Use anki, it is a great tool for learning

As a side bonus, you now know who all the members of the thieves guild are.

There are levels.

Like all food, cheap mass produced version is generally bad. Home made with the correct ingredients can be wonderful.

Requiem for a Dream, you mean that movie!

I did this at climbing recently.

It was really hot and everyone was sweating; someone said “I better have some electrolytes”; without thought:

it’s what plants crave!

Well…a single mitocondrion is not really a powerhouse of anything except really simple single celled organisms.

Wikipedia:

The number of mitochondria in a cell vary widely by organism, tissue, and cell type. A mature red blood cell has no mitochondria, whereas a liver cell can have more than 2000.

It would be more correct to say “are the powerhouse of the cell”.

5 makes no sense outside of USA
20 What is phone bo? book?

19, 20 if NZ equivalent of AOL

Of course I do, sometimes I need expert advice!

I’d compare you to a colostomy bag, but they are at least useful!

Party planning is going well for president Trump’s upcoming 90th birthday; now in his 11th year of his second term. He said via his speaking box “this will be the greatest party, possibly ever in the history of the world, many people are saying it”

Thanks.

4 was such a big one; I knew I couldn’t do it justice in a shortish post. But it is a fundamental assumption that is very wrong.

You are correct; information asymmetry is one big driver of people making “non-rational” choices.

I see it as an unstable economic model; it will either devolve to capitalism with monopolies capturing most if not all sectors; or devolve into communism with a single state-like entity controlling everything. At which point; no matter which way it went; it will collapse under its own weight.

The way it swings will depend on the people who are there at the start.

The modern version of libertarianism that we see most of; is based off some really bad assumptions:

• (1) the market is perfect
• (2) barriers to entry are irrelevant
• (3) monopoly is not bad
• (4) humans are rational actors
• (5) if the market can’t address the issue, it is irrelevant

(1) The market is perfect:
This leads to the assumption that all regulation is bad; and that it merely works to reduce personal freedoms and the ability of the market to produce things in the most efficient way possible.

It completely ignores history and the reason regulatory bodies were created. It also ignores that the market is not a thing unto itself; but is composed of people (see 4).

(2) Barriers to entry are irrelevant:
This follows directly from (1); even the simplest business has some barrier to entry. You have to buy somethings that your business needs to run. These are real costs, and will provide a barrier. Obviously, the bigger the barrier then more entrenched players have an advantage (see 3)

(3) Monopoly is not bad:
This is a subtle acknowledgment that (1 & 2) are completely false. Basically it is a cope, that even if monopolies form; clearly this is the market producing the most efficient production framework.

This ignores history; the major monopolies that were broken up. The crazy shit that went on to protect their monopoly status.

(4) Humans are rational actors:
Most economic models assume that consumers will make rational choices; they will make the most economically rational choices. Libertarians (in my experience) love this.

This ignores so much of reality; it also assumes that the values of all are the same as their own.

There is really too much in this point to cover here. So many things that we actually do make no sense if you were a rational actor, such as brand loyalty.

(5) If the market can’t address the issue, it is irrelevant:
There are many things that the market cannot address; but in the libertarian model these things are ignored.

e.g. fire fighting; this is the classic example where a market solution didn’t work.

But equally; policing; education; major infrastructure; functional health systems. There are so many examples; where if left to a purely market solution, simply would not get done.

Keep your flexibility… Almost impossible to get out back once it’s gone.

You can do alright, but keeping it is soooooo much easier. It will never get back to what you had if you don’t work to keep it.

Kurzgesagt covered it nicely.

Because the soul is corrupted in the process.

It is a bit silly.

But the reason is; the faithful are the prize. The unfaithful are already damned; why would the demons bother with those already going to hell?

I’m a lifelong atheist; it is all just superstition; but the logic is not flawed in this case.

Well, he looks like a guy that can get things done!

I call this the curtain; when I imagine something, like a tree, I can’t see the tree. But it is still there; just like it is behind a black curtain, no images from the tree can be seen.

Yep…me for 40 years; that is just a metaphor to help think about things. Then one day reading about aphantasia…WTF!!!people can actually see, it’s not just a metaphor.

But then I had a conversation with my partner; she can combine flavors in her mind and know, pretty accurately, what stuff will taste like; it is one reason she loves cooking.

People can actually get a song stuck in their heads…again, not a metaphor.

Mind blown!!!

My 7yo can project images from his mind into the world; what the hell. He can “watch” movie when looking at the wall when he is in bed going to sleep; with the sounds and everything.

I am a 5 on this scale, and for all other senses. No smell, sound, touch or taste either.

So yea; it when I say my inner monologue is pretty much my whole thought process.

It totally blew my mind; when I realized others could see actual images in their heads.

The no inner monologue thing still boggles me. Considering my point of view; where it is all of my inner self.