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3d ago
with the (sort of hilarious) quirk that the nation's self-conception is largely defined around not being the US
Yes, and this is the fault of the War of 1812. The US's invasion of Canada had the perverse outcome of solidifying a Canadian identity as specifically not-American.
lol lmao the people on the ground don't give a shit where the water pump or the antiretrovirals come from, if they even know
I skimmed a few articles about asking USAID recipients where they think the aid is from. A vast supermajority have no idea.
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3d ago
that was the decisive argument against suffrage: half the women arguing in favor of it seemed to be utterly daft.
Agreed and let's also strip men of the vote for the same reason.
I think most voters are operating on vibes and social approval rather than policy. Policy based arguments are so orthogonal to their views that they can't be influenced by them.
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3d ago
One is here, then one is gone
Epicurus said something like this in his letter to Menoeceus: "Where I am, death is not; where death is, I am not."
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3d ago
Hunter did crack in the white house while hooking up with Obama's daughter.
If anyone could please deliver the receipts for this I would be very appreciative.
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3d ago
you are ashamed of your use of AI and trying to lie to your reader
People are trying to coordinate a shaming campaign and I do not like such things. I am not ashamed but would-be-shamers deserve to be frustrated and confused in any way feasible. I advocate stripping off the watermarks or adding them to human generated text to make clear understanding practically impossible.
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12d ago
"Peter Schiff has successfully predicted 2 of the last 20 recessions!"
A good quip but you flipped the numbers.
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12d ago
Iran’s leverage over Straits discredited
On the radio today they mentioned ongoing negotiations about Iran charging a toll. They want around 7 or 8%; other countries are demanding closer to 2%. It used to be 0. Their ability to shoot missiles into ships is not that discredited.
At Roehampton marking is blind so he didn't know whose essay it was
Getting feedback on essays and implementing improvements was largely the point when I went to school. They weren't blindly graded tests.
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13d ago
I design electronics. I can make layouts and order PCBs. I design RF structures. I also test my designs myself. I need practical coding skills to automate testing, run FEM simulations programmatically, process measured data, etc.
I currently work for a major tech company and some would call me a tech bro. My work gives me LLM access for free. The Google search free LLM is mentally retarded. If you tried free LLMs and found them to be dumb, try a good one instead.
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14d ago
Grocery store profit margins are much closer to 1%. They need to mark up products that much to pay their workers, run a nationwide logistics system, make up for theft, etc. Then have the tiniest bit left over for profit.
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14d ago
The use cases for LLMs are so marginal
No offense, but this is an incredible statement of ignorance. I use them at work and they are amazing. Not in any way a toy or marginal in value.
it's obvious that there's real public demand for cars, on the basis of their obvious usefulness
You get it. Same thing for LLMs. Most Americans regularly use LLMs. A vast supermajority of younger adults do. There's such real and obvious demand.
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14d ago
They do in fact deliver tax money. Around half of property taxes in Loudoun County, VA are paid by data centers. That county allows building of data centers and reaps the rewards.
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14d ago
That is typical. Private details of as-yet-unfinalized negotiations are to be private. Once finished they will publicly announce the outcome.
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14d ago
Amazon and data centers are net payers of taxes. If AOC and New Yorkers selfishly wanted more tax revenue, then they'd approve of the Amazon headquarters. I reject the premise that data centers or Amazon headquarters are tax drains.
Loudoun County, VA approved of those data centers and they pay around half of all property taxes in the county to the benefit of the people who live there. Of course they have to pay their taxes.
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15d ago
I like that the barbarian was outcast for violating her tribe's understanding of racial purity.
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15d ago
Grocery stores are famously low profit. Like 1 to 3 percent after ruthlessly optimizing logistics and having minimal staffing. There's no 30 percent laying around for someone to take. Market prices are the price for a reason.
These are going to run at a 30%+ loss given even slightly higher than typical staffing costs. Which is feasible by subsidizing with tax dollars. The cynic in me suspects this will be yet another exercise in setting tax dollars on fire. Optimistically some poor people will get some below cost food that they eat rather than resell.
TIRM
15d ago
this means using the gold standard of physics, radioactive decay
Every day at work I battle the great and undefeated enemy: thermal noise. I recommend a thermal noise source.
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15d ago
The ECHR prevents you from directly deporting someone who makes a claim of asylum.
The term "suicide pact" comes to mind. Strange they couldn't forsee malicious false claims of asylum overwhelming them. The American equivalent being 5.8 million under Biden. Google tells me nearly a million per year in Europe. So almost as bad as the very worst of American Democratic governance.
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16d ago
Zulus were pressed into military service as older teens to 30 or 35 years old. That's approximately spending their 20s fighting in spear formations.
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17d ago
About a fifth of the Hawaiian population is native or part native. Thats significantly smaller than the east Asian population. Importing large numbers of outsiders to the point they are a supermajority of the local population prevents any hope of reconquista.
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18d ago
The school for delinquent girls arranges dances with the school for delinquent boys? They awkwardly stand around not dancing while a boomer (or gen x) teacher writes "kids these days..." articles blaming the "lumps" for not being highly motivated at delinquent boy containment school
That was a fictional woman from the OT representing Jerusalem, not the Whore of Babylon from Revelation.
Ezekiel 23:
1 The word of the Lord came to me:
2 “Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother.
3 They became prostitutes in Egypt, engaging in prostitution from their youth. In that land their breasts were fondled and their virgin bosoms caressed.
4 The older was named Oholah, and her sister was Oholibah. They were mine and gave birth to sons and daughters. Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.
5 “Oholah engaged in prostitution while she was still mine; and she lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians—warriors.
6 clothed in blue, governors and commanders, all of them handsome young men, and mounted horsemen.
7 She gave herself as a prostitute to all the elite of the Assyrians and defiled herself with all the idols of everyone she lusted after.
8 She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt, when during her youth men slept with her, caressed her virgin bosom and poured out their lust on her.
9 “Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, the Assyrians, for whom she lusted.
10 They stripped her naked, took away her sons and daughters and killed her with the sword. She became a byword among women, and punishment was inflicted on her.
11 “Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet in her lust and prostitution she was more depraved than her sister.
12 She too lusted after the Assyrians—governors and commanders, warriors in full dress, mounted horsemen, all handsome young men.
13 I saw that she too defiled herself; both of them went the same way.
14 “But she carried her prostitution still further. She saw men portrayed on a wall, figures of Chaldeans portrayed in red,
15 with belts around their waists and flowing turbans on their heads; all of them looked like Babylonian chariot officers, natives of Chaldea.
16 As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.
17 Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. After she had been defiled by them, she turned away from them in disgust.
18 When she carried on her prostitution openly and exposed her naked body, I turned away from her in disgust, just as I had turned away from her sister.
19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt.
20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.
21 So you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when in Egypt your bosom was caressed and your young breasts fondled.
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