TIL: Today I Learned

[Lexicus]

Quarreling as socialising skill

Probably figuring other ways to deal with social conflicts than quarreling, too

 

[Birdjaguar]

I think it was also the first rock musical on Broadway.

It was the first and set a high bar.

 

[Takhisis]

Quarreling as socialising skill

Probably figuring other ways to deal with social conflicts than quarreling, too

It's like sex: you only know what it's about when you get physical about it.

 

[Hrothbern]

It's like sex: you only know what it's about when you get physical about it.

use it or lose it

 

[Sommerswerd]

use it or lose it

sounds kinda rape'ey

 

[Hrothbern]

sounds kinda rape'ey

was meant for all social skills

 

[Sommerswerd]

was meant for all social skills

Not just raping you mean?

 

[Farm Boy]

Gots ta brush up on the full battery guise. A goodness here for sure, but look what we can do without bothering about warrants anymore! Wow, I think.

http://time.com/5256835/how-did-golden-state-killer-genealogy-websites-online-dna-police/

 

[Birdjaguar]

Gots ta brush up on the full battery guise. A goodness here for sure, but look what we can do without bothering about warrants anymore! Wow, I think.

http://time.com/5256835/how-did-golden-state-killer-genealogy-websites-online-dna-police/

Democratization of data....

 

[Farm Boy]

Oh for sure. Democratization of identity too, but then that's deeply conservative. Goodness and badness all rolled up.

 

[Birdjaguar]

But big companies can't make as much money that way. I'd prefer a button that says "Buy my data for this much money: $_____ per year."

 

[Farm Boy]

Lol! Now that might be a rationale for a basic income, seeing as I can't imagine it's ever going to be voluntary to press the button. It's already pressed for kids that are yet to be born.

Gattacaaaaaaaa!

...or something.

 

[Lexicus]

 

[Synobun]

It's time for Calexit.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

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Once Trump's done with you, you'll be back to subsinence farming and you'll have to fight fascist Rome fanboys for control of power plants.

Also, something about the Silicon Valley bubble and how GDP measurement is stupid.

 

[Mouthwash]

Good riddance.

 

[Lexicus]

Also, something about the Silicon Valley bubble and how GDP measurement is stupid.

It is stupid to some degree. But California has a pretty strong real economy. It's wracked by inequality and the various inefficiencies that spring from that, of course, but still.

 

[Lohrenswald]

Gotta say I'm sceptical to the continued economic prosperity of a place that needs to import water

 

[Cutlass]

Gotta say I'm sceptical to the continued economic prosperity of a place that needs to import water

Says a person living in a place that has to import oil.

 

[Synobun]

Drought + it being expensive to invest in desalination plants and grey-water recycling regulation + being part of a nation that is mostly not suffering from drought = not needing to do anything except import.