Damn it, that sounds unsound enough that it’s not even still useful for personal use. That’s a shame. A more rigorous version of MB/FS would be genuinely useful when a major event happens to help filter out the nonsense.

Wouldn’t it still be cheaper to build megastructures on earth in remote and uninhabited places? Like I get you have to build your own power and run your own fiber if you say build a data center the size of Rhode Island in the Yukon or something, but that has to be more cost effective than orbital.

Taking it to orbit creates far more problems than it solves.

That’s not good. Investors hate costly and protracted legal fights. There was another story about OpenAI stealing tech from apple and I think some kind of data leak maybe? If investors lose confidence in OpenAI that pretty much pops the bubble.

To be so universally disliked that the onion can post a scathing mockery of your life and it not create all that much backlash. Poor poor Lindsey Graham.

This is such a Kafkaesque cyberpunk dystopian problem. This is needed because owners and managers want open offices for surveillance and coat cutting. They are also aware that only about half of workers thrive in those environments while the other have drops in productivity. Solution a cheap muzzle so that the workers who aren’t as productive in noisy environments aren’t disturbed.

Meanwhile could you imagine the smell of those things. You’d have to wash them everyday or have some kind of cover for them not to just have a permanent funk.

Ultimately that’s up to you isn’t it? If the exercise is what’s best for you then the ownership and class solidarity stuff is just a distraction. It sounds like it’s more of a home even if you’re renting than a place where you keep your stuff. So do you get a kick out of being a conscientious neighbor? If not that is neither expected or owed by you. If you don’t like yardwork above and beyond is not required, the bare minimum is fine. Conversely you’re not really adding much to the world going above and beyond either. Your landlord’s property appreciates so they can raise your rent later. The neighbors only care if it’s not being maintained at all and starts affecting their property values. None of which you can really do much about.

All that really matters is if you like the activity of yard work.

I have always supported a parent’s right to abortion until the age of seven.

Today was my first encounter with “Greater Than”. Holy fuck these nuts.

In today’s society, children are often treated as secondary—spoken for, negotiated over, or reshaped to serve adult priorities. Greater Than works from a different premise: children’s rights should not be overridden by adult feelings or desires.

It’s so disgusting how they hide their bigotry behind children. It’s not about the kids it’s never about the kids. It’s about chipping away the rights of everyone on white christian nationalism’s enemies list. Out and thriving queer people, lgbtq families disproves all of their gender essentialism, it shatters divine patriarchy dominion, and loosens the control of the cult.

Good people must suffer so assholes can manipulate our stupider neighbors.

Overall a good thing really. Hopefully they realize before November that when MAGA say illegal immigration they don’t mean the effects on the economy, because those are actually good, they mean its effect on the demographics.

I don’t disagree with you. Unwanted children do not have happy outcomes, especially those with disabilities. However if you are applying the logic of adoption to that of eugenics you should tread carefully. If society is allowed to impose restrictions on adoptions, why not biological parents? Perhaps pregnant women should have an income test? If a mother can’t afford to feed her child should she be allowed to retain custody or have the baby at all?

If a pregnant person decides they cannot afford it or aren’t up for the commitment that’s ethical. If a pregnant person decided to abort out of some pity for people with downs, well that’s eugenics and ableist, so probably unethical. Pragmatically though the result is the same.

What you’re asking about is eugenics. People with downs syndrome can lead rewarding lives. Many people who work with those of us with downs say that they have the highest satisfaction with life of anyone out there. They do require a lot of costly and time consuming care in early life, but there is no reason a child born with downs can’t have a life they find fulfilling.

Given that, I would say if a mother’s only reason for aborting is the downs syndrome, that probably leans towards unethical. However if there are any other reasons a mother might choose to abort that fetus, it’s ethical. But terminating a pregnancy because the child has an “undesirable” trait is both eugenics and ableism which rarely result in ethical decision making.

I thought he was too good to be true the first time I saw him. And for what it’s worth, this latest woman isn’t a Republican. She told politico in their story that she was torn between platner’s politics and his behavior when considering coming forward.

About half of the fervolity on the left is synthetic. There are multiple groups actively trying to divide the left using plant influencers and vast botnets of ai commenters. They sow division and outrage.

It’s cognitive dissonance plain and simple. Doesn’t matter whether a republican or Democrat does it. Someone with a needed political message turns out to be a predator. It is not easy to square and so they lash out and victim blame or double down on their support.

When I’m out I keep my phone on airplane mode and in a little faraday bag. I am not dragging out my phone and waiting for it to reacquire signal every time I want to buy cigarettes. Nevermind that defeats the point of the faraday bag…

He could have gone by will or bill or billy. He chose that name.

I mean check the study from the article, it was gathered from 38 countries, you might get lucky.

The study was not just the US, they looked at 160,000 students in 38 countries. Their research looked at a period of 10 years to generate its results and students in most of north america and Europe all were down. The US didn’t even see the biggest decline, Israel did.

I’m not saying it’s just tech in the classroom, but it’s a major part.

Almost all of the remaining WW2 vets are dead. We didn’t do shit, our vets lost their wars.

She told Politico she hesitated to make her claim public because she had a “huge moral conflict” between supporting Platner’s politics and not supporting him as a person.

Fuck, even his actual victim struggled to square her own right to justice with her political convictions. She made the right choice though, if he doesn’t respect the consent of a partner, he certainly won’t respect the consent of the governed.

Racicot told Politico she had previously had consensual relations with Platner, until a night in 2021 when he allegedly let himself into her unlocked house and forced himself on her. She said she repeatedly told him to stop and that she believed he was “almost blackout drunk”.

Getting black out drunk and raping your sometime fuck buddy by breaking into her house in the middle of the night and forcing your self on her that’s like one of the worst possible scenarios. That guy does not belong in power he is an irresponsible predator.

Education outcomes have tanked since we added tech to the classroom. Study after study finds that adding tech to the classroom reduces student performance. Standardized testing to determine funding also mismatches the incentives for educators. Most teachers are forced to teach to the test so students are taught to take tests. They aren’t taught how to apply knowledge or to think critically.

It’s hard to imagine any kid graduating today having been equipped with what they need for college and the world.

Other people’s time, the means to do violence, harmful consumer garbage (fast fashion, collectibles, gadgets, etc). Access to all of those things should be restricted and should bear some kind of cost for use to reflect the value of other people’s time, the danger of weapons, and the harm of environmental waste.