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Sadly, our society is extremely dependent on most people acting in good faith.

Staying calm and persistent is probably the best you can do, but the return on investment might not be worth it.

The problem is he’s a bully with all the power and zero consequences. Look at Harvard, but pretend they don’t have billions of endowments.

My uncle built his home from hardwood. No insulation. In sub freezing temps, you can put your hand in the wood and it isn't cold. Compared to my (poorly) insulated home, it b is significantly better.

The INBOX idea would be a great improvement! That plus a reminder to process your INBOX after N time or size.

The hardest part of any system is making it a habit.

I was an early user of FreshCards, and it’s a beautiful app, but creating cards was too much work. No share sheet or similar integration.

The easiest thing, which I believe I suggested, was highlight->action to create a new card front, and highlight->action to creat the back or a new front. It needs to work well casually in general, and easy when focused.

I’m sure AI could theoretically help but not sure it’s necessary. Part of the benefits of most cards is creating them yourself.

Rome only recovered because Hannibal didn't march on Rome.

Is a 4 inch knife significantly less dangerous than longer knives?

A shiv is a short knife, and razor blades are banned from airplane carry-ons.

They try to discern between common objects being weapons and it becomes situational, except for cooking utensils. For some reason hammers aren’t seen as a weapon because some people don’t know about maces or clubs.

Sorry kids, your dad can’t cut the turkey because we aren’t allowed to have a long enough knife.

  answer NO to the question "Are you a criminal?"

Unis have an honor code, right? This was clearly a FAFO situation.

  As if the taxpayers should automatically give billions to Harvard, no matter what Harvard does. That's insanity (to me at least).

AFAIK, Harvard doesn't get money for nothing -- it's primarily for research. The demands are orthogonal to what Harvard provides: top tier talent for whatever the government sees fit to fund.

  It's amazing how communist problems always end with: "you eventually run out of other people's money"

It's always someone else's money. Roads suck? You probably have too many roads for other people's money to fix. The list goes on. Libertarian dreams of self-sufficiently die when their money has to pay for things. Unless you meant feudalism or plutocracy, where wealth primarily flows away from the working class.

Humans are creatures of community. There will always be taxes for any sufficiently developed people, the only hope is they serve the public good and aren't funneled into the oligarchs' pockets.

The Chinese look to the future. America, barely looks past the next stock market report. Trump looks to some unidentified time in the past when daddy loved him.

Not having a high level, shared vision of the future dooms America, and the current political divide has the boat swaying worryingly side to side.

We could start by not having a bulk rate for ~spam~ snail mail. Charge them double, perhaps. Especially political.

That's true, but I think the OP is commenting on the state of FE development :)

I'm unsure we want or need a real Dire Wolf, but American Alsatians have been bred for a while: https://www.marvelousdogs.com/american-alsatian/

I would have expected a Mensa reading list for Americans to be in non-English languages. Maybe Homer in the original Greek.

We can decide to spend our money on more ethical providers, be it eggs, milk, or meat, but as animals, we cannot get away from the circle of life.

Is it more "humane" for an animal to be eaten alive by another predator? The only difference is mankind has industrialized the process, and we don't truly give thanks because we are so separated from the process.

Edit: I don't really want to dissuade against alternatives, the problem I see is many nutritionally inferior options.

Upvoted and will look closer if only because they have a "essential only" cookie banner.

Perhaps there's a difference between fiction and non-fiction

What a wonderful logo!

I'll see if my daughter is interested, but I'd love a guitar version (hint, hint).

The next step is preventing people from leaving.

Love the downvote. Here's the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAWE3qfbANU

Today was Plato's Academy's seminar on The Philosophy and Psychology of Anger

The video should be posted, I think. Most of the talks were very good.

https://platosacademy.org/

Tell that to Fisher of Fisher investments. He's humping Trump's leg and is totally gung ho about the tarrifs.

On the plus side, my investments have doubled. On the downside, I feel dirty.

I thought the first episode was mediocre, but I enjoy the series as a better than average mind candy distraction.

My real problem with it was getting over Michael Emerson -- he's so detestable in Evil.

Cook is neither an asshole nor a business genius. He is a logistics genius, though.

Regardless, is there anyone remotely like Jobs right now? And I don't mean pushing up daises. The leaders I see are opinionated assholes lacking a consistent, internal drive based on strong, user-centered beliefs. (for some definition of consistent)

Modern science requires money.

The technological bar for Tesla, Edison, Newton, and all others 100+ years ago was very low.

Apple has the money, but not the will, to improve app features across their entire ecosystem.

I'd love some inside baseball on why they make the decisions they do. Siri could have been improved since they bought it, but I'm unsure if they even tried -- the results feel the same as five and ten years ago.

If you compare this retro look at Siri from 2010 with the same question now, I get back "I found this on the web" and it lists something from Miami and Milwaukee, as well as Trip Advisor.

Edit: I'm in Colorado, and Siri knows where my home is!

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/q1eg86/video_this_is...

Historically, the ruling class has not cared about anyone other than the ruling class.

Mel Brooks sums it up nicely, multiple times, in History of the World Part I:

  "All fellow members of the Roman senate hear me. Shall we continue to build palace after palace for the rich? Or shall we aspire to a more noble purpose and build decent housing for the poor? How does the senate vote?" -- Roman Senate Leader
  "Fuck the poor" -- The entire Senate

  "It is said that the people are revolting." -- Count de Monet
  "You said it! They stink on ice!" -- King Louis XVI

The S is a beautiful car. The rest are awkward looking, the 3 and Y because of their stunted anterior.

How many well-written code bases have you seen?

React is a PITA to learn, and even the easiest frameworks encounter devs who jump right in and commit shot code to deliver "value" right away, only for that code to live on forever haunting the devs left with mess after the founder coders move on.

If only 64% of Americans would quit Facebook.

However, I have not quit, but instead rarely use it (a few times per month) and only until the web interface pisses me off which takes less than ten minutes.