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Perfect comment.

Thank you for your writing, Maciej. It’s so good.

I think the phrase "changes over time" should be one of your shortcuts.

Nvidia management: How can we not just double the need for AI chips, but make the demand exponentially greater? Hmmm ... here's an idea ...

Decolonization is a fairly established process around the world, many places have decolonized. And it's established that the colonized people are the ones to decide, not the colonizers. The U.S. (and Americans living in Guam) don't seem to grasp it because they think if they're living in Guam, they should have an equal say. That doesn't make sense if you're not one of the colonized.

And yes, as you noted in the addendum, there has been money allocated for decolonization education. It happened, but all efforts to have an actual vote were blocked in court by (a handful of) Americans living in Guam.

Guam is the homeland of the Chamorus, and it was taken from us by the Americans. For them to say they should vote on what should be done with it seems more unfair. We're a minority because of American action, not by choice.

I'm from Guam, and half Chamoru. Most of the comments in this thread show the ignorance that this article is pointing out — Americans don't understand the situation in Guam, because they've never had to really pay attention.

Guam is a U.S. colony that has benefitted from the U.S., but has also been overrun by Americans and people from Asia, so that Chamorus are now a minority on the island. We've long wanted to have a vote to decolonize, but this has been blocked by Americans on the island who demand to have a vote in a matter that should be up to the Chamorus.

As a result of blocking decolonization, we have been impacted greatly:

* Big military bases have brought a militarized mindset to the residents.

* Those bases were taken without asking or recompense, and drive up land prices, which drives up the price of everything else.

* The U.S. has protected U.S. corporations from competition (Jones Act, etc) which drives up the prices as well.

* The U.S. has set immigration policies to benefit itself, leading to a flood of immigrants who the U.S. doesn't pay for (healthcare, education).

* U.S. corporations have taken over commerce (think big box stores and chain restaurants), leading to a loss of the local culture.

* Guam residents are mostly in poverty, undereducated, with terrible health. You could argue that it's our own fault, but the U.S.'s unthinking impact has created a system that leads to these results.

There's a lot more to this — it's an incredibly deep topic — but I thought there should be a voice here from someone who understands the issues.

I'm with you, che'lu.

I like it, will give it a try!

Can you make an option to only show the task being timed, for greater focus?

Very few English speakers (from the U.S. at least) who've graduated college will have been taught this. I worked at newspapers and no one I worked with knew this. It's not a distinction that English speakers are aware of, even at university level, unless they have a reason to know it, like being linguists or knowing people who are Swedish.

I wonder if you notice the lovelessness in hating them and pitying them.

It's cheaper, but not necessarily good quality.

The dates I've bought from Costco are usually people who are looking on their phones the whole time we're out. Why bother?

That book is pseudoscience. As are a lot of the books and videos promoting high fat diets. We don’t need to be afraid of fat, but replacing saturated fats with polyunsaturated fats has been shown to lead to better heart health outcomes by gold standard studies and meta reviews.

Cold showers are about opening ourselves to more of life, including the parts we normally resist or think of as bad. It’s about embracing a wider spectrum of life’s experiences.

I love the idea that nature has intentions, and that if it did, we could know what they are. Deliciously magical!

Don’t leave us hanging. What were you doing with your tripod?

You mean a market for a self directed, self fueled, badass goat control?

I think the question answers itself.

Why not, out of curiosity?

"Dystopia" seems like a stronger word than applies here.

I imagine you've never been screwed by a university.

I would discourage the idea that wife beating and believing in communism are in any way similar.

I think jumping to conclusions based on this paper is not a good idea:

  * The authors are not experts in this field. They seem to be experts in business management [0], other science fields [1], and the culinary arts [2] but not cardiovascular disease or anything related to it.

  * Experts in this field have done extensive reviews, and there is a strong link between saturated fat & CVD, especially if you take into account replacing SFA with PUFA.

  * All the world's health bodies agree — from Wikipedia: "Recommendations to reduce, limit or replace dietary intake of trans fats and saturated fats, in favor of unsaturated fats, are made by the World Health Organization, American Heart Association, Health Canada, the US Department of Health and Human Services, the UK National Health Service, the UK Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition, the Australian Department of Health and Aging, the Singapore Ministry of Health, the Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the New Zealand Ministry of Health, and Hong Kong's Department of Health." [3]

  * In my observation, many people strongly dispute the link between SFA & CVD usually subscribe to fringe health beliefs like all-meat diets, etc. Note: I do think limiting sugar/HFCS is a good idea as well.

[0] Reimara Valk: https://www.aud.edu/aud-school/school-of-business-administra...

[1] James Hamill: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=author:%22Hammill%20Jam...

[2] Jonas Grip: https://ch.linkedin.com/in/jonas-karl-grip-89875a12

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturated_fat

I know lots of family members in their twenties and teens who thought this was a joke Michael invented. I had to tell them it was lame and old even when the show first aired.

Snopes disagrees with the plague theory: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ring-around-rosie/

I’d find giant lenses hovering over the ocean to be pretty mysterious.

Just a note that the split infinitive prohibition was largely a 19th century thing:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_infinitive

These publishers pay very little for the content to be written. Vast majority these days is written by a low paid writer just out of college, not even a living wage. Real journalists have been let go. Newsrooms are mostly a depressing place to work these days, compared to 20 years ago.

As opposed to drinking cheap crappy beer from a firehose all day long, it’s a refreshing change.

So there’s no option to save your reflections as an ongoing journal? That was one of my motivations for installing the app today.

It’s a different kind of sex toy that will shock you, this one just locks.

Here’s a good visual way of exploring that: http://andywoodruff.com/blog/where-to-hate-daylight-saving-t...