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CanadaPlus,

Ancient MacBook gang represent.

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Nails are cheaper, and can be faster to put it. That’s why they’re still a thing.

Edit: Maybe? Apparently their ability to slip a bit is also useful in construction.

CanadaPlus,

Ah, okay. That’s actually pretty smart.

CanadaPlus,

One of the biggest ones that still classifies as small?

With the way the world's going, is there even a point to anything anymore?

Climate is fucked, animals continue to go extinct even more, our money will be worth nothing the coming years… What motivation do I even have to care to keep going? The world is ran and basically owned by corrupt rich people, there’s poverty, war, etc. It makes me sick to my stomach the way to world is. So I ask, why bother...

CanadaPlus,

I wonder about this sometimes. Things aren’t great and will get worse before they get better at the very least.

I figure that even if the world is ending and there’s nothing I can do about it, I can still do small kindnesses whenever possible. The question is how small to go for maximum effect.

How far from a forest fire do you have to be for a daily temperature record to count?

There have been some impressive (and scary) temperature records set in the past couple weeks. That said, there are parts of Canada that are currently on fire that likely have a daily temperature in the hundreds of degrees. Clearly that doesn’t count for any sort of temperature record. What I’m wondering is: where’s the...

CanadaPlus,

I’m going to say out of sight or someone will question it. That’s not actually a tough requirement, most places aren’t on fire at any given moment.

CanadaPlus,

Lol, point taken. It has to be an actual rebuttal, and I guess that does take time. Downvoting everything you don’t immediately agree with seems like a bad policy, though.

CanadaPlus,

The latter. If it’s just disagreement a quick reply is best, and sometimes it gets worked out just fine.

CanadaPlus,

Definitely the south, but I recall it’s weirdly far north for that.

CanadaPlus,

I would assert that most problems are caused by ignorance, not malice.

CanadaPlus,

Eh. Somebody else is going to evolve intelligence then. And honestly being a wild animal sucks pretty hard too.

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I needed a magical way to answer the question, though!

I’d actually go further - dictatorships don’t really exist, just steeply tapering autocracies. The dictator is at the top, but just like everyone else they spend their days avoiding being knocked down the pyramid, and they can’t know and often don’t care what people are doing a couple steps down. Meanwhile, the people who aren’t right on top get absolutely fucked by whoever is a couple steps up from them, with the step in between acting as intermediaries.

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Well, we could all move into a matrix-like universe where we’re gods, I guess. Then all we’d need for civilisation is server farms and the infrastructure to maintain them.

More near-term, if I was dictator for a day I’d impose a wealth cap between at maybe 10 or 15 million CAD and a guaranteed income you can live a very basic but comfortable life on. I feel like that would solve most problems. This could be applied globally too (with some ramp-up time) if we’re assuming world government. Climate change could be addressed with a carbon tax high enough to fund the offsetting of the pollution’s social cost.

I’m a wonk and I could go on, but those are the biggest things.

CanadaPlus,

Isn’t that just Hanlon’s razor reworded?

CanadaPlus,

Sorry to question it, seeing as you like it so much, but doesn’t that not make a difference if you’re still fairly sure there’s not enough other drops?

I prefer the starfish on a beach analogy for the same thing because it cuts others out entirely.

CanadaPlus,

I often think of this one as well.

It parses fine really, there is a (possibly empty) set of things that float in the air, and the spaceship is one of them, but bricks are not. It’s not nonsensical, it’s just a creative twist on a common idiom (“in much the same way a brick does”) that’s so unexpected it seems silly.

I also think of the later books where Arthur perfects the art of falling and missing the ground sometimes.

CanadaPlus,

I took a long time to warm to this one. I used to think that if I could just make the right arguments people would agree with me. Eventually, I realised that even if they’re perfectly reasonable, natural language has a certain bitrate, and human memory has a certain bitrate of loss over a given timeframe. If you can’t explain your idea quickly one of you will hit it.

CanadaPlus,

I think there’s a difference between being a shitty person and being unwilling to help and being repeatedly used because you’ve helped out a couple of times before and now people end up leveraging your kindness.

It’s two bad ends of a spectrum, really.

CanadaPlus,

Man that is a pretty movie.

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Hey, if it works for you, I guess. I find I’m easily frustrated if I imagine there’s a ton of other people working against me but that’s really my issue.

CanadaPlus,

Too complicated for them and their optimisations, maybe?

What's with the corporate obsession with customer feedback?

If you contact the customer support of your utility company, phone carrier, bank, or other service provider you’ll likely be flooded with requests to rate the experience and provide feedback. Likewise, corporate websites and email communications often solicit feedback via embedded buttons or links to online forms....

CanadaPlus,

Are these huge piles of feedback actually analyzed and acted upon? Is customer feedback some sort of corporate cargo cult? Or maybe clever marketing by vendors of feedback tools and services?

Probably all three depending on the organisation. In theory you want customers and if you can make them happier in an easy way you should do it to retain them and recruit more. In practice, a lot of managers seem to do cargo cult stuff copying other better managers.

I imagine if they have a lot of data they’re processing it further, finding trends, and then just pulling samples for a detailed look.

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Said people on the street are people involved in the production, not the consumption. It tastes fine, but animal cells don’t want to grow like that so it’s massively expensive and resource hungry, and will take a lot of research and trouble to make less so if it’s even possible in this regulatory environment (the EU doesn’t like GMOs).

Maybe stick with plant-based alternatives? They’re really good now and they didn’t used to be.

CanadaPlus,

Insulin. The buzz on the street is that cultured meat works like shit. Insulin on the other hand is already made in bioreactors, and there’s no reason that you couldn’t do it yourself with the know-how as far as I know.

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