I wonder how many of mossad-style batteries.

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2024/turning-everyday-gad...

Adding friction to bad choices is good.

Sports betting apps are worse for society than betting parlors.

Don't forget that it was also unanimously upheld by the supreme court!

Maybe this will be the hill he dies on. I can't bring myself to believe that he'll be allowed to literally become the day 1 dictator he that he promised he would.

m8 the only hill he'll die on is one of gold. The stooges have officially fallen in line in all of the places that matter: Congress, state houses, and federal courts.

yourself

> In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

Of course, the eventual monarchy didn't solve Israel's problems either:

> When they said, “Give us a king to judge us,” Samuel considered their demand wrong, so he prayed to the Lord. But the Lord told him, “Listen to the people and everything they say to you. They have not rejected you; they have rejected me as their king.... > When that day comes, [the people asking for a king] will cry out because of the king you’ve chosen for yourselves... > — 1 Samuel

No mere human is deserving of being "believed in," whether it's a king, politician, religious leader, or even one's own self. We're simply not good enough (or powerful enough, or...) to be able to truly fix the world's problems on our own.

And that's how we got into this problem.

We took a bunch of sociopaths from the monied parts of the US (mainly the east and west coasts) and told them that if something is good for them, it's good for society.

Is it bad that we're destroying a region's economy by shutting down its main employers? Of course not, because the right people are making money off the increase in shareholder value brought about by offshoring those employers to countries with totalitarian governments that keep the pay low and the unions busted.

Just a quick example.

even that is becoming difficult when everyone around you is getting insane.

The fact that ads work doesn't mean that they're beneficial to the economy.

I disagree with the premise that non-human entities are entitled to my attention.

> I disagree with the premise that non-human entities are entitled to my attention.

I tried that but the cop said it was still speeding even if I refused to acknowledge the speed limit sign.

Fair enough, I'll add some nuance. The government that I am a citizen of is a special case of a non-human entity, they do have entitlement to my property (which includes my attention).

Traffic signs put up by my government are different than billboards put up by a company. The former is to protect me, the latter is to exploit me.

> they do have entitlement to my property (which includes my attention)

Er, I hope not.

> The government that I am a citizen of is a special case of a non-human entity

What about a private company that puts up a parking charge sign?

Trump should launch a Tiktok clone on Truth Social in 90 days when the reprieve expires. I'm surprised there wasn't a new platform ready to pounce on new users. Absolutely nuts that one of the biggest refugee destinations is literally named after a Mao-era propaganda tool.

But in all seriousness, there's 3 branches of government and 2 of spoken. Trump's voice should be moot. Hopefully he's put in his place by our institutions and shamed for attempting to subvert the system of checks and balances described by our constitution.

Chinese here, sorry for my poor English.

I want you to know that the name of the app is '小红书' (小 little 红 red 书 book), and the name of the propaganda tool is '红宝书' (红 red 宝 treasure 书 book).

I don't think there is such a "name after" thing. There are a lot of mixed reviews on Cultual Revolution, a "name after" would bring a lot of risks during the growth of the app.

Thank you for clarifying!

The english translations are similar enough that I assumed a connection.

He for sure pitched this, but his team does not have the skills to create this.

The Siberian steppe is huge.

Embedded systems

There'll always be a demand for physical widgets with ever increasing computational capabilities. And it'lll be a while before ChatGPT can poke a circuit board with an oscilloscope and tell you that your software bug is because your I2C pull-up resistors are too large.

Is that true for elderly non-violent men confined in Japan? I thought solitary confinement was mostly a US barbarity. Does Japan use it as frequently?

The women discussed in the article had compulsory work. That's probably part of the appeal, it's good to stay busy and feel useful.

Humane jails are the safety net of last resort. I wish the US had a humane enough incarceration system for it to provide that role to unhoused folks.

But yeah, there should be a lot of nets above that too.