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by Smoosh 1y ago
So Brexit is like violence - if it isn’t working, it’s because you aren’t using enough?
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by Smoosh 1y ago
Perhaps “Reality has a well-known liberal bias” ?
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by Smoosh 1y ago
AI and robots. But so far, all the robot demonstrations have been faked and the AI was spun off as a separate private Musk company.
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by Smoosh 1y ago
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” — Steve Jobs
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by Smoosh 1y ago
I agree with you, but people can also be very irrational about the value of gold.
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by Smoosh 1y ago
> If these sites are so bad, maybe laws should instead target that problem. We apparently live in a world where companies are legally considered to be people, and thus have rights, yet they have no moral obligations whatsoever.
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by Smoosh 1y ago
“England transported an estimated 50,000 to 120,000 convicts and political prisoners, as well as prisoners of war from Scotland and Ireland, to its overseas colonies in the Americas from the 1610s until early in the American Revolution in 1
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by Smoosh 1y ago
“acoustic environment sensing”
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by Smoosh 1y ago
I’ve sometimes pondered if a traffic calming device could be made which would allow vehicles to pass unimpeded if they are at or below the speed limit, but subject to an increasingly large bump if they exceed it. The problem, I suppose is t
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by Smoosh 1y ago
What people don’t seem to ask is, what will all of those enforcement officers do once they have deported a sufficient number of people such that the task becomes more difficult?
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by Smoosh 1y ago
Retirement as I’m almost there anyway. But as I work with mainframes I think there will be non-AI jobs there for a while yet.
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by Smoosh 1y ago
Is this because the poor record keeping is a vector for fraud? https://www.nst.com.my/world/world/2024/12/1148062/bad-recor...
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by Smoosh 2y ago
Yes, it’s terrible when that happens. https://www.epi.org/publication/rooted-racism-prison-labor/
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by Smoosh 2y ago
Your comment has just made me realise that when people say “woke” to mean “anything I don’t like” the subtext is “I don’t want to face up to the responsibility and effort required to participate in a decent society. I just want to do whatev
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by Smoosh 2y ago
Also, think upon the incredibly high consistency.
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by Smoosh 2y ago
Many modern homes have a perforated panel in the ceiling behind the refrigerator to allow the heated air to escape the room.
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by Smoosh 2y ago
Wilhoit's law in action.
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by Smoosh 2y ago
I used to think that Zuckerberg was going to do the same with Facebook. But it seems like he was too focussed on the ad revenue and making the metaverse happen. And now Musk has come along and stolen the kingmaker role.
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by Smoosh 2y ago
Ce n'est pas une tortue? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images
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by Smoosh 2y ago
Why does the USA seem particularly susceptible to regulatory capture and industry lobbying? Is it just money in politics or is something else happening?
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by Smoosh 2y ago
>> state of health in the world nowadays You mean with people having longer lifespans than ever before?
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by Smoosh 2y ago
And he ran a charity! https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2017/06/06/how-don...
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by Smoosh 2y ago
It reminds me of this quote. “We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very,
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by Smoosh 2y ago
Some people can’t let go of their “Demon Haunted World” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demon-Haunted_World?wprov=...
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by Smoosh 2y ago
“Startups” are not “the old days”.
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by Smoosh 2y ago
> people seriously doubt EVERYTHING official Worse, they will actively promote falsehoods which do harm to themselves and to others.
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by Smoosh 2y ago
So, stage 2 of denial? “there are five clear stages of climate denial: arguing that climate change is not real, that humans are not to blame, that climate change will be a positive force, that it will be too expensive to fix, arguing it wil
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by Smoosh 2y ago
Can I point out that “the outcome” here that conspiracy theorists start with isn’t “space lasers control the weather” but “the government is to blame”.
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by Smoosh 2y ago
There is also a component of this which is (some) people needing a simple explanation for problems and injustices and preferably one where _someone else_ (individual or group) is to blame.
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by Smoosh 2y ago
Bottle of mine, it's you I've always wanted! Bottle of mine, why was I ever decanted? Skies are blue inside of you The weather's always fine; For There ain't no Bottle in

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