jamwil

This isn’t coherent. Republicans seem extremely interested in controlling every facet of Americans’ lives. They appear frankly obsessed with controlling who you might love, how you might identify, what books you are allowed to read, whether women have autonomy over their own bodies, etc. The list goes on.

“I’ll put on my seatbelt when the car crashes”

People moan because it’s empty corporate misdirection that misplaces and deflects blame from the actual problem. More than half the plastic in the sea is industrial fishing refuse but sure, the straw in your smoothie is the problem.

A couple mil a day is 730 million per year, more than Lebron has made in his entire career, so I flat out don’t believe you and I don’t think you understand numbers.

Definitely a regional thing. Where I grew up it was MSN Messenger all the way.

I’m sorry, I find this really difficult to follow. You seem to alternate between using pledgers and participants, and it’s not clear what a pledge is versus a bid, or how pledgers make multiple pledges?

Is there a real world example of this sort of funding model you can point to?

We have to start somewhere. And I am not sure that you understand what the word sovereign means since it’s entirely disconnected from how “good” something is.

This drove me crazy and I was about to uninstall it before I came across this comment.

Also Albertan. Had never seen a rat until I moved to Vancouver at the age of 34.

Your employer has fundamentally undermined the stable functioning of society by systematically provoking outrage, division and hate. You have contributed to a world where we can’t even agree if measles is bad.

Use CODEOWNERS files to route docs/ reviews differently.

Found the Argentinian.

I am not sure what streaming service you are using but it sounds awful. I have not encountered anything like what you describe on Apple Music.

I am not sure if this factors into it but an interesting difference between dairy and eggs and most other types of farms is that those are highly perishable. Grain can be stored and released gradually to even out market gyrations but dairy is just lost if they don’t match supply closely with demand in real time.

It’s not logical. He is a malignant narcissist and a sociopath. A very sick man.

Health insurance in America is—quite uniquely—the deep end of the pool in the whole capitalism v humanity conundrum. I think a lot of Americans feel that viscerally and the widespread support for Luigi was symbolic of how truly fucked up that country is in general.

¡Viva Donkey!

It’s a function of relative scale. If you’re a Fortune 100 CEO there is still a point where you would quarterback a sale, but that would be like… a $10 billion+ contract with the federal government.

The point of group projects is not to make the best project, it’s to learn to navigate working with other people and all the messiness that entails. Soft skill development and the slackers are a feature not a bug. Doing group projects solo completely defeats the point of the exercise—I’m surprised you got approval from any profs for that.

Because Meta is a harmful company, for one.

I just read this fact in Hail Mary, but it doesn’t fully add up to me. If you fall flat on your back and wind yourself (phrenospasm) that triggers an immediate suffocation response which has nothing to do with CO2 and seemingly everything to do with a lack of oxygen.

Canada is not a third world hell hole, but our tipping culture is just as bad as the US. Perhaps even worse.

The great capitalist rug pull continues.

What did you do prior to 2023?

I doubt it’s an effective channel for promoting liberalism (or even rationality). In North America at least the folks most engaged on Facebook tend to be media illiterate and reactionary leaning. The smart people left long ago.

They were just being jocular.

I was talking about this with someone the other day… How many real terrorism threats have been preceded by the terrorist telegraphing their intentions with a phone call beforehand? My prior is that this number is essentially 0 and we should ignore bomb threats as a society.

Actually no I can’t recall the last time I tried to ride a bike in the snow. But I know inherently that snow itself would be alright, but snow is almost always accompanied by a layer of ice below, which simply can’t be fine. This is the case in Canada at least.

The author’s point was more nuanced than ‘tool bad’.

Without studded tires it’s very difficult to ride a bike on snow or ice.