we live in very special times. take a step back and appreciate how transformative the recent years are.

for a billion years, life existed on earth. in the last 200 years, we invented electricity, electric cars and transistors.

it’s me me meee right?

Right now I can think of the buddhist “tale of the bug”.

Two (human) friends died and were reborn. One in heaven, the other as a dung beetle (a type of bug) on a dung pile.

The guy in heaven tried to “help” his friend by going down to Earth and carrying his friend to the skies. But his friend refused, because the dung pile was now his home, and he didn’t want to leave at any cost. Only then the guy realized that it is not heaven that makes you happy, but finding the place that you’re destined for.

I disagree. There’s a lot of reasons why people don’t have children, including:

• emotional devastated youth (abandoned by parents, addicted to smartphones, misunderstood by society)
• people can’t find partners for this reason
• too much stress from too much work
• wages are barely keeping up with inflation, and I project they will in fact not keep up in the long term in the US due to missing labor protections and decreasing demand for labor.
• rising cost of living because politically, nobody really cares about the population.

edit: sorry i realized i made these points US-specific but you were talking about russia, sorry.

To raise their motivation to come to work, right?

To raise their motivation to come to work, right?

insert padme meme

Honestly, I think it’s good that you told them what you think of them.

anything that can be eaten and reached from bed.

don’t use violence, if you value your life. violence is for idiots.

there’s the tolerance paradox: you should use the least amount of violence that keeps society (and your own life) stable.

short question - do you mean Cleveland, OH, or Cleveland, TN, or Cleveland, TX, or Cleveland, GA?

on linux debian, it’s ctrl+shift+v

the way I look at it, you’re wasting your resources And making unnecessary enemies if you interfere with the sex live of other people.

it was a joke

i use linux btw

Am I going to have to worry that my daughter, when she reaches a curious age, starts exploring with vegetables?

No. Worrying doesn’t help anyone. Just relax.

crowdstrike? did i miss something?

intelligence as an abstract trait

I read something about this two days ago, it’s called “g factor” or something. And yes, it follows a normal distribution.

Apparently, it’s very similar in animals than it is in humans.