If you know how important the presumption of agency is, how ridiculous does that make all the permanent victim messaging that destroys that presumption? Is it evil messaging on the part of those smart enough to understand how much damage it does, but who also recognize the social power they can wield with it? Or is it ignorant messaging employed by high status echo chamber dwellers eating their virtuous marshmallow? I think it's short sighted ignorance born mostly of a competitive virtuousness, wanting to look and feel more moral than the next person.

I have a map of the United States. It's 1:1 scale. I hardly ever unfold it. I also have an existential map. It has "you are here" written all over it.

I think I am inclined to participate in a vaccine trial for COVID-19, but like Klaus, I would want to weigh whatever information I can get to (1) get a sense of whether I can trust the people running the trial, (2) whether I would feel "safe enough" to take the vaccine, (3) whether I can give them the time they need to conduct the trial properly.

@George-K said in Apollo 11 vs the USB Charger: @jon-nyc said in Apollo 11 vs the USB Charger: https://www.eejournal.com/article/apollo-11-vs-the-usb-charger/ Here's a portmanteau I'd never seen before: "Strewth" "Struth" is usually how I've seen it. It's very common in Oz.

Hey chica, qué es tu nombre?

Can you imagine this kind of thing during an election cycle in 10 years or so?

I don't see what the political damage is of doing a light convention. Still have it in person, but trim down the attendee list. Have the delegates run their process a bit differently. Just change it - no one will care, and it doesn't look bad to say "we really wanted to do it in person... but too bad we can't" I get all the NC drama leading up to this - but really, no one is going to care or remember.

@LuFins-Dad Very neat! I like the booster seat on the piano, Like @mik the little boy is better than me. 5555

I dont care a whit if they Wish to denigrate themselves in that matter, although that is a large part of the problem - self loathing and self defeating behavior. But there’s no justification then to get all weeweed up up someone else does.

My math buddy at CS pointed out that Fermat’s Little Theorem could help here too rather than finding actual paths back to the lower numbers.

TG - glad you found it awesome. Larry - you are so on point with your wonderful comments. Thank you!

@Jolly Thanks, Jolly!

@Jolly said in You can't post this.: @Doctor-Phibes said in You can't post this.: I'd definitely be in favour of more transparency and openness from these sites regarding how they handle these things. And that's what most of the content creators went. Just give them some firm rules and don't keep changing the goalposts. Problem with that is that it is political, to some extent. Companies don't want to have their ads associated with the Bad People of the Month, so they have to move the goalposts necessarily to ensure that.

@jon-nyc said in $600: @Horace said in $600: Not to worry, the household is still a net public provider. Of??? Joy.

@Horace said in Where’s the ‘don’t try this at home’ thread?: Anybody who looks at that video and worries about the girl, should consider themselves lucky that they have no idea how mortifying lint on the back of crocodiles can be. #CheckYourPrivilege

Smoke 'em. Divesture of idiocy is a good thing.

Trump's not going to take that lying down.

Love the 'Who, Me?'.

Damn, my superficial masquerade of the problem failed.