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> At some time or another you're going to need said account for something.

Nope for almost all of these. Different strokes different folks.

> Facebook
Nope. Haven't had one for more than 10 years now. So easy to live life without a FB account. I stay in touch with family and friends by phonecalls and Mumble.

> Instagram
Used it for maybe 10 minutes in 2013, haven't touched since.

> Snapchat
Same as Instagram, but in 2016.

> Tiktok
Same as above.

> Spotify
I listen to music on my harddrive.

> Venmo
Still using Paypal since 2012.

> Twitter
Nope, in fact my life has been significantly improved since I've not had an account. I use Nitter when I want to read a Twitter thread.

Amazon and Google are the only ones that I find very hard to avoid, but Google has gotten increasingly easy to avoid as alternative services are popping up.
>If you have no hope of success, then people just give up.

Success doesn't come from hope. It comes from hard work and fighting every day for something better.

Luck might help, but is neither required nor enough for success.

I was from a poor background and fighting for a better future was the only thing that brought me some kind of success.
Sure r/childfree has lots of this sort. They often seem a bit too into being childfree to me, I probably wouldn't like their shitty kids anyway.

There's an opportunity cost for most life decisions. Sometimes they're obscured. It's often not presented this way but for a cohort of women university and work, displaces marriage and children.
> The EU wants the UK to be subservient to the Commission for ideological, political and economic reasons. The UK doesn't want to be back in that situation.

What a load of Brexiteer crap. The UK was never subservient, they were among the top decision makers and powers in the EU. Brexit UK wants to have its cake and eat it too and is simply impossible. You can't be independent from the EU on trade and power simply because of the proximity and history. Blindly cutting off your nose to spite the EU is as dumb as it was when all of this started. As soon as the UK recognises it needs the EU as much as the EU needs it, all will be better.

Few egregious examples of the UK being intentionally obtuse to spite the EU while also harming itself - refusals to accept existing treaties on a bunch of stuff, refusal to accept treaties they signed a few months ago. The whole NI question for which they still haven't accepted a solution. The fish debacle ( the UK refusing to license EU-based ships).
Indeed, if we're assuming that they'll charge during the day to discharge at full power at night, it won't cover all of overnight use, but with the current composition of grids typically it's what you need to cover after sundown until most go to sleep (and energy use reduces). A project like this doesn't need to reduce base load, but there surely needs to be renewable (or nuclear) energy projects to replace base load. (This is an over simplification, but base load supply is built to be more steady state, less real-time reactive to the needs of grid.)

Also, the "time" of the battery is just a function of storage size and inverter sizing at peak discharge. It's often selected based on how the operator expects it to be used. (For example, Tesla sells megapacks in 2hr/4hr variants [1], and I think a lot of other grid-scale storage works this way. A 2hr megapack replaces some battery bays with more inverters.) While the battery is 4 hour capable, the operator could really intend for this to provide a constant overnight supply, and it could certainly provide that.

[1]: https://www.tesla.com/megapack/design
Well it wasn't prepared for all the shit food we eat nowadays, so ... yeah! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I think the typical lens is that women are trying to avoid the costs associated with casual sex. Traditionally women paid the lion's share of costs: shame, isolation, the financial and physical burdens of an unwanted child, etc.
they endorse it in order to reduce stigma; but reduced stigma leads to greater prevalence
> Quite apart from the fact that this implies that Migadu are scanning the content of every email that their users send; what the actual fuck is a bloody email server company doing, taking on the role of arbitrating what is 'Nazi', 'immoral' or 'socially unacceptable'?

Do they mention anywhere that they are actually scanning the content and/or metadata? I'd assume this just means that if they get reports about using their platform for sending unacceptable content, they have the rights to deny the service, and, if needed, report you to the authorities.
Just checked and it seems to work on Kiwi browser on Android
I do actually. That’s why you don’t wait years until the last minute to do it. Also the breaking syntax changes between version really slowed down after the first few versions. Also also I would say it was unwise to build upon the first version of anything and expect it to work forever, especially when Apple was saying it was the first version and there will be changes.
Libgen absolutely does have anti-Putin books in English. But I don't know about Russian.

For instance, I found:

Blowing Up Russia: The Secret Plot to Bring Back KGB Terror by Alexander Litvinenko (the guy Putin murdered with Polonium)

Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped by Garry Kasparov

Freezing Order : A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath by Bill Browder

Putin's labyrinth: spies, murder, and the dark heart of the new Russia by Steve Levine

Mr. Putin by Fiona Hill
The hackernews comments section, populated by people who are looking to talk about their latest argument against social media (guilty), but who typically need to find an appropriate article for that rant to be on topic.
The point wasn’t “the UK is better than Spain” but rather, “energy dependence on Spain is not in the UK’s best interest”.
Neat. Now I can run an interpreter in an interpreter to use text based programs like it's 1985, while also paying 2022 prices for the extra 32GB of RAM it needs.
> The last couple years has really let the mask slip on what the EU stands for and they've made it expressly clear how they intend to treat the UK going forward

I've just paid a €5 handling fee (just the handling fee, there was zero customs fee or any VAT levied) to receive an item sent by post from the UK to the EU, it was sent by post with a declared value of £3, and labelled as a gift.

Yes, I know all about declaring artificially low customs values - been there, done that - but in this case it was a single item of used childrens clothing, the best part of 40 years old(!) and of absolutely zero value other than to the recipient, it was being gifted from one generation to the next.

Somehow cheap electronics orders from China seem have always sailed through EU customs just fine :/

OTOH I can fly to Stansted for less than €10 all-in. Maybe next time it would be cheaper to fly to the UK and collect in person. Given the challenges of climate change, this option in particular appears to demonstrate how not-joined-up international policymaking currently is :(
Most people don't need to delete their accounts.

I have a tasty bottle of rather expensive whiskey on the bar in my basement right now. Luxury consumables are a good gift, I guess.

I don't want to drink it right now because I have things to do requiring sobriety, its a bit early in the day for that sort of thing, etc. I got my reasons, none of them terribly interesting.

If I don't want to drink it for various reasons, I merely need to not drink it; for me this is very easy to do, not having an addiction.

An alcoholic whom does not want to drink it, would absolutely need to perform the ritual of dumping it down the drain.

Note that the ritualistic act of pouring alcohol down the drain does not cure alcoholism, it just wastes time and money. And it is just so with social media addicts periodically deleting their accounts. Usually comes alongside a long rationalization and projection about privacy and paranoia about sharing information.
Hah, more like if the infinite money machine is going, even 2% is fine - not like they have to worry about the 98% losses?
“Defund the Police” was not an attempt at abolishing police. However, I do understand there are outlets that positioned it as such to gain emotional investment. The idea was to reallocate some of the police budget to mental health experts. The idea behind that idea is that we’d had better outcomes if mental health experts helped those having a breakdown (suicide attempt, etc) than armed police.
I don't know.

Flash on the Wii, as I recall, worked well mostly for flash games that were designed with the Wii in mind, and for very simple interstitials. Anything more complex did not work well.

I think Adobe could have done something similar on the iPhone. I don't know that it would have been what people wanted, and I think it would have exposed some of the iPhone's hardware limitations to users.

Mostly though, I think Flash was a heck of a lot better than what we have today with overly-complicated webapps and Electron, as you referenced. That's the point I was trying to make—we've ended up with something even less efficient than Flash ever was!
This will never happen.

What will inevitably be what happens is that battery systems will be charged at airports and be in some standard format that can be swapped not unlike the lifts that do food or luggage.
14% (1,035^3,8)
3 kids here and I’m tickled pink that I just landed a PS5, married 9 years.
How to Install Firefox as Classic Deb App on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
I have heard this cited numerous times, but have never seen an actual source.
If somebody creates an FB account with my email address, I will took it over immediately and remove it.
There are so many things like the noise reduction tool in the color page.
> it reverts to the centrist opinion of the 1990s/2000s

I don’t know, sort of feels like we’ve largely moved on from the centrist opinions of the turn of the millennium. You’d get the half-shame branding of “metrosexual” for dressing better than average or liking things marginally off the mainline of masculinity, wasn’t exactly a particularly supportive attitude back then.

> Brigaded in less than a minute. Well done, LGBTQIA+ KGB.

Not exactly doing yourself any favours here.
Behaving like this makes your point get lost in the emotional hysteria of your reaction.
It takes imagination and determination. Finding the windows when the doors are closed. Not giving up on failures.
Look up the societal collapse of Rome in particular. It's one of the most named and covered anecdotes. A few other societies follow similar patterns, internally collapsing and being taken apart piece by piece rather than aggressively overtaken. Wikipedia[0] names several societies (I don't keep sources at hand to my own discredit).

It all has to do with incentives and the role of men in societies which to some degree still apply today. Stop giving men incentives to have families or any other reason to care about younger generations, and they stop having a reason to care for the future. Don't give them an incentive to care about the now (wives, partners, comrades), and they stop having a reason to care about the now.

Not having people care for the future is a great way to make them live their lives as short-sighted and hedonistic* as possible, which further affects their reason to care about the now beyond themselves. Not having people care for the now is a great way to incentivize inner conflict and have a party rise to fill the gap.

*: Hedonism on its own has a whole slew of other problems I'd rather not get into detail with, but for the sake of comparison, online dating apps' meat market approach hasn't exactly helped younger people obtain more satisfying relationships.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societal_collapse#Examples_of_...
Okay University required is the one I knew in the US that should be controversial but is not too much yet.

Follow your passion seems to be similar to live your dream, and I can see that being terrible advice for young lower-class. This is AFAIK only a path encouraged for rich kids in Spain and only to certain extent, since they will inherit whatever. But probably due to chronic young unemployment, our society highly critical to studying degrees without good opportunities. Ironically the only places I've seen this in Spain as advice from high class to everyone is where we've strongly imported USA culture, among "modern entrepreneurs".

Had never heard of "girl-boss" nor "it takes a village" as financial advice! Reading about girl-boss [1], I'm assuming (please correct me if I'm wrong!) it's about empowerment and not taking a "normal" job and instead try to be your own boss, specially aimed at young women. Which is great if you are upper class and can fall back to your family for help, but obviously a terrible idea if you don't have a plan-b/good fallback, resulting in poverty. Right?

And about "it takes a village"? I cannot find much relevant info, everything seems to be about getting help from your community. Does it mean that it's great advice if you are surrounded by successful driven people, but bad advice if the community is a poor one riffled with crime?

Sorry for so many questions, most are confirmations to make sure I understood things correctly

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girlboss
Recently I've noticed that divorce rates amongst the richest are actually quite high too. Gates, Bezos, and Musk are all divorcees and Buffet has had an open marriage situation for something like decades I believe. Just something I found interesting.
I agree with what you're getting at. The prevailing belief in social science is that it's impossible to eliminate bias from your analysis of the world. In fact, I think many social scientists think that quantitative folks are kidding themselves when they think their clever statistical methods are free from their own personal biases.
>In 1960, across social classes, the vast majority of children were raised by both of their birth parents. By 2005, there was a massive divergence.

Could it simply be because in the 60s women were more dependent on men and their income than nowadays?
They look great!
I remember staying at a (modest) hotel in Netherlands 20+ years ago and seeing this for the first time and thinking what a brilliantly pragmatic idea. It's amazing and sad that it didn't catch on everywhere.
Yes, hence my original question.
If it's admitting the truth, then it should be at risk. Anything else is just delaying the inevitable and not planning adequately for its arrival in the meantime.
There is a certain class of very smart, articulate and well-thinking people. They are very good at arguing and dismissing and coming up with all sorts of valid reasons for all sorts of ideas. I find they detract the conversation a lot, instead of adding substance. I refer to the nebulous group of them as the "Intelligentsia", borrowed from others though.
> "We are "fair game" to them now."

As we should be. "We" spent years going "we've got the EU over a barrel, we'll make them bend to our whim, they need us more than we need them". Brexiteers now finding out that "leaving the EU" means we're no longer on their side and negotiating against 27 united countries sucks, well it would be funny if it wasn't hurting so many people.
How well do they deal with GPU and less popular targets (e.g. embedded systems)?
I doubt Nietzsche's system is of the kind coverd by system engineers.
That's what most people mean when they say "defund". The problem is that America has an issue with being reactive instead of proactive. Instead of treating drugs and crime as an economics issue and getting ahead of it with social policies, we react to it after the fact and criminalize everything and pay for a standing army with zero accountability. Creating an arms race between gangs and police, with the average citizen paying twice-- once with their taxes and again with their freedoms.
Ok here’s the 2019 number: 60.8%.

https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cps/tables/hinc-05/...
The link to sweet16 seems even more bonkers. A 16b DSL as a bytecode interpreter atop an 8b assembly? Wow.
I saw that video. I don't need an explanation of why it's being done, it's pretty obvious and it works.

What I'm saying is that we can do better than 50 year olds making child-like expressions with clickbaity titles.
I was an only child. My wife has a brother. We felt it was important for our children to have siblings to have the opportunity for sibling relationships in adulthood.
Like the Irish? Or the Chinese? Or the Italians? They came here as pioneers? Or did they come looking for something better than what they were offered? Remember, we treated them like shit too. Maybe hating immigrants is a corner-stone of America...

There are opportunists everywhere. I'm sure not everyone coming from our southern border is going to be someone I want in my neighborhood but that doesn't mean so many people aren't just looking for an escape from danger. Would you break a law to save your own life? To protect your family? Is penalizing people in these circumstances truly just? Does it make you a good person?
So was Al Bundy or Dan Conner from Roseanne.

The great reset theory many were down playing might be coming true where people don't own anything they rent everything from society
>Does it though? In a typical marriage, one side goes to work and the other stays home.

This is flat out incorrect. More than 2/3rds of married mothers in the US work.
> that can be obtained even with low paying jobs

Minimum wage workers can't afford rent anywhere in America. There's no stability to be found for low-paid workers.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/15/homes/rent-affordability-mini...
If by weekly messages of hope you mean going to church regularly on Sundays*, that's an interesting point I hadn't considered in this context before.

Can you provide a citation for the pew research on the weekly messages of hope, whether my above inference was correct or not? If it's not Sunday services at church, I'd love to know what else I can do inject some hope into my weeks.

* or whatever is the holy day in a given church congregation.
Yeah just hand over any territory anyone ever makes a weak claim to just to avoid conflict despite the wishes of the people who live there.

Has your "Z" bumper sticker arrived in the mail yet?
I think you're wrong. I'm French so my "social conservative christian" parents still taught me to roll cigarets, that abortions saved young girls' future and that you shouldn't beat your wife if she wants a divorce, which is for me american "social liberalism".

The way I see rigidity is to associate set roles to women, beating the gayness out of gays or shunning you for marrying out of your parents' religion. What you describe is complete laxism, maybe not telling men that they do have to own up their decisions, especially raising children that even someone like my dad did, despite being more flexible maybe than your parents ?

And I'm socially liberal in the sense I married a Chinese and raise my daughter telling her mariage is not the only goal in life, that if she's gay it won't matter, and that religion is BS, but I still expect her to raise her kids properly if she has some... so I'm not sure your parents raised you well because they were rigid or simply because they were good honest people... which even the liberals you dislike could also be !
You prefer the third option of a much improved police force. I would love that too.

But this is not a practical real world option. In the present, you fight crime with the police system you have.
I cannot disagree with what you stated, but your last sentence misses the point.

Incomes are nominally higher in Massachusetts and costs for certain staples (energy, food, automobile) are nominally lower, compared to Western Europe. Yet I can’t say the outcome is better (note I have lived in France, Germany and Massachusetts).

The fact is life is more precarious in MA: it appears that you have more disposable income but crucial things like health care (perhaps best in USA), school (crucial for keeping your head above water) and such means you spend more of your time and money looking after your life and less actually living it.

You can see this in the numbers, too: not just life expectancy but in things like money available (and spent) on vacations and other leisure, reported levels of stress and debt.

I’m not trying to claim that any country is some sort of utopia. My root comment was simply that the analysis of the post we are discussing was simplistic and ignored confounding examples of countries with the claimed “bad” things doing better by their citizens.
> Absurd to blame the "educated and affluent" for lower-class abandonment of their own cultural values.

The author isn't blaming the elite for the trend. In fact, he acknowledges that it has impacted all strata, even though the impact is greater at the lower end. What he's saying is that family stability is no longer a universal value. The thesis is that the elite set the fashion. He writes:

"Those who sit at or near the apex of the social ladder (who decide what behaviors are prestigious) have decided that family stability is unimportant."

When you say that "low-income whites tend not to care for what the highly-educated and affluent think," there may be something to that at some level, but I think these are trivial levels. The elite make the laws and rules and systems, and we all live with those. I think that is beside the point, though. It's not that the elites are saying, "Start a family and stick with it," and therefor everyone else is acting out in protest; it's that the elites are not saying it.
That only works in one direction though. If opportunity doesn't exist, it doesn't matter if you set expectations that it does.
Then you're not connecting with the US "left" (probably not a coincidence). The Nation is both the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the US (founded in 1865) and consistently represents different parts of the US left. Jacobin is another good example.

It is true that if you watch network or cable TV from the US, you will not find the actual left represented, other than perhaps Bernie Sanders. What they will call "the left" is mostly centrist Democrats whose position can be summarized as "things as basically OK but we need to be nicer in a few specific ways".
I believe you would have to extract the juice, turn it into a kind of lettuce milk by boiling and straining, and then ferment the result into cheese. Takes about 6 months. Best enjoyed paired with 5kg of raw beef and a litre of vodka.
It depends if they're realistic or not. Without that, the hope portion disappears.

Then one has to weigh if the job is worth it. With the high cost of modern living (shelter, taxes, healthcare) one might decide it's better not to work and just rely on assistance programs (I know someone like that).