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This is probably going to be an unpopular comment... but these articles are all super misleading. The physical books are getting destroyed, but their content is getting digitized. Is that a loss? Absolutely. But is there a benefit? Also yes.

The biggest loss is probably the fact that destroying the physical books removes them from circulation, making them essentially permanent additions to these companies' book collections.

Definitely unpopular by the literal statistics. Definitely correct about the health benefits. Definitely something I don't do.

Also, it's a little strange that some desserts are only ever for special occasions (like cake), but others which may be just as difficult/expensive to make are considered regular fare (like ice cream).

I find it especially rich that Stephen Miller would call a scandal-ridden home-wrecker like Paxton as "God-fearing" when Talarico is a Presbyterian seminarian.

Christian Nationalists aren't Christians. They worship a twisted and selfish god unable to sacrifice anything to save anyone from anything.

My all-time favorite software engineering podcast is Developer Voices. There's some AI stuff in there, but entirely from the perspective of experienced programmers who like programming, but who also like the idea of learning how to appropriately use a new and powerful tool to help get the job done. Chris Jenkins does a really good job.

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And the fruits of big oil's labor are now ingrained within the fiber of American society. Go ask a few average Americans to give up their cars and let me know how it goes.

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Trains in North America.

We had them at one point, built the nation with them, then so summarily decided that the automobile was better, that we built all of our infrastructure assuming that nobody would ever not want a car to go everywhere, making it doubly hard to convince people that public transit doesn't have to suck.

As someone who started writing software over 20 years ago (yikes I feel old), I feel like a lot of the best practices I've come to appreciate are really just strategies for mitigating future pain or boring/uninspiring work. When you eliminate most of the cost of rewriting everything from scratch by a machine that feels nothing, then "best practices" kinda lose their meaning.

Edit: confusing sentence order.

It's right there in the article.

The resolution called on BP to explain how its pursuit of rising oil and gas production aligned with a world shifting away from fossil fuels.

“The question is simple: how does BP plan to create value for shareholders as oil and gas demand declines?” said Mark van Baal, the founder of Follow This. “BP would rather antagonise its shareholders than answer it.”

That seems perfectly rational to me.