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Comment · 2 years ago
I knew him a little in his capacity as a mad Hindu cultist. He was mad, Hindu, and a cultist.
https://shivashakti.com is where you can find that aspect of his work.
Comment · 2 years ago
https://www.westonboxes.com/ I recently discovered these. Lifechanging in two ways:
* you can put them on their ends and they don't fall over, which is ideal for storage on shelves
* translucent so you can see what's inside
Pull off the shelf, open up, rummage / sort / process (with extra space in the lid if needed) then pour everything back into the main storage from the lid and reshelve.
It's amazing how being able to shelve on their sides (rather than in a stack) changes things.
Comment · 2 years ago
Absolutely! He’s a Star!
Comment · 2 years ago
A person I know reasonably well is currently the Lord Mayor of London.
I suspect I could get him to do an AMA here if people would like to hear more about the City and its fascinating ways.
Seriously, we could actually do this!
Comment · 2 years ago
They started with 8 mice.
This seems like an inbreeding problem not a utopia is hell problem.
Has anybody replicated with a more diverse mouse population?
Comment · 2 years ago
The bleakest cyberpunk future event to date.
Comment · 2 years ago
Oh I meant from the perspective of the one selling the insurance, not the person buying it.
Comment · 2 years ago
In insurance you expect to come out ahead in the average case.
In gambling you expect to come out behind in the average case.
Therefore insurance is rational and gambling is irrational.
Comment · 2 years ago
They look practically custom designed for this task.
The purpose of a system is what it does.
Comment · 2 years ago
If America had the same covid death rate as Canada, nearly 700,000 less Americans would have died of covid.
Alarm by the Epidemic Intelligence Service officers is not "alarmism." It was an accurate forecast that the system was going to fail, which it did, then killing roughly 10 times as many Americans as the Vietnam War did.
Comment · 2 years ago
How does a corrupt society become less corrupt?
https://web.archive.org/web/20200428230447/https://northatla...
I used to work on failed states for a living.
This is what I had to say. It absolutely applies to America today too.
If you really want to scare yourself, read this.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7748252/
We are out of the flight envelope for civilisation on a number of fronts right now.
Comment · 2 years ago
well said.
"A few years ago there were memes about how the problem with zombie movies is that they never showed people running out to get zombified."
I laughed far too hard at this, in the context of the upcoming bird flu pandemic.
Comment · 2 years ago
Campaign finance reform: Lessig's "Lesterland" springs to mind.
Comment · 2 years ago
Eh. The problem pandemic-wise is the number of humans in slobbering distance of the animals: pets like cats are less of a problem (toxoplasmosis) because they're in less proximity with each-other. But all the unsanitary conditions add up to a gigantically increased chance of developing new pathogens when compared to most natural settings.
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