almostApatriot1

i picked a bad day to quit facebook live

Devastating for streamers. Google must compensate

I'm streaming my marriage too. Jesus!

i wonder how much effect the psychological shock has on the body.

you hear these types of stories more often than of ones where people die of cancer not knowing they had cancer

Paul Allen was a good man but...

"I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God"

Some think wealthy people should be held to a higher moral standard for a number of reasons

yeah, The SEC charge probably harmed as many investors

Pence through a fall guy. Definitely.

do you have a link to any NYTimes articles that are factually incorrect?

interesting article but i couldn't get the entire map to fit on my (13 inch) screen no matter how I adjusted the browser. Very annoying.

live by da pump; die by da pump

Seems like there's money to be had by tracking art via the blockchain

the human development index of Venezuela is in the top half of countries world wide.

Secondly, Bill Gates was vaccinating only in countries where polio is endemic. His whole thing is once it's gone, it shouldn't come back.

Isn't Bill Gates basically betting on this scenario not happening?

we had some labor standards included in the TPP but obviously it was worth less than dirt when it came to public appeal

just buy them on other exchanges and hodl for the pump

I was going to recommend "The State of Washington" but even that is ambiguous.

yes, or even "The District"

what's so key about that? I and many others know that the Baby Boomers hoarded wealth to create their own class that is very hard to enter into. You can certainly 'blame' them when it comes to things like Prop 13 and their inability to protect social security for future generations.

I don't think the vast majority of 60 minutes viewers would have been aware about any of the details mentioned in this piece. Not everybody follows Google anti-trust chatter.

a similar line a reasoning led to the housing crisis, didn't it? Everyone should be able to get a mortgage!

Chinese miners and other state subsidized miners will mine bitcoin at a loss to push out the competition and gain marketshare.

An obvious problem, sure, but no easy solution.

The "not as bad as" fallacy, also known as the fallacy of relative privation, asserts that:

If something is worse than the problem currently being discussed, then The problem currently being discussed isn't that important at all. In order for the statement "A is not as bad as B," to suggest a fallacy there must be a fallacious conclusion such as: ignore A.[0]

[0]https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Not_as_bad_as

Stopping by unannounced just to chit chat is much more common outside of the States. I think here there is much more a expectation of hosting.

Yes, Japanese culture has filled a gap. If there were more components to Western Culture outside of America's influence maybe it wouldn't be so prominent.

But what, culturally, is coming out of Canada, Europe, Australia, South America, or Asia (outside of Japan)? Not much that is universally appealing.

>Another societal struggle that Japan was one of the first developed countries to encounter can be seen on the opposite end of the age spectrum, in its large population of unemployed young men and women. A report from 2017 revealed that, in 2015, there are some 1.7 million of them, a full ten per cent of those between the ages of fifteen and twenty-nine—a shocking number, given that Japan’s unemployment rate is an enviable 2.5 per cent. Officially, Japan calls these people NEETs (“not in education, employment, or training”) and “freeters” (temps who drift among various short-term jobs). The press has other, less generous terms for them, including “parasite singles” and “herbivore men.” In the early aughts, journalists spilled a great deal of ink on the herbivores’ seemingly unique lack of interest in moving out, getting married, or finding a girlfriend.

It's telling that the author starts out his hitjob on NEETS as stating they're both officially men and women, and finishing with the implication that they're actually all men.

I'd expect better editing from The New Yorker!

War is to a degree more consensual. BDSM scores very highly in taboo surveys. I don't think the author would say all men love executing POWs or anything like that.

Also, not to support that view, but the amount of sexual violence that has historically accompanied war is startling. There's obviously something to it.

Columbia MFA programs are notorious for being cash cows. Everyone who does a little research understands this.

He's not bad for 71. If he read more and did more than just watch cable news, he'd be pretty sharp imo. My point was it was/is a holy grail of sorts. Not many could 'pull it off,' but if you manage to...

Lots of people feel like if you could pul off 4 hrs sleep a night you should. Donald Trump has been touting his ability to do it for decades.

I don't get this story. Why did you have IDs if you didn't need them?