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Twitter going to plan...

(Edit: I should say however that this is regardless horrifying)

This poll is likely very skewed because anyone who bothers to respond is probably doing so because they have a (hate) agenda. The text of the first question could probably have been replaced with “I want to say I am a christian fascist without saying it out loud” and have the same outcome.

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TIL fairy dust was added to Peter Pan so that children wouldn't hurt themselves trying to fly when they got home from seeing the play.

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Second paragraph of the “Abilities” section:

...after the first production I had to add something to the play at the request of parents (who thus showed that they thought me the responsible person) about no one being able to fly until the fairy dust had been blown on him; so many children having gone home and tried it from their beds and needed surgical attention. – J. M. Barrie

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If society ever crumbles, it might never reach the same level

This is related to the diminishing energy returns on energy invested (see ERoEI). It’s a measure of how much energy it takes (say 1 barrel of oil) to extract a certain amount of energy (also say 1 barrel of oil). When the first barrels of oil were extracted long ago the ERoEI was somewhere around 100, meaning you only needed to use one barrel of oil to extract 100 barrels. Last I heard, it was down to 10. If that reaches 1 then it’s basically game over for oil. There is still lots of oil far underground/undersea but it costs too much to extract.

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How many of you use physical security keys for two-factor authentication?

Yes, I have two as well (Yubikey). My passwords are stored in a bitwarden vault but having the 2fa keys on the same device as the vault seemed sketchy to me. I now use the hardware authentication for whatever sites support it (not as many as I like support it) and otherwise store the TOTP keys on the Yubikey and use the Yubico Authenticator for those that don’t support hardware authentication.

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Twitter going to plan...

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Yes, very good point. Selection bias will likely skew any twitter “poll” because the algorithms feed the polls only to what the algorithm believes is the target audience. It’s perpetuating polarization and even extremism because people don’t see rational opposing views that are part of a healthy conversation.