ElonsMosque's comments

I mean I’m aware there probably weren’t many black people during the renaissance. But it would be even cooler if this worked for people with different shades?

As an extension to your point I would also like to add one aspect that is often forgotten when discussing lockdowns. Which is that a complete lockdown might potentially be worse. Because what more important than social distancing is keeping young and old apart. Families that have elderly and the young in them would just be locked in and cause the elderly to get infected and potentially die due to the virus affecting them more. Furthermore what about the medics and their families? in a lockdown they would have to return home and potentially spread it with children and elderly. So a more surgical approach is needed in which isolation happens for the vulnerable groups specifically and the young would be able to participate in the economy and we could weather both the effects of the virus and the economy but im afraid a complete lockdown might cause us to end up in a lose/lose situation. In which case i only see a vaccine as saving grace.

But shorting markets is already being banned on some platforms i believe

Not to downplay any serious issues of fatigue, overworking or burnout but I personally found good air ventilation, strict rules of drinking water regularly, meditation and exercise did immense things for me. To the point where I have an excess of energy I never used to have previously at work.

What's even more maddening is that the population of flint Michigan is majority Black. Hard to spin that race hasn't got anything to do with the lack of effort in fixing the issue.

You're right there, however I'm afraid the issue won't be density but a much different issue: Unemployment. [1] Reason this could be a worldwide issue is the opportunity cost. Can we afford not to have a billion or more minds on board to solve some of the worlds most pressing problems? China is trying its best to industrialize and capitalize on the growth. But many are claiming their tactics are almost neocolonialist. [2]

[1] https://mo.ibrahim.foundation/news/2018/african-governance-p... [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/magazine/is-china-the-wor...

Except in Africa. The population is expected to double until 2050 and potentially double again by 2100.[1]

[1] https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-health-global-gates/africa...

Agreed, I would also add:

Collect Calls

The Art of Peer Pressure

How Much Dollar Cost (Obamas fabourite song)

Blacker The Berry

FEAR

Let's take an example I read the other day about recent nobel prize winner in literature Kazuo Ishiguro.

He thought he was finsihed writing his book and coincidentally listened to a ballad by Tom waits which left such an impression on him that he changed the ending of the book that won him the nobel prize.

In his own words "The song is sung in the voice of a rough American hobo type utterly unaccustomed to wearing his emotions on his sleeve. And there comes a moment, when the singer declares his heart is breaking, that’s almost unbearably moving because of the tension between the sentiment itself and the huge resistance that’s obviously been overcome to utter it. Waits sings the line with cathartic magnificence, and you feel a lifetime of tough-guy stoicism crumbling in the face of overwhelming sadness."

This goes to show that insight can come from entertainment.

Also Kendrick has numerous songs with similar emotion evoking moments as the one described by Ishiguro.

Bump, I'm curious about this aswell.

Awesome work, this seems like something pulled from the future.

One quick question have you considered including Python related stuff?

I was surprised too and saddened after the fact it seemed noone here has talked about the amount of malpractice, and predatory tactics either direcly practiced by rockefeller or associated to him.

I agree to a certain extent on your point about puritans. However I know people that recognized they have a tendency to overdo news or social media as soon as they get a bit of it.

That might be partly due to the very nature of social media and news these days being made to be addictive eg. clickbait titles. Making people end up in a loop, without noticing and before they know it they've wasted hours on it or worse created a habit that is hard to control.

For which the only solution seems to be to go cold turkey in that case. As it seems much harder to reduce usage than to stop it entirely. So I guess it's a matter of what stage you identify yourself in, in this news and social media detox.

Ditto. That would be useful to know as newbie, I'm hoping someone can give an answer or atleast point into the right direction.

Reading that felt strangely liberating. It's a refreshing and eloquent reiteration of the whole idea of the goal being the journey and vice versa. Contrary to what modern society has instilled in us..

Good point, reminds me of this segment in an Adam Curtis documenatary titled "Oh Dear": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcy8uLjRHPM

Basically the idea behind it is that this temporary empathy, followed by apathy and inaction by us after events is a political construct, to prevent the emergence of mass movements.

That is amazing, I wish there was an online tutorial for an python 3 rpg like this.

This might sound unconventional but in terms of Economics I would recommend a comic book called "Economix" by Michael Goodwin. According to financial advisor David Bach:

"You could read 10 books on the subject and not glean as much information."

Personally I believe thats because the subject and history of economics is presented in such an accesible and fun way in this book without compromising the quality and historical accuracy.