as a parent who has attempted to navigate the complexities of social media and mental health and social norms and conformity, social media absolutely has an effect on how the emerging generations interact with their surrounding environments, and in my experience, all been negative. I understand this is colloquial, but the cloak wheel evidence of all of my peers additionally supports this. i’m sad, not that this has been banned and gone dark, but at the emotional and social uproar that this seems to have created.
i’m not normally a conspiracy theorist but i had in mind what trump announced earlier today. he’s going to parlay this into a way to being the millennial/gen z savior and it will work with great success. my gen z kids are already compromising their progressive values and throwing themselves at the feet of their lord and savior donald trump.
Not a bad thing to learn some conservative/libertarian values too.
Going by the spying argument, every US social media company should be banned elsewhere because all data is siphoned by US gov.
>Going by the spying argument, every US social media company should be banned elsewhere because all data is siphoned by US gov.
Yes. All big social media should be banned for just this reason, we already had Cambridge Analytica to know this. Banning TT for spying is just a good first step.
With this said, the US.g has had the power to ban business with entities for a long ass time and those laws are pretty well established, especially in the case with foreign entities.
i’m conflicted on this one. i’ve actively resisted management roles (except once where i was expected to be both primary IC and team lead) in favor of increasing both breadth and depth of IC expertise. i’m consistently top tier of my teams due to much this.
however, when it comes time to find a new place i find i’m overlooked because im older than most IC, don’t have the requisite experience for management (usually an ATS weed out), or my salary is above most “normal” IC bands. so now i regret not adding more management experience to my CV
I saw the writing on the wall a decade ago and moved into cloud consulting. I’m 50 now.
In 2016, I was a senior engineer on two projects—one involving hiring contractors and another leading a legacy transformation with a small team. I preferred the latter.
Next, I joined a startup, gained hands-on AWS experience, led AWS initiatives across teams, and focused on POCs/MVPs, actively avoiding team lead roles.
Then, I landed at AWS Professional Services as a mid-level consultant, leading smaller projects or workstreams in larger ones.
After leaving, I had a choice: a strategy role overseeing acquisitions or a staff software architect position at a consulting firm. I chose the latter.
Now, I either work with customers to define requirements and project plans (acting as a solution architect) or lead multiple workstreams, coordinating architects, sales, customers, and project management.
ultra-processed people by chris van tulleken hypothesizes that it's because the food is less nutritionally dense through extraction and reconstitution to more palatable and economically expedient forms. additionally, these forms require less effort to process by chewing so we're able to ingest more calories more quickly before our biochemistry can catch up and signal that we've consumed what we need. finally, the processing of food breaks down the original nutrient "matrix" in the way that our metabolism evolved to process it. we evolved to metabolize an apple, i believe was his example, by eating it raw and in its original form, together with all that constitutes an "apple" and not simply the composite of nutrients that we can extract from an apple. the hypothesis is that the whole apple influences our biochemical response differently than the extracted nutrients that have been reconstituted in a different form.
was going to reference ultra-processed people. i walked away with some of the same general sentiments that are here -
1. nova classification is imperfect, but is better than what we had before it and i hope that we can iteratively find something more refined
2. so many nutrition studies are so woefully biased because of sponsorship (and antipathy) that it's laborious to extract meaning from them because much of the effort is tracing the money and potential bias.
a lot of focus on the definition of "alive" in the comments, but i think that the weight of this rests on it being a step toward confirming the endosymbiotic relationship theory which states that mitochondria were potentially part of another eukaryotic cells carrying what would become mitogchodria were engulfed by another cell. this affected cellular development by outsourcing energy production for the cell itself. a lot of times the results seem "self-evident" but you still have to find evidence to support or reject a theory and this seems like a step in that direction.
I still think about the fact that we're this close to proving the protocell theory, proving that we can create life from no life. Last time I read about it was 2021, and I'm really curious when the day arises we succeed
“ That promise played upon the listener thinking the US had somehow … “
this is the summary of trumps entire campaign platform. i’m honestly not even sure he expressed a concrete policy on anything. he said he wants even more aggressive tariffs and will start deportation on day 1 (and was relatively nonchalant about some “legal” immigrants being caught up with “illegal” ones). cut dei.
there’s honestly no plan or policy, just a nebulous wish list that appeals to the base impulses of humanity.
the only real expectation that i have is that justices thomas and alito will retire early in his term to allow him to appoint new ones early enough to not allow democrats to stall like mcconnell did.
shame they’re either unwilling or unable to trace the source of the inflation.
also, it’s going to get worse for that person’s grocery bill under trump. the middle class will come under even greater short-term pressure over the next few years as trump’s “concepts of a plan” begin to materialize.
but hey, at lease my kitten is safe. just wish someone would do something about all the geese here.
