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Some countries “voted” to elect Putin and napoleon too…

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Oh man that’s awful. I support withdrawing all funding for Hamas and all other organizations who intentionally kill humanitarian aid workers. What do you think?

> we continue to allow them to exist

Who is “we”? I can’t do anything about it. No more than peasants “allow” the king to exist..

I like the post but I feel like it’s missing the reason why VC funding is necessary. A lot of small scale apps and old school forums can be run pretty cheap. What is stopping social media from growing slow and following a more traditional business model? For example, people regularly start things like nail salons with just personal funds and bank loans but they are so much more expensive to run than something like this website

> you should absolutely have a personal physician you have a personal relationship with

best we can do here is the closest walk in clinic that isn’t fully booked by 9am and a doctor I’ve never met before. All they ever do is send me for blood work which is always flawless. Eventually my issues resolve themselves. If I get cancer or something serious I expect to just find out shortly before I die

> That is not a psychologically healthy way to frame this.

But lying to yourself is so much worse. Eventually you won’t hold the illusion anymore and you’ll crash hard. It’s better to be honest and grounded in reality if you want any improvement to be sustainable

Most gay men will

They genuinely don’t care. Don’t over think it

It’s the “Why should I care?” era

You’re completely missing the point and I don’t think you actually know what “bias” means.

> a British broadcaster, paid for by British people, to address stories of interest of British interest from a British perspective

This is exactly my point. You’re going to get news from maybe 1% of the full ideological spectrum and nowhere near “all sides” of any story. The BBC has a strong bias towards status quo opinions (“ of British interest from a British perspective”). The news they don’t report on is equally as important as what they do publish.

BBC is great but it is very biased. There’s no such thing as neutral news and the front page is full of pro-western and pro-british articles. You could argue it’s in the middle of the British political spectrum but that’s inherently a bias towards the status quo.

There’s nothing wrong with biased news but it’s important to recognize what their perspective really is. Thinking it’s neutral is dangerous and you’ll never know the truth if you believe that!

It changes too quickly for this to really matter. just pick the one you think looks and feels better to you

Try offering money for a consultation. They don’t have any reason to speak to you.

Starlink is one of the few inventions that really could fundamentally change everything. It’s an enormous expansion of viable lifestyles and places to live. I know people who use it at the cottage, on a boat, while camping, etc. and if WFH + personal electricity generation (solar) improves the Jeffersonian yeoman software engineer fantasy could be real.

It really would fundamentally change my life and my relationship to power structures if I didn’t have to bend my whole life around living “in the system”.

Alternatively, Elon could just disable my life if I post something he doesn’t like online so maybe we’re not there yet…

Completely agree about neuralink and tesla

Google search, google maps, gmail, YouTube, and Chrome have all been good functional products for over a decade. I genuinely don’t know what they’ve been doing since then other than milking us and getting new customers. Maybe 10% of this growth leads to a real improvement in human lives.

They need to at least pay enough for a reasonable standard of living. Most people would rather give up on their science dreams than have roommates and no family or personal space into middle age.

Are there even enough positions for European scientists? I thought academia was already extremely competitive. Maybe these scientists can start new schools in America with private funding instead

When I think Italy I think pizza and Mussolini and Ferrari. When I think Africa I think radical Islam and fufu and the slave trade and colonialism and the lion king. I believe an American pope is a good choice and you don’t have an accurate view of America.

> Microservices are a design pattern for organisations as opposed to technology

Very true in my experience. The main benefit is letting small groups of people work independently without stepping on each other’s toes. Although I’ve worked on a project where multiple teams owned micro services that were supposed to be standardized with each other, and it just lead to endless meetings and requirements churn since nobody was willing to work on the other teams service but everyone had an opinion on what the cross-team standard should be. Learning the diplomatic way to say “mind your own business” was more important than any technical skills for getting code merged.

Congratulations on becoming a Protestant

Work on your self hatred and open your mind please. There’s nothing tacky about an American pope. What are you talking about?

> In a 2012 address

Almost every American public figure was anti-LGBT in 2012. The majority of the Democratic Party including the Obama, Clinton, and Biden families were against it. It sounds ridiculous now but Donald Trump was the most LGBT friendly president in history at the time of his first inauguration.

Wait to see what he does now or find a more recent position.

very interesting. 2 slices of bread is at least 200 calories here

My country (Canada) gives every parent money every month for each kid they have. It’s enough to pay for food, so there’s really no excuse to not feed the kid. We don’t have school lunches and it’s not a problem. Do you think Canadians are all ghouls?

3 meals averaging 600 calories plus a snack is completely reasonable. A sandwich is a meal. I don’t know what kind of sandwiches you’re eating in Austria but I don’t think it’s the same as me.

What a horrible time to work in an industry with mostly foreign coworkers.

A sandwich and a piece of fruit will probably be in the 400-800 calorie range. It’s absolutely enough food for 1/3 meals. Especially if the kid is also eating snacks

Do you think Canadians are subhuman? We don’t do this and there’s no issue. The school is not a replacement for bad parenting. I bet you’re the type of person who still believes in food deserts.

Same in Canada. I think this is just another one of those things like voter ID where Americans have been tricked into believing something many other countries do is impossible and evil.