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Comment · 7 months ago
The single folk envy the married and the married envy the singles. Life is suffering either way.
Comment · 9 months ago
Canadians would commit to guerrilla warfare? For decades? Have you met Canadians?
Comment · 9 months ago
Comment · 9 months ago
As Canada is separating from the US, it is growing closer with China. This makes Canada a threat to the US. This makes the US a threat to Canada. This makes the US more likely to grab Canada's arm and pull it back in its circle by force. Canada just did a model of how long it could last against a US invasion and the answer was that its defenses would last 2-5 days.

It's all unnecessary and will just cause pain to end up where it started.

Comment · 10 months ago
and a teacher is hired to teach, but some self-improve so they may become headmaster
Comment · 11 months ago
A gun is a good tool easy to shoot yourself in the foot with
Comment · 1 year ago
I don't know if it's intentional, isn't this the ultimate form of liberalism? To give the individual full autonomy, unshackled from the dependencies of family, neighbors, community, and any other local associations individuals are "born in". Seems like we are exactly where we've been aiming at for a couple hundred years.
Comment · 1 year ago
yes, because he forgot about the car. The reason we don’t befriend our neighbors is because as soon as we leave our home, we put ourselves in a metal cage, ensuring no one will talk to us if we don’t want them to.

Befriending your neighbors kind of works in a city but only REALLY works in Amish communities.

Comment · 1 year ago
This isn’t satire.
Comment · 1 year ago
An image is a projection, it lacks at least one dimension of that which is projected
Comment · 1 year ago
> they're not strictly necessary. We know this because humans can drive without a LIDAR

and propellers on a plane are not strictly necessary because birds can fly without them? The history of machines show that while nature can sometimes inspire the _what_ of the machine, it is a very bad source of inspiration for the _how_.

Comment · 1 year ago
After the operating system and the spreadsheet, most software is toys.
Comment · 1 year ago
This is a distinction without a difference. Even if you take a rudimentary raw cloth comparison like cotton vs heavy wool (the latter being fire resistant and used historically used by firemen, ie. “Safety critical”), the machines’ output quality was significantly lower than manual output for the latter.

This phenomenon is a general one… chainsaws vs hand saws, bread slicers vs hand slicing, mechanical harvesters vs manual harvesting, etc.

Comment · 1 year ago

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