What is this based on? my view seems to be that people happily pay tons of money to criminal companies for pretty marginal utility

If your margin for error is this tight something is fundamentally broken in your business

It's not silly, it harnesses some of the mechanics behind ponzi schemes to encourage viral spread. Early entrants are incentivized to evangelize it to newer ones

yes they can what the hell are you talking about? i would wager "being hurt by words" is something close to a universal human experience

What the hell are YOU talking about? Of course words can't actually hurt you. Being bothered <> hurt. You can hurt yourself perhaps in response to words but words can't do it, you have to apply the meaning and the hurt internally, as opposed to say rockets, which can hurt you without any involvement on your part at all.

You're working on a very simplistic definition of harm, if not bleeding means not hurt. Almost toddler-like level.

Wasn't holocaust caused by words?

I bet you are fun at a party.

you would probably like the book Invisible Women. Touches a lot on this subject and how there is so much "missing data" when we talk about these things and it carries through to the modern day

To the best of my knowledge a vanishingly small proportion of historical society was literate and it was an even smaller subset that authored anything of note. It isn't historical women that are invisible it's >90% of everyone. The written accounts are whatever the elite of the elite deigned to write down which those that came after chose to bother preserving.

True, but farming was still somewhat visible to many of the elite. The bible (old testament) has a number of farmers who were also elite.

The whole point of the elite is that they don't have to do the hard work.... It's like Jefferson being out in the fields picking cotton whilst paying for a bunch of slaves.. a highly dubious proposition

That is ONE elite. There have been many elites over history with different levels of wealth and different things they did. Those who could afford a lot of slaves were not out in the field, but not all elite were that wealthy. I'm sure Jefferson wasn't picking cotton, but that doesn't mean no elite were out in the fields.

Yeah you should check out this book, would enhance the best of your knowledge. While you're right, even within that cohort there is a massive gender difference and it impacts how we view society in a big way

That sucks to hear, i wish you were getting shamed more frequently in public

For what taking pics when skiing, kayaking and other times when my hands aren't free and Im already wearing glasses. For taking pics of nature and taking pics of friends and family whom asked for a picture?

Let's see if Google/Samsung's upcoming smart glasses releasing Fall 2026 get as much flack as Meta who many techies hate Meta/Facebook.

> taking pics when skiing, kayaking and other times when my hands aren't free

GoPros are great for that. You can get one that is small enough to stay out of the way, have a more secure mount than glasses and a recording device that doesnt try to hide the fact that its a camera.

I hope so!

Science works on logical rules.

What logical rule would you propose that allows Pluto to be a planet without also bringing in a bunch of others?

If you just want to arbitrarily declare things are they way you like them to be, religion is over there.

>What logical rule would you propose that allows Pluto to be a planet without also bringing in a bunch of others?

The rule would be: pluto is a planet, stay mad nerds

I don't have a dog in this fight, but the real rule appears to be "that's the way I learned it in school".

That sure does seem to be the only argument on the "keep Pluto around but nothing else" side, "I learned it this way and I'm done learning"

Why don't you like Eris?

what's with the pearl clutching?

100%

>Your Snapchat DMs feel like a locked apartment — but the building management reportedly kept a spare key.

It's like their system prompts have a line that says, "Use analogies everywhere. Humans love analogies."

“Humans are very stupid so make sure to use childish analogical writing”

There must be people who talk like that.

There must be people who think like that.

There must be people who will find nothing disturbing if read or hear such a sentence.

It's all the 1900s 'proper English' that's in the training material. There are indeed people who talk like that.

https://marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-i-dont-write-li...