He was a shitbag and he ruined barrens chat.

A large part of inflation is just tech oligarchs like amazon and rent fixing companies deliberately raising prices. Monopolists will continue to raise prices because they can and cash supply won’t affect that.

Yeah as concerning as the present historical moment is to live through, i’m really excited about the light it can shine on the past - what imperial transitions look like.

This is such a good episode! “Please remain in the relaxation grotto? Were crueller words ever spoken?!”

In 2015, Tu Youyou won the nobel in medicine for a breakthrough anti-malarial drug her team discovered by compiling and testing tcm malarial remedies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisinin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_Youyou

I spent like 6 months in 雲南 and 18 in 台灣 but yeah i’m not familiar with 台山.

But for years afterwards people who i talked to would ask me about thailand, even a close friend took like 6 months to understand no, not thailand, somewhere else. I think most places you could speak cantonese and say you’re from cambodia and no one would bat an eyelid 😆

Or I could pretend to be from Taiwan… most people probably can’t tell anyways, its just the same Mandarin to them

If you say you’re from taiwan, i think many people will say, “oh i love thai food!” 😆

only apply to TCM products that are injected intramuscularly or intravenously, not to the remedies widely taken by mouth

The potential harm from injections seems like a good reason to tackle them. I suspect wider TCM has too much support to be worth taking on.

In fairness, TCM has produced a nobel prize winning medicine, so forcing more legit research on it could produce some interesting results - in addition to dispelling a lot of potentially harmful nonsense.

Some people won’t eat tongue because their culture doesn’t eat tongue and when asked they come up with reasons.

“We just don’t, it’s a cultural thing” is so often the correct explanation, but our brains usually spin up reasons that are tidy, “just so” or satisfying even if completely off base.

A percentage of viewers will need the product or service, and when that times comes they are far more likely to remember the advertised one.

The hills were alive

It’s going to make snr devs get fired, surely?

They either refuse to sign off when boss wants them to and get fired or sign off and get fired when ai code they signed off on causes issues.

Lol no.

Who are we trying to impress with how un-creased are sheets briefly are before we sleep on them? Ourselves? We’re much too smart to be impressed by something so irrelevant.

Fun! Yeah i think that’s what graeber & wengrove would call “play heirarchy” - temporary, rotating or situational relations rather than the perminant domination of heirarchy.

That doesn’t sound like a heirarchy, if you can all just do your thing.

If the manager or frontman tells everyone else what to do and you can’t decide for yourself or tell them what to do, that would be hierarchic.

The boss picture is missing a whip - all heirarchy is coercive.

The leader picture should be identical to the boss one except the leader should be saying “We’re all pulling together!” while whiping.

But I don’t do anything unless prompted by a human.

Most social mammals mirror the behaviour of high status individuals.

That’s why i think celebrity endorsements should be illegal, it’s basically abusing an exploit, a known flaw in how our brains work that routinely leads to sub-optimal decision making.

Got the muchies for a california cheeseburger.

I lean toward that interpretation but am open to being wrong.

I work in mental health and was surprised by the amount of people in the field who believe marijuana is part of the problem, not just a symptom of it.