Shouldn't their 5-year warranty drives still be good? My favorite idiom comes from China: Pay a lot, cry once.
That's not who the OP was talking about, not-Einstein. He's talking about the idiots who idiotically polarize needed conversations that need nuance. a-hem
Dunning & Kruger. I know where you are on the spectrum and I know you are not in the group you think you are. My wife's son's medical advice is the result of his being an ICU Pulmonary physician. He is giving the best…
We're not talking about medical experts here.
Honest, capable people don't put words in other people's mouths. Please show me where I said, "All of medicine is therefore bad." No, you said that. Now, will you apologize? I doubt it. Will you do better at reading and…
Regulatory capture and goal-seeking driven by profit-seeking B-school acolytes.
Depends on the doctor, depends on the situation. I did, you should note, get told not to come back to a doctor's group -- after a single visit to establish a PCP -- for quote "asking too many questions". My wife was…
Do you know you are a fascist? Look it up. Controlling other people's bodies because of your fears is fundamental to fascism. Personally, I'm not a holocaust denier. I also loathe oppressors of any sort, but your…
You got it. It takes intelligence to entertain both sides of an argument, grasp and appreciate the nuance of the situation and then come to a sensible conclusion, which is often "I don't know, I'll need to learn more to…
It's difficult to mandate self-evolution through education. Most people just binge-watch vapid fiction after vapid fiction.
Your biases are so ingrained you don't even realize them. Yes, I am biased against for-profit corps. Which one, especially among the pharmas, do you trust? No, this is not my gut, this is my experience with for-profit…
No, you can only be forced into quarantine if you have a communicable disease. And the immuno-compromise put themselves at risk every time they go out without a mask. Now, are you also going to require older people to…
Most people are fascists at heart, more than willing to control your body over their own fears and stupidities. We each get to choose what to do with our bodies so long as we are not intentionally causing harm to…
The use of thimerosol is solely to increase shelf-life. Keeping stock from expiring (thus being unsellable) is a fundamental B-school technique for controlling costs. Anyone with any knowledge of human physiology knows…
It also increases profit. You trust those B-schoolers and their hand-picked goal-seeking researchers to shade toward safety or profit? I am pro-vax (within a sensible schedule) and anti-for-profit-corps, who NEVER EVER…
>> I don't know what exactly contributes to this Proper mental models, tool mastery, love for hyperfocus, brutality of testing, passion for solving interesting, difficult problems, along with the proper work environment…
What one values in life is the basis of mental health, unless one has a physical pathology (e.g. depression). Congratulations on your success. There is a significant part of the world population that refuse to learn how…
Josh Marshall and his team at TalkingPointsMemo have been doing a fantastic job for these past four years documenting Trump's AG turnstile that finally landed him the cover-up artist Barr, whose lawyering for government…
Well, correct me if I'm wrong, but words have meaning and, as a father-to-son Scotsman, I'm pretty fucking sure that a Scotsman has to have some branch of their ancestry come from Scotland. Also, a priest can't honestly…
Every person is a door to your happiness, and you have the choice to serve their happiness or to treat them callously or even cruelly. There is no religion without the person actively trying to be a better person to…
The same guy who told Frost, "Well, if the President did it, it's not illegal." Clearly, his grip on reality was a long time gone in service to his power-seeking for his constituency. Even a president can be a data…
Nixon's Attorney General, the horrible, horrible man, John Mitchell, had his wife silenced by drugging and sequestering her. "If you guys could get John Mitchell, that would be beautiful." (Quote from All the…
Yeah, reading The Peripheral first is essential IMO, just like watching Star Wars is necessary before The Empire Strikes Back. And who doesn't want Otaku denim made on heirloom looms ;-) Personally, as a software…
There is no time travel in The Peripheral or Agency. The future folks figure out how to create a communication channel back to their past, that contact then immediately causing their past's timeline to diverge. It's…
Shouldn't their 5-year warranty drives still be good? My favorite idiom comes from China: Pay a lot, cry once.
That's not who the OP was talking about, not-Einstein. He's talking about the idiots who idiotically polarize needed conversations that need nuance. a-hem
Dunning & Kruger. I know where you are on the spectrum and I know you are not in the group you think you are. My wife's son's medical advice is the result of his being an ICU Pulmonary physician. He is giving the best…
We're not talking about medical experts here.
Honest, capable people don't put words in other people's mouths. Please show me where I said, "All of medicine is therefore bad." No, you said that. Now, will you apologize? I doubt it. Will you do better at reading and…
Regulatory capture and goal-seeking driven by profit-seeking B-school acolytes.
Depends on the doctor, depends on the situation. I did, you should note, get told not to come back to a doctor's group -- after a single visit to establish a PCP -- for quote "asking too many questions". My wife was…
Do you know you are a fascist? Look it up. Controlling other people's bodies because of your fears is fundamental to fascism. Personally, I'm not a holocaust denier. I also loathe oppressors of any sort, but your…
You got it. It takes intelligence to entertain both sides of an argument, grasp and appreciate the nuance of the situation and then come to a sensible conclusion, which is often "I don't know, I'll need to learn more to…
It's difficult to mandate self-evolution through education. Most people just binge-watch vapid fiction after vapid fiction.
Your biases are so ingrained you don't even realize them. Yes, I am biased against for-profit corps. Which one, especially among the pharmas, do you trust? No, this is not my gut, this is my experience with for-profit…
No, you can only be forced into quarantine if you have a communicable disease. And the immuno-compromise put themselves at risk every time they go out without a mask. Now, are you also going to require older people to…
Most people are fascists at heart, more than willing to control your body over their own fears and stupidities. We each get to choose what to do with our bodies so long as we are not intentionally causing harm to…
The use of thimerosol is solely to increase shelf-life. Keeping stock from expiring (thus being unsellable) is a fundamental B-school technique for controlling costs. Anyone with any knowledge of human physiology knows…
It also increases profit. You trust those B-schoolers and their hand-picked goal-seeking researchers to shade toward safety or profit? I am pro-vax (within a sensible schedule) and anti-for-profit-corps, who NEVER EVER…
>> I don't know what exactly contributes to this Proper mental models, tool mastery, love for hyperfocus, brutality of testing, passion for solving interesting, difficult problems, along with the proper work environment…
What one values in life is the basis of mental health, unless one has a physical pathology (e.g. depression). Congratulations on your success. There is a significant part of the world population that refuse to learn how…
Josh Marshall and his team at TalkingPointsMemo have been doing a fantastic job for these past four years documenting Trump's AG turnstile that finally landed him the cover-up artist Barr, whose lawyering for government…
Well, correct me if I'm wrong, but words have meaning and, as a father-to-son Scotsman, I'm pretty fucking sure that a Scotsman has to have some branch of their ancestry come from Scotland. Also, a priest can't honestly…
Every person is a door to your happiness, and you have the choice to serve their happiness or to treat them callously or even cruelly. There is no religion without the person actively trying to be a better person to…
The same guy who told Frost, "Well, if the President did it, it's not illegal." Clearly, his grip on reality was a long time gone in service to his power-seeking for his constituency. Even a president can be a data…
Nixon's Attorney General, the horrible, horrible man, John Mitchell, had his wife silenced by drugging and sequestering her. "If you guys could get John Mitchell, that would be beautiful." (Quote from All the…
Yeah, reading The Peripheral first is essential IMO, just like watching Star Wars is necessary before The Empire Strikes Back. And who doesn't want Otaku denim made on heirloom looms ;-) Personally, as a software…
There is no time travel in The Peripheral or Agency. The future folks figure out how to create a communication channel back to their past, that contact then immediately causing their past's timeline to diverge. It's…