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Scalp massages. No seriously

What kind of massages? I'm curious of this really works.

Not sure about the "kind", but minoxidil works by increasing blood flow to hair follicles. So if massages can have a similar effect, I don't see why it couldn't help.

I've also read that maybe massaging the muscles around the scalp to loosen it might help. E.g., a scalp that's too tight can have detrimental effects on the hair follicles.

That being said, I don't know what kind of evidence there is to support either of those things. Seems like a safe enough thing to try though.


Not even as a deterrence?

Go find some class action settlements. There’s a good chance the total damages (substantially) less than the profits from whatever behavior generated the lawsuit, and that’s not even accounting for interest.

So, no.


And also not accounting for the other big factor: the probability of getting caught and reaching such a settlement/verdict. If the consequence is a thirty percent chance of paying thirty percent of the gains back in thirty years, malfeasance is just good business, not a credible risk. It needs to be unprofitable and pierce the corporate veil.

Eventually we will just speak tokenese rather than english

Nonsense. We grew up quoting our favourite shows, abhorring certain words, preferring others. This is just another cultural modification engine, like everything else humans do.

I have no professional experience in Rust and over 10 years in c++ but to me the decision to use rust in a greenfield project written by agents was obvious.

And then solar radiation permanently knocks out the electrical grid and you what... have coffee break until society finds a new equilibrium?

No, then you go back to programming on the white board, just like in college. /j

Did you know that public market shareholders almost always vote for stock buybacks

Is this based on or otherwise related to kythe?

I write science fiction as a hobby and am in writing critique groups. One of the first rules of critiquing writing is not to suggest how to say things, but only to say what a certain phrase made you feel (confusion, boredom, etc).

LLMs harnesses try to make them useful to suggest things, but this is the most destructive thing you can do to a writer. You can work around it by just feeding Claude a writing critique skill.


The transnational private sector is neither morally consistent nor geopolitically neutral.

The transnational private sector is neither morally consistent nor geopolitically neutral.

The transnational private sector is neither morally consistent nor geopolitically neutral.


Maybe only a handful of people morally consistent or geopolitically neutral. It's unlikely that Saudi Arabia actually cares if Meta gets themselves kicked out of the nation, but it's easy to blame Meta because money in their pocket is money that isn't in mine. Meanwhile, oil money is ultimately what enables Saudi Arabia to get away with human rights abuses, but don't you dare do anything that makes me pay more at the pump.

But is it not consistent to be consistently inconsistent?

But is it not consistent to be consistently inconsistent?

But is it not consistent to be consistently inconsistent?


That would mean regulation of social media companies seems appropriate.

That would mean regulation of social media companies seems appropriate.

That would mean regulation of social media companies seems appropriate.


So what? Very few organizations are morally consistent or geopolitically neutral. Especially in 2026 where political polarization is the norm.

Despite Meta's self serving actions here their morals are significantly better than those of Saudi Arabia or the UAE.


Very few? Try none.

Unless the moral position is something akin to realist self interest, in which case the apparent "inconsistency" is actually internally quite consistent. Perhaps the lack of consistent moral positions in competing paradigms is less an interesting phenomena to point out and more a tell that someone is laboring under an extremely naive conception of human morality.


I'm not complaining about it I'm just pointing out that widely held assumptions are false

Maybe SEO-maxxers will finally leave it alone now if the median consumer trusts the corporate models

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