iamerroragent

On an individual to individual basis we might recognize bad content meant to feed off of our base emotional instincts versus content meant for accuracy and to inform.

However collectively it appears there's more of us that rather get sucked into the rage content than try for objective or accurate reporting.

This mirrors the transition of television News from not needed to be profitable to needing to be profitable. Look at the success of cable news.

So you agree that the 'ideal body' does not necessarily mean it's 'heathier' and because the 'ideal' changes through time.

An unconscious zombie might eat but it would be eating human brains. Generally Cannibalism, especially of neural tissue, can lead to prion disease.

The part that separates us from the animals as far as I am aware is language.

Here are people that were not raised by humans, they seem to have an inability to adapt to human society if they develop past a certain age without reintegration with humans:

https://www.treehugger.com/children-who-were-raised-by-anima...

I believe Chomsky attributes recursion as a fundamental part of our language:

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Noam-Chomsky/Philosophy...

And some science suggests the first humans to develop recursive language were twins and their parents couldn't really understand them:

https://phys.org/news/2019-08-recursive-language-modern-simu...

So what's the problem again?

"Now, folks like the guy in this story are not “refugees” by the technical definition; . They’re either asylum-seekers, which is a technically different thing, or they’re people who just try to move to escape a bad situation back home. But to me this is a distinction without a difference; "

So can be said for a lot of people wanting to come to the U.S. to make a living.

Personally making immigration affordable and efficient to meet the demand is a possible direction we could go (I think it would reduce harm) but that isn't the one we've gone down so far.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age

The feeling of wanting to fit in is constant for teens. What 'fitting in' looks like changes over time.

What's desired has changed over time in my life alone. Booty is a great example. I grew up with mostly white women in media shaming themselves and asking if their dress made their ass look fat while also trying to get boob implants.

Nowadays booty is WAAAAY more prominent and desired and those old tired jokes about their ass looking fat a hell of a lot less common.

From the show Brockmire:

https://youtu.be/lOBjS2kzL3w

Regardless ending nuclear power in Germany is a popular enough position that Merkel was re-elected. Probably not just on that issue but she listened to what her people wanted and she kept getting elected because of it (as far as I know; I'm not German).

I am not too familiar with the ins-and-outs of Germany's politcal system though it appears to be a popular position.

https://www.dw.com/en/merkel-shuts-down-seven-nuclear-reacto...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Merkel#Chancellor_of_Ge...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Germany

South Korea I understand is investing heavily here[1]. If I'm not mistaken so is China. Too bad we (Western society) can't work with Iran on this as well.

However, please consider when we talk about changing our sources of energy over, that what will work has to work within costs and regulatory conditions.

If I'm not mistaken it can take around 20 years for an experienced nuclear capable nation to get a reactor up and running from initial phase of saying yes you can build a reactor.

Solar is outpacing that.[2] Which your link also supports.

"The pattern of power supply is changing. The massive take-up of solar power by households means we have now permanently shifted from the old model of large power stations to one where supply is distributed around the network. "

Fission (by itself) is not solving climate change this century either.

Additionally I think fission powered cargo ships would be a great option to reduce carbon emissions too. Since the U.S. Navy is very experienced with nuclear powered vessels and Russia has that nuclear powered icebreaker, I think it's technology possible.

Unfortunately setting up a regularity system for that is likely completely unrealistic though I'm happy to be wrong here.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_South_Korea

2. https://news.energysage.com/solar-vs-nuclear-battle-for-the-...

Note they are attributing some of the increase to the higher than average/normal price for energy since Ukraine war started.

"The electric company defended the increase, saying they cushioned the much more expensive purchasing costs for customers for an above-average period of time during the energy crisis but had to secure future amounts of energy for customers at high prices on the wholesale markets last year."

However for greener energy advocates it looks like Fusion really is close to being viable:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_ignition#2021_and_2022_...

This existed before social media. At best I can see it being a catalyst here and so sure limit or ban social media (at least for under 18s ~ 25s, whatever we agree on is a developed adult brain).

Lowering the percentage of teens with mental health issues is a good thing.

However that doesn't stop teens from comparing their looks to their peers, adults they know, and obviously global media (magazines, billboards, films, music, etc; what 'successful' women look like on cable news). How are the underlying cause for these negative feelings going to be addressed?

You're not being very clear here what happened and if you're only using free software sources (the default for Debian I believe).

There's other distros that have rolling releases that tend to have more updated software in exchange for stability and thorough testing.

Deliberately avoiding paying tax is illegal. Apple didn't avoid paying tax. They just reported where the local tax should go incorrectly.

The State then took Apples word and gave too much to the city.

State inefficiency allows this. If existing laws haven't been changed to effect this thenthe State was negligent in failing to audit shit for decades.

B. From what I was gathering there's been a change in law regarding online sale tax in 2019 or so. Fair enough for the State to take a couple of years to audit and find compliance.

Doesn't really seem to be malicious actions between Apple and the city.

Additionally Apple is free to apeal here and say they did report their sales tax correctly.

This directly contradicts what the article states.

https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2023/04/13/apples-local-tax-arr...

If anything it looks like the State is just now getting around to realizing that they foolishly left money on the table and now they want it.

As it is we have Thursday it looks like to find out the results of the audit.

Plus, bigger picture, what the city is being accused of doing to other cities, the the State's themselves already do to each other. Ask yourself why so many corporations are home in Delaware?

I am sorry I'm just going of the linked article and I am sure I am missing some nuances here however it doesn't seem like what they've done is exactly illegal.

Alice and Bob agreeing the forge a document is illegal.

Bob agreeing to give Alice some money back that Bob collects from Alice's customers because otherwise Bob would get no money from Alice's customers doesn't appear to be illegal (yet). Of course Clara (the State) is free to change her positions on the matter.

For example set a limit on how much a city can charge sales tax.

> Tax Districts

The statewide tax rate is 7.25%. In most areas of California, local jurisdictions have added district taxes that increase the tax owed by a seller. Those district tax rates range from 0.10% to 1.00%. Some areas may have more than one district tax in effect. Sellers are required to report and pay the applicable district taxes for their taxable sales and purchases.

https://www.cdtfa.ca.gov/taxes-and-fees/sales-use-tax-rates....

Question: when you observe water flowing on a flat surface do you see the water droplets freely separating from each other all over the surface until it's kind of evenly distributed or do you find the droplets tend to kind of follow or stick to one another?

For example, imagine you have nice trickling stream of water and that stream comes near a droplet, does the droplet join the stream or does the stream miss the droplet?

Does the new "charge" in the maze join with an existing stream or is it starting with a neutral maze and has to find the exit again?

It doesn't need to know that it needs to turn left or right, it just needs to go with the lazier option which happens to be the less resistant one.

Let's actually compare what we're comparing here.

Because you're still free to say 'let's dismantle the WHO' just as the rest of the rational and free world is also free to disagree with you.

Now, before you go off half cocked I am not saying the CDC or WHO made perfect calls every time. I think they used the best information they had available to them with decades of expertise and updating as more and better information came in. Additionally for years to come public health officials, scientists, doctors, and organizations will be researching this recent pandemic, evaluating what was effective and updating policies and strategies for future pandemics.

However the important part that we're discussing here is that we are free to criticize these organizations. Free to criticize the government. Free to expose a company skirting regulations in place to protect consumers and the environment. We are free to review the science and come to a consensus. There will always be outliers. The existence of them alone doesn't mean the consensus is wrong though.

The Japanese "hometown tax" sounds rather intriguing though. I think it would be difficult to implement efficiently in the U.S. but I think it's a great idea none the less to help smaller towns with limited growth potential. Though I think work-from-home + cheaper cost of living will make small towns quite promising to live in today.

Imagine being able to have small farm for the price of a house in the city + city income. Easily do a bit of farming in the morning, remote work during day, finish up anything else the farm needs for the day, and you're set for a pretty nice life in my opinion.

Funny enough it's been publicly known for about that long.

None of the problems I saw in here related to work were specific only to the tech industry.

I've noticed, and others have here as well, that Google results have progressively gotten worse. I don't see a lot of what they are doing in the background either (some of it is already AI) but I know for certain that my results have increasly become more revenue generating than what I wanted (without adding more specific search terms). So AI isn't what exactly has made Search bad.

I suggest spending more time learning how something works. I've found in my experience it helps alleviate the feeling of anxiety I would get when I didn't know what was going on.

DuckDckGo (DDG) seems like they're being transparent on how they're implementing this and how it's going to be used. You're still being given a list of websites and not just raw answer output so I don't see how it's hiding anything more than is already.

As long as they continue to do that and it produces noticable improvement in results it's a win in my book.

Edit Here is what they're doing:

https://spreadprivacy.com/duckassist-launch/