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This. It always rankles me when someone is in some terrible accident or catastrophe but survive, possibly injured, and people said they were lucky or God looked after them.
No, if they were lucky or God was looking out for them, it would not have occurred to them in the first place.
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Wait, is ICE wearing French maid outfits and I missed it?
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Did this with truffled salami coming back from Tuscany. Ate them on the airplane. They were so fragrant. Other passengers were salivating like Pavlov’s dogs.
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Generally the economy did well, but inflation was bad, it disproportionately hits those in lower economic tiers, and the effects persists even after it slows down.
Almost everything bad that happened electorally can be explained by inflation. And not only in the US.
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Yes.
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The main case is not too hard. But the controllers, OMG.
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Don’t do it. It drove me into a rage doing one of these cosmetic kits for my son’s Nintendo. The screws are so tiny.
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Almost surely none of this is real. This is multinationals using inflated transfer prices to make profits appear in low-tax Ireland. Trump's EU trade war is stupid on many levels, but the fact that it's based in part on an accounting fiction is the cherry on top
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One thing I haven't seen pointed out, although someone must have said it, is that much of the reported EU surplus is probably a fiction driven by tax avoidance. Ireland supposedly exports 6 times as much to America as it imports; it's 3 percent of EU GDP but accounts for 1/3 the trade imbalance
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We have seen the exact same bug previously in ChatGPT, Google Bard, Writer.com, Amazon Q, Google NotebookLM, Slack, Google AI Studio, Microsoft Copilot, Mistral LeChat, xAI Grok, Claude and now GitLab - I've been collecting examples here simonwillison.net/tags/exfiltr...
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They really stepped on it. They could have been the benevolent dictator and lowered their take to something reasonable, while protecting users from all the third party billing shenanigans. Instead they were greedy and it was all taken away.
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40% of Republicans say the COVID-19 vaccine has probably or definitely killed more people than the COVID-19 virus.
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The pandemic absolutely pickled their brains, the percentage of Republicans who say MMR vaccine risks outweigh the benefits has more than doubled since 2020.
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DBL Pipa cigar.