The type of person that wants someone that can’t think for them selves…isn’t really that high on the mental flag pole of life.
But the saying is code for a bunch of stuff, I really doubt that they mean they are searching for someone with severe brain damage and has trouble performing even the basic functions of life.
No this is the look you get when re-reading the code you wrote as a grad…with the perspective of 15 years experience.
I was showing a new person examples of good and terrible code…they asked who wrote the code, I said that both were me about 13 years apart. It turns out that experience matters and you get better over time.
***A push to legalise all drugs in New Zealand hasn’t come from stoners and the strung out - it’s backed by 155 academics and experts who say the current regime doesn’t work ***...
I’m pretty sceptical about ground effect planes, there’s a very good reason why they’ve never really taken off, despite so many countries and organisations giving them a try over the years, but I’d love to know what everyone else thinks.
So in the whole anti-natalism/pro-natalism conversation (which I’m mostly agnostic/undecided on, currently), my friend who is a pro-natalist, argued that the success/stability of our world economy is dependent on procreating more children each year than the previous year, so that we not only replace the numbers of the people...
Statistically 2.1 births/woman is required to replace the current population.
As for the economic argument, your friend is somewhat correct, except that economies don’t just grow or shrink based on population (it is a major driver). There are too many factors at play to make such a statement.
The finite earth argument is interesting, whilst we are the biggest danger to the biosphere in the short run, we are also the biggest hope. In the long run the biosphere will sort itself out after we are out of the picture.
Taking this argument a little further, we may be the only hope for an intelligent civilisation from this planet. We have taken all of the easy energy resources; which take millions of years to regenerate; so any intelligent civilisation that follows after us will not have the luxury of cheap abundant energy.
So we either sort our shit out, become space faring, and move on with the next phase of the human experiment, or the likelihood of intelligence leaving earth is quite low.
We could, reduce ourselves content to “save” the earth and exist here in perpetuity, but I don’t really see that happening. There will always be those that dream and strive, if humans still exist in 10,000 years they will be spacefaring.
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From mashable r/pics has been “forced” to transition to NSFW by “following the policy”.
Defederate from Meta/Facebook/Threads? (ploum.net)
I didn’t realise that Meta was becoming/is already compatible with the Fediverse....
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$228m without a metre of track, now Auckland Light Rail disestablishment to cost millions more (www.newstalkzb.co.nz)
Terrible both in scraping the project and how nothing has been done for a quarter billion
Govt to convert 35 state schools to charter schools (www.newshub.co.nz)
Got 7 or 8 / 14 rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
rule of cool (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Nathan Pyle is always right
Ye Olde Book O' Faces (lemmy.world)
Is it ever okay to generalize about people? why or why not?
What's the most notable difference between you and the other people in your neighborhood?
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Overhauling our drug policies (www.rnz.co.nz)
***A push to legalise all drugs in New Zealand hasn’t come from stoners and the strung out - it’s backed by 155 academics and experts who say the current regime doesn’t work ***...
John Key sued in the US for alleged insider trading | interest.co.nz (www.interest.co.nz)
Seagliders' 35-minute trips to Auckland closer with $145m deal (www.nzherald.co.nz)
I’m pretty sceptical about ground effect planes, there’s a very good reason why they’ve never really taken off, despite so many countries and organisations giving them a try over the years, but I’d love to know what everyone else thinks.
How to get a clue where on the curve of Dunning-Kruger effect you are?
New Zealand man filmed trying to ‘body slam’ an orca in actions described as ‘idiotic’ (www.theguardian.com)
Wot ?
Do we need to create increasingly more children for a stable economy?
So in the whole anti-natalism/pro-natalism conversation (which I’m mostly agnostic/undecided on, currently), my friend who is a pro-natalist, argued that the success/stability of our world economy is dependent on procreating more children each year than the previous year, so that we not only replace the numbers of the people...
As NZ unemployment rises, Kiwis are making their way across the Tasman (www.abc.net.au)
Bad in NZ or hyperbole ?