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CorruptedArc··on What If Ozempic Is Just a Good Thing?
Exactly, all of which becomes significantly easier when someone isn't excessively overweight. They still need to put in effort to reach a good place.
CorruptedArc··on Future of Humanity Institute shuts down
Not to mention the "big picture" EAs did damage when put in charge of the money FTX was doling out. They had people who'd been funding organizations that would feed, cloth, and medicate people move their funding to "existential problems" like AI and climate science. While I won't argue the value of those, vague theoreticals are arguably more commonly tacticaled than those on the ground trying to help with active issues.
CorruptedArc··on DoorDash lays off 1250 employees
*DoorDash to Layoff 1250 Employees
CorruptedArc··on Microsoft accidentally reveals that it is testing ads in Windows Explorer
Despite his quote referencing IBM & Xerox, I believe there's a good chance that quote was self-reflective, a call back to past decisions. Jobs was a "sales" man himself despite his technical understandings though he had the awareness to realize where it was and had been leading to.

His wisdom here rings of experience. It was probably meant to be as much a warning as it is informative.

CorruptedArc··on Making the dislike count private across YouTube
Same thoughts I had, the more niche the topic the more important this feature was for finding a workable solution. A year back I was fixing a microphone and 9 of the 10 videos I looked at on it were convoluted expensive or ineffective work-arounds while one actually showed how to fix the issue relatively easily.

I'm really gonna miss this feature.

CorruptedArc··on Thoughts.page: hosting a small webpage for your thoughts
Here's mine if anyone's interested in seeing how it looks before making one:

elias.thoughts.page

Look or don't. It is your free will.

CorruptedArc··on A Compass for the Politics of Collapse
This misses whole primary subsets of ideologies and doomers, glosses most Libertarian groups which are probably the most paranoid about such events. Seeming to focus too hard at the near non-existant extremes like EcoFash & EcoCommies and really never adjusts back towards a realistic middle which comes in any crisis.
CorruptedArc··on 81k UK-owned .eu domains suspended as Brexit transition ends
Imagine also if you had a domain run by multiple people. Only for the one its registered under to be a UK citizen. You get de-platformed and were given little to no warning to switch the registrant.
CorruptedArc··on Hackers extorted $1.14M from UCSF
In my experience EDU IT tends to be an extremely small staff with a very heavy amount of duties and overtime. It frankly surprises me this doesn't happen more often.
CorruptedArc··on Google disabled my husband's account
I agree 100%. Used ProtonMail for a while and this is an issue that's made me think about looking to migrate elsewhere. Tutanota had similar problems when I messed around with it last year. It is hard to find one with good UI, my needed functions, while still having a solid security reputation.
CorruptedArc··on The Inheritance Tax Is Far Too Low
I see no world were this doesn't end poorly. You either see mass emigration of the wealthy at old age or an incentivisation of illicit off the books banking (both domestically & offshore). I can't think of anyone who'd be willing to hand over the majority of their wealth to the government upon death. It would become common practice to attempt to circumvent this.

If everything above 10 million is taken as a death tax you can be sure no estates are going to be worth over 10 million publicly.

CorruptedArc··on NYT op-ed claiming scientists underestimated climate change lacks evidence
Do you have a reliable source to backup such alarming claims?
CorruptedArc··on GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract
The DREAM act has been around since 2001 and at its peak never even had even a million members throughout its existence. Illegals with a criminal background have always been preferred for deportation in the US. But my question how is which ICE is a government entity partisan for following the immigration edicts of the current administration?

Also looks like Both Sideism can go into the large book of unnecessary and arbitrary -ism words people have come up with during this presidency.

CorruptedArc··on GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract
It truly isn't a partisan organization. The Dems buried their heads when this happened under President "Deporter & Chief" Obama. People are pretending this issue is new because they didn't take the time to learn about it years ago. Some media reported on it under Obama, but few took the time until they were looking for ammunition against Trump.
CorruptedArc··on NordVPN confirms it was hacked
From the article: "“One of the data centers in Finland we are renting our servers from was accessed with no authorization,” said NordVPN spokesperson Laura Tyrell."

I believe that would be the section they're referencing.

CorruptedArc··on Spain jails Catalan separatist leaders, protesters take to streets
A perpetual treaty isn't much of a treaty at all. An expired treaty carries about as much weight as a "perpetual" one.
CorruptedArc··on Spain jails Catalan separatist leaders, protesters take to streets
California is more likely to split into multiple states than it is to succeed.
CorruptedArc··on China Grew Two Cotton Leaves on the Moon
I was hoping they would use lunar "dirt". I mean this experiment doesn't seem like it even had to be on the moon due to the closed-off environment. It's still cool but I feel like more could have been learned here.
CorruptedArc··on Netherlands played crucial role in infecting Iran with the Stuxnet virus
It's almost an alien concept in modern day isn't it.
CorruptedArc··on Japan approves first human-animal embryo experiments
I've noticed that too. It seems like it is happening quiet a bit lately. Comments getting voted down out of no where for seemingly no reason.
CorruptedArc··on How Turkey Purged Its Intellectuals
A Harvard Law Professor was forced to step down due students feeling "Unsafe" over clients he was representing in court. There are many similar examples like this: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/24/opinion/harvard-ronald-su...
CorruptedArc··on How Turkey Purged Its Intellectuals
In the intellectual field it's a far more of a left-wing based issue than right-wing. Universities in the US have skewed left for a longtime. Which has meant they are hit the hardest when it comes to the eat-your-own outrage culture engulfing the American left.
CorruptedArc··on How Turkey Purged Its Intellectuals
So firing 6,000 academics and restructuring and a single major university counts as a purge? I mean a great many places are laying off professors with Liberal Arts Degrees many more than 6,000. In modern day the focus is shifting away from those careers. Even if that is a bad thing it is still the truth of the matter. This just seems like its trying to push a ham-fisted narrative. I'm no fan of Erdogan but this seems like textbook attempt at Yellow Journalism.
CorruptedArc··on U.S. Hospitals Are Asking Their Own Patients to Donate Money
If you read the article you'll see that the reasons they're asking is for improved "amenities". But its a bit misleading since they also charge through the roof for said "amenities".
CorruptedArc··on U.S. Hospitals Are Asking Their Own Patients to Donate Money
Yeah but U.S. and Canadian corporate culture is pretty intertwined.
CorruptedArc··on U.S. Hospitals Are Asking Their Own Patients to Donate Money
I like a lot of things about the U.S. over the U.K. but our healthcare system is definitely not one of them.