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  • Not social media per sé, but definitely "the algorithm" that was introduced around ~2014 and has been tweaked by the likes of Cambridge Analytica to now provide us with endless ragebait.

    MySpace was social media and had none of the toxicity.

  • There's a damn good reason the price of gold went up by ~50% in about five years. And looking at the state of the world right now... buying more of it is probably not a bad idea. The more unstable the world, the greater the attraction of gold. The price will keep rising.

  • My deepest condolences. He was truly magnificent. Losing a pet is akin to losing a child. I'm currently in the process of saying goodbye to my oldest, it's likely a matter of days. But I wouldn't have it any other way; the joy they bring into our lives far outshines the grief when we have to let them go.

  • The effects that worry me most and are arguably the best studied are those on the human endocrine system. It unarguably interferes with our hormonal system, although it is not yet known to which degree or how it impacts each individual separately. Most likely this will go the way of cigarettes; with the world "knowing" it's poison but not taking action until the effects can absolutely no longer be ignored. By which time it will be too late for many.

  • Fairly sure they "saved" hundreds of thousands in wages only to lose millions to billions in material. An engineer working 80 hour weeks month after month isn't nearly going to be as productive as one doing 40hr weeks, no matter how many hours they put out. There's actually a point where it turns negative and every extra hour put in detracts from output, not to mention long-time wellbeing and development.

  • It's incredible, isn't it? I used to be so stoked on space exploration and all the science that goes with it. Still am, really, but my enthusiasm has cooled markedly once billionaires started throwing dick-shaped space missiles around for no other reason than being able to.

  • Musk is going to be PISSED when he finds out there is no bureau of physics he can subsume or destroy from within. I believe one Rush Stockton came to a similar conclusion, if he indeed had time for that conclusion to even form before perishing.