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This is like lamenting (if it were the case) that Johnson & Johnson is facing a shortfall in its bandage business because men aren't battering their wives and girlfriends as much as they did before.

It is related to one of the seven deadly sins: sloth. But the English word that transliterates the original Greek word is acedia.

My dad used to like to tell the story of how, when he was a boy in the 1930s, shoe stores would measure your foot with an X-ray machine!

This book has received the imprimatur of Mayor Mamdani.

The question is not why -- which is trivial -- but how.

I don't see how to access the search function. All I see are example videos.

yeah

I like it: a philosophical take.

What I would say is: "I assume that people who don't put the same value on the principle of self-sufficiency that I do would support a scheme to allow people of lesser means to buy groceries on the open market at a lower price than is permitted to me."

Is AI going to put smokejumpers out of business?

Donald Trump would like to see Ireland reunited. I can't tell from this article if Northern Ireland wants reunification or simply wants to be severed from the UK.

A fascinating and brilliant man! I personally would say, however, that he suffers from an overly scrupulous conscience. He should allow himself to be an advocate for himself rather than taking on the role of arbiter of what is fair in the world of mathematics.

Two factoids of interest:

1. André was the older brother of philosopher Simone Weil.

2. "Weil" is a jumbled version of "Levi" adopted by some so as to be less conspicuously Jewish, and thus be less likely to be persecuted or discriminated against.

Nobody can make you feel conservative without your consent.

     -- Eleanor Roosevelt *mutatis mutandis*

If you are a tinkerer you will be impressed by the video.

Nuts and bolts geekiness. I love it

Well, it's not like AI discovered a cure for your child's terminal illness...

Could be?

I too am a Christian conservative, but I would offer this compromise: Let the liberals keep their beloved books in the school library but allow the conservatives to veto any book they find objectionable from actually being assigned in the classroom.

Depending on how precise its predictions are, it could eventually affect real estate values.

The moral of the story is that stereotypes are fine if they are without malice. But remember to always treat every person you meet as an individual, not as one sample of a particular group.

On the back of a cocktail napkin, I drew a map of you...

nice

Do I detect an allusion to Gregory Bateson?

Could they just enable touch processing for credit cards?

From Aristotle?

Along the same lines: "Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence." -- Robert Frost

love it!

First, stop using the word "enshittification."

If it weren't for a small group of Romans the Church would not have its greatest theological document, Paul's letter to the Romans.

Totally agree. Not only does writing the documentation first lead to a better product, it also fosters a much more satisfying work experience. You get yourself into an ever-deepening "tail wagging the dog" situation when the implementation precedes the documentation -- especially if the documentation is being written by one party and implemented by another.

It is always difficult to balance discrimination concerns against freedom of association -- even in those countries that recognize a right to freedom of association.