I think pretty much any culture built around consumer goods is likely to fill itself up with shallow assholes.

Remember they days not parking the head of your hard drive was terrifying? Man...i feel so old today.

But the relationship between population and resource consumption calls for a more nuanced approach than focusing on the number of human bodies. Instead, there needs to be more much attention paid to resource usage - like that the US, which claims 4% of the world’s population, uses 25% of the world’s energy output.

Exactly, they don’t have access to what the richer countries have. They got fucked over because they richer countries colonizied them and robbed them blind, handicapping them for longer than people think, and that’s what made them the richer countries.

I won’t argue that developed countries use their money on dumb things. But to say poorer parts of the whole shouldn’t “breed” is really elitist at best and probably racist at worse. Everything they’re doing America already went through. They need kids to help and they need more kids because they don’t have access to…

They touched on the idea of entertainment as a cultural touchstone in the latest episode of Idea Channel: When Does Play Become Work?

For me its recongizability, and the ratio of exoskeleton to flesh. When people pan fry insects, they do it whole, so you can clearly see the form of it, and you don’t have the ability to take the meat out of a grasshopper like you would a crawfish, shrimp, or lobster. Instead you have to just eat the whole thing,…

Very clever, although I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s been some company in Asia making scissors like these for years. Stationary companies out there are always playing with inventive ideas that never get marketed and just show up in shops out of the blue.

Oh thank god my ass knows what your boner likes! Sure women everywhere would be better off if they just listened to your dick and kept their tiny butts. Forget about women with butts that don’t naturally fit the profile your dick likes, they’re invalid!

Since he’s Aquaman, does that make this a Cod piece? I’ll see myself out...

Christ. The problem is that women are socialized away from STEM fields from an early age. If it’s true that women don’t “want” to work in STEM fields, it’s because they are conditioned early on in their lives not to want to. Women make up a little over 50% of the population, but only 25% of workers in STEM fields.…

Okay fair enough. Then the next question should be why aren’t more women interested in tech? Is it that it is uninteresting to them? Every woman I know uses tech. A lot of them love it and can’t wait for the next big thing to come out. That’s anecdotal but it isn’t just men buying this stuff. It is possible the…

Hi there! the scaffolding was hired for the event and is bundled together to act as a ballast and sits on the ground (could also use sandbags) - the inflatable is just attached to the weight. Its very windy on the Thames and there have been some scary accidents with inflatables being blown away with people inside!!

A little extra tidbit on how n-grams work (because it’s not immediately apparent how dividing the data up into 14-byte chunks could possibly be used for text matching)...we’ll use a classic sentence for this example (imaging the words are each a 14 byte chunk, for simplicities sake):

Metric is good for conversions, which makes it useful for scientific/technical applications, but for everyday use, Imperial is more intuitive, because units are based on actual everyday uses, which is why most Imperial units are divisible by thirds and quarters.

A third of a meter is 33.333333~ centimeters.

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