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Bruce Fanjoy - who beat Pierre Poilievre in the riding of Carleton - has officially sponsored a petition which calls on all party leaders to have a security clearance.
Sign here: tinyurl.com/yhu4hbth

People are like fish with their expenses.

They’ll grow to fit the tank they live in.

This is so true

My parents, who are still believers, also think it’s wrong to invest in the stock market because that’s also a form of “gambling”.

As a child I used to think saying phrases like “bet ya that will happen” was a sin.

Because I was indoctrinated into thinking that gambling was a sin. And I was taught that all forms of betting was gambling.

Funny, now that I look back at it.

TIL: Playing softy (piano) has some *harmonic* advantages over playing loudly (forte) on acoustic pianos because strings get slightly pitched up when they’re first struck.

Freshly tuned piano

I learned how to tune my own piano and it’s my new favourite thing to tinker with

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*them

Came here to say this last bit of the post.

A lot of times the great accomplishment of a bad person was not informed by or affected by the bad sides of that person.

Acknowledging the work shouldn’t imply we want to be just like the in every way.

Is temperature ultimately in relation to the local reference frame?

I think that “I don’t know” is better than settling for an explanation that’s full of holes.

“Yeah! We have a piano, it’s in the common room!”

The piano:

I have never thought about if my sphincter is “water tight”.

I imagine so? But what if? A sign like this really makes you question reality

Wooo, thanks! This is right up my alley

Putting on a hoodie backwards by accident is somewhat alarming if the hood is up

Is there some mathematical principle behind why my wired headphones are almost always tangled when I take them out?

Citation:
Interview with Scott Shapiro on the Mindscape Podcast with Sean Carrol (@seanmcarroll.bsky.social) from May 2023 where Scott is speaking of the history of computer viruses.

www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023...

Will the AI replacement of human coders lead to more computer viruses?

To paraphrase Scott Shapiro:
‘An over abundance of good coders without a job to go to led to a big increase in computer viruses in the 90s.’

#mindscapepodcast

Don’t forget to turn off your camera before you lean into it either

Text is my best medium for communication. It gives me the extra time to think through how I’m wording things, since I’m not quick on my feet.

Oh, I’d follow because I always enjoy your insights… but I had never got into TikTok, so I can’t see me using a similar platform

Maybe I’ll download it and follow you in case I change my mind down the road.

What’s this upscrolled thing?

So, to me, it *requires* a lack of education for these lessons from history to be ignored and enable history to repeat itself.

Old mistakes made had their own motivations. And it was a lack of foresight that allowed those mistakes to continue their course.

Similar motivations will reoccur and if the next generation feeling those motivations aren’t aware of what happened the last time, they’ll similarly lack the foresight.

The biggest factor in good behaviour in people is their parents setting a good example.

Religion doesn’t prevent parents from setting a bad example.

The bigger question for me is, why do so many people have *such* negative emotions about fellow humans? Why such a narrow in-group? Where is the empathy for people not like them?

They are ok with removing other people’s rights when they think it doesn’t apply to them or people they care about, but the real reason they actively promote it is that they are following their emotions and justifying afterward.

In this case, people don’t really mean that they want unlimited individual liberties for everyone.

They do want restrictions. They just pick and choose what those restrictions are and who they are applied to based on their personal preferences and biases.

Centralizing, in practice, does reduce emissions.

Because power generation stations are tuned to run at optimum efficiency.

Same how a gas generator is tuned to run at the best RPM to optimize electricity output, whereas a gas car engine needs variable RPM to accommodate a variety of speeds.