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Laffer curves? I mean I know the kids are wearing bell bottoms again, but seriously? High time to bring back pyramid power and Kirlian photography to join this embarassing relic of decades past.
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So...how exactly are tariffs colllected anyhow? Is there any reason to believe tariffs will be charged on actual imported goods in a fashion at all consistent with what Trump says?
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There's the group of stats-ish people talking about "their priors" all the time. And personally, I use "bolus" too often in too many situations, because I work for pharmaceutical chemists.
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It's the rabbit ear gesture in the bottom photo. Blueskyers are suckers for the rabbit ears 😜
Seriously though, I think people just like a simple honest birthday call out, without a self-conscious lame joke about it.
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The unpredictability is part of the game. It's a dazzle ships presidency.
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Extra ironic as four decades after we finally beat 70s stagflation, Trump is almost certainly bringing it back. Without any help from OPEC.
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Is she comparing herself to Dianne Wiest? Because the only person allowed to get away with that is, y'know, Dianne Wiest.
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I'm going to reserve my praise for media that resists the fall of democracy and rule of law even when stocks AREN'T falling. And who managed to do that before the election, as supposed to supporting the mad clown into office and only crying now.
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You know what? They did the right thing and I'm gonna celebrate it. Precisely because things are so scary right now, easy cynicism is not a luxury we can afford.
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Crystals are prettier and have a much better carbon footprint.
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I think there's a super-secret, hyper-exclusive reality game show -- a contest to be the world's biggest jerk. Elon is in it to win.
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Addressing your last sentence, it's disturbing how much of history I first learned from Bugs Bunny cartoons.
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I stop somewhere waiting for you. (C.f. Last stanza of Song of Myself)
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"No Country For Old Men" has a surprising amount of problem-solving process in it. For such a dark bloody movie.
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I'd also love to see them do this to all the employees at Morgan Stanley. See how good at math those "finance wizards" really are.
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Does anyone else notice that the way MAGAs talk about federal employees is really reminiscent of how antebellum plantation owners talked about their slaves?
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There's a whole lot less belief in psychic powers, at least in some circles. Used to be all over hard science fiction, but now cyber-stuff fills the same plot-role/geek-fixation.
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It's a generally lame joke, but it also inadvertently implies that USAID funding was really effective. It's not even really an own.
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60 years old, adding agester thoughts: stretch for just 5 minutes every day, and always make sure your shoes and your mattress are there for you and your joints and muscles.
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Every time I plug my phone into my car it starts playing music. Even if I had audio off last time it was plugged in. I just want to use maps, or charge, but no the phone decides I need music right away. The issue isn't AI. It's the phone designers giving themselves agency instead of me.
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So the whole thing with AI isn't even the tech. A computer that reviews my reading patterns and gives suggestions could be useful. It's the "alert" thing that pisses me off. The push factor. We are not being given control over how to use AI -- the use cases are all about AI proactively interferes.
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So sad. I love Honda but they are really behind the curve on EVs.
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I believe Honda finally came out with a fully electric vehicle. Big growth but starting from essentially zero.
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Trump will give Netanyahu whatever he wants and the whole war will be ten times worse than before.
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Thanks for getting it. All the other media outlets are squealing about how strong and tough Trump is, and how scared Netanyahu is of him. My guess is that a bunch of hostages will get returned, but then some idiot will fire a missile and Netanyahu will use that to start it all up again.
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Not sure if it's true, but somebody told me that when Madonna got married, she sat all her ex-lovers at the same table at the reception. This seems similar energy, somehow.
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So true. Pretty much sums up 90% of the current remembrance about the covid pandemic -- we simply cannot accept "humanity vs a virus" as the correct narrative.
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See I thought the article was real, that the guy joked to the reporter and they printed it, because for a clueless hopeful moment I allowed myself to believe that the NY Times had actually developed a sense of humor.
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Pretty early in my career I realized that the hardest "translation from high level to low level" task in IT is: translating what a bunch of users SAY they want into a precise definition of what they REALLY want. When LLMs can do that consistently, they'll have true human level AI and we're done.
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There were a LOT of people on the streets in NYC protesting. The media pretended it was just a few crazies, but it was a big big deal. The lack of awareness wasn't ignorance, it was deliberate suppression. Maybe the media wasn't out, but the cops certainly were.
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Hmmm. And the hero makes it all the way through, dramatically repents for his own sin (giving back the gobstopper), and literally ascends to salvation. In this version, is Beatrice a bar of chocolate?
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I mean Lord knows it's easy enough to find one-sided exhortations for killing and pillaging, with the historical awareness of a mayfly, all over the interwebs. Hoping you can point me to something wiser.
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Not an argument, but a question. In your lovely rant back on the hellsite, about the sins of both sides in the Israel-Palestine hullabaloo, you refer to your extensive reading on the topic. Any recommendation for a balanced, insightful starter text for those of us trying to learn more?