A former KGB agent claims that professors who teach Marxist-Leninist ideas were viewed by Soviet intelligence as ‘useful idiots’ who would eventually be discarded

.The Ocean Cleanup is now intercepting 2 to 5% of global plastic pollution. I think we should be able to double again this year.

Tradition: experiments that worked

I never understood the shenanigans around Covid if only on the basis of this particular graph. Masks and lockdowns were clearly useless against Covid as there was no difference in mortality between France and Sweden - but the measures *were* very good at destroying the economy,

You might’ve seen this bug before where the hover state keeps flickering. The fix is to separate the trigger from the effect. Listen for hovers on the parent, but animate a child element instead. This ensures that the hover area stays consistent.

Ray Dalio just said the quiet part out loud. "If you depreciate the money, it makes everything look like it's going up." The Stock Market boom is a lie… We are witnessing the death of the Dollar, not the growth of the economy. 99% of people have no idea.

Jake Paul accidentally explained the entire wealth inequality debate in 30 seconds. Most people think billionaires have billions sitting in bank accounts. They look at Musk’s net worth hitting $700B and imagine Scrooge McDuck swimming in cash. The reality: Musk himself says

dear schizos and conspiracy theorists. the good news is you were right. the bad news is you were right

Formulating the problem and the solution are essentially the same thing

prediction cone/safe triangle — this is something we take so much for granted in modern day native UIs. but it's not the same for most web-based dropdown menus. it took me a while to implement this here. Amazon, macOS, Windows all implement some version of this.

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most important lesson from years of distributed systems: keep everything on a single machine for as long as humanly possible

There are different ways to deal with problems.

Suffering is inherent to our world. Yet it must remain within reasonable limits and for reasonable causes — and what counts as “reasonable” is for us to decide.

If chemtrails were always there, Bob Ross would have painted them.

The Year: 2022 The Problem: App-based food delivery drivers don't earn enough. The Solution: Seattle's Pay Up law, promising $26.40 an hour for drivers—before mileage and tips. Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?

Awareness is a curse

Once again this graph has a hold on me