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Personally I just want a way to randomly browse, and not have the algo constantly shoving stuff my way. Suggestions are nice when paired with an active selection, but other than that, let me just look at what you offer please.

At least the Brazilian courts seem to be functioning...

I haven't used OpenBSD since the 3.x days, but I did dearly love it at the time. I'm so glad they're still working on it.

Of course, where else would it fall? What a joke of an administration.

15 years ago when I was still in college in the US, the new president of the school came to give a speech to some incoming freshman. In that speech he talked a lot about how colleges were businesses and that the goal was to make them appealing to new students (new gyms, updated dorms, better stadiums, etc...). I knew in that moment that higher education had been overtaken by the MBAs. I guarantee that a school that focuses on education solely will not only be cheaper, but get the type of students that actually want to learn.

Humans will always veer toward the path of least resistance. This isn't surprising, but it is disappointing.

I suspect a lot of the growth of any AI economic boom, will benefit very few people, to the detriment of most everyone else.

I worked for years as a BI consultant for some rather large Silicon Valley companies. My experience felt like 70% wasted time creating pipelines, data restructuring and visuals for insights that had minimal to no effect on the company's business.

30% of the work we did seemed to have value - but that was with a relatively targeted and preset set of questions to answer. It always felt as if someone higher up said, "let's get this data in shape to use for analysis" but never had any questions to ask of that data to begin with. I suspect that if LLMs can truly understand complex interactions across a multitude of datasets, the context within those interactions, along with dozens of exceptions, then it can be of use.

Time to move your money into foreign exchange. The dollar is going to fall pretty hard.

At this point, who outside the most delusional among us is not questioning the unfittedness of the entire Trump administration?

Tangentially related: there is practically no treatment for back pain. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/well/lower-back-pain-trea...

You really have to have your head in the sand to not recognize DOGE for what it is. A dismantling of government to siphon wealth and power to the ultra-rich. It's straight up theft from the working and middle class.

Tesla did one good thing: it brought hype to the EV market. Now that many major car manufacturers have caught on, Tesla brings nothing to the table. And with Elon heading it, those who are in the market for EVs wisely do not trust the company. This is just another reason to avoid them.

The grift and insider dealing is so obvious.

Every time I read about the fever-dream utopia that libertarians so desperately want, I am reminded of the town which fell apart because the ideas in practice simply don't work:

"When a group of libertarians set about scrapping their local government, chaos descended. And then the bears moved in." [1]

[1] https://newrepublic.com/article/159662/libertarian-walks-int...

Great insight to have as a young person. You are discovering and understanding the dangers of social media much quicker than most.

I believe there are updates to this news. He was eventually released following a lot of international coverage and pressure - shame it happened at all to begin with. https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5339522/hamdan-ballal-i...

> Also notable: Kids prioritized feeling "welcome and safe" online over free speech (sigh).

These are kids. The sigh in this article is because kids would rather feel safe than be the bullied or made to feel lesser-than for an adult's ideological worship of free speech? Perhaps we can acknowledge that while free speech in the context of government censorship is necessary, it is certainly not the end-all-be-all for children socializing.

It seems like there is such a disconnect from basic humanity with so many reason.com writers.

This is a repeated theme with every business right now. Nearly every product both tangible and intangible will go up in price. Our services are dependent on a global supply chain.

The believe that US manufacturing will rise to the occasion is specious at best, and I would say that the amount of uncertainty with this administration makes it even less likely. Why would any large firm invest in creating a local supply when tomorrow the tariffs could be lifted - or some other wild unknown introduced for no real reason?

Yes, because it doesn't reason or think. There's nothing to "convince", you just prompt hack it until it does.

Advertising is the cure worse than the disease in this case. I'm willing to have a slightly worse service occasionally if it means I'm not being bombarded with corporate propaganda. If a service is bad enough, or my desire for something is great enough, I will seek it out.

I may have missed it, but how "real-time" are these trades? For those trades that appear to be in the last few days, how is it being tracked?

This should happen anyway, not just as a response to tariffs. But if that's what it takes to have the political will, then I won't look a gift horse in the mouth.

As it should be. This nonsense about tech committing a crime big enough that it can't be adjudicated is (along with so much other stuff) creating social upheaval. These are not good disruptions.

Yes, age does tend to make many want to root - and perhaps that is part of wisdom at play.