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shane

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  • The Wall Street Journal Gets Community Noted For Saying Gen Zers And Millennials Are 'Splurging On Rotisserie Chickens'

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  • Or it's another tool to divide the working class.

    You have more in common with normal people from other generations than you do with the wealthy!

  • Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State

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  • Keep in mind that the book is very old, published in 1931. DNA hadn't been mapped, information technology was limited, and so on.

    In the book, people are born in factories. Working class people are born in from split cells, as quintuples if I remember correctly. Your role in life is largely determined by your genes - workers don't have the psychology for anything but labor.

    In spite of that, it's not an especially oppressive society. There is a "perfect" drug, soma, which is sort of like a non-addictive, non-physically harmful heroin that can be delivered by gas. When there is unrest, security forces come in and get everyone high until they chill the fuck out.

    Sex is open and easy, but always completely voluntary by everyone involved. When people are turned down they are sometimes surprised but never upset or aggressive.

    Entertainment is presented as vacuous, but the people seem to enjoy it. There are movies, TV, and so on. Sports are engineered to require people take trains out of town to stadiums, and require deliberately-complicated equipment to play, in order to create demand for production.

    So... is that a dystopia? There is no discussion of environmental damage, but overall it seems sustainable, not predicated on infinite growth. People are stuck in the role they were born to, but it seems like there are no artificial barriers to advancement... just that not everyone can be good at everything.

  • Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State

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  • Definitely. A world where people are happy and healthy and live basically fulfilling lives. There are a few fanatics who opt out, and they're unhappy. Go figure.

  • Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State

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  • I don't find Brave New World to be especially dystopian. ¯(ツ)/¯

  • Palestinian social app Upscrolled removed from Google Play Store

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  • Or ask your work to give you a phone?

    My company insists on spyware for my phone, so I insist they give me a phone for work stuff. I leave it off in a drawer at home when I'm not on call.

  • Based on this graph, and this graph alone, guess at what time I completely blocked OpenAI crawlers

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  • If you're relying on Cloudflare are you even self-hosting?

  • ‘The fiscal trajectory is not sustainable’: CBO warns about the highest debt in U.S. history as Trump adds $1.4 trillion to 10-year deficit

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  • Can you link to a source for this?

    I'm not aware of any historical examples or even theoretical models for this approach.

  • ‘The fiscal trajectory is not sustainable’: CBO warns about the highest debt in U.S. history as Trump adds $1.4 trillion to 10-year deficit

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  • Can you link to a source for this?

    I'm not aware of any historical examples or even theoretical models for this approach.

  • ‘The fiscal trajectory is not sustainable’: CBO warns about the highest debt in U.S. history as Trump adds $1.4 trillion to 10-year deficit

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  • Doesn't the CBO sit in the legislative branch and not under the executive though?

  • Pornhub, YouPorn, Redtube, and other content sharing platforms will block new users in the UK starting next week(February 2)

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  • They fled Britain and stayed in Holland a few years first.

  • TIL putting solar panels on land currently used for biofuels would produce enough electricity for all cars and trucks to go electric

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  • In Ireland that's most days... 😉☘️

  • TIL putting solar panels on land currently used for biofuels would produce enough electricity for all cars and trucks to go electric

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  • No thanks, we prefer to vote for people who blame immigrants for all problems we are told we have.

  • TIL putting solar panels on land currently used for biofuels would produce enough electricity for all cars and trucks to go electric

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  • Again, our proposal isn’t that we should cover all of this land in solar panels, or that it could easily power the world on its own. We don’t account for the fact that we’d need energy storage and other options to make sure that power is available where and when it’s needed (not just when the sun is shining). We’re just trying to get a sense of perspective for how much electricity could be produced by using that land in more efficient ways.

  • USA Today

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  • ISIS was never an existential threat to the USA.

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  • Early 40s isn't middle-aged?

  • ICE shooting comes after bombshell probe finds new recruits 'can barely read or write'

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  • I think they are...

  • Teens held as Dutch police probe death after snowball row

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  • Yesterday, a bit. Today busses are running and the road and bike path in front of my house is fine. I haven't checked trains or planes though!

  • Trump stuns as he floats nuclear option on midterms: 'They should cancel the election'

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  • You're counting on historical precedent to prevent bad actions from this regime? 🤔

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  • Mist be the one on the side...