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They also work longer hours than medieval serfs, are more precarious in housing and food security and more separated from their family. Also slaves work the farms. Read tomatoland or the lives and deaths of the American workers.

Most people do not understand the skill or craft required in aspects of art and music. They do not appreciate it. They may enjoy it in general but cannot appreciate the technical aspects without the background or education. For example, they may enjoy bold colors without realizing the colors come straight from the tube and the artist did no real work in selecting those colors or they may not appreciate the order and precision of brush strokes to achieve certain mark making shapes.

I know right. I don’t get it either. How could other people have different preferences?

Just like the first iPod and iPhone.

100k people is like 400mil, one day of war is estimated at 2billion dollars. So more like one volley of missiles or 1/5th of a day

I asked perplexity to convert a simple recipe to a dependency graph and it works pretty well! I like this graph to figure out my cooking workflow. What tasks can be started independently and what needs to be done before others.

I read several books on this topic but had no luck until about six months in. I also never tried the bottomless for a day or week approach so

We got a top hat plus potty for ours. We put her on after every diaper and it’s surprising how often they go! After a while they know to hold it until they sit in the potty

People complain UBI doesn’t make mathematical sense doesn’t realize our current economy doesn’t make mathematical sense either. All this prosperity we in the developed world get comes at the cost of extracting wealth from the rest of the world and all government taking on ever more debt.

You mean 12k a year with free housing and free health insurance?

If you’re in the market for a 96 core cpu and you’re using Geekbench to guide your purchasing decision, the fault lies with you.

In your mind, does getting away from the police equate to getting shot? In the head? Three times?

Even police chiefs have called out how incompetent that agent was.

Pardon me if I’m misreading it but this sounds like disinformation. No examples in your example, a lot of abstract reasoning unmoored from facts.

>uncontrolled migration is well-understood (and rather obviously!) as something damaging to any society and any culture.

The US was built on unrestricted immigration for a long time. Was that destructive? I guess so if you count native Americans but not to the nation of USA.

Capitalism wants closed borders to labor and open borders to capital. Thats how they can squeeze labor costs while maximizing profits. The US is highly individualistic but wants closed borders so how does your reasoning align with the news?

How could there even be a false negative?