keester

She mentions free will as an illusion. To me this is a purely philosophical question and I prefer Daniel Dennett's take on it.

He's saying it has nothing to do with determinism or indeterminism in physics and has a very good explanation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cbxi7ZZIoU

Not great. His predictions for the outcome of the Ukraine/Russia war were way off, and I haven't seen a mea culpa video for that just yet. There's a good debate between him and Ian Bremmer somewhere that highlights the flaws in Zeihan's thinking. I don't know what his motive is, probably likes, subscribes, money, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqsVR9Hl2oQ&t=482s

I think you mean they doubled something with some equivalence to money .. what would that be?

Of course not everyone gets the vote. Not everyone gets the worker protections or can be women with equal rights, as you put it.

The issue here is not if we should provide these things but actually to provide them to as many people as possible. Sadly, people think we can just agree to do it or something and it magically happens.

My take is move slowly. Anyone who doesn't food and housing, try to make that happen for them as best we can. That's different than just decreeing from on high that ALL PEOPLE SHALL HAVE HOUSING!!

I agree with you, but nudging can be a good thing if it's meritorious. Lincoln, for instance, had to manipulate people to some extent to achieve his goal of emancipation.

Similarly, I'd say some nudging is in order to tackle the obesity epidemic in the US and other places.

My understanding is that jdk8 has support from Oracle until 2030.

stable less violent right up until the revolution ..

linux user (kde, cinnamon, etc.). I have been using ctl-f1,ctl-f2, etc to switch between virtual desktops since about 2000. Each virtual desktop is labeled like 'email', 'docs', 'browser', 'editor', 'sql' etc. At each desktop I can alt-tab between a couple of apps, say IDEA and a terminal, or SquirrelSQL and a terminal. So I navigate apps by first selecting the correct desktop and then possibly alt tabbing a little bit. That works well for me and I think probably a lot of users since it's the default behavior after install.

rent did not go down in 2020

depends on what you mean by "detractors of net neutrality" are you talking about the concept or the actual implementation that was in place

implicit here in your thinking is that we actually benefit (more than the cost of enforcing) from the previous net neutrality regime

I have no trouble at all cleaning cast iron skillets as long as I put it under some water while it's still hot and give it a little wipe. Doesn't seem to affect the seasoning either ..

I want a new version of SSI Strongholds from the 90s. I guess there's no point though .. that genre has sort of evolved to something far better and I'm just nostalgic.