One issue is not simply attitudinal (I have the right!), but habit/expectation (this is normal!).

A lot of people already structure their lives around cars. It’s hard to get someone to go from “yes, it is normal and right for me to travel 40+ miles a day for errands” to “it is unreasonable for someone to visit these 5 places across town in a single afternoon”.

Holy shit I never thought about what’s inside an LED bulb past the LEDs themselves.

Rockbox + sandisk is fantastic

I aim for a (un)healthy mixture of tech and political commentary, far more than I could ever actually listen to.

Based on your current selections, you seem to favor comedy/celebrities/comedians. I don’t follow too much stuff like that, but I have maybe two suggestions: Blocked and Reported for Internet bullshit (furry infighting, Adult Baby Diaper Lovers, Twitter drama). It tends towards a sort of moderate liberal/radical centrist politics. Srsly Wrong do kind-hearted goofy skits to explain their politics. Self-identified utopian socialists.

Most of the rest of the stuff I listen to is some variant of interviews with important thinkers or 2+ dudes/chicks/yos shooting the shit about socialism or FLOSS.

I rhink I’ve heard them called freight damage or scratch and dent grocers but this is already a thing.

The YouTube channel Then and Now is pretty good for beginners.

CCK Philosophy is good for Nietzsche, Marx, and postmodern / continental philosophy broadly, but you’ll get more out of his work after reading a bit of those first.

Ben Burgis is a Marxist who teaches logic. He’s not always a great public speaker, but he’s very affable and generally on point. Will interview interesting people too.

Whatever it is, it should be public so if an issue is raised and resolved then others can see that too.

No more Discords for support, please, for the love of god.

Taxes can be a tool for taking unjustly gained capital and redistributing it to the people as a whole.

That does require workers exerting power through and over the state, but taxes are simply an exercise of power towards redistribution of resources.

The other thing that makes it tough is that we don’t really have a good grasp of what it is. At least, last i checked.

Like, are we just pathologizing people on this or the other side of a fuzzy threshold of executive function? Or is there a population that really is physiologically/genetically different? Either way, is there something wrong with society where people within a previously normal range of executive function are now unable to keep up?

The most common first name in the world is Maria, and the most common last name in the world is Wang. Erfo the most common name in the world is Maria Wang.

Was Wendy less intimidating?

On network television movies were often edited for content and length. So in a way you were right.

Least unreasonable childhood belief. There are horses. There are animals with horns. Why not a horse with a horn?

I think I actually recall a radio show where a guy thought unicorns were real up until his mid 20s. Not that he thought they were magic or anything, just that there was a horse-like animal with one horn that actually existed and was probably endangered or something.

I can play on my own time, and I can play with friends, but god help me I HATE playing on the server’s time. I can kinda do it with Pokemon Go, but that’s one you can play as casually or as hardcore as you like since you’re mostly playing for yourself after a point.

I mean I was into the old test-based Trek game for a while.

One of these door bars could help: https://a.co/d/h56YulW

Doesn’t really address the fundamental problem, but it’ll make getting the door open harder.

Mos was about 7 years into his acting career by that time.

He’s always good though.

User instance checks out.

And yeah, their loss, I agree. And don’t get me wrong, not everything Malik ever does works 100% for me. Tree of Life was good, but A Hidden Life was profound. I think anyone could find at least one of his films that would make them feel something deeply, if they had the patience.

The link has a 500 error for me. Can you say more about this?

This is kind of like what happens internally on platforms for 3rd party sellers like eBay, Amazon, and AliExpress. Even decades later they’re still working the kinks out obviously. Amazon and AliExpress particularly have lots of scammers, so they clearly haven’t figured out the secret sauce yet. They’re not under-resourced, so either they’re under-motivated to weed it out or it’s actually pretty tricky to do.

My guess is it’s both, but more that it’s just tricky to implement a reliable system of reputation and trust. EBay and Amazon got around it early on by being cheap and establishing policies that heavily favored buyers in disputes, which made the prospect of using the service less risky to the public, improving their market shares. They probably also have non-trasparent systems for tracking buyer reputations as well to avoid abuse.

It seems to be the norm to keep these systems obscure to avoid abuse, but to make a truly functional open platform you would need to have public systems, so I’d hope that the norm of obfuscation is out of convenience or laziness and isn’t required to make the system function.