"some pain" probably means a lot of people dying and maybe even the return of slavery. We could make utopia, but we won't.

The pronoun people aren't the fascist; obviously they're more Marxist instead. They do share some authoritarian tendencies with MAGA though. (See "horseshoe theory".) Moreover, their contempt for the narrative of American freedom is their undoing... yeah, America was never a perfectly free nation, but people who fought for freedom and pressed for freedom under that narrative routinely won it.

Maybe Libertarians can use the current crisis to finally achieve their political ascendency, but they'll have to learn the value of coalition and cooperation first, which aren't exactly their strong suit. Still, America needs saving from fasiscm, and I don't see the pronoun crowd getting the job done.

Paris was lovely... at least the tourist parts are. Saw way less sketchy types than I was expecting. Felt safer there than several other big cities in Europe and USA (despite all the crowds and pickpocket warnings). Saw zero Palestinian protestors, for instance.

I'm not a fan of billionaire blowhard behavior, nor of big-tech monopoly-by-walled-garden and malicious compliance. I'm looking forward to seeing if we (somehow?) manage to get our well-intended but deeply flawed, elite-controlled systems under control, or if we get some kind of sci-fi dystopia nightmare. The next two decades should be interesting, for those of us aloof enough to observe things without crashing out.

Yep. Transparently says they are profiting from people using OneDrive, even for free. There's many ways they could be doing that, but I bet they all involve using the shared data in ways nobody would want.

False equivalence... democracy-autocracy is a scale, and there's a difference between having a persistent cough that pesters your day and having to be intubated because you can't breath and your O2 is dropping. And now technology is opening new avenues for totalitarianism than the Stasi could have ever dreamed of.

We don't need to dox, name, and shame these people. That would not only be abhorrent, witch-hunting behavior, but may significantly disincentivize certain types of desirable, legitimate research publication.

However, I am entirely for a measured, rational, effective, and systematic approach to holding people accountable for proven, bad-faith research publication. The bad apples, few though they may be, do sufficient harm to justify spending effort to sufficiently disincentivize them.

I remember events somewhat differently: they first encouraged people not to buy up n95 masks because it was more important that healthcare workers have them. That was true. Then they said homemade/cloth masks don't work, and that was also true in the sense that a mask doesn't provide the wearer with reliable protection from COVID. But then they realized that maybe it did "work" in the sense of reducing the infection rate, particularly when worn by infected persons. That is somewhat true... certainty it was a reasonable guess and a valid change in tactics even though later studies cast doubt on how worthwhile it was. You see "liars", but I see public health officials scrambling to make the best decisions (within the framework of their medical understanding) while working with a lot of unknowns in a serious, quickly changing situation. If course, it didn't help that some politicians were overzealous and/or hypocritical in applying mask mandates. Localities that closed public beaches, for instance, were clearly being absurd. It's the job of a politician to balance competing concerns (medicine vs economics, for instance), and there were many who did a shit job.

Should be handled the same way as everyday malicious compliance. Lauded when in the public interest and with the judicious application of a bat to kneecaps when against the public interest. The only question is: whose kneecaps? Finding someone to apply the bat should be easy.

Because it's not free: it was bundled with the purchase of my PC and the manufacturer paid a hefty sum for that privilege. Why do we tolerate abusive behaviors from the products we buy?

No one? I'm disappointed in y'all.

> There's not much taught in a college class that can't be learned from books. Yes, but how do you know which books, and which chapters, and who do you get clarifications from, and what projects do you undertake to get beyond book knowledge, and what tools (labs, software, specimen, etc) do you use, and who struggles thru the learning with you providing mutual support, and what group do you discuss literature and philosophy with, and who provides expert perspective, where do you find a community of fellow scholars, and how do you evaluate your progress, and how do you signal to the job marketplace at large that you've acquired some skills and are capable of holding a professional position? You might be able to figure out or stumble upon some of these answers (hard to do since you're starting from a position where you don't know much), but a University can answer all of them.

The video was posted May 11 (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2F77ubC4bcgRM), and made its rounds through the news then.

The paper is fresh, and the news sites are using the chance to repost the video for more clicks.

Thanks! I'll read up on Bretton Woods system as well as monetary policy. In my mind will be the question of whether or not the benefits of a world bank or similar, centralized system outweigh the drawbacks. I'm sure I'll find an easy and obvious answer. ;)