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what do you think of the companies exist to make money argument

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  • Sounds like a good reason radically restructure (if not entirely dismantle) those companies.

    We should make medicine to treat sick people. We should build houses to shelter the unhoused. We should grow food to feed the hungry.

    The fact that most companies currently responsible for food and housing and medicine are primarily motivated by shareholder value instead of effective community service represents a structural conflict of interest.

    • ‘There is no alternative’: Cornel West, presidential hopeful, is not backing down

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  • “One of the problems of the two party system is what Margaret Thatcher used to call ‘Tina’ – there is no alternative,” he said, referring to a phrase the former British prime minister used to defend her government’s stringent economic policies in the early 1980s.

    “The Democratic party has this crypto-fascist element when it comes to mass incarceration, when it comes to dropping bombs … when it comes to surveillance, when it comes to violation of individual liberties vis-a-vis the national security state.”

    I mean, he has a point. However, I don't know that acknowledging the flaws in a two-party system, then running in such a way that'll likely invoke those very same flaws is a winning strategy.

    It seems to me like someone in his shoes would be more effective running for congress / rallying people around reworking our current first-past-the-post voting system & electoral college.

    • Neuro-biology of trans-sexuality : Prof. Robert Sapolsky

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  • This whole class is on YouTube if you search "Stanford human behavioral biology". Highly recommend it!

    • The Planet, some string and a bell.

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  • I did some numbers because it sounded fun.

    Earth's diameter is 41.804 million feet. I'm not sure if you meant that or Earth's circumference when you said "Earth's surface", but I figure either one is gonna get us a really big number.

    The first result I can find for string comes in a pack that weighs 2.89oz and contains 328 feet of string.

    Using that as our standard, you would need 127,452 packs of string (assuming you find a way to perfectly attach them without wasting any length on knots).

    127,452 * (2.89 / 16) = 23,021 lbs of string total.

    So if we ignore the string stretching, compressing, or breaking, you'd only need to be able to pull 11ish tons of string to ring the bell!

    EDIT:

    Just for fun: Assuming the motion of the string travels at the speed of sound (I have no idea if it actually would, it just sounds right), there would be about 10.5 hours between you pulling the string and the bell ringing on the other side.

    • What are your programming hot takes?

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  • Tools that use a GUI are just as good (if not better) than their CLI equivalents in most cases. There's a certain kind of dev that just gets a superiority complex about using CLI stuff.

    • Thoughts on the wasp and pillar discourses?

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  • Tuscan looks like the bottom of a chess piece.

    • The "just google it" mantra has probably held back quite a lot of interesting conversations and debate

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  • Googling something is probably the most efficient way to find an answer, in the same way that flavorless nutrient shakes are probably the most efficient way to fuel your body. Asking questions and conversing about the answers is fun. It's madness to abandon an entire genre of human conversation just because some search engine exists.