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New comment by readthenotes1 in "Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior"

readthenotes1 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:52:58 +0000

The sad thing is how many people will believe this and repeat it. Kind of like the Stanford Prison or Milgram experiment, Or pretty much most anything that's come out of sociology

New comment by readthenotes1 in "ICE Has a $2M Contract for Spyware That Can Hack Phones Without a Click"

readthenotes1 — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:23:37 +0000

Ehud Baraj, wasn't he a close confidante of Epstein?

New comment by readthenotes1 in "Exit the Cave"

readthenotes1 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 23:28:55 +0000

'This masculine urge to “grind”'

I recall recently reading an essay by a woman who described at one point how important simply trudging through was.

Not sure that "masculine" is apposite here

New comment by readthenotes1 in "GrapheneOS says Pixel 11 has MTE support after all"

readthenotes1 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:16:05 +0000

The thread made it sound like it was more- that the actual release of pixel 11 did not have the firmware to support MTE, not that it was just disabled.

Is the thread wrong or did I misread it?

New comment by readthenotes1 in "Marx, Keynes, and AI"

readthenotes1 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:40:57 +0000

Weird it was disproven because that's exactly what I'd do, and what many people who retired early, or in their young 60s, do.

New comment by readthenotes1 in "Playa Phone"

readthenotes1 — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:24:21 +0000

Did the original founders intend burning Man to be a parody on the trash heap that is 21st century human civilization?

New comment by readthenotes1 in "Norway Shrugged (2024)"

readthenotes1 — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 02:00:28 +0000

The author addressed some of his concerns with how tax dollars were being spent in the article. And he predicted your reply as well.

New comment by readthenotes1 in "Does the Sumerian King List Align with Paleoclimate Events?"

readthenotes1 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 12:44:36 +0000

That it's ludicrous makes the effort more interesting!

New comment by readthenotes1 in "Study reveals UnitedHealth's profit margins four times what it claimed [pdf]"

readthenotes1 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 20:10:04 +0000

That 80% problem also means that there's no incentive for an executive to reduce medical costs because that would then reduce the 20% hen can allocate to henself.

I'm pretty sure that's why UHC gives people on ACA $100 gift card just for visiting their PCP. That inflates the 80% bucket.

New comment by readthenotes1 in "The journalist facing an $800 daily fine to keep her sources secret"

readthenotes1 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:37:56 +0000

That's why there are specific protections for government whistleblowers?

This case, though, is entirely different. It's not someone reporting that the government is doing something heinous that needs the light of day, it's a government official abusing their position of trust.

How would you like it if someone started posting your tax forms? It's not much different to me than the popo who abuse Flock.

That's what makes it such a good case. Neither the traitors (Chen and her husband are both US citizens) nor the leakers are heroes.

New comment by readthenotes1 in "The journalist facing an $800 daily fine to keep her sources secret"

readthenotes1 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:31:12 +0000

Who would have thought that Fox News would be an upright citizen in this?

It shows someone there has some motivation beyond this quarter's financial disclosure.

New comment by readthenotes1 in "DOJ prosecutes single FOIA dodger while defending systemwide evasion"

readthenotes1 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:43:15 +0000

Usually when I try to see what the previous administration did when someone was complaining about the current, I get loads of support that " this is the way it's always been"

For some reason when I asked about Biden all I got was

https://www.foiaadvisor.com/foia-blog/2026/7/27/foia-news-pr...

New comment by readthenotes1 in "Peppermint oil reduces blood pressure by 8.48 mmHg in small study"

readthenotes1 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:56:07 +0000

8/130 is ~ 6%

That is significant.

Of course, you would have to do a real study to see side effects versus current blood pressure medication, but if there is no real harm in peppermint, the 6% drop over an adult lifetime might make a large difference in vascular health.

New comment by readthenotes1 in "One corner of China’s internet is insisting that the Tang Dynasty never existed"

readthenotes1 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:31:38 +0000

Many of the people I know that believe odd things do use reason, but they only accept certain things as facts and discard other things as dysfactual.

Sometimes the things they accept is facts are merely delusions, of course, but that doesn't mean they don't reason. It just means that their reason is based on delusions.

Otoh, I also have met a number of people that when you ask "because why" freeze up as they simply have no basis at all and don't understand themselves why they came to hold a position.

And we can't forget that wood and witches are the only things that float because Science.

New comment by readthenotes1 in "One corner of China’s internet is insisting that the Tang Dynasty never existed"

readthenotes1 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:25:47 +0000

The Tang Dynasty is hardly primordial though.

New comment by readthenotes1 in "Blueprint for how to be self sufficient in a 1/4 acre backyard"

readthenotes1 — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 17:54:36 +0000

I don't see cows or Chickens so none of my people

New comment by readthenotes1 in "The Covid-19 scandal is still unfolding"

readthenotes1 — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 06:38:55 +0000

Sweden Has that many guns?

New comment by readthenotes1 in "Paul Atkins misreads Adam Smith and the American founding"

readthenotes1 — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 06:18:30 +0000

I'd hope someone who agreed with the ideas in the article would read it and revisit their opinions...

New comment by readthenotes1 in "[dead]"

readthenotes1 — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 06:13:06 +0000

And yet I wouldn't want to fund a paper for the military full of DC gossip and AP News reprints.

At $40T in debt and officially at peace, I also don't want to fund more military spending.

New comment by readthenotes1 in "US debt has hit $40tn - Will that be a wake-up call?"

readthenotes1 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:58:46 +0000

Clinton didn't have the line item veto long enough to make the difference. What he had was a booming economy and a republican Congress and the ability to get along with them.