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@AndyMasley The short rebuttal is that policies are carried out by other people. If those people are evil or incompetent, you should abandon that policy, even if it would be a good policy in an ideal world.

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@panchromaticity > vegetarian If you eat eggs/dairy, you can make something much like carbonara - many meat substitutes work fine, last time I used mushrooms fried in olive oil. It's not zero minutes but I can definitely knock it out in ten if I'm allowed to start with a bag of pre-cut shrooms.

@softminus "corporate needs you to find the difference between these two pictures"

this is the other kind of ad I get

why am I getting ads for uh

@StephenGrove19 @ProfTalmadge @shashj We know. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius_Do… We mainly thought we'd be using them against Soviet infiltrators but we can turn them around, snow looks the same on the other side of Greenland.

@ProfTalmadge @shashj Its a huge place with forbidding geography. It seems to me to be the sort of place where Special Forces could hold put for years.

@goblinodds Getting rid of an unpleasant emotion by putting it into text. I have no real hope it'll change hearts and minds.

@shieldfoss what's the goal here

ive given up trying to track and understand current events, all i know is that this feels like the america i grew up watching movies about. maybe that's mostly bad! but it's gotta be better than trying to become europe the way we have been

@goblinodds ...yeah I'll "tut tut" on that one, the America I grew up watching movies about was usually not portrayed as brazen invaders.

idk man. i hate that i feel like i have to pretend not to be excited by a bunch of stuff the trump admin is doing bc if i put a toe out of like im gonna be condescended to by people tut tutting me. fine if someone who i know shares my values has a different perspective they want-

@Rimmy_Downunder H. C. Andersen wrote "The Little Mermaid" in 1837 and none of the elements of that story are out of place for a story set in 1837. You can push it *very* late it your writing isn't nonsense.

Are firearms implemented into the world in a logical fashion like Old World Warhammer? Then I love Are they thrown in because every RPG needs guns, artificers and airships for some fucking reason? Especially if there's only one class who knows what Gun is? Hate hate hate hate

@TetraspaceWest Same solution as in the "abolish the police" world: Run into their country, take revenge, run back.

@kendrictonn "Locally sourced"

Using eco-friendly sustainable recycled materials to build a battery bank for my renewable-energy-powered green house [stealing battery packs from e-scooters I find on the sidewalk]

@goblinodds This is the way.

alternatively i can call my credit card company and try to just reverse the charge but i would like to know what's going on

fun new bureaucratic loop > order medication refill > insurance wont cover it > agree to pay anyway and have it shipped > 2 wks pass, nothing > check credit card; it was charged

@Jiantkwazi @pitdesi That noise you're hearing might be in your ear and not in your car. Should mechanics also have a medical degree? Fear about water damage might be paranoie. Should insurance adjusters be psychiatrists? Shoes hurt your feet? Better get an orthopaedic surgeon in every shoe store.

@pitdesi Should pharmacists also prescribe medications without a physician first evaluating, diagnosing, and then treating patient? Optometrists have a 4 year degree and doctorate of optometry. Opticians do not. Vision correction / prescription is not always as simple as you describe.

Eyeglasses aren’t opioids. There’s no reason we should need to see an optometrist to buy glasses. You don’t in the rest of the world, and you didn’t in the US either until optometrists lobbied aggressively under the banner of “public safety.” For decades, opticians, trained with just a few weeks of coursework, tested vision and sold glasses directly, just like they still do in Europe, Asia, and most of the world. Outside the US, vision correction (opticians) is kept separate from medical eye care (ophthalmology). In the US, we created the field of optometry and then they lobbied hard to take over vision correction because there is more money in selling glasses than in doing medical tests. By the 1970s, every state required prescriptions, shutting out opticians and cementing an optometrist monopoly. The result: in Europe you can walk into a shop, get tested, and leave with glasses for about $50 all-in. In the US, you are forced into a $200 exam and $300 frames. What should be simple and cheap has been turned into a racket, and consumers pay the price. Much like barber licensing (some states require 2,000 hours of training just to braid hair), this kind of gatekeeping drives up costs without protecting consumers. Vision correction should be cheap and accessible, not locked behind a monopoly!

@TheHouse385 @pitdesi Here, you can get your eyes tested for $0 with no purchase, and if they find that there's nothing extra wrong apart from near/far sightedness, you can get glasses for less than $50. In Denmark, which is otherwise a very expensive country.

@pitdesi $50 in Europe is not true sorry. You might not need to go back but it’s closer to $150-$300.

@gattsuru No idea and, yeah, that's pretty bad. There's not really any *good* explanation here, we're on to finding out which terrible explanation is true.

@shieldfoss Fair, although there’s a lot of ways that’s worse, and not just the sense that I downloaded and backed up my entire itch library. Is unilaterally turning net 3 to net ??? less a credit risk than weird smut?

I would be fascinated to know if this is a failure of Dangerous Professionals attention, on Dangerous Professionals seeing this particular problem as a problem, or Dangerous Professional as a mode:

@gattsuru There is also the possibility that they just don't have the money.

More critically, if the legitimate systems can cost people /this/, a lot of the patio11-style arguments about the robustness of modern conventional financial systems falter. The other options won't look good! But they stop looking _worse_.

@TetraspaceWest egr?

Ok I think not this harsh - like, dutiful salaryman in an egr that doesn't care about number is a more likely theory about the author, and of course the egr itself has to be fired because otherwise they just get a new dutiful salaryman.

fire whoever dared write this without tagging them with orders of magnitude

@goblinodds Blue Planet aquarium is pretty nice. Both times I met a mutual in CPH, we went there and had a great time.

i'll be visiting copenhagen next month (which doesnt feel like a real thing that's happening so i'm not yet excited but) is there anything i should do there. and do any of u guys live there??

@tracewoodgrains The problem is that you don't get to install that shit on my laptop "Then you can't graduate" So what I'm hearing is this school cannot graduate people who understands tech (except the few who understand so much tech, they fool this into thinking "we" "have" "no" "connection")

@QiaochuYuan Many people advocate for women's rights. Stand above the crowd, hold out for women's wrongs. (Of course they care about ethics, they just don't have the moral skill to see any difference between "right" and "cool/popular." Most people don't.)

okay sorry i am apparently unable to let this go - it is seriously disturbing to me the way many of you seem to refuse to see the ethical component of this situation (the lying + the stealing) and i am losing trust in you accordingly. do any of you care about ethics at all?

@hradzka /sing sing sing with me/

@stoneagenathan @matthewswspence My initial naive guess is: The consequences of a quick hire are worse now, with follow-on guesses that some of the changes are “harder to fire if bad” and “university degree worse signal value” and “more on-the-job training needed”

@matthewswspence Why do you think that is? It seems like the hiring process is just brutal now with multiple interviews, etc., at least in white collar jobs.

This is a remarkable chart. At a given unemployment rate it now takes ~twice as long to find a new job as it did in prior decades.