Jesus_Jones

Yeah, the discovery institute is just another creation science cover front. No science, just 'truth'. They try hard to look legit. And a fascinating fact is they are in Seattle of all places. It's a 'the earth is 9000 years old somehow' place and "let's cast suspicion on all science that contradicts the bible".

so what should they do? explain how they should think about inviting your kid to events that they might worry would be too much? It's an awkward conversation for them to have too. What is the consideration? is this different for every autistic kid?

The best summary of next door is "twitter for old people".

Since the patlive service and all those 'answering services' that you get are basically faciliating a scam, I'm sure a serious prosecutor could get a court order telling them to pass the information on that they had about the underlying person.

If it was a reloadable card, you can still figure it out with more effort. You threaten to sue them into oblivion as facilitating criminal actions, and you get them to get you on a real phone number with the scammer, and then you track them down that way. You just have to try harder.

A reporter could pursue this by getting a job with that firm and tracking backwards.

I can't imagine why this ever would make sense. Only scammers would benefit would accept this, because of the lack of clarity in ownership, it's like a deliberate attempt to circumvent normal financial transactions, which only benefits scammers.

It strikes me as the same thing as the fake-check auto purchase scams that infest different on-line auto sales channels.

I hate your business helping middlemen scalpers. Middlemen scalpers are just barely different than phone scammers. It may not be technically illegal, but it's a detriment to society.

When (probably not an if at this point) there are meat substitutes that are palatable to carnivores, will vegetarians accept them, meaning eat them? It's an interesting question, but I expect there will always be people that like the current vegetarian no meat lifestyle, even if there are non-meat but meat-like substitutes they'll avoid them.

I do love a burger, even though I feel like I'm moving toward the veggie lifestyle for health and environmental reasons. I do have one vegetarian friend who likes meat-like substitutes :-).

helm was $300 for a time - $100 a year service fee after. I see they are now showing out of stock. And they started to add other services, including hosting some services on it with nextcloud.

Ever read Larry Niven's "Ringworld"? Don't forget that the Puppeteers destroyed the Ringworld's technological civilization by creating a substance that destroyed their superconductors. If we ever invent them it will be fantastic, but it will also be a central vulnerability to our civilization - but I guess we have other ones already.

Right, but I'm trying to get at 56% isn't great cause random is 50, and there's no clarify on correlation of the measure that gets to 56.

Yeah, but if randomness gets you 50, 56 doesn't feel that useful.

But a coin flip on a large number of people would trend toward 50% predictions over time.

The only way that Taiwan will be in China in the near future will be if there is a conquering war from China invading Taiwan, or a long period of attrition where China wears down the west and succeeds in putting sycophantic leaders in charge of Taiwan who weaken her military. My background is I'm an american who went to college and learned about history.

Taiwan is not in China. The democratic government in Taiwan does not consider itself to be under the sway of the more powerful, richer country that they lost a civil war to.

A lot of people in the US are uncomfortable and many people are alarmed when a political candidate says god wants them to win, Christian or not.