Ahhh okay. I live in Canada and I frequently see spiders roaming my house when it’s well below freezing outside. I’m pretty confident they will not survive out in the snow.

House-dwelling spiders are usually adapted to life inside the house (likely cave-dwelling species). Their survival rate outside is not very good.

You, the worker, are not Microsoft’s customer. You and your data are the product.

If you are not the customer, you are the product!

I think it’s a bit more complicated than that.

I would say if they’re not paying you what you’re worth then there’s a few possibilities:

1. You are less important than you think you are
2. You think you are less important than you are
3. They just underpay everyone and don’t care if you leave

That one has a simple answer:

It may not be a single gene. A lot of stuff that affects the brain is polygenic and very complicated, just as there is no single gene for intelligence.

Being a psychopath may also confer reproductive advantages for some people. Most psychopaths are not murderers but are somewhat well adapted to blending into society. It’s kind of like how parasitism works in nature, but this is at a social level.

If he’s a psychopath (and there’s a good chance he is) then therapy is unlikely to work. Psychopaths treat therapy as either a waste of time or an opportunity to work on their manipulation skills. They can’t be cured because their brains are just different.

Most people these days are terribly out of shape, overweight/obese, and have way too much body fat and way too little muscle mass. People eat way too much fat and carbs and way too little protein. They also don’t move nearly enough, of course, so eating protein without doing the work is not going to help.

Since I’ve started lifting weights and trying to build muscle and lose weight, I’ve begun to realize how difficult it is to get enough protein to do that without spending a lot of money on meat or eating a bunch of legumes (and feeling awful all day the next day).

Forget 410 grams per day. It’s hard enough to get 100 grams per day without supplementing.

Amazon reviews say the book doesn’t debunk our need for protein. The bigger you are in terms of muscle mass, the more protein you need in your diet. That doesn’t change if you’re vegan.

Vegan strongman Patrik Baboumian eats 410 grams of plant-based protein per day, a lot of which is made up of vegan protein powders. These are exactly what this report about lead is warning against.

Plants are ultra-concentrators of metals in soil, including heavy metals like lead and cadmium. Protein powder is an ultra-concentrated product, further increasing the risks of high lead levels. Anyone like Baboumian who wants to build a lot of muscle while maintaining a vegan diet needs to be very careful about where they source their protein powder.

Commodification is not the right word here. Financialization is the usual one.

Commodification implies that housing is being mass produced and prices are dropping as profit margins fall. That’s clearly not what’s happening.

Financialization implies that housing has become an investment that is increasingly targeted by the finance industry. This is actually happening a lot more than people think. Finance companies have full time real estate staff who are out there buying up housing on a daily basis.

Sure you can have a unique identifier. That’s not the issue. The issue is that anyone can contact you via your phone number! This is not a problem with chat apps where people need permission to add you to their contact list. Why not have a system like that?

Same goes for credit cards. They should need to ask for permission to charge your credit card. Merely knowing your credit card info should not be enough.

Yes but they could also rent out extra rooms. Every Airbnb I’ve stayed at has the owners living there.

Even if you limit to one house per person you’ll still get housing as an investment. A house in Malibu is worth way more than a house in Arkansas.

This video is fantastic! Alec went all out with it!

It’s just consolidation in general. Whether the owner of a TV network has a million dollars, a billion dollars, or a trillion dollars, the issue is consolidation of control over the whole TV network.

Great way to start a war with China!

The billionaire doesn’t even live there, he lives in Hong Kong.