JPKab

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by JPKab 4y ago
The ideologically driven hyperventilating over Twitter is so ridiculous. Pre-2015 Twitter wasn't the apocalypse before all the content moderation policies were rushed in as a response to widespread narrative that a bunch of people in s
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I'm a huge fan of mining asteroids, provided that they aren't hurtling towards our planet. The tech to redirect an asteroid is a small piece of the tech we'll need to mine asteroids. Looking forward to us getting there as a
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by JPKab 4y ago
No, because this is "art" involving destroying art.
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You're exactly right in this comment. A lot of the commenters in this thread appear to be completely unaware of how massive of a shift has occurred with the dictatorship of Xi Jinping. Xi is not Hu Jintao (whom he had marched out of th
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It only takes one asteroid to end all life on earth. It's not a possibility, it's an inevitability. It's happened before, it will happen again, unless the hairless, bipedal fire apes that have proliferated on the planet use
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You're right. It's narcissistic, self-aggrandizing performance art for people who desperately seek attention and validation, without putting in effort or sustained, deliberate sacrifice.
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What we want them to do is not act like toddlers throwing a temper tantrum. They aren't accomplishing anything but making people dislike the majority of climate activists who don't engage in such foolish, self-aggrandizing, wanton
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You're not wrong. Apparently activists of this variety tend to be highly narcissistic, with movements that engage in highly ineffective, yet high publicity activities like this being deeply attractive to these types. https:/&#x2F
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Debt servicing is a constant thing for businesses to be able to make payroll and acquire inventory for later resale or processing. Based on your thoughts here I'm going to assume you haven't worked at a small business before. If
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"The U.S. economy grew at a 2.6% annual rate from July through September," Annual rate. That means the AP headline is deceptive, because it actually grew .6 percent. Capital is getting more expensive. Of course a recession is in
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Government agencies being "extremely behind the times" is the rule, not the exception. Their budgets are tied to "number of butts in seats", and automating things has to be sold to them on the merits of freeing up the b
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Stories like that undermine pushes for government funded healthcare. Private sector companies will do anything they can to hide things like this, just like government organizations will. The difference is they don't have the level of
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"To compound the family's distress, the neonatal team then failed to properly carry out a vital resuscitation procedure on Harry, struggling for 26 minutes to insert a life support tube." My son was born 3 months premature 16
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He WILL outsmart me. It's inevitable, and my WiFi monitoring is intended not to find out what sites he visits (I don't care that much about that) but set up to notify me if he's found a way to bypass my nightime blocking and
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How many kids have you raised? Come back to me when your kid (at 13) gets addicted to video games, and starts setting an alarm to wake and play at 2am behind your back, and getting no sleep. Their brains aren’t developed. You don’t let a 3
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Game addiction. See my other comments. Modern games/apps are highly addictive and damaging to kids, and deprive them of sleep.
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Wrong. It’s to prevent video game/app addiction and well documented psychological issues. He gets straight As for a reason. I implemented this after he got hooked before, and grades tanked. Go project somewhere else.
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He’s an adult. That’s ridiculous.
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My son and I have a great relationship. I’m originally from West Virginia. Its our way of saying “good kid, gets into trouble sometimes though”. He’s a straight A student. When he had unmonitored internet, he wasn’t. His friends who have
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by JPKab 4y ago
It's a good opportunity to teach your kids about how crappy and shallow other kids can be, and also teach them how to respond to criticism like this. 20 years ago, you'd get shit for not wearing the cool kind of shoes your peers h
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They do this on purpose. They know from focus groups this encourages lock-in.
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My 16 year old son has an iPhone because Apple has the best parental control integration built-in. Kids can always get around it, which is why I have monitoring the little bastard doesn't know about via my WiFi router, along with auto
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Mrs. Jobs' news publication should stick to doing what it does best: Confirming the biases of the most privileged class of humans in the US as they sneer at the rest of the country.
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“She is the wife of White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain.” A position that essentially does nothing substantive, paid taxpayer dollars, awarded by nepotism. Awesome. Thanks for nothing.
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"There are still of plenty of zealots willing to make everything political, but then again some issues naturally are: musk, crypto, censorship, etc." You literally did that yesterday. Textbook case of projection. https:/&#x2
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I would advise not taking anyone seriously who advocates for an ideologically driven vegan diet and makes statements like "There's nothing special about cows or pigs or chickens. Our bodies are so similar that we mostly use bacte
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"The US has more COVID deaths than China has had cases." You really believe that? In that case I'm sure you also believe that no Uyghurs have been harmed as well. 91 percent of Chinese people have absolutely no say in their
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The accessible record of political bleating is compiled by partisans and selectively weaponized against the "other side". We all lose, because neither political party or their media arms have any incentive to hold their own side
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You can't even find a single shred of evidence that "Republicans" had a problem with Live Aid. Unlike now, there wasn't an army of narcissistic, tribal losers looking to blame every problem on the other tribe. As a kid
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by JPKab 4y ago
Great book. I used to work in the Pentagon, and while we never took Zeihan's talks without a grain of salt, directionally he tends to be very accurate. Nations like China which lack a culture of immigration have extremely predictable

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