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icytrumpet··on Age that kids acquire mobile phones not linked to well-being: study
What an absolutely awful take.
icytrumpet··on Regulators OK largest dam demolition in history to restore salmon habitat
I'd also recommend The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California by Mark Arax.
icytrumpet··on Elon Musk tells Twitter staff to work long hours or leave
A couple theories:

* You're a Musk fan boy and want to be noticed by him

* Lots of people leaving creates a power vacuum and (in theory) a chance to get that next promotion with less competition

* You're close to retirement/ you find the process of assimilating into a new company to be more exhausting than just sticking it out where you're at.

icytrumpet··on 'I took magic mushrooms at 64 and the fog I've lived under my whole life lifted'
Do your research, but I'm fairly confident that buying/ shipping mushroom spores is a legal gray area and not technically illegal in most places. It's only once you've propagated the spores that it becomes illegal. So if you're comfortable with growing a few in a plastic container under your bed and then destroying the evidence (by ingesting it hehe), this might be the best path for you. Much less risky than asking randos at parties or something.
icytrumpet··on Twitter follower counts over the past 24-48 hours
I would put my money on big liberal PACs and PR firms deleting botnets and cutting ties with botfarms that exist solely to boost engagement on their candidates posts.
icytrumpet··on Netflix loses subscribers for the first time in 10+ years
It must be buried in the Fire Stick UI because I can't seem to find it anywhere. I'll have to check again.
icytrumpet··on Netflix loses subscribers for the first time in 10+ years
I'm about to cancel for two reasons.

1. The auto-play preview feature is incredibly annoying and there is no way to disable it. If I want to watch a preview, I'll click the damn button. Let me read a description in peace.

2. The overt propaganda makes watching any new content all but impossible for me. It seems that this is not unique to Netflix, but they are the worst in my opinion.

icytrumpet··on Tax the Land
Taxes fix nothing.
icytrumpet··on Masking Policy Is Incredibly Irrational
It was never supposed to be rational.
icytrumpet··on Ask HN: What is your spiritual practice?
Most anthiests seem to be nihilists, so they're already (claiming to be) doing that.

I just always find it strange the way that "100% athiests" seem to ignore the logical conundrum of "I don't need a God or theology to live a good life" when our constructed definition of "good" comes from religion.

icytrumpet··on Ask HN: What is your spiritual practice?
Why even bother forgiving yourself if morality is just a human construct and there is no judgment in the afterlife?
icytrumpet··on The $1.5B Mammoth Solar Farm Will Be the Largest in the US
Can anyone tell me what sort of environmental impact studies are done before a project like this breaks ground and where (if) I can read them?
icytrumpet··on [dead]
Many would argue that resisting tyrannical mandates is a compassionate and sacrificial act that is in the interest of their neighbors.
icytrumpet··on Facebook Sunglasses – No Thanks
The evolution of the "glasshole."

Wouldn't catch me dead in a pair of these.

icytrumpet··on An inside look at the custom CPUs in Tesla's Dojo Supercomputer
That's not a world I want to live in. Not even a little bit.