This PhD Student's data analysis project provides clear evidence on the effort by major news & entertainment media to shift the political culture.
"1/n Spent some time on LexisNexis over the weekend. Depending on your political orientation, what follows will either disturb or encourage you. But regardless of political orientation, I'm sure we can all say 'holy fucking shit'"
I've never thought "Marriage is the center of [my] life." nor relationships in general. I'm a male though. I suppose for women it's much more common to consider marriage & childbirth as the "center" of life.
For me, it's being around friends. But I've never explicitly thought "Friendship is the center of my life."
I think the "center of one's life" simply means "number one priority or goal" and that it changes depending on one's focus. For a while, learning to become a developer was the center of my life, and then getting a job as a programmer.
I suppose I don't have one now. I suppose it's learning a new skillset and getting back to working (laid off recently).
Same thing at the company I recently worked at-- a maker of software for car dealerships & manufacturers.
The product marketing mentions AI.
I asked a staff data scientist (has been with company for several years) if AI is used in our products.
"No."
It's quite amazing how pervasive Fraud & pseudo-Fraud is in the American economy. Regulators seem to turn a blind eye to so much of it. A recent example I saw was Food adulteration, with things such as sawdust [0]
So what? Dont the vast majority of companies that take VC funds.. burn through it before generating profit?
George is courageous, inspiring, and highly intelligent. He stands for what he believes in. He stands up for himself and his beliefs, and talks back to powerful people.
How many tries did it take to invent scalable electricity, or the light bulb?
Depreciation isn't based on realistic estimates. They're standards issued by a governing body to try and capture some expense of the reality of depreciation.
For example, there's not a Dodge minivan vs Honda minivan depreciation difference, even though, if you've had both, you know one depreciates much faster than the other.
In the example below, it says 5 years for furniture. Is all furniture worthless after 5 years? Of course not. There's an entire industry of centuries old antiques.
"Depreciation is a non-cash business expense that is allocated and calculated over the period that an asset is useful to your business."
Personally I don't thikn Smart phones haven't been out long enough to make such claim. That said, I don't think the claim is off track. Makes sense to me.
Using screens in general result in less social time -> isolation -> mental health concerns
- Pollution & its related "who cares" culture around trash & toxic chemicals
To little:
- Infrastructure
- Education
- Respect for nature & concern for reducing the impact of pollution
- Enforcement of health & environmental regulation
That said, there are ardent environmentalists & industrious, educated people. They're just at a low concentration due to the human development itself-- it takes time for societies to develop to high levels of living standards and human achievement.
>If you are in such position, have you considered it?
Yes. I actually broke into software development while living in Mexico.
Prior to that, in a tent. I realized the cost of living would be cheaper in Mexico while I worked on a full stack app (the app's ultimate purpose was simply to demo my skill during interviews). Once the app was almost done, I moved back to the US, and a couple months later landed my first 100% programming job.
>If so, what is stopping you right now?
I've spent 1.5 years now, living in Mexico-- Playa Rosarito, Bucerias, Tepic, CDMX, Tulum.
I am strongly considering moving back to the Bucerias area to explore more of the West Coast-- Mazatlan to Huatulco, for example, by scooter, since I was recently laid off.
I'm on the fence about committing to Mexico or any of Latin America for the rest of my life.
Mainly due to:
- Inconveniences: Not having drinking water available in houses-- every few days, I'd estimate 90% of people in Mexico take water jugs to fill up at a public tap-- Much as you'd see in a textbook documentary about a refugee village in rural Africa. Though perhaps with a good filtration system it's possible to purify water at home.
- The culture around Noise: People advertise in the street by shouting or playing annoying loud announcements from loudspeakers
- The culture around Pollution: using chemicals without protection or with disregard about potential impact on human health. Examples: airbnb host using pesticide (RAID brand) indoors. construction worker friends applying pesticide outside without any protective gear and without warning anyone to close their windows for 15-30 mins to avoid inhaling the airborne pesticide mist. Plus lack of waste system infrastructure means you find a lot of trash in the urban and even rural environment (people dump trash into holes in the ground along rural roads, for example, due to no landfills or trash-pickup service existing in many areas).
- Low interest in education & industriousness (though I am sure this is changing). Especially if compared to the culture around achievement in South Asia & East Asia. It makes it a bit challenging to make friends with people at similar education & career attainment levels that I'd have if I stayed in the US.
- Crime & lack of justice: the vast majority of crime goes unpunished. Vigilante justice happens. There's a general sense of lawlessness, especially when police officers & judges can be bribed.
That said, I'm still on the fence.
I prefer a society which is quiet, industrious, conscientious and well educated.
Mexico isn't quite there yet, but hopefully it'll be significantly closer to the US levels of those things in the next 2-5 decades.
It does offer: A friendly culture. Great food. Adventures.
This PhD Student's data analysis project provides clear evidence on the effort by major news & entertainment media to shift the political culture.
"1/n Spent some time on LexisNexis over the weekend. Depending on your political orientation, what follows will either disturb or encourage you. But regardless of political orientation, I'm sure we can all say 'holy fucking shit'"
https://twitter.com/zachg932/status/1133440945201061888?s=11
Source: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/06/th...
The result... An attempt to shift the Overton window https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window