As I understand it, pedophilia is just attraction; not taking action. And many people who were abused as children themselves end up developing the condition. I think it is treatable, but probably not “curable” (maybe, IDK).

Yeah, I’ve worked temp factory jobs that were 12 hour shifts, 3 days on, 4 off, 4 on, 3 off, … Not 6 days/week though. It also seems stupid for software engineers, at least. Personally, my output craters when I work long hours. I’d probably get less work done on 996 than a regular 40 hour week. In the past, I’ve been in the fortunate position where I could just make my own hours, and I’m pretty sure I got about the same amount of work done doing 6 hour days as 8 hour days.

Edit: Growing up my dad did 12 hour shifts 5 days/week, and 8 hours on Saturdays. Dunno how he did it, but financially needed to.

I understood the point, but had a particular issue with labeling the Dems as allies. I like to think of it as more as choosing your opposition. They mostly do not align on the issues that I align with, even the glaring social issues of respecting the trans minority, or funding genocides.

Edit: All issues are important. Someone with a consistent moral compass would align with almost everyone on all issues. At the very least they could get behind the poor and homeless, because most of us are just an accident or disease away from being the same. Woman rights are another issues that everyone should be on board with, because half the population are women, and everyone else has a close relationship with at least one woman.

The establishment Dems are only “allies” on some issues, and cannot be counted on for keeping their stances on those issues or actually doing much about them at all. For the most part, both parties are captured by and depend on corporations and the wealthy. Most politicians have no principles, because the profession attracts and rewards the kind of people who don’t. Newsom is obviously being set up to be the next presidential candidate, and it already seems he’s beginning to throw trans people under the bus (and is actively hostile to the poor and homeless). I do agree that harm reduction should be practiced; it’s necessary, but not sufficient. Getting involved in progressive Democrat candidate campaigns, and voting in primaries is probably the best way forward electorally. It will likely take decades to right the ship though.

She campaigned on fairly substantial changes, such as $25k downpayment assistance, $10k tax credit to first-time home buyers, and a lot of other housing reforms and subsidies. Not that I particularly liked her, but she did campaign on that kind of stuff (which people/media mostly ignored, IIRC).

Yep, feels a bit different (better) than liquid vape to me. Could just be in my head though. I use Dynavap or Tinymight (usually with a glass adapter and little bong).

Because, as the research found, it improves health, housing stability, and social relationships? There shouldn’t be any need for charity, IMO. The patchwork of different social programs have tons of cracks for people to fall through if they don’t meet all the specific requirements. I’m sure if offered guaranteed and safe housing, no strings attached, most of the people on the streets would take it, and their lives and society would be better for it.

I sometimes make it at home. Just sliced avocado with salt and pepper on toast is pretty good and simple. Avocados are only $0.50-$1 where I live, so I never got the “buying a house” statement, but I’m guessing avocado toast is more expensive at coffee shops or something.

Yeah, I don’t think I’ve ever had anything delivered by motorcycle. Wouldn’t be much less sluggish though, except in very dense cities with grid-locked traffic. I’ve heard motorcycle costs are about the same as a car, due to more maintenance being needed (frequent tire replacement, gear replacement, etc). Some cars approach about the same MPG as motorcycles too (and EVs surpass motorcycles with MPGe). Many US cities are very spread out and a lot of travel is done on highways, requiring 700cc+ motorcycles, and stuff like lane-splitting is illegal in a lot of places.

Yeah, but it influences the job market; there probably are jobs you or your colleagues can get from US companies, and some may take, which results in a healthy job market.

You are correct that I’m a generalist and that may be hurting me; I have designed and implemented ETL pipelines, but I’m more of a “jack of all trades master of none” kinda guy. On the other hand, being a generalist can be beneficial at a Staff level (on another foot, US companies are all about “efficiency” right now, and purging their more senior, expensive employees).

To be clear, I’m not really upset about offshoring to most of those countries. It kinda sucks for me, but it’s fair game if you can do the job better than me. I can live in most of the US fairly comfortably with Spain salaries. The offshoring to India is what upsets me, because they pay and treat them like shit. One company I interviewed with “assured” me that the Indian teams worked US EST, and that’s just ridiculous to force software engineers to work night shift for such little pay or reason. And I can’t really live comfortably in most places in the US for what they pay Indian engineers (could make similar money as a fast-food worker in the US).

If you successfully move people over with puritanical talking points, the party or whatever will get more puritanical. It also makes it easier for the other side to dismiss or counterattack if the other side is not puritanical. In this situation, it would be better to commend her “sex-positivity” or alternative lifestyle, relying on the other side’s dissapproval of such things, instead of framing it as “bad,” which kind of concedes that point.

Being in Spain kind of explains the difference. There’s a big push for offshoring US software engineering jobs right now, and I know Spain is one of the countries where some dev jobs are being offshored to (along with Eastern Europe, LATAM, and India). I’ve interviewed with a few startups, and their dev teams were in India, and they just wanted a US tech-lead/manager.

I’m skeptical. I just skimmed the paper, but most of it seems to be taking a financial/macro-economic perspective without too much analysis on individual resources availability and the damage just current levels of output are causing to our environment/resources. I’ve seen other research that claim we are already over the carrying capacity of Earth, some say by a large margin (e.g. carrying capacity is 2 billion people). I’m pretty sure humans are already using (and degrading) the majority of Earth’s arable land, for instance.

Problem is students treat traditional 4 year colleges like job training, which they aren’t, and employers require degrees when they’re not needed.

May depend on location and experience. I used to have so many recruiters contacting me on LinkedIn (1-2 years ago), I hid my account. Now, when I’m actually looking for a job, I get maybe 1 random recruiter contact me per month, and then ghost me even before the first call. I’ve probably applied to over 750 job postings, had maybe 7-8 interviews, and no offers. 14 yoe, mostly in web-dev at small companies and startups with unrecognizable names; my last role was staff-level. The city I live in is probably one of the most impacted by tech layoffs; was one of the cities tons of people and businesses flocked to during covid, now it’s shedding businesses, jobs, and software engineers.

They are black boxes, and can even use the same NN architectures as the generative models (variations of transformers). They’re just not trained to be general-purpose all-in-one solutions, and have much more well-defined and constrained objectives, so it’s easier to evaluate how their performance may be in the real-world (unforeseen deficiencies, and unexpected failure modes are still a problem though).

Kind of a nitpick, but the CEO wasn’t a billionaire. It’s also kind of an important distinction, because it’s not necessarily the wealth that’s the main problem, but how the owner class/bourgeoisie obtain their wealth/income. A slumlord worth less than a million is arguably as morally wrong as a Blackstone CEO (one obviously has more wealth/power/impact though). The evidence of owner class solidarity and government capture/corruption is also important. Rashid, being a politician, is likely trying to not alienate is millionaire donors.

WV? In the 90s, I remember my uncle still didn’t have a septic tank or sewage; the family still used an outhouse. For breakfast, they’d often make biscuits and gravy with this weird, and I assume cheap, canned-gravy I’ve never seen anywhere else (was good, but likely very unhealthy). Most of my family from there are dead now (drugs, shit-life-syndrome).

Did Japan back then pay their assembly line workers the equivalent of $5k USD/year (in today’s dollars) and have nearly no worker protections? Not a rhetorical question; I just don’t know. Seems like Japan had a better standard of living back then compared to Chinese workers now, so I would guess their workers were compensated and treated better.

Not defending US auto corps (or any corp for that matter). The regulatory capture in the US is insane, and workers aren’t treated as well as most of the rest of the first world.

Other than just feeling a little light/cheap, I liked it. I actually liked that it used standard batteries so I could just use rechargeable AAs. Only reason I don’t use it anymore, is that I mostly game on PS5 now, and mostly only play strategy games on PC. I used to use it while streaming from my PC to my Kodi/Steam Raspberry Pi in my living room.