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And we do have to have a shred of patience here. This was the 1st step, they haven't actually passed a budget or even CR yet, so the consequences the GOP is going to own are still pretty theoretical. There is still a lot of opportunity for the GOP to blink if Dems remain united.
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I think craven is word you were looking for.
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How are Republicans so bad at employing game theory?
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BUT even if she did die of alcohol-related cirrhosis, addiction is a disease, often heavily influence by adverse childhood experiences (abuse and trauma is common among child stars), and she deserves no shame and no less sympathy for having suffered with it and died from it.
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39 is also young for liver failure from alcohol-related cirrhosis. It is possible & there is a trend of it increasing in her age bracket. I would still assume it was something else given that she also had a liver transplant: wait time is up to 5 years and active alcohol dependency is disqualifying
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Serious reply, I do believe the science actually points to both. Wealth reduces the capacity for empathy, visible on fMRIs. But becoming massively wealthy typically requires a willingness to exploit and use people in ways most of us would say are unethical.
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I bet good ol' Jeff has some adverse experiences based on the combination of a mildly geeky appearance and truly repellent personality. But it was mostly the personality. Because he is pretty normal looking in this pic & all of the gender affirming care these guys get skews our perception of normal
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Are we sure it is just money he's addicted to?
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What is with the "all in or all out" obsession with this guys?!
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A lot of the people I grew up around are full-blown MAGA now but I sure do remember them being quite concerned about being required to show ID to do things. Something, something Nazis.
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Yeah, wasn't there a Greyhound bus driver who told ICE to "gargle his balls." No signed warrant, no entry. Have the administrator ride the bus and tell ICE that (it is a lot to expect of a bus driver). I would imagine it is pretty difficult to get a signed judicial warrant to enter a *school bus*.
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I mean, it can also be both.
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Again, Twitter is the test case. Elon "won", he's got what he wanted: a "free speech" platform that he totally controls. And it is a glitchy fetid cesspool of N*zis circle jerking and telling Elon how smart and cool he is that has plummeted in value and is no longer the place that sets the agenda.
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them much less globally relevant and failing infrastructure and a much poorer consumer (US in particular but if we kick off a global recession/depression, all of us) base doesn't do great things for their bottom line. They will still "win" but they will also be worse off.
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The problem is that they - Elon, Trump, and the billionaires along for the ride - vastly discount how much their wealth and power is dependent on a functional US government, even if thoroughly captured by interests. Knocking the US out of the game when it comes to biotech, geopolitics, etc. makes...
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That's absolutely what this: a hostile take over corporate raider style of the federal government. They are dismantling its ability to protect itself, and will scavenge what they can of value, sell off or discard the rest. They aren't being covert or subtle about it.
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I agree with you. However, I don't think he ever had the curiosity. He's cooked his brain and the only reason why he's not living in a van down by the river is the incredible insulating properties of inherited wealth.
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And what happened with Musk broke things in Twitter. All the people who brought value to the platform left. It is limping along but it has totally lost it place as the venue where the discussion was being had and a ton of its market value.
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It was always bad. Before he trashed Twitter, Tesla and SpaceX were rife with abuse and discrimination. Both have achieved the level of success they have despite Musk, and they definitely show the cracks that he causes. The Boring Company, Neuralink, and xAI, no reason to think they are different.
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I am so disappointed.
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The amount of advertising I get for sports betting despite my very bubble-esque media environment I am in is shocking. I talk to my 18yo about it regularly because I am sure if I get ads for it, he's absolutely inundated with it.
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You don't go careening through your fully functional program making changes willy nilly just to see what happens and oops, you crashed the entire system, oh well, just reload and start again. Customers don't stick around if you are crashing your platform left and right, even if it is the coolest.
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In the design world, it is fail early and *small*. Like, you make a prototype quickly, test it, identify the weak spots, and do it again. It is a sandbox environment, not interacting with the fully deployed program.
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It doesn't work in tech. It may have been cool for like a few years, say 2010-2012, but actual tech managers, basically everyone below C-suite and often C-suite, know that was only possible for a short time at the very beginning of a start up.
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I agree 100% and would also like to point out the supervillain tented finger *is a choice*.
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Yeah, person with the intellectual capability, but who lacks of desire to be curious about their impact and influence on the world is not functionally different from the person without the intellectual capabilities but is morally much, much worse.
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Don't forget right-side up!
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The book that launched his career *was* shifting all over them.
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I am confident they are all being shut off with the plan--as much as they have operationalized plans--to replace them with Tesla chargers.
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And my kid is currently taking a similar course and it is definitely not devoid of political topics or regular (and frustrating for my kid) debate in class.
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The only pushback I ever got was I failed a student for really egregious plagiarism - like entire pages wholesale copied for from websites for children, not even removing formatting - and they wanted me to find a way to pass the student. I said no. I wasn't asked back.
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I will admit that I haven't been in the classroom in a long time but even as an adjunct, I had absolutely no guidance -- wanted or not -- from leadership about my course content. And I taught an inherently political topic.
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I didn't think it was possible to get worse than Kevin McCarthy. I failed to take into account that with Trump, it always can and probably will get worse.
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What's really confounding about this is what you typically look for is things that happen outside of the 95% confidence interval, what is really exciting is the things that apparently don't just happen by chance.
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Kind of like the mandatory language about plagiarism?
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That it writes in the voice of the most annoying guy in your undergrad philosophy course is on the nose, isn't it?
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And there is the obvious oversold tech that credulous business and technology journalists and greedy investors buy. But more insidious lying, by making labor invisible, it makes it so much more difficult to protect and advocate for workers.
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Over and over again, huge jumps in automation are often mirage and just outsourcing the labor to somewhere else. Didn't the smart checkout at Amazon Fresh stores turn out to be people in Bangladesh watch via video, not AI detecting what you put in your cart?
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And now, a clear, gapping whole in the market and the ONE SINGULAR network in place to reach it trashes their newsroom.
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But do they plan accordingly? Build up their news rooms and cultivate funding accordingly? No, they assume this is what it will be like FOREVER and then when things approach normal with a blessedly boring administration, they freak out when people, fatigued, reduce their media.
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I will admit to not being an expert in media or the business of media, but he'll. This whole industry is a mess. 2020: pandemic & critical election, obviously a generational high water mark for media consumption...