Want to feel dumb? Read the comments here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/znn1nt/the_truly_scary_smart/
A moment after your child is born, doctors offer you a **one-time pill** for your newborn that would greatly reduce the probability that they would end up at the **bottom of the social ladder** (criminal, incarcerated, homeless, addicted, suicidal, murdered, etc). Only side effect: the pill would also greatly reduce the probability that they join the **social and economic elite** (high-rank politician, big company executive, top sportsperson, very rich person, popular intellectual, etc). Assume the pill is known to be safe and effective.
_Would you give that pill to your child?_
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I'm getting my wisdom teeth removed tomorrow, and I have to choose between Nitrus Oxide or being smacked on the back of the head with a wooden canoe paddle to knock me out. It's an ether/ oar situation.
> _“No results found. Please double check for typos in the handle, and ensure that you follow at least a few people to seed the search. Otherwise, try again later as Mastodon may throttle requests.”_
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/cc @freemo @javifields
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I've just spent 30 minutes coding something which will save me 45 seconds each time I use it.
So far I've run it ~25 times.
I have a feeling this will be the most productive thing I do for the whole year 😂
My recommended first step towards a saner, more productive public conversation about #drugs: stop talking about certain (legal) drugs as if they were not, in fact, “drugs”
#BasketballAndSports #alcohol #DrugLegalisation #news #media
You're looking at the rendering of a digital photograph of a piece of furniture featuring the sculpture of a helmet featuring a human face
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French Makes No Sense: Je T’aime ♥️
🐦🔗: https://nitter.hostux.net/loicsuberville/status/1608465263120228353
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Some books being elevated to the public domain from Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Hermann Hesse, Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, etc.
also some movies like Metropolis
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#Browsers, time to bring back the RSS/Atom feed icon displayed when a website has an RSS/Atom feed. 
It's long past-due!
Yes, to some extent we know why men die ~6 years earlier than women. Yet the relative influence of all factors (biology, lifestyle choices, societal expectations, forms of violence) is unclear.
I think that more research is needed to resolve that.
And that regardless of what the primary causes are, more attention and resources should be devoted to closing that gap — relative to what is spent on equivalent gender differences working in the opposite direction (eg, the wage gap, women in #STEM, female representation at the top of organisations). There is a huge imbalance there.
I am always amazed by this: average life span decreasing in ~7 months makes headlines, but a much bigger difference, that between men and women (10× larger) is usually mentioned in a sentence buried in a paragraph towards the end of the article, with no signs of alarm or displays of curiosity about the reasons for the gap or about what's being done to close it…
> _“Men and women saw a similar decline in life expectancy last year, but women are living, on average, until over 79 years old, which is about **six years longer than men**.”_
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One of the benefits of #Mastodon being #OpenSource: The EU can help make it more secure.
"Awards of up to EUR 5000 are available for finding security vulnerabilities in LibreOffice, LEOS, Mastodon, Odoo and CryptPad, open source solutions used by public services across the European Union. There is a 20% bonus for providing a code fix for the bugs they discover."
https://commission.europa.eu/news/european-commissions-open-source-programme-office-starts-bug-bounties-2022-01-19_en
#EU #OpenCollaboration
