I think I said this before, but a problem is when someone says “I don’t like star trek: discovery” it’s impossible to know if they have reasons beyond “i don’t like black women”. They might not even know themselves! And if they do, they’re unlikely to come out and say that. They’ll reach for something more acceptable like “I wanted self contained episodes” (but DS9’s arcs are cool) or whatever.

There are so many duds online they’ve poisoned the well of discourse.

I would be more than willing to carry around my own spoon, fork, and more, if it meant less plastic crap everywhere

The NYPD is very poor (arguably net negative) value for the money spent

Living in a walkable city is probably doing wonders for me. I walk about 3 miles several times a week without even thinking about it.

The “and” in the title is key. Humans can currently choose their gender expression, so that part can be stripped out with no changes to the world. Not assigning gender at birth is an interesting thought. Some people are really, from my view, weird about making sure their children perform gender correctly as early and often as possible.

Also I think it’d be neat if it was “genre” in English too. People understand there’s more genres than horror and fantasy.

Everyone who supported the Jan 6 insurrection should be ineligible to hold office per the existing amendments, for starters.

I like the idea. I don’t want to use facebook or similar, but that’s where stuff like “BuyNothing” is most active.

Unfortunately, I don’t know much about self hosting (beyond what I’ve picked up working in software development) so I don’t see myself running one of these myself. I’d probably use it if it came to my neck of the woods (NYC)

Sort of a naive take but it seems like you could mandate objective measurements on clothing like we have ingredient lists on food.

I walk a lot where I live and it’s pretty great. I’m a little insufferably smug about it- “wow I walked 3 miles today. If I lived in the suburbs I probably would have walked 30 feet between car and parking”

Not so brilliant for the people killed before the culture shifts, if it does at all.

Richardson remembers that whenever Ceccanti would emerge from the basement for some air, he would start having “philosophical” talks about “how his work with the AI was telling him he was breaking math and basically reinventing physics”. As she’d listen to him, Richardson would think about the fact that Ceccanti did not have any college or university experience. He had never even taken calculus.

Tangent, but I think this is another facet of why education is important: so people know what they don’t know. I think it’s harder to think you’re reinventing physics when you’ve taken some classes and seen all the work people have already done.

On the other hand, delusions can just be whatever so education isn’t a panacea.

Conservatives are stupid, basically. Given a set of facts they will draw back conclusions

You all are real speedy on these. Took me 20 (albeit I was at work so there were interruptions)

You can also buy drm free music from sites like Bandcamp. I don’t feel bad buying from smaller groups. Joyride! might actually notice the $10 from me buying their new album.

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They really think we’re stupid. Unfortunately, they may be mostly right.

Kind of an anti-intellectual meme, honestly. After like 9th grade reading level, one can learn that it’s not about finding the meaning in the text. It’s about finding a meaning and supporting it.

It doesn’t really matter that much what the author meant. What matters what’s actually in the text.

Every conservative accusation is a confession.

Public servants shouldn’t be allowed to own stock, except maybe through some sort of arm’s length diversified portfolio managed by a third party. Like, you can put money in Vanguard’s index funds, but you can’t pick individual stocks. Maybe. I would also accept that you just aren’t allowed to own stock. Put your money in government bonds or something.

Not surprised it’s a Republican.

This seems to be a common pattern. Conservatives recognize a problem (eg: housing is expensive) and then come to some pants on head wrong conclusion (it’s the {outgroups})