I was confused because it’s such a bad take… That’s not what 15 minute cities are about. That’s just the dumb conspiracy theories.

… it conditions people for 15 minute cities and other forms of tyranny

Are you saying you think the idea of having all important services within 15 minutes is tyranny?

Meditation/mindfulness can really help If you get stuck ruminating about something and/or are dealing with anxiety. It was a fad recently, but there’s some real science behind a multitude of benefits from it. There’s a free app called Medito and I found the Headspace Guide to Meditation to be very informative.

I think the be careful what you do on Facebook is implied. He’s highlighting something that’s less expected, where you may need to be careful what you do on Windows systems.

I guess most methods of attack on a FOSS projects are independent of the country of origin. But, I could still see them being forced to do things they don’t want in the US, without being able to tell anyone. Hopefully if that ever happened it wouldn’t be too hard to detect, but you never know.

People gotta earn money to survive, I don’t blame the employees for this. And this is not just a case of Meta’s privacy being bad. This is close government involvement with potentially serious impacts and implications across all US based platforms.

It’s not “USA bad, so product bad”, it’s the concern that the US government can do a lot more to US based projects and you probably wont know untill it’s too late.

I don’t remember it like that at all. I saw lots of complaints about the privacy impacts and how ineffective it would be.

Why shouldn’t young children be able to use Discord? I have kids and want them to be able to use it to chat while they play games with friends and with me.

I’ll try to keep them to only chatting with people they know until I think they’re mature enough.

It seems the rear wheel is also the motor, so maybe there’s a good reason for it? Although I suspect you’re right and it’s just done for the style without regard for function.

So reduce their numbers and get gun control. What’s not to like?

Well now I have to use a condom to put my shoes on 😢

I think they’ve purposefully worded it in a way that’s less intuitive for more engagement. Obviously there would be many things that would adversely impact both semen quality and lifespan…

Why is the extremely important work of early childcare and teaching not valued as highly as banking or mine working?

This, I think is one of the biggest issues. But, it’s not caused by employers discriminating against women. It’s also not something individual companies can solve. I think it’s an inherent flaw in our capitalist society. Caring for rich people could earn you a decent living, but if you’re caring for the people who really need it… Most of them can’t pay what it’s really worth.

Also, if there’s people willing to do the job at minimum wage, then there’s going to be CEOs willing to hire them and take all the profit for themselves / shareholders.

Discord is great (ignoring privacy concerns) for playing games and chatting with some friends. But, it’s crazy that so many people seem to think it’s good for more public information sharing and support.

Primitive is a relative term. As long as we continue to progress, we won’t be primitive for the current time. But, would be considered primitive in the future.

A different context, but I think this is actually a pretty good rule for software engineering. A number of times I was sure a problem was someone elses fault, only for them to find my own silly mistake that I was overlooking. Sometimes the opposite also happens to me. Now I really make sure and typically find the actual root cause of problems before I suggest someone else caused it.

You got me curious and I wasn’t satisfied with any of the existing responses to this. I agree that public sightings would certainly be correlated with whale population, but it would have plenty of other compounding factors, so it’s a pretty poor way to estimate population.

The Internation Whaling Commission will do sighting surveys do get an actual population estimate. This is with groups of specific people going out in boats and/or planes to spot them and using those numbers to extrapolate population number with certain confidence intervals. I’m not sure how they do the extrapolation, but I can’t be bothered looking into it further.

I did also find this plot using population estimates, including a projection to 2030 (made in 2019)

https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/humpback-whale-population-hunted-to-near-extinction-recovers/11609318

I’m guessing we would have the capability to gather more accurate measurements, but there’s probably just no funding for that and the current sighting surveys are good enough for what we need…

Well there wouldn’t be much point to the Great Chinese Firewall if lots of uncontrolled information was flowing in and out through social media.

Well now seems like a very good time to set a precedent