Nate Cox

Let’s not idolize Carter too much. I like a lot of what he did, and I obviously love his “old man building houses for the needy” golden years, but Carter was also the beginning of the dismantling of antitrust which is the primary reason we have wealth consolidation and market capture as the de facto norm today.

He started the ball rolling with a bizarre policy of “big businesses are good for everyone” which meant antitrust laws–while still on the books and our official policy–simply stopped being enforced. Regan capitalized on this but Carter started it.

No. Stop. Don’t.

That’s an impressively shortsighted and silly argument for someone trying so hard to sound smart.

I’m not sure why you think this is a conspiracy theory, it’s already documented as happening and is common in some segments. It’s not a secret.

Uber led the way on this years and years ago, with systems that would offer every driver a unique price for each ride based on their recent history. If you took every ride that came up you would get lower prices, but if you started declining rides you would get an increased rate to bait you back in… until you bit and took one where it would decrease the rate again.

Each driver being offered a different fare for the same customer is the kind of dynamic pricing that digital displays offer for grocery stores. Maybe at the busiest time of day prices are suddenly more expensive. Maybe when it’s hot outside cold drinks go up 20%. Maybe you don’t notice because you’re too busy thinking about all the other stress of daily life.

Guess we should all stop using cell phones too, the erlang that powers them is old as dirt and therefore must be bad.

Frustratingly plausible explanation.

This continues to be such a weird argument to me. They have a duty not to endanger people, but somehow sitting on the knowledge that a whole bunch of people are going to die without warning them isn’t harming them?

They sit on that knowledge because the government has demonstrated repeatedly that it will punish them for leaking attacks, not for some humanitarian reason.

I feel like most people have a mother, what a weird thing to call out.

/s, I hope obviously

It was a shocking revelation to me many years ago that most child sex abuse isn’t done by pedophiles, but it’s probably important to acknowledge.

Just like “regular” sex abuse, it has little to do with attraction and everything to do with power and control.

I have a pixel phone being shipped to me now, can’t wait to post one of these too.

I’m not an expert on this, but I have listened to people talk who are and claim that you can pretty clearly link cognitive decline with the introduction of technology effectively everywhere.

I’m sure it’s not as clear as “tech bad” but it does seem like screen time and deferring the manual parts of learning to computers is not great for us.

I get what you’re saying, but this isn’t a dig at Gen Z. For as long as we’ve been testing, which is like 50 years I think, the new generation has outperformed the previous one and that’s a good thing.

Having this generation underperform means that we have failed them and we need to figure out exactly how we fucked up. The evidence is really strong that technology in the classroom is a significant contributor.

There was no need to name the three dissenting justices, we all knew who they were automatically.

Free market totally regulating itself like we’ve always been told.

Did you find one?

“I don’t have anything to hide” is such an insidious little lie. A colloquial fib we feel compelled to utter as a mock defense, like asserting innocence will assuage suspicion.

We all have something to hide. Probably many, many things to hide. Even just in the narrow context of the law, there are hundreds of thousands of laws that apply to any one of us at any given time, and you are almost certainly breaking some of them without even knowing it.

Personal security through privacy is so very, very important. I wish more people could see that.

You can’t pull one over on these kids. They have tons of free time and none of the responsibility of adulthood, they’re gonna bypass whatever the fuck you put in front of them.

I was that kid that refused to be constrained and I’m so fucking proud of this generation for carrying on the legacy.

Fuck, that gives me the ick big time.

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

• George Carlin.

Well, teenage me would have said the answer is “stupid”.

Then I grew up and realized that I was full of myself and everyone isn’t stupid.

Then the last 10 or so years happened and I now I sorta think teenage me was onto something there.