It's a matter of motivation. It's not like the surface web is very worthwhile... Imagine if you were introduced to the web today. Twitter is on fire, Reddit is nonsense karma bots, common searches return unhelpful SEO garbage, YouTube has 10 ads to watch a 10 minute video... Why would you bother?

Doesn't mean there's not much worthwhile, it's just buried. They have braille readers, you can learn to use a screen reader at crazy speeds, and an endless amounts of sites use a consistent layout that a screen reader could easily handle, let alone specialty devices

It's just one more layer of bullshit that turns people away

Ironically, most technology is the opposite. At least when you're designing and developing things, it's all individuals - you can have assistants or small teams, but institutions don't invent new things, individuals do.

I don't mean that pedantically, I mean one or two people were the driving force behind near every innovation. A company can sit those people in a room and fund them for a decade, but you have to keep them happy and leave them alone - if they leave or they're meddled with too much, you're back to square one

Big companies can't innovate (except in monetization)... It's all done by start ups now. Then they get acquired, and all progress halts

Just makes me think, in science (or academia at least) researchers are tied to their research to maintain their position, rather than their position deciding their research. It's still a pretty broken system, but between that and the incentive for open collaboration it just makes me think. If every piece of technology was open sourced, if everyone from phone manufacturers to game designers existed in a world where designs could be improved upon, where would we be now?

It's because Obama was polarizing, but he sold himself as progressive convincingly

He literally ran on the promise of change - unfortunately his actions were firmly neo liberal, and he prioritized compromise over meaningful reform

If Obama was a neo liberal in progressive clothing, Clinton was a diehard neo liberal from top to bottom.

Unfortunately, the lesson learned was "people don't like Hillary" rather than "people want a real progressive"

Interestingly, it's looking more and more like evolution isn't random, and not only is evolution happy with "good enough", it seems like it actively stops there

Based on some recent experiments with bacteria and editing out existing genes, it seems like it chooses one genetic area at a time, and once it makes a marginal increase in an area it switches to another

It's possibly a mechanism to avoid a population boom then bust - if you improve too much too fast, you'll outcompete your environment to the point you destroy your own ecological niche

However it works (and figuring that out is bleeding edge research), it's very old. Interestingly, Darwin's later (unpublished) writings went in this direction, but the theories lost out to the random mutation theory

I don't think it's even that complicated...

Western society says men need an excuse to turn down sex. That it has to be a matter of attraction or morals or something

You can just not be feeling it. There doesn't have to be a reason

We must establish a new order of monks, who all get up at 6am UTC. We can call them in sync

I'm of the opinion we made up all the words, but those mouth sounds must have a strict meaning whenever possible. Words are important, they're how you communicate concepts. Everyone should be precise with their words to the best of their understanding, if you have to redefine the word planet in every conversation the concept is diluted and you waste a lot of time

In this case, if Pluto is a planet, we have at least 13. We might discover another 10 or 20 if there's no planet 9 hiding behind the kyper belt and it's all dwarf planets... Ain't no one got time to remember 30+ planets

What would that data look like? It's not exactly a metric you can nail down

"Unions are corrupt" was definitely a message intentionally spread, I can definitely find you some examples of corporations spreading that, but that's not really data either

Nah, because while it would be very easy to implement something like that, it would require specifically doing it. Programmers have 3 reasons for writing code

It's cool. It's necessary. I was told to do it in exchange for money

(And the secret fourth reason, it just kinda happened. I was building this related thing and I realized it'd be stupid easy to toss it in...I was in a fugue state and I have no idea what I wrote, but it's some of my best code ever)

Devs don't generally care about this kind of thing, and most of the time neither do the business folk. This kind of unnecessary crackdown only comes up when consultants like McKinney, who I've recently learned are the reason everything sucks

I wouldn't say many of them are corrupt, I don't think that's fair. I think it's anti-union propaganda that's been spread

Some are though... And if you were to pick one example head and shoulders above all others, the police union definitely comes to mind

Conservative super pacs have been running ads against him for months. He still doesn't have a running mate. No one showed up to support him outside his trial. Rich shareholders have cooled on him, because an erratic president will hurt stocks far more than any tax breaks or slashed regulations will help

His supporters are leaving his events because he just looks weak and incoherent - he's not even "incoherent sprinkled with buzzwords", he now just rants about himself like an old man

Mainstream media is owned by a few billionaires - regardless if they want Trump or Biden, selling Trump as a threat kept people focused where they wanted them. They've been showing as little unedited footage as possible, but even his softest softball interviews have so little that makes him look good.

I think it's ok to be optimistic, I don't think I can sit through the debate tonight, but I think the clips will be interesting

Thank mr skeltal

Herbivores eat a lot more meat than we're led to believe. Horses and cows will eat mice and bugs if they get the chance, and just about any animal will happily eat an egg they stumble across

The bird in the picture also has a raptor's break, so whatever it is it's likely a predator

So... You're saying instead of "main", "app", or "core", we should change the convention to make tiananmenSquare the entry point for apps?

Or maybe make it the filename for utils, so it'll just break

I recommend against placing toilet paper directly inside your rectum or vagina, however.

I don't understand. How do you use toilet paper?

This is the world I want to live in

The world is absurd, and I'm tired of pretending it's not

I'm intrigued, I'm not a big fan of DC movies but I'm willing to give them another chance. Could you give me a quick synopsis?

The bad batch is apparently also great, along with the latest clone war seasons (according to my friend at least)

I'm just not ready... Seeing Star wars just fills me with negative feelings. I hope I'll get there one day - I loved the EU and the more they accept back into cannon the more I want to get back into it... But I just can't give it another chance yet

I don't think life is rare, nor photosynthesis, but complex life might be. A planet needs to be really thriving with life for it to be worth it to go down the path to something like animals

But I think the bigger filter is much stranger.

Humans are a hive-like species. We're not just social - we're insanely interdependent, we don't function on our own and yet we've ended up in this place where we (often) try to individually succeed, even at the cost to our community

We're greedy enough to want the stars, yet interdependent enough we could only swarm over them in endless numbers

There's many problems with the fermi "paradox", but personally I think one of the largest is assuming all species would spread like a cancer blotting out the stars

A more individualistic and long lived species might instead be careful explorers, taking what they need and leaving little sign of their passage. A more communal species might be careful and control themselves to not destroy pointlessly. They might also feel no desire to contact other species

We're just the right mix to want everything a star could give, and to want to find others at great energy cost

No, the writing was just bad.

I strongly prefer strong female leads (and my tastes only get more LGBT when it comes to novels), but those movies were terrible. Just horrendous. I still can't bring myself to watch episode 9, or anything star wars since then

I'm not even that big a star wars fan. I love sci-fi and fantasy, because I love the new ideas they contain - star wars was never special to me, it was just good

I'll never forget leaving the theater after episode 7, my whole department took off to see it on release. I just remember everyone being relatively satisfied, even the extreme star wars nerds, but I just looked at my team lead who I shared an office with. .

We used to talk about Star wars all the time, especially the extended universe, but we looked at each other and I saw pain in his expression, and I knew I shared the same look. I don't think we ever spoke about Star wars again

And after episode 8, I now just feel dread when I see a blaster.

It wasn't that nostalgic for me, it wasn't that my standards were unreachable - they were just bad movies.