Because upper management is less checked, they make a lot of human choices, such as keeping a lot of bullshit job positions open as garden hermits (there for scenery, to look busy).

AI tasked with actually increasing profits may run the business better than their human counterparts.

FOSS works on the premise of an angry engineer, that someone finally got pissed off about a problem enough to write a solution.

This so tracks.

All we need is for the communist government to say we like what you’re trying to do. Here’s an allowance for expenses!

Happy birthday,… Mr. President…

Fun fact: There is a Scottish Wikipedia and you can read it with some effort even if you don’t know Scottish.

To be fair, a woman sleeping with anyone who is not her license-designated lover / owner is interpreted in Hollywood to be an act of rebellion.

Outside the US, in the industrialized world, IRL, it’s just normal.

I use my context menu key as the chording key to control any keyboard macro profiles, so that I can terminate, reload, summon for editing or summon a help file as needed.

There are VPNs that operate in stealth mode so they don’t look like VPN traffic as they’re being used.

Still illegal, but not detectable. No riskier than being a political activist antagonistic to the state.

I thought phrenology was still a science at the time of the German Reich, only made defunct later. Now I have my doubts.

Social darwinism was disproven in the 1900s and supply-side economics died in the 19th century so it’s not like pseudoscience does not spring up like weeds when rich people want to sponsor it.

It doesn’t take AI analytics to figure out I’m as far left as they get and come pre-radicalized. I’m the ANTIFA overlord they’re looking for.

I’ve practically invited them to breach my door.

Because the god Wotan would get mad.

And that’s a god you don’t want mad at you.

This is part of the paradigm that brought us the alt-right.

That’s why you size-up your fries order. 🍟

ETA: If you think your GF wants dessert and is eying the lava cake ad, decide you’re going to get dessert. If she persists in her resistance, order the lava cake and two spoons.

Sometimes you gotta force being human on people who’ve been mask-on for too long.

For most definitions of supernatural, no.

I believe in unidentified areal phenomena, not that it’s ETIs or aliens, but that something’s up there doing its thing.

I believe in ball lightning even though we don’t have a model of electrodynamics that explains it.

There’s some weird shit out there, Horatio, that isn’t explained in our philosophy. I’m sure we don’t have all the answers. I just am okay with knowing we don’t know what those answers are.

As for ghosts, spirits, afterlife, etc. There’s strong evidence those things do not exist, just in the stark silence where there should be noise.

I do pretend that treating my cat well and wearing cat themed tees and keeping cat kitch does please the cat gods. 🐱‍👤

When I was just a lad looking for my true vocation
My father said "Now son, this choice deserves deliberation…
Though you could be a doctor…

…or perhaps a financier…

My boy, why not consider a more challenging career!"

Adolph Hitler: 39 known attempts
Charles de Gaulle: At least 31 attempts
Fidel Castro: Fabián Escalante, former chief of Cuba’s intelligence, stated that there had been 634 assassination schemes or attempts.
Josip Broz “Tito”: About 22 attempts

So, Fidel Castro by far… according to one source. That’s a mess and a half.

Hitler is 39 attempts known, according to Wikipedia’s list. There may have been unknown ones.

Can I get robbed by the movie guy, please?

It’s allegedly a documentary, not fiction. It should make sense from beginning to end.

Sounds like you feel the need to defend Kurzgesagt for sentimental reasons, and since they’re presenting themselves as a source for accurate information, that just won’t do.

Feel free to explain it in better terms. TBH, I watched the first half and quit in disgust.

The problem is when the contributors influence what the videos say, in contradiction to data.

Kurzgesagt’s video on +2° / +3° / +4° over the global mean isn’t going to be so bad video was conspicuous to me, and is in fact, based on fossil-fuel industry rhetoric, rather than climatology estimations (which tell us over +1.5° is going to fuck us, and is).