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    "China's suicide rates were one of the highest in the world in the 1990s.
    However, by 2011, China had one of the lowest suicide rates in the world."
ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_China

Thanks. I posted with the aim to highlight by contrast: progress relative to a snapshot from the 00's.

> There’s a huge range of quality and reliability between $2k and $30k.

True. I hear so many stories about car problems and having to fight with the dealer that all the stories run together. Last week I helped a client download the court docs from 2yrs of suing the MB dealership (so Gemini could parse them).

Our last purchase was a 31k mi 1992 Buick w/ an Iron Duke for $1300. I loaded it w/ son #2s bedroom and drove it 1k mi to his new place. I spent a week visiting family in different states.

Caveat that I did spent $80 + 20min to swap the alt (sticky brushes).

The Buick replaced the 96 Toyota (bought @ 42k for $500 +$1k bc it sat for 10y). The Toyota runs great and never let me down (6yrs) but I wanted more leg room.

In case I'm not completely unbearable, son #2's daily driver is a 63 Dart he pulled out of the weeds. He welded in tags to get a floor and just recovered the seats and door panels using a stack of my old blue jeans.

He's drives it to RI (1.5k mi) every year or so.


> And much as I don't like what Flock is building as a company, at least they're building security in now,

This phrasing implies that the "building security in now" part improves (or decreases the awfulness of) what you don't like.

If what you don't like = bulk, systemic surveillance (of people not suspected of a crime) - how does fixing broke security make that less awful?


    "If we don't do it the easy way, we're going to do it the hard way," 
    ....without explaining what the "hard way" entailed.
non-xtwitter-ref: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-trump-says-russi...



>To save free speech we must stop funding people who theorize in bad faith

To believe this in a meaningful, rational way would require one to constantly call out administrations and propagandists, after months and years of debunking evidences the methods to serially operate in bad faith.

In the absence of any calling out: We can reasonably surmise they are either captured by political cultists and not processing rationally - or that they are simply operating in bad faith.

Granting, however, that some percent of folks simply get off on bad actors and the harm they do to those who never earned that. For them, cruelty brings it's own buzz and that is enough.


Sounds like you’re defining a binary, a big no-no in pomo! Better to say that political disagreement exists on a spectrum.

Every large org/entity/group/party/etc is currently degrading under a toxic principle, which is

     No one anywhere wants to clean their own house
Improvement is what happens when this principle is recognized and is rolled back.

Kowtowing is what happens when changes happen in response to overt bullying by a powerful, hostile autocrat.

Embracing (and nurturing) the above toxic principle is evidenced by folks who parrot talking points supplied by powerful, hostile autocrats.


     Influencers and OnlyFans models dominate US 'extraordinary' artist visas
This is the most [this administration] headline I could ever imagine. It is nearly The Onionesque.


[unrelated to this thread] You and I had a different discussion in an earlier thread -> here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46393900#46428166

I posted something there about good faith journalism, if you're still interested.


I know, I don't disagree with your ideas on good faith journalism, I just have so little time right now. I am more or less waiting out what happens with the MN fraud investigations. I think it has blown up to such a huge amount that Walz is not running now. All I can say is that a 23 year old kid was able to make that video and a few weeks ago everyone blew a nut because Bari Weiss dropped a 60 minutes investigation on CECOT (A Boring Ass Dead Story).

60 Minutes in 1990 would have DREAMED of breaking the MN scandal story. I remember them breaking a story like Gasoline pump fraud in the 90s and it didn't do any research other than recording gallons pumped into Gallon Water jugs - but they still posed it as fraud.


Coder created a site to recreate MTV's music videos era. It's worth checking out. https://wantmymtv.xyz/player.html

Videos play in a center frame and the site offers no method to fullscreen (but pressing F gives YT Fullscreen, as noted below).

There are a 8 huge playlists (27k videos total), separated by decade. There are no veejays, original ads or other period content. We can choose a decade (or rap or headbangers ball) or mix all.

Videos are all YT hosted, pulled from 1000s of YT channels. There are no YT ads (interesting and welcome). I assume there's no curation in the play order but am not certain.

There's nothing to indicate which song or artist is playing, either by the site or by YT. To ID a song, I had to get the vid url and paste it in another tab.

Video frame has a large BUY ME A COFFEE overlay that appears whenever you mouse over it. Pieces of the overlay obscure some YT controls (like fullscreen) but there's still access to YT's right-click options. The YT key-shortcuts still work (F=fullscreen).

There's no overlay in fullscreen and videos continue to progress.

The overlay has it's own volume control and Next/Last buttons so it's not only for tip begging. The controls are welcome. They'd be more useful on the sidebar but perhaps this makes the overlay useful (and dissuades attempts to block the it).

I didn't spend any time trying to source the videos so IDK if the author put a TON of time into amassing urls or if they found some repository to work from. Same for handling of offline vids and new additions - I've no idea.


I liked this idea and created a cleaner UI, so I can put it fullscreen while working https://rwnd-tv.vercel.app/

> There's nothing to indicate which song or artist is playing, either by the site or by YT.

This is no longer the case. Upon refreshing the site, I see YT's artist and track appearing at the top of the video.


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