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Not only a man of science—a man of hope. Software primate and UI designer at the Toyota Research Institute. I fight for the users. More fox than hedgehog.
Arlington, MA
Joined December 2009
"no Shakespeare yet -- only syntactically correct Bash scripts"
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Kurt Vonnegut on buying an envelope
order your groceries. saves an extra 1-2 hours a week. compounded, thats 50-100 hours a year. a whole week work of work you gain. i promise that time is more important then the $10 delivery fee
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I forget who it was who said that slashing USAID, dooming tens of millions to preventable deaths as a culture war exercise, was a practice run for doing the same thing at home, but they were spot on
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One of the defining features of totalitarianism was how its leaders made war on experts, like the Soviet bureaucrats who boosted Lysenkoism. Dictatorial regimes *hate* experts, because experts reach conclusions based on evidence, not political expediency.
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Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us. So we
It's also important to understand that the tariff rates that foreign countries are supposedly charging us are just made-up numbers. South Korea, with which we have a trade agreement, is not charging a 50% tariff on U.S. exports. Nor is the EU charging a 39% tariff.
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its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time about things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further
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On the bright side, we now have an answer to the Fermi Paradox
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I have been asked on two different networks and by two different male hosts today whether abortion rights are as important to women as the economy. I can't say it more clearly: reproductive freedom is economic freedom. They are intrinsically intwined, as every woman knows.
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in which i write about The Silence of the Wives
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Far from being an immutable fact of Christianity, evangelical antifeminism is recent, virulent, and gaining traction every day.
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John Roberts destroyed the United States with: - Citizen's United line of cases - Gutting the Voting Rights Act - Gutting Admin Agencies/Chevron - Stripping Women of Human Rights - Giving Tyrannical Presidents Criminal Immunity. He's the worst Chief Justice in American history.
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Elon Wormtongue
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