Notice that the original does not mince words : "Et au plus eslevé throne du monde, si ne sommes assis que sus notre cul".

Rumble is not available in any EU country, nor in Norway, and probably many other places too.

Notice that generally, environmental impact of an electronic device (depending upon the country you live in) is up to 95% in its manufacturing. Therefore any electronic device should last until it's literally falling to pieces and cannot be repaired anymore.

Second, I'm currently using the OnePlus 5T I bought back in 2017 as my phone. It's perfectly fine, and never feels particularly sluggish either (except at times with LinkedIn, which is probably the trashiest app ever anyway). The only repair it ever received was a battery replacement last year.

My wife still uses the OnePlus One I bought in 2013. It's equally fine for her modest use, and it still runs (LineageOS) with its original battery for two full days without any trouble.

Looks great, how come I didn't know it? :)

I'm bad at marketing and poor at product decisions. For 10 years it only worked with one database. It took 30 lines of code to work on many more databases but I waited 10 years to do it. Don't make my mistake! I am trying to get better.

A nerd’s nerd. I am exactly the same, I think it’s because folks like a lot of the people that hang out around these comments are easily excited and self-motivated for the creative, engineering challenges involved, but struggle to produce the same kind of get up and go when it comes to the basic, fundamental packaging and presentation involved with marketing and/or sales.

As a graphic artist, I even get enthusiastic for a lot of the marketing, but as a freelance IT consultant, I tend to lose all motivation for selling my services the nanosecond I achieve sufficient income to get by, and revert to spending my time exploring and tinkering. We all have our own blind/weak spots.

I have often thought that some kind of service to pair creatives/engineers with professional development/managers would be really useful. I think that’s just called “LinkedIn”, but something more explicitly about entrepreneurial endeavors would be nice.

The chart feature looks amazing. I’d try making a landing page just around charts and see if it sticks.

Yep, I really like my little reface DX, it's reasonably easy to tweak sounds, and with the help of the free reface DX editor panel ( https://refacedx.martintarenskeen.nl/ ) you can load any patch for 4-op FM synth of yore (DX 9, DX 11, TX81Z) into it.

As Bob Kennedy said in 1968 :

Our Gross National Product, now, is over $800 billion dollars a year, but that Gross National Product - if we judge the United States of America by that - that Gross National Product counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for the people who break them. It counts the destruction of the redwood and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm and counts nuclear warheads and armored cars for the police to fight the riots in our cities. It counts Whitman's rifle and Speck's knife, and the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children. Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile. And it can tell us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans.

Judaism like Protestantism promotes education and reading for all. Plus Judaism promotes some form of debate.

Jews are the most clannish people I have ever met and the most prone to shameless nepotism (speaking as Jew).

sure… only because you haven’t experienced the inner circles of other religions (speaking as another relgion than Jewish)

Agree. Hollywood and Wallstreet are great examples. Also the founders of Google and Facebook. It's no coincidence. Though I'm not sure this is nepotism as much as it is organized clan behavior.

I think Indians are even more so but there it's about caste and not just being Indian.

Humans are weird.

I can't speak for all South Asian Americans, but in my experience caste is not a significant player in our community in the US at least.

Alternatives like University Affiliation, Regional ties, Ethnic ties, Clan ties, and Workplace affiliation play a greater role due to the nature of South Asian immigration in the US (tends to be white collar professionals across all ethnic groups).

Treating South Asian Americans homogeneously will lead to the same mistakes like treating all Latinos homogeneously - plenty of South Asian heavy battleground counties like Loudoun County, Middlesex County, Williamson County, Kern County, San Joaquin County, etc have seen Ds margins drop significantly in the current election.

That said, we are a clannish bunch, and biradari (and every other South Asian language's equivalent of that word) is our guanxi.

Kern and San Joaquin in particular are the exact opposite of white collar professional immigration and more similar to Guyana. (My great grandfather came during that 1920s era but jumped ship in NYC instead) People often forget some of us came before 1965. Vivek Bald has an excellent book about it.

My point about Kern and SJV was about how Desi Americans are a swing vote, not the white collar portion.

That said I do agree with you to a certain extent that pre-Tech immigration absolutely was a thing (and a major factor in the Punjabi community across western US).

> more similar to Guyana. (My great grandfather came during that 1920s era but jumped ship in NYC instead

Oh dang, that's pretty wild! I thought most immigration to Guyana from South Asia during that era was primarily from Eastern UP, Bihar, and West Bengal, not Sindh/Punjab.

Yes but that was the 1920s ethnic pattern to USA too, see Bald’s book. Most of my great grandfather’s NYC compatriots would have been from the areas you mentioned and he was the exception (although his family was originally decades before from Bareilly so it kind of proves the rule). Guyana was a blue collar thing like you intuited.

I'm not sure how the above relates to the argument.

Lol I guess you haven't met Mormons?

Jewish communities are more tightly knit, and the families in these communities more interwoven with one another than the average Protestant would be to their own.

My intuition would be that nepotism would be more rife with this kind of community makeup, if you know your distant family and your family friends very well they're much more likely to try to help you out.

Judaism isn’t immune to anti-intellectual fundamentalism.

A good example is the 11th Century Mediterranean world.

In the Muslim sphere of influence, Jewish culture was highly intellectual, and produced numerous scholars.

In the Christian sphere of influence, Jewish culture was highly fundamentalist, and produced almost no native Jewish scholars.

Heck, modern day Israel or New York offers almost the same contrast, as did the first century Middle East.

Judaisms tendency to split into these two camps, usually simultaneously, is one of its many fascinating features.

> In the Christian sphere of influence, Jewish culture was highly fundamentalist, and produced almost no native Jewish scholars.

Hum... Just have a look at a list of Nobel prize winners.

The 11th Century Christian-based Jewish community produced no Nobel Prize winners.

What does that have to do with nepotism?

> In a superficial manner. Like how protestants and catholics debate. Certainly not in the socratic way of the greeks.

Isn't it basically a meme now that when you ask a rabbi a question you get a question in return? I think that's a cultural difference.

That has nothing to do with Judaism. And everything to do with european culture and european rabbinic 'judaism'.

Sting's "The Soul Cages" from the same year is also relying quite heavily on Q-Sound (or it could be RDS, the alternative competing technology from Roland, I don't remember exacly).

In Firefox, Display -> "Repair text encoding" solved the problem for me.

Thank you! I had never even noticed that menu item.

Notice that his work on climate change is a terrible bunch of crap. Basically, the guy does the basic mistake of confusing weather and climate, and his conclusion goes along "most productive work in modern economies is done in offices and factories not exposed to weather, therefore are impervious to climate change". This is beyond belief really. Generally, the way mainstream economics treats climate change is just shameful.

If you want to learn more check Steve Keen's substack.