Look, not everyone has the desire and capability to fight. I will say that I’ve had good success these last few years being vulnerable with other “woke” men and it’s been very freeing to share things I thought I experienced alone but to see that other men have gone through similar things.

I haven’t had a lot of success being vulnerable with women, but I’m getting to the point where that is a boundary for me. I’m not going to pursue friendships with people who can’t accept me for who I am and who reinforce toxic gender roles.

I’ve personally witnessed a lot of progress on this end and I’m excited to seeing more and being part of it when I can.

I’m glad you have a therapist, everyone needs someone they can share with.

Sorry you haven’t met someone who isn’t an asshole on this front.

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Yeah that’s what toxic masculinity is. People (men and women) hold toxic views of what a man should be, and punish men for staying from this ideal.

You were a victim of toxic masculinity when you shared your feelings and were then victimised because of it. The people you shared your feelings with were toxic assholes.

I actually didn’t believe you but it’s literally true. First post, immediate apology.

You don’t find and report bugs because the open source project is the highest bidder… You report to contribute to the project. Miss me with that free market mindset!

I love the idea. The math works out a bit different though. After 100 days it’s a 63% chance of getting caught so the fine would be 100/0.63= 159 million plus the additional fee. After 1 day the fine would be 1 million /0.01= 100 million plus the additional fee.

I love the actuarial precision of the fine so that all the probability of profit is priced in. Calculating that probability will be complex though because they could argue there is a 100% chance of getting caught after you caught them lol.

I came here to say this.

The first chapter is strange in a meta way, where they take too seriously that this book is an oral history and talk about its formatting etc… I almost stopped reading lol

But it’s a great aspirational post apocalyptic rebuilding book and the rest of it is weird in a very good way. Highly recommend!

My guy is seriously claiming people come to Coachella for “quiet enjoyment”

Those loud uncultured Arabs simply don’t understand that in North America everyone is quiet during outdoor concerts, pausing only for a respectful golf clap between songs!

Except the whole point is that it’s free and you’re not selling anything anyways.

Instead of giving the default money to banks they could have given it to the “bad credit” mortgage holders, who could have used it to pay their mortgages. The money still goes to banks but people get houses too.

http://andywibbels.com/privacy-email-cloud/

Back when email was new, server storage was tiny and you downloaded your emails frequently. That’s when this law was passed.

Nowadays with gmail etc… no one downloads their emails. They stay on the server forever, and government agencies are free to take them without a warrant.

If you seriously think the doctor’s notes about the patient’s symptoms don’t include the doctor’s diagnostic instincts then I can’t help you.

The symptom questions ARE the diagnostic work. Your doctor doesn’t ask you every possible question. You show up and you say “my stomach hurts”. The Doctor asks questions to rule things out until there is only one likely diagnosis then they stop and prescribe you a solution if available. They don’t just ask a random set of questions. If you give the AI the notes JUST BEFORE the diagnosis and treatment it’s completely trivial to diagnose because the diagnostic work is already complete.

God you AI people literally don’t even understand what skill, craft, trade, and art are and you think you can emulate them with a text predictor.

LLM gives correct answer when doctor writes it down first… Wowoweewow very nice!

“Do you have a warrant?” and “Please get off my property, you are trespassing”

That’s all you say to cops on your property.

Looks like Stanford disagrees, 13% of entry level work has been replaced by AI.

https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Canaries_BrynjolfssonChandarChen.pdf

He’s not even hiding the fact he’s a fucking Nazi with the “SS” tag as if that subtle…

Let’s not paradox of tolerance this place into a Nazi bar

The energy math doesn’t make sense for grid scale applications with solid objects.

https://youtu.be/iGGOjD_OtAM

However if you can get water between two places it can work quite well. You need to live close to a big change in altitude and do a bit of geoengineering to create the upper and lower reservoirs, which can be destructive to local ecology, but not as much as a dam.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricity

You can also use pumped air underwater with higher energy losses than pumped storage hydro because of compatibility of air.

https://electricalindustry.ca/changing-scenes/1785-world-s-first-utility-scale-underwater-compressed-air-energy-storage-system-activated-in-lake-ontario/

I think that free speech laws are what stopped us from being proactive against these intolerant fascist views.

They turn tolerance from a social contract into a “paradox” where we have to tolerate the intolerant until they take over.

If we didn’t have such strict free speech laws, we could have deplatformed and jailed these people back when they were at the “protest with confederate and Nazi flags” stage and not had to deal with the neo-fascist government stage.

To put it another way punching Nazis should be legal. A Nazi is a direct existential threat to Jewish people and other minorities. Parading with Nazi paraphernalia in public is violence towards others and punching Nazis is valid self defense. American free speech and self defense laws were written to exclude “inducement” of violence, but that’s been whittled away by the supreme Court, including a ruling that walking around with Nazi flags in a Jewish neighborhood wasn’t bad enough to permit the residents to retaliate in any way because of “free speech”.

summitsystems.co.uk/adiabatic-coolers-vs-cooling-towers/

There are many solutions to this problem. Evaporative cooling is just the cheapest. But it’s only cheap because we don’t charge these water users market rates for water. If they’re threatening drinking water or agricultural water we should just charge them for water usage the same as you pay for drinking water at home. That’s fundamentally what they’re taking when they drain the rivers dry. That way they compete directly on the water market instead of bypassing it.

They’ll install adiabatic coolers in no time.