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then it is even worse than I feared! they are both worsening or increasing their own chances of hemorrhoids AND role modeling for their kids that spending a long time on the toilet is OK.

> most of the immigrants.... are from places to the south. and hence "brown"? What does that terminology even mean?

You want to train kids from a young age not to spend a long time on the toilet, which reading encourages. It consistently leads to hemorrhoids. That's just a fact.

Totally agree. What do you think about all the money and energy that European countries spend on propping up their traditions and cultural heritage VS just letting it evolve "naturally" as d…

I tried following the logic in that writeup, but it seems like an incoherent rant. What is the author's point and what is their reasoning?

> If I were European then I guess I'd find this rather more worrying than brown people moving in What does "brown people" mean? It seems like such a superficially racist characteriza…

Not just your phone. Don't read books or magazines or do other things. Get in, take your dump, be done in max 6mins, get up. Don't strain.

Perhaps, though my reading between the lines is that they think trust is so low because the US won't help defend Europe and might invade Europe, even though, despite rhetoric, all actions point t…

> It's hard to see how much worse it could get, short of outright invasion or allying with Russia. Why would the US ally with Russia, who is a Chinese and Iranian ally? That's just uncrit…

> wouldn't that imply India, and then later Africa are going to be superpowers? Conventionally, a continent isn't a superpower. A country is.

> > Will my kids be an ethnic minority in their own country in the next generation - and if so, what's that going to be like for them? > What about this is an essential concern for you? …

Oh. Being buried in hierarchy does not inspire hope.

> China has basically commoditized LLMs What do you mean by "basically"? Why are Anthropic's and OpenAI's annualized revenue about $50B each? LLMs need massive amounts of comput…

Does Europe have an equivalent program?

I wonder why it took so long.

Absolutely! As a part-owner in a company that’s exactly what I expect. I’m not putting my money in a company because I’m feeling generous. I have to prioritize my and my family’s own financial well be…

> illegal content, while allowing X to remain amid a flurry of nonconsensual deepfakes. Isn’t that the answer right in the author’s first paragraph? Apple has to do something about things according…

> knowledge work is mostly pointless Really, noemamag?

> One person does it, they get bullied by the government into suicide, a company worth trillions does it and “…during a UK government cybersecurity evaluation.”

> knowledge work is mostly pointless Really, noemamag?