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But then you’ll need dog water to deal with the cat water

Need bag water to counteract the mouse water

BBC: Twitter's algorithm favours right-leaning politics, research finds

The Verge: Twitter’s research shows that its algorithm favors conservative views

Salon: Contrary to popular belief, Twitter's algorithm amplifies conservatives, not liberals: study

Similar to perfectionism/procrastination cycle:

I have to be very careful about the first step, because it will determine whether this whole thing will be an outstanding success or not.

Oh crap, I took too long on the first step, and now there’s no way for it to be perfect. I hope it doesn’t look like I tried.

Most universal answer I can give is:

Every country that has attempted communism has been desperate and vulnerable.

Desperate to find a strongman to save their crumbling old government, and vulnerable to having the CIA appoint their own strongman in turn.

Questioned religion from a very young age. Went hard into the "New Atheism" movement as a teen. Figured physicalism was a necessary consequence of atheism.

In March, I binged several episodes of Walden Pod.

Now I'm open to the idea of a soul and an afterlife. (Not convinced, but open.)

I'm still an atheist, just not a physicalist. It seems childish to me now, in the same way that religion seemed childish all along.

Honestly, they should probably leave income alone and just double down on the wealth tax.

Wage-based taxation has always been an awkward way to target the rich.

I have very different feelings about someone from a poor background who went into massive debt to develop their skills and become a top earner vs. someone who inherited a fortune and doesn’t put any effort beyond checking their bank balance periodically.

Plus, there is the “won’t they just leave?” argument. Which is mostly FUD, but in the case where someone’s wealth is based on their skilled labor they do have a much easier time just leaving. If your wealth is from owning a portfolio of apartment buildings, good luck taking those with you.

First thing I do with a new device (or app that has its own settings) is disable anything that fucks with my text input.

• Autocorrect
• Predictive text
• Text replacement
• Spellcheck

Language is a dynamic thing, and it’s the main way we express our individual perspectives to each other. It’s the very last thing I would ever want to autotune about myself.