seeking the confidence to make them.
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by Fricken 7mo ago
Authoritarianism is a spectrum and all states are on it. We all have brain slugs now, it was voluntary. We'll be going back to that old time religion, but with a new twist. With AI every man will, in a much more literal way, be able to
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by Fricken 7mo ago
My buddy with no arms or legs would beg to differ. He can't afford taxis because he can't work a real job. His friends/family can't drive him around because you need a custom vehicle for his chair. But he can use bike la
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by Fricken 7mo ago
The Owens river gorge has the highest concentration of sport climbs anywhere in North America, but there's not much variation, they're mostly edge ladders on weirdly slippery rock. Not far away are the world's most photogeni
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by Fricken 7mo ago
And I thought the Inuit had a lot of words for snow. I wonder how many of these words a typical Japanese person can list off the top of their head.
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Are we in for a super El Niño this year? Early projections say maybe(cbc.ca)
7 points by Fricken 7mo ago|1 comments
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by Fricken 7mo ago
Wool, down, silk and leather are still commonly used in technical apparel and compete on weight. 2 big new innovations that matter are Gore-tex and Nylon fabrics that are very durable and wind resistance for their weight.
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Canada slips in World Happiness rankings, due in part to social media use(cbc.ca)
31 points by Fricken 7mo ago|25 comments
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by Fricken 7mo ago
Our big brains are a recent mutation and haven't been fully field tested. They seem like more of a liability than anything, they've created more existential risks for us than they've put to rest.
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by Fricken 7mo ago
Does anybody believe the lone gunman theory with JFK? Nobody buys the official narrative.
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by Fricken 7mo ago
Paul Thomas Anderson's films oft set within extreme and/or marginal cultures. The porn industry in Boogie Nights. The Master was a thinly veiled alter ego of Scientology founder L.Ron Hubbard. One Battle after another looks at rad
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by Fricken 7mo ago
What would you recommend I read if I wanted to learn more about a few thousand years of very good unimplemented ideas?
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by Fricken 7mo ago
Some kids will hoard, steal, and spit mouthfuls of milk on the other kids toys even when resources are plentiful. They can go far in this world.
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by Fricken 7mo ago
Observing toddlers fight over toys has yielded some of my most valuable insights into the nature of statecraft.
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by Fricken 7mo ago
Average wages in the Phillipines are around $360/month USD, so $2/hr isn't too bad for an easy job. BBC is playing rage-bait arbitrage with that headline.

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