nickhammes

I agree with the sentiment of what you're saying, but I think this is actually not quite the right rule.

Some things schools teach don't really have a clear factuality, like skills. Sometimes it's hard to determine the facts, like you might encounter in high school literature class, "what did the author mean when they said this" might have multiple reasonable answers, but the author died, so we can't ask them. Sometimes there are even cases where we teach things that aren't accurate, because the nuance is too complex, like teaching 3rd graders that you can't divide by zero, because introductory calculus isn't developmentally appropriate for their math skill. Even simplifications like "sex chromosomes are XX or XY, and that makes you a boy or girl" that can cause harm if people don't learn the nuance, are an example of teaching things that aren't really accurate.

I would say schools should seek to teach kids the baseline knowledge to understand the world, and the skills to sort fact from fiction, to analyze why people say and do what they do, and continue to learn and grow in the information landscape we live in.

I feel like this isn't a great explanation of nihilism, someone might think it functionally is materialism, or some sort of skepticism.

Nihilism is the rejection of meaning, ethics, or knowledge as things that actually exist objectively. An existentialist accepts some form of nihilism, and grapples with its consequences. One key idea across existentialist thinkers is that Existence precedes Essence, that existing is always shaping who you become, rather than some kind of intrinsic being that nihilism would reject.

Yeah that's the surname used by members of their family who don't get the Prince/Princess title, since princesses and princes don't need surnames for some reason.

To be fair, we'll probably get there at some point. There are some reasonable large size/viewing distance pairs where 8k can make a difference.

But you're right, we're not there, and we're not especially close. Maybe in 8-10 years, it'll be a more serious endeavor. But it's probably not an upgrade most people will get much out of then.

He's really good at making topics you might not expect to be interested in into really good videos. Dishwashers, heat pumps, and so many more

Also the Soviet Union during the Cold War was much closer than Russia is today. Part of Germany was under Soviet control, and the Western capitol was Bonn, several hundred kilometers from the border. Modern Russia is a bit further than that, with a whole county between them.

If you dig far enough, there's a chance you even find some sexist bullshit in there somewhere

It also compounds over generations; if you're the child of first cousins, you really should seek someone who it would take genealogy research to find a common ancestor with. If you're not, it's still a serious risk to have kids with anyone too closely related, but level ramifications seem really harsh, especially thinking of situations like adoption where someone could end up there accidentally. And to your point, it isn't the only way to end up with that kind of risk profile.

He did just reacquire ownership of GOG. Porting software can take time, but this actually might happen in the near future, at least a beta version.

I've found that a lot of recruiters who reach out are offering really mediocre jobs, and probably have one themselves. I had a recruiter email, text and call me within 2 hours for a role he had, which would be paid about half of what I'd been making when I was recently unemployed. Starting at 8:30am my time. When he told me what the role paid, I basically told him I'm not desperate, but he clearly is.

I think I've had one recruiter reach out in the last year about a role that isn't at least a 30% pay cut, and that was one with a step up in responsibilities, with a small pay cut.

At first I was offended that they were even bothering to reach out for super entry level roles, when I'm clearly not at that level, but I think they're just spraying and praying, and probably paid mainly based on how many people they get into jobs.

The battery in my desktop is just enough to keep time for a couple of years if it's powered off. Totally insufficient

They believed what they did about Jewish people, the queer community, and communists, about as much as modern MAGAs do about the queer community, immigrants, and "Marxists", and for basically the same reasons. The Nazis practiced cruel violence for propaganda purposes too. There are differences to be sure, but I don't think you'll find they're not huge or terribly ideological.