I think with a lot of stuff like that, most people don’t care. Like I assume it’s the red and white side that you’re talking about but idk, and for sure I never see racists flying either set of colors which is why I think no one cares.

The Confederate flag didn’t fall out of favor primarily due to its meaning in the 1800’s, but moreso due to the contemporary associations.

Further evidence that we’re all just billions of microbes standing on top of each other in a trench coat.

This Week In Linux or BSD Now for tech I guess. -

The Iron Dice for history. German/WWII

Politics is hard, even non-American. Left or right?

Not that I recall. The trick to answering the question, I think, is to say a few nice things about about the organization, or the position, or yourself.

“I’m interested in working for a dynamic institution like Yoyodyne Industries…” or “As you can see from my resume I have a wealth of experience in spline reticulation…”

I found it was useful to write out my own cheat sheets of answers for common/likely interview questions, including some “personal experience”/“tell me about a time you…” type questions just to drill with.

It’s honestly trickier with overtly shittier jobs/orgs, like sales, food service, or cleaning. Kinda hard to say why you love Target or Walmart or McDonald’s. You can touch on how you like the product, but best to circle back to talking about your work ethic.

“Because I am capable of doing the work and can commute to the work location in a manageable amount of time.”

I am perpetually shocked at how many people don’t understand marginal tax rates, and I truly think ignorance of them is used to confuse people about how wages work.

Best answer.

A lot of people cheat at some point in their lives, but most have the good sense to be less flippant about it. People who act like this are not the kind of people that you would want a relationship with anyway. You’re not rare, but they’re not common either.

Man I’m trying to get through my cringe adult phase, I don’t have time to dwell on the past.

At least Shane grows a little.

Ha, I forgot about Nostr. That might actually be a useful application for blockchain.

Diffusion and overall brightness do make a difference as well.

Shorter wavelengths hit different though. That’s why we have blue light filtering glasses, Redshift, etc.

What was the appeal of Plex anyway?

That isn’t just an unpopular opinion, but a very interesting one. Bravo.

Eugenics is a system of controlling reproduction. Many eugenesists may have believed that being a member of a certain race or having certain congenital diseases made one inferior (and thus unworthy of the right to reproduce), but the basic principle some people should reproduce and some people shouldn’t.

Like why do you think people are against eugenics? Because they’re afraid we might accidentally bring an end to genetic diseases? That there might be too many blonde people? That they care deeply about people who don’t exist yet’s rights to be some particular way?

So yeah, when you propose a rule controlling reproduction…

If you want to have a system which determines which people will or won’t make terrible families, only permitting the former to reproduce, you want a system of social control. If children were delivered randomly by storks it would be something else. Aviation regulations? Avian regulations? Something like that I guess.

Not all social control is bad. Society and its institutions often limit what people can do. But of late we’ve mostly determined that restricting reproduction should be used sparingly, not defaultly, and I tend to agree.

I mean I guess not every aspect of eugenics was bad per se, but I’m not so sure about this level of social control.

What general topic or category are you looking for? There’s a lot out there.

Esperanto ne estas perfekta, sed ĝi estas la plu populara planlingvo en tuta la mondo, kaj ĝi estas sufiĉe bona.

The most common first name in the world is Maria, and the most common last name in the world is Wang. Erfo the most common name in the world is Maria Wang.