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Approximately 43°N, 88°W. a.g C*b*l a.s.r expat. I vibe sailing, aviation, cookery, cocktails, cats, cartoons, and ancient computer languages. But none of that is who I am. (he/him) Signal: hellsop.13
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Pivot To AI (short video blog on YouTube, mostly daily) has hit on actual cases of Mechanical Turk "AI" repeatedly. But maybe the conspiracy nuts don't find it interesting because it's so obviously real and understood.
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Wow... I thought I made that up. It's at least close to real?
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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But the pretty eyeball scintillation?
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The Qatari, obv.
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Back in my day, this was known as a "rumble" and the cross-town high school was the enemy. /s
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Possibly there's an exception for the one at the close of Rice University's Orientation Week.
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Traditional crown roasts get those little pantaloons on the bones, so maybe...
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Pretty sure that's actually the thing. Something changed in shampoo broadly at some point and it just stopped being a thing.
I haven't seen a Head and Shoulders or Selsen Blue advert in two decades.
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a Brandy Old Fashioned (the state cocktail) with some implication that the matter at issue was that the principal preferred them sweet (with a white soda mixer) instead of sour (grapefruit soda, as God intended).
But the class was probably the most valuable one I ever had in public school.
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We learned how to calculate tax forms. How to balance a checkbook. And because it was Wisconsin, we learned how to score bowling.
Because THAT was a civic responsibility.
The school administration had, the prior year, asked Mr Fuchs to stop teaching 14-year-olds how to mix 4/
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We got how to register to vote. We got lessons on what to expect for jury duty including how Wisconsin's court system differed from other states' that one might see on television(!). We got squared away with applications for Social Security numbers because that wasn't an at-birth thing then. 3/
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and some history of governments in general, and gave a lot of Americans who passed through the tender mercies of Mr Fuchs ("'Fewx', thank you") the basics of US's 3-Article governance but also Westminster system and a few other forms. And then things got a little more... general. 2/
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40 years ago, the Civics class I attended was in 8th grade. It was called "Governement" because it was a midpoint between the assumption that everyone needed this and the slide you note. But it was a Civics class in all respects that matter. It taught the forms of government, 1/
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Even if true, the menacing is the problem, not the masks.
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trump take cabbage? or did they only have it for Lenten fish tacos?
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RCS chat dealing with an SMS-only participant?
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Gotta bond over SOMETHING, right? Even if wasn't there yesterday, common experience is key.
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As far as I can tell, basically any federal law enforcement can arrest anyone for a wide variety of violations of federal law. The specialization is in what they investigate.
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Chart, dammit.
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There's a chat of entry points, even.
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You probably do. Because almost everybody needs to.
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You're practically an old hand at this now.
If it only weren't so expensive...
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"Mandated to" and actually do are... different things.
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Absent precedent, they'd have to sort out how "federal" a contracted private prison actually is. For employees, for example, it may come down to who signs the paychecks. If the USPS hires an IT firm to install OCR boxes on a sorting line, that doesn't mean the IT firm's people are federal employees.
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Case-sensitivity for database objects is anathema. Write it how you want.
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Time to get really creative with that line-item pen.
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That's old-fashioned thinking, because you'd only do that when you knew someone would be able to actually make an appointment stick.
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American conservatives do not embrace the idea that words have objective meaning and are in service of conceptual exchange. They run entirely on vibes and how words make them feel about things.
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I'm remembering something about "guano wars"...
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The blocking is itself a mercy. It's a way to help others step back from a situation that is not being good for them, even if they can't see that it isn't.
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Half standard price is now 125% of standard price, because Trump Tariff.
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You'd think with the preponderance of Ivy School law degrees that it would at least be a safe assumption.
They must be a constant source of embarrassment to their educations.
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Some much of the current Congress must be a constant source of shame to Harvard Law School.
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Even Hegseth?
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Yes. To the point that were I a believer in A Divine Plan, Francis realizing that his time in The Seat is to set up this guy for a good long run is the Plan God has for him might figure pretty strongly, and be a big "Yes, Lord, I can do that" moment.
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Not even two Mooches.