jamesgill

It seems to not scan for Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin, two extensions I rely on. That's...surprising.

https://github.com/thinkhuman/iranwest/blob/main/exploitingi...

Always follow the money: https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Frontier_Institute

If you are genuinely interested in the history of the region, the saddest part is that it's not 'sensationalized' as you put it, but the opposite--it's incredibly well-documented. Even released CIA documents confirm the coup and other actions. I don't see much disagreement between Wikipedia and what I wrote.

And Iranians, like Americans, differ in their opinions of government. There are nearly 100 million Iranians in country (and many more outside).

And of course if you read what I wrote, it's fairly clear why many Iranians didn't want a religious nationalist government, and many left over the past decades. Many of them didn't want the Shah or his Israel-trained brutal secret police, either, and many more didn't want the country's economy sold wholesale to the West (as it was).

Yeah. It's not that it wasn't 'professionalized' back in the day, it's that everything has changed--the attitude, the people involved, the kinds of businesses there are, the philosophy. There was a...mystery about it, a feeling like you were entering a different world and that world was a place where you were close the the machine and...I just can't describe it. It was more visceral.

I made my first BASIC program in the late 70s on a Decwriter, which was basically a wide-carriage printer with a keyboard, attached via acoustic modem to a time-sharing system. And it was the best thing ever.

What most people don't understand is that weight loss and health is about a lot more than 'calories in/calories out', despite what we've been told for decades.

We don’t need more ideas, we need the political will to try one. And that is the real problem.

As a father I can't imagine ever leaving a 3-year-old alone with media so they can be 'independent'. If for no other reason, that's an age and developmental stage where media should be almost nonexistent in their lives.

Like many truths, it's actually well-known and frequently discussed in public, but hard to hear amongst all the noise of corporate messaging and decades of bad dietary 'advice' from both public and private institutions.

To paraphrase the Oracle in the Matrix: What's really going to bake your noodle later on is--saturated fat isn't the culprit in CVD either. And that's equally well-supported yet drowned out for the same reasons ('nonfat all the things!').

But I think it all still applies; the key is to keep taking small steps toward the thing, not just 'keep taking small steps'. You look at a successful small step and (like I wrote) ask 'what's the next step?' that will build on it.