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I have some small ideas here.

1) out-group members and their strange and unnatural behaviour;

“1) out-group members and their strange racial appearance and unnatural behaviour;”

“we ≠ me” means “I do not identify with this “we” or group”; “you ≠ me” represents a situation of unfairness

The ≠ symbol both in ‘we ≠ me’  and ‘you ≠ me’ makes sense,…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
My early days as an engineer was focused on writing embedded assembly code for 8 and 16 bit processors.

My first job out of the Air Force was at TRW, which I left pretty quickly. I tested radar phase delay boards for Army tank applications while most of the testing department took hours at a time off in the break room, and my boss…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
We always figured half that company was designing viruses.

I think way back then, that may have been part of our secret eastern bloc division. 🙂

I have to say, those were awesome days, working in the project management software division (Time Line, specifically). I thought it would be really boring, but I fell in love with it,…[Read more]

I’m comfortable being alone with my own thoughts, to a fault. I don’t lift a finger until I’ve over-planned and over-big pictured it, and then my day is an unfocused mess of jabbing at this or that thing I’ve planned and am still planning, with unexpected diversions taking over to boot, although (imo fortunately) few of those diversions are for…[Read more]

I’m undecided, because I see 1) both sides of the discussion overgeneralizing to the point of miscommunication (although the conservative/religionist is obviously more stubborn about it); 2) it depends on the history of the relationship, e.g. what if they’re (say) brothers, or have other reasons to maintain a relationship?

Still, generally…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
Time for a government takeover?

Yes, or something like that. There is a whole lot of angry “discussion” blaming PG&E, which is appropriate to some extent, but I’ve seen very little discussion on how to not expect/trust PG&E to solve this epic crisis. We’re seeing anger on one side suing them for outdated powerline infrastructure…[Read more]

Reg on a related note in case you haven’t seen it:

The Mysterious Vaping Illness That’s ‘Becoming an Epidemic’

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Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Can you tell me how far north the evac order extends if you get a chance.

Yikes, I’m sorry I missed that question! One way is to google ‘pg&e psps map‘ or similar, partly because the data sources and presentations evolve from year to year (or faster), so don’t expect any link to last longer than one event. (psps =…[Read more]

Caption: This photo of newlyweds Katie and Curtis Ferland at their wedding at Chateau St. Jean in Kenwood went viral when photographer Karna Roa posted it on Facebook. The photo was taken in late afternoon on Saturday, Oct. 26, with smoke from the Kincade wildfire, bearing down on Healdsburg and Windsor, in the background creating an…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
Consciousness is one of the inputs used in the preconscious mind. We are conscious of getting on a bike and getting the hang of it, but all the consciousness is there is as an input to the preconscious mind, which is where things are DONE and not just perceived.

Human consciousness in particular is extremely (if not unnaturally)…[Read more]