“It doesn’t teach the basic number facts, only to count faster,” says someone as quoted prominently on wikipedia.

I suppose it can be fast, but the main use I’ve got out of it over the years is to count automatically using only my fingers while my brain is busy doing other things.

6 Michigan lawmakers have an ASMR fetish.

In some web browsers, a mouse click gives the site permission to do things like open pop-up windows and play videos.

But it’s still probably more often about collecting data to add to your profile, recording which topics interested you sufficiently to get you to click the button.

If whichever nation gives it a try next bucks the trend and learns from the mistakes of the past instead of doggedly repeating them, it could go well for them.

I check in on hbomberguy’s channel once in a while hoping that some day we might learn whether he’s retired, or whether he’s just taking his time making a 14-hour video about the history of the smiley face.

No. This place is for serious discussion of facts and ideas only. Everybody stop having fun and being friendly.

The thing they used to show kids to try and get us interested in computer programming back when I was in school about a hundred years ago was called Logo. Apparently there’s now an online version called LYNX which might be worth a look.

According to my browser history:

• Music of Cowboy Bebop
• Folk high school
• The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall
• Build Canada Homes
• Hominidae
• A Coney Island of the Mind
• American Chestnut
• Les Nessman

It’s not the same thing as slavery I think. But it’s in the same moral category as slavery. It would be impossible for me to participate in such a thing in any way.

Dubstep. Like, the kind that was super popular in 2010. It’ll probably be another 15 or 20 years before it’s sufficiently forgotten that the kids can properly rediscover it.

Did you really manage to haul an ice box all the way up there? That’s impressive.

Arriving at the astral plane with the Amulet of Yendor.

Me and myself get empathetic with each other all the time.

Nah, I went to college as a Pirate.

Should your private messages and group chats be public information?

No.

Is it reasonable to hold individuals accountable for statements made that they thought were in private?

Yes.

Finally, it defends carbon pricing policies from the objection that they are insufficiently systemic changes

That sounds like the hard part. But perhaps it did not accurately represent the argument made, because it seems to have been removed from the abstract as present at that url now.

It’s a condition under which the inequality tends to grow, and one reason why it grows more when economic growth is less. The consequences that follow from it do involve instability that would do damage your investment portfolio and given the current situation could well lead to total collapse. Not today perhaps, but certainly within 500 years.

So is r > g

Well maybe it’s too boring and obvious, but… Seize the means of production, distribute equal shares of its ownership to everyone, design a democratic process to decide what should come next.

This pyramid scheme is unlikely to last for 500 years.