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why not have a single global timezone and people change their local numbers.

e.g. if you life in hawaii you stand up at 11pm and if people in russia work until 8am.

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the mode is probably 0.

e.g. there are plenty of people with exactly 0 income. there are few people with exactly another income.

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Heinlein himself was libertarian

didn't he change his views a couple times during his life?

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Accusing a man of being “ergi,” which is basically unmanly, was enough of an insult to be answered with blood

"using gay as an insult" is not proof of extreme homophobia. By that logic every teenager on the planet would be extreme homophobic.

In fact, pretty much every descriptive word can be used as an insult. If anything your example proofs, that vikings take insults very serious.

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elaborate?

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The alternative is we do not get a later. Ever again.

this may sound exagerated, but... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025#Expansion_of_presidential_powers

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Why can’t anyone study to become a qualified surgeon?

anyone can try

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what are you going to do when there’s night

sleep

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fucking Heritage Foundation, wow.

At this point they are just evil for the sake of being evil.

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that's the plot of kill-la-kill

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Only reason to include 2 full bridge rectifiers

they look like runes.

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aber

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while still being the best comedians

can you recommend some?

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It has been garbage SEO stuff for a while.

garbabe SEO has been there since almost the beginning. More recently google started to promote sites base on their profitableness.

Remember when you could suppress sites from Google search results? Due to "unknowable reasons", they got rid of that feature. Enshittification is real.

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Our societies have not previously tolerated spaces that are beyond the reach of
law enforcement, where criminals can communicate safely and child abuse can
flourish.

I am pretty sure, churches were "tolerated spaces" bevor e2ee was a thing.

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However you will now have rodent problems

chicken got you covered on that front too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iubf1oJdQQQ

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I think the article forgot the "Individualization of Responsibility"-talking point.

“When responsibility for environmental problems is individualized, there is little room to ponder institutions, the nature and exercise of political power, or ways of collectively changing the distribution of power and influence in society — to, in other words, ‘think institutionally.’”

https://medium.com/@mitpress/individualization-plant-a-tree-buy-a-bike-save-the-world-ecb916df95e4

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there will always be a power imbalance. Maybe the divide will not be financial, but there are plenty of other ways for people to gain power over others. During revolutions the divide will often be about how loyal you are to the cause, i.e. people who appear more loyal to the revolution, will have power over people who are less loyal.

bort ,

Maybe you should read that link too, and maybe a few others before making such statements.

I am familiar with the idea of communism. I am making an explicit counter pointer to the idea of "pure communism".

The whole idea of anarchism and communism is to abolish hierarchy. Things being the way they are now doesn’t mean it is inevitable for them to always be like this.

That is a good point actually. But the observation of hierarchy is very very strong (both in humans and in animals). You would need a very strong argument to counter it, which I am not seeing.

It says more about you

... that's not a strong argument. That's just a thinly veiled insult.

how much you have to unlearn of your indoctrination (as well as how powerful and successful it is) that you can’t see beyond it

Are you asking me to have faith? Or is there some evidence for your argument?

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when efficiency/productivity increases

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I guess it's a cheap version of reactive armor. i.e. it shatters on impact while absorbing/spreading most of the force.

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same

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne6nj9AgY7M

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yellow implied some kind of middle ground between 2 values. So the legend could have looked something like this:

🔴 1 - 99
🟡 0
🟢 -1 - -99

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The best knee-surgery meme is knee-surgery itself.

i.e. knee-surgery is fun, but it is not usefull.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12110735/

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vacuum for isolation. Magnets, so the plasma stays in the middle and won't touch the walls. Microwaves to heat it up.

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vacuum for isolation. Magnets, so the plasma stays in the middle and won’t touch the walls. Microwaves to heat it up from the outside.

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She had it coming. This mess is her fault after all.

Don't believe me? Listen to the Science: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkrcxLgHn-w

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you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCFB2akLh4s

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A /s would’ve saved on the down votes if you care.

I actually thought about it. But I think Onion articles and videos generally work best without a /s.

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https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/ea1684a4-33cd-49e2-9491-12548810a5ee.webp

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https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/average_familiarity.png

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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Water-triple-point-20210210.gif

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spoiler

it's water

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There are multiple justices taking bribes and telling us they have the legal right to do so

is this true?

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https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/6215651f-6986-42ec-8341-76f2b8451288.webp

bort ,

just pick one that

outperformed every year, or
sits in the right comittees, or
is republican
is most likely to be corrupt (e.g. gets the most corporate donations)

and you can limit yourself to the stocks that are relevant to their positions.

bort ,

would that involve getting rid of publicly traded/owned companies?

no

would that in turn mean only one person could own a company and not allow investments?

also no

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would that in turn mean only one person could own a company and not allow investments?

you can already own a company with multiple people without the stock market.

would that involve getting rid of publicly traded/owned companies?

you can already have a public company, that is not listed on a stockmarket

Then what’s the alternative?

any of those that already exist.

I guess it would also be possible to image some new implementation of public trading, one that does not enable corruption and white-color-crime so much as the current one. Maybe something with more transparency and public oversight. Keep in mind, that the stock market in the US was implemented by already rich people, who had no incentives to make it fair. All fairness was implemented later as an after thought.

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many stocks are fantasy values, which are disconnected from the actual performance of the underlying company. #3 would reconnect the stockvalue to the company value (my guess)

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due to [...] quantum computing.

[x] doubt

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so far there is no significant quanum advantage, i.e. most things you can do on a quantum computer, you can do cheaper on a regular computer. Therefor there is not much value in quantum computing. Therefor I doubt we will see a significant surge in power-use due to quantum computing in the next 10 years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBLVtCYHVO8

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As usual, the US is already one step ahead: they cut out the middleman by skiping a step.

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so... like CBT, but you don't enjoy the torture-part nearly as much?

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I am surprised how well this played out.

Though maybe I got wooshed, I’m not 100% sure.

yes, I was aiming exactly for the ambiguity between the 2 meanings of CBT.

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If everyone stops buying from Amazon, those people could get jobs at any of these companies, where people buy from instead.

Amazon has replaced a lot of jobs. When amazon goes away, it in turn will get replaced by something else.

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