You have to admit, he really destroyed that strawman version of you though.

Sometimes, the point of research is to experimentally prove things we suspect are true.

Niccol will still be expected to work from the Seattle office at least three days a week

Except when he’s flying around the country/world to other locations.

Legally easier to ignore a ghost department.

No, I’ve seen this before. One whack to the head changes someone, but then another whack changes them back. Same principle.

Everyone with long covid just needs more covid to fix it.

The US sent 592 athletes and competed in 34 events.

China sent 388 athletes for 33 events.

I think you’re getting downvotes because you’re projecting a narrative onto @Reyali and using quotes around non-quotes. They didn’t say they were “probably not right.”

I agree, everyone should be skeptical of information someone else is sharing, because we can’t assume intention. But what would motivate someone to say “I’m probably not right” anyway?

What’s interesting to me is that for you, your guard went up for someone admitting a potential of having missed something, which may make you more susceptible to people who are confidently wrong.

Most others’ reaction is the opposite, taking their statement as an attempt to be genuine and open to feedback. If someone invites feedback, is willing to admit they might be wrong, that’s a much better starting point for conversation.

These world class athletes are just better and stronger than us, so they can totally tolerate 5x the safe level. Maybe even 10x! It may be true that we don’t know how many times more they can take! A million? These are important questions that we must answer.

Fediverwe is a lot better than most social media for now…

But not by any virtue other than being too small to matter. Reddit started pretty good, too.

If cops aren’t required to know the law, why am I listening to one? An attorney would have been better.

That’s a delightful response to my snarky comment, thank you.

I agree, the incentive structure is such that it undermines the goals of journalism. Compounded with a firehose of misinformation, even full-time journalists must be overwhelmed.

I’m unwilling to give them a pass, however. Their job is to report accurately, they understand the risk of reporting things that are not fully vetted, and choose to anyway. As you say, they’re complicit.

Surely you’re not accusing the media of any malfeasance!

There are so many justifications for fascism within religions (Maybe most especially, but not exclusively, Abrahamic)

What you say is true, a lot of potential voters are not seeing this as a change of heart, but rather a theatrical distancing from an unpopular issue (perpetrating genocide).

https://china.usc.edu/wealth-inequality-us-and-china

I see that the US is bad and that China is rushing to catch up. However, I’m not a USA apologist and one graph can’t tell you all the disparities between governments.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/wealth-inequality-by-country

Shows the US at #28 worst and China at #35 worst.

And then violence should be met with ultraviolence.

I don’t believe in the escalation game and the state having a monopoly on violence hasn’t worked out well.

AI is not needed for predictable tasks, it excels in finding predictions in a mass of data.

For example, one of the most dynamic systems we have is global weather and GraphCast is incredible at it.

It’s not like we don’t have the technology

As of 2008 it is an FAA requirement that the recording duration is a minimum of two hours.

Just designed to (minimum) spec.

psychohistory

Fascinating. Well thanks once again for the link to Turchin, I have a big stack of books to add to my list now.