Racism isn’t just when a person thinks their race has superior ability. It’s also when we design systems that statistically harm brown people. In my country a lot of racism is thinly veiled as dealing with illegal immigrants. We used to require that you know how to read in order to vote.

Then I wouldn’t need as much buffer time in the first place. The sitting and waiting is because I didn’t know how long the delays would be.

I’m a big fan of saying excuse me and apologizing profusely with nice cheap words while smashing right through other inconsiderate people. Whoops sorry!

Could traffic cones help or do the passers-by just kick them?

It’s a little easier to see it that way as a survivor, especially if you didn’t lose anyone close to you.

I appreciate these, they keep the freaks out of Ralph’s.

Because the person in question might be an immigrant from a country where our supermarkets aren’t normal, or have a neurological disease you can’t see.

I showed Erowid to my daughter and it felt both insane and responsible at the same time.

They’re taking care of that for you. Without ads, they don’t have enough income to stay afloat. With ads, they can’t compete with open source models.

Look we’ve only got so many berating gangs to go around, they’re very busy.

Prediction markets have outperformed CEOs for decades and still haven’t replaced them, for the same reason WfH hasn’t replaced offices. Everything is a monopoly or oligopoly now, with no need to efficiently maximize profits. It’s entirely a matter of control.

That would be attacking EU citizens. Bullies don’t like difficult targets.

Whoever develops fusion will be in the history books forever. I think that’s what they’re going for.

anti-whataboutism

George W Bush went to Yale. That tells you everything you need to know about their standards.

Oliver Clothesoff

Something like this ought to be forged so the grains line up with the expected stress.

I’m one of those people and there’s absolutely no way I could produce a safe copy of this for less than $1590.

How is the machine shop supposed to know it’s an aerospace part? The customer could just give them a reverse-engineered CAD file.

(Academic question, because making this part actually work will cost >$1500 without economies of scale)

Don’t say that, then it might come back!