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Though to be fair, a lot of plans are at least easier if you start out with massive amounts of money.

Dairy doesn’t affect me in that way. I suppose the lactose intolerant should beware. But the most voracious cheese eaters I know are mostly lactose intolerant, so they probably won’t.

Grilled halloumi is phenomenal, grilling it changes the proteins in a similar way as cooking meat does, and it’s imo the best vegetarian (non-vegan) substitute for meat in a grilling context for that reason. I’ve also found a lot of meat eaters enjoy it as its own thing too.

Insofar as “modern societies” refer to the people who hold power in them, I’m not so sure modern societies are interested in handling these kinds of problems.

I agree with the sentiment of what you’re saying, but I think this is actually not quite the right rule.

Some things schools teach don’t really have a clear factuality, like skills. Sometimes it’s hard to determine the facts, like you might encounter in high school literature class, “what did the author mean when they said this” might have multiple reasonable answers, but the author died, so we can’t ask them. Sometimes there are even cases where we teach things that aren’t accurate, because the nuance is too complex, like teaching 3rd graders that you can’t divide by zero, because introductory calculus isn’t developmentally appropriate for their math skill. Even simplifications like “sex chromosomes are XX or XY, and that makes you a boy or girl” that can cause harm if people don’t learn the nuance, are an example of teaching things that aren’t really accurate.

I would say schools should seek to teach kids the baseline knowledge to understand the world, and the skills to sort fact from fiction, to analyze why people say and do what they do, and continue to learn and grow in the information landscape we live in.

I feel like this isn’t a great explanation of nihilism, someone might think it functionally is materialism, or some sort of skepticism.

Nihilism is the rejection of meaning, ethics, or knowledge as things that actually exist objectively. An existentialist accepts some form of nihilism, and grapples with its consequences. One key idea across existentialist thinkers is that Existence precedes Essence, that existing is always shaping who you become, rather than some kind of intrinsic being that nihilism would reject.

Yeah that’s the surname used by members of their family who don’t get the Prince/Princess title, since princesses and princes don’t need surnames for some reason.

To be fair, we’ll probably get there at some point. There are some reasonable large size/viewing distance pairs where 8k can make a difference.

But you’re right, we’re not there, and we’re not especially close. Maybe in 8-10 years, it’ll be a more serious endeavor. But it’s probably not an upgrade most people will get much out of then.

He’s really good at making topics you might not expect to be interested in into really good videos. Dishwashers, heat pumps, and so many more

Also the Soviet Union during the Cold War was much closer than Russia is today. Part of Germany was under Soviet control, and the Western capitol was Bonn, several hundred kilometers from the border. Modern Russia is a bit further than that, with a whole county between them.

If you dig far enough, there’s a chance you even find some sexist bullshit in there somewhere

It also compounds over generations; if you’re the child of first cousins, you really should seek someone who it would take genealogy research to find a common ancestor with. If you’re not, it’s still a serious risk to have kids with anyone too closely related, but level ramifications seem really harsh, especially thinking of situations like adoption where someone could end up there accidentally. And to your point, it isn’t the only way to end up with that kind of risk profile.

He did just reacquire ownership of GOG. Porting software can take time, but this actually might happen in the near future, at least a beta version.

I’ve found that a lot of recruiters who reach out are offering really mediocre jobs, and probably have one themselves. I had a recruiter email, text and call me within 2 hours for a role he had, which would be paid about half of what I’d been making when I was recently unemployed. Starting at 8:30am my time. When he told me what the role paid, I basically told him I’m not desperate, but he clearly is.

I think I’ve had one recruiter reach out in the last year about a role that isn’t at least a 30% pay cut, and that was one with a step up in responsibilities, with a small pay cut.

At first I was offended that they were even bothering to reach out for super entry level roles, when I’m clearly not at that level, but I think they’re just spraying and praying, and probably paid mainly based on how many people they get into jobs.

The battery in my desktop is just enough to keep time for a couple of years if it’s powered off. Totally insufficient

They believed what they did about Jewish people, the queer community, and communists, about as much as modern MAGAs do about the queer community, immigrants, and “Marxists”, and for basically the same reasons. The Nazis practiced cruel violence for propaganda purposes too. There are differences to be sure, but I don’t think you’ll find they’re not huge or terribly ideological.

The Papal states, which was the middle ages version of Vatican City, didn’t exist for a period of almost 60 years, when modern Vatican City was first recognized as a nation, in the Lateran treaty.

At some level, it’s a question of whether you view Vatican City as a new successor state, or a continuation of the former Papal states. The treaty framed it as a new state, which is at least an interesting historical fact.

No, it’s tricky for native English speakers too, and that’s the point. It’s a literacy test that was given to black people in Louisiana in order to justify taking away their right to vote

That’s not necessarily true, how clocks display time, and how they maintain time don’t have to match up. You can get digital or analog clocks that keep time by setting them then using a quartz clock to count the passage of time. You can also get digital or analog clocks that talk to a network time server, and can keep within tens to low hundreds of milliseconds easily. Gear-driven analog clocks are reasonably common, and you can even find a gear-driven clock with a digital face, though those are more of a gimmick.

Obviously, a clock with an analog face that speaks NTP is digital electronics, and there’s a certain aesthetic loss, in that something like a grandfather clock that does this is a silly thing to make. But you absolutely could if you wanted to.

There have been a small number of cases where it actually worked, but to my knowledge nothing universally applicable. AIDS treatments, however, have become so good that the disease is no longer seen as a major problem of our times.

We have a type of stem cell treatment used in extreme blood cancer situations that had cured a number of people of AIDS. To my understanding, it should work for most patients, but it’s a risky and extreme enough procedure that it’s not worthwhile compared to the standard treatment regimen. But if you also get leukemia, the treatment might cure both diseases.

Cancer is not one disease, at best you can cure a small specific subset of cancers.

With one given treatment, maybe. As far as I’m aware, there aren’t any cancers that are in principle untreatable, though a handful are very difficult to cure people from. We have a wide variety of treatments for a wide variety of cancers, some of which are now really close to 100%.