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I stand by it.

If you do find sex to be the most fulfilling part of your life, it might be worth asking where that sense of fulfillment comes from. It's probably a "who", not a "what".

These threads are always fun, because they often say more about us commenters than the subject matter.

Personally, I find the article's supernatural stimulus theory compelling.

Sex takes a lot of time if you aren't being selfish about it. It's also boring, compared with other forms of entertainment and creative pursuits, pornographic or not.

I'm not sure this is all that new, either. Jokes about the declining frequency of sex after marriage have been around for longer than I have. Maybe we're just hitting that wall sooner as the entertainment that we fall asleep to becomes more compelling.

Browsers are fantastic cross-platform UI frameworks. Writing a local page is a great way to start prototyping. The problem is that they are very slow and resource-hungry. All those dynamic styling and DOM niceties come with a significant cost.

WASM can help, but the webdev ecosystem encourages developers to use fat JS libraries for most tasks.

Your browser prototype will probably start to chug once it grows to the point that it needs to juggle >1000s of objects. Native apps have the potential to be much more efficient and responsive.

They also tend to work better and more consistently on older/cheaper hardware. I think that every website developer should use a $200 Chromebook for development at least a few weeks out of the year. Most of the world is not using a new M2 macbook, and it's easy to lose sight of that when you spend your time working on new features.

They are marine mammals, though. Your link says that their numbers are projected to decline by 30% by 2050.

They're very good swimmers, but they still need a place to sleep. They're smart and adaptable, but they are also ambush predators with bright white fur who need a lot of calories and mostly eat seafood.

Inkscape is a good place to start.

Over the past decade or two, the FDA has completely and comprehensively abrogated their regulatory duties.

They had an active role in marketing opiates as safe. They cannot keep factories safe enough to feed our nation's infants. They steadfastly refuse to remove harmful chemicals from our food and water supply.

It is utterly sickening, literally and metaphorically.

I think this article might bury the lede a bit:

>Walmart is offering some workers with past warehouse experience as much as $25 an hour. An Amazon executive told Reuters in late 2021 that the company was bumping the average starting wage for new hires in the US to more than $18 an hour, attributing the decision to intense competition among employers.

People used to work for Amazon warehouses in the 2010s because $15/hr was a much better wage than they could find elsewhere in their geographic location.

After the pandemic and ongoing inflation, it's not difficult to find easier work which pays better. Amazon responded with a token raise that doesn't even cover CoL adjustments, but history shows that they need to pay well above market rates to hire the quantity of people that they need.

It's funny to see this dynamic at a time when the federal minimum wage is still stuck at $7.25/hr.

My actual red-flag point was closer to 8-9% pre-inflation. But that is less amenable to pirate jokes, and you can get I-bonds approaching 10% from the government now.

Rate of return is a remarkably good metric for identifying scams.

If they offer more than ~12.5%, run away. Avast, ye salty dogs: a piece o' eight ain't worth losing yer shirt over.

>Please explain to me the difference between a bank and a Ponzi Scheme.

Banks are forced to abide by regulations and laws dictating how fractional-reserve organizations are allowed to operate. In return, peoples' deposits are backed by the government up to $250k (in the US).

Ponzi schemes ignore regulations and laws, and their customers' deposits are not insured or backed by any organization.

The laws that banks are forced to follow may be woefully insufficient, but the government is incentivized to prevent serious collapses because they would be on the hook for a lot of money. Retail customers are also less likely to start a run if they trust that someone will be there ready to hand over their cash when the dust settles.

The similarities keep piling up! Google was co-founded by Sergey Brin, who insisted it was okay to screw his employees in the company massage room because "they're my employees".

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