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Social "experiments" with messy, squishy, meat-monkeys... GFL controlling conditions or repeating "experiments." It's not exactly science, more like philosophy.

Sometimes, I swear psychologists enjoy exploring the same areas of the mind as serial killers. hmm...

inappropriate humor department of humor So that's why my wife never orders me around directly. /inappropriate humor department of humor

The difference being Milgram used actors as there was no actual suffering, only the intent to cause suffering on-command. Milgram's experiment proved what atrocities like the Holocaust and Armenian Genocide already made clear: most people are cowards, will happily turn you over to butchers, if not murder you themselves, if directed.

There's parallels to normalization, ie, cult indoctrination.. look at how Scientology enslaves people, takes their money and their dignity to feed the egos of Tom Cruise and Muscaviage.

The ossuary, for sure. Louvre is a meh. The park adjacent to the Louvre is good-to-go. Wander between the Louvre and Eiffel, there is a brassiere frequented by diplomats. Pickup intramural football (soccer) by the nurses' college just across the river. Explore on foot with only a rough plan is usually the best way to find treasures.

I cancelled and share with family. Their catalog is shit, their apps are anti-viewer, some of their content is okay but they're turning the customer experience into repugnant, corporate shit.

What sucks about Netflix app is I can't see IMDB ratings. I'm tired of them promoting 3-5.5/10 crap when I'll only watch decent content 7-8+.

They already "suggest" series and movies prominently in their apps. Now, they're going to shove fucking ads down your throat like a damn TV blairing CNN at the laundromat.

Yup. It doesn't take a fortune to produce crap or good stuff. The only thing money can do is add some polish.

Damn tootin.

Fucking Netflix

FYI: I would avoid use of Oracle products. Azul Zulu has a better concurrent and parallel, nearly-pauseless GC.

0) Not to justify but to give a similar example: CL rarely takes (or took in the past) down zillions of postings that are/were blatantly illegal, i.e., “Seeking roommate: female ONLY.”

1) People are going to discriminate, even if it’s illegal. Heck, I was at a restaurant and an Israeli couple were smugly grinning about how they were discriminating against a candidate whom was “male and too old” by wasting his time and not calling them back. It sucks, but you can’t legislate not being an asshat, even with ostensibly anti-asshat laws.

Subterranean floors should be numbered negatively.

And, why not number floors using binary or hex?

;)

Also, a nerd’s way to walk on the plane is to ignore sidewalk or other markings and cut a straight of a line to the destination as possible.

Depending on jurisdictions and “no cops, no stops,” ignore traffic signals while focusing on actual traffic. Waiting for a crosswalk signal is like waiting for Godot... giving autonomy over to a machine and a waste of life.

Inverted totalitarianism at work. Paraphrasing a passage from the Bible, of all books, this one is a good parable of human nature: From those whom have nothing, all will be taken; to those that have all, more will be given.

People whom can’t fight back will be abused if there are incentives of the elite and their functionaries to extract money from these poor... like a legitimized protection racket by a proverbial Sheriff of Nottingham.

You’ve reached your article limit Is there a paywall workaround?

Shit, I could use that because I don’t dream anymore. I only get vivid dreams when missing a dose of antidepressant, and then a hangover the next day.

Is this sarcasm? (prays despite being atheist)

If not, your own stress hormones are your own problem, no one else’s. Nuance, rather than black&white extremist thinking, is in order... assault is getting up in someone’s face. Battery is an act of physical violence. When we start conflating speech, assault and battery, the world is headed into the shitter.

Oh my. Please tell me you’re joking or using extreme sarcasm as humor. If not, that would be a dangerously weak and nonsensical philosophy tantamount to thoughtcrime. Assault is getting up in your face with intimidation and imminent violence. Calling speech “abusive” is often a dog-whistle for academic totalitarianism that bans people outright without any process and eliminates debate because there’s “accepted” ideas and then there’s outlaws whom aren’t allowed to participate in the discourse. That’s not rigorous academics or openness to ideas, but touchy childishness, often attempting to control and subjugate other people with facist-modalities of draconian control.. to the point boys and others have to walk on eggshells, lest they offend hypersensitive, power-hungry control-freaks. Worse, only exchanging “approved” ideas leads to Dark Ages stagnation and materially-weak academics that could well be superseded by superior ideas, technologies and academic institutions that are more open and rigorous elsewhere.

The problem originates thin-skinned toddler with their safe-spaces, microaggressions and crybully reactionary-outrage, brow-beating BS, which mostly grew out of the hierarchy of victimhood anti-white-straight-male ideologues, ... compounded by faculty, staff and parents whom fail to correct them, set sensible boundaries and lead-by-example.

Dynamic scoping is about as impure as global variables. Even JS’ ES5 scoping is awful. Gimmie pure, single-static assignment with static compilation and strong, gradual typing any day of the week.

Stanford has/had a strong AI group, SAIL, that got passed around and now resides affiliated with GSB. When I was at SMI/BMIR, they had an old SAIL sign over in MSOB.

As a rubber tramp, I have EBT/SNAP (for the next 2-3 months until the Republicans take it away), 2 propane burners and Costco but no fridge (it needs servicing). It’s often buy fresh as-needed, which is expensive, or buy things that keep like protein bars and bag of rice/lentil/quinoa. Giving homeless people canned goods is a waste because they usually require can openers or are too heavy for the amount of food contained.

Grocery Outlet and WinCo often have hydroponic LiveLettuce for cheap that keeps for a long time. Apples and some citrus last. I wish I had fresh tomatoes, they’re so good. Fresh tomato, basil, onion and garlic salad is to die for: see FrenchGuyCooking on IG. If I had a solar-powered hydroponic greenhouse trailer, I’d grow all of my own vegetables. One modern adaptation is some farmer’s markets take EBT and offer extra incentives... which all well-and-good if you have refrigeration.

The bigger problem in the produce industry is the parallels with swipe dating apps: optimizing for looks, but not taste or nutrition... hence why store-bought vegetables taste like cardboard. As an example, a former coworker had a job at one of those fruit stands. Blemished fruits and vegetables were fine to eat but wouldn’t sell, so they went into pies and soups. It seems to me shrewd farmers and shoppers would find a way to rate/compete produce, shorten the supply chain and deliver naturally-ripened food.

Finally, a Russian hustler friend of mine fregans all sorts of stuff: steaks, salads, takeaway meals, whatever. I should do that more TBH because expiration dates are very conservative.

Hubris before the fall.

OkCupid started as a free, alternative, non-traditional dating site based on a full-spectrum of interests compatibility. Unfortunately, post-acquisition, it’s becoming yet another Tinder/Match pics-first shallow hookup site.

Banking is the true oldest profession. It might be that the barriers-to-entry and minimum viable customer base are sufficient to keep out most ventures without serious subject matter expertise and deep pockets backing.

IIRC, a guy at a hackerspace bought a charter from a failing/ed local bank to complete some transaction that would otherwise been impossible/ridiculously expensive.

Which SNP/s is it?

Reagan’s LPS Act didn’t apply any nuance, common-sense or transition when defunding JFK’s community treatment program, and just dumped people whom aren’t in contact with reality or self-care onto the street. Complete lawlessness is infinite tyranny.

Unless the parents were crazy abusive or actually unfit, Mayo basically stalled to steal their child and charge them more money. Also bad is a recent scam of random average people being involuntarily assigned conservatorship and having their assets stripped.