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ulyssessword
16hr ago
Let's be very generous and say $0.07 per kilowatt hour (approximately retail prices). 1 gigawatt year is therefore $613.7M, while 5000 kg of gold (at $150k/kg, which is slightly high) is $750M.
So it's not even a powerplant that produces gold as a coproduct, it's a gold plant that also produces power.
urquan
Hold! What you are doing to us is wrong! Why do you do this thing?
16hr ago
It is about the idea spread by the words that are used in that organization's name.
That people should care about the lives of black people?
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
16hr ago
But these stories never confine themselves to the plausible.
Neither does reality.
urquan
Hold! What you are doing to us is wrong! Why do you do this thing?
16hr ago
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I don’t think it’s sensitivity reasons, it was that the algorithms on social media platforms deranked or demonetized content that had references to death or sexual assault. Presumably for advertisement reasons. You said it’s grown beyond just that, but I believe YouTube and other platforms censor it just like TikTok, so they’re just doing what the algorithms encourage.
So this isn’t an example of zoomer fragility — it’s an example of the power of advertiser skittishness and algorithmic content ranking to affect language on multiple platforms. (That sounded like AI, but it wasn’t. Promise.)
I could also just be out of touch on this, but I’ve never heard of someone who literally won’t say the word “killed” in an in-person setting. Rape is more sensitive, I guess.
Zephyr
16hr ago
Have you heard of the use-mention distinction?
One of the reasons we left Reddit was that a user was explaining the (((brackets))) around certain names, and what it meant, and Reddit decided that using them, even in an explanation like this one here, indicates an endorsement of the position.
Now sure, if your ideological opponents pick a name that is obviously biased, you don’t have to use that - no one is saying you should call it “The Public Execution of the Innocent George Floyd by white supremecist cops, as endorsed by Republikkkans”. But calling it “George Floyd’s death” is, if anything, conservative coded.
Censoring his name, or censoring the name of the activist organization BLM, simply makes the arguments appear unserious - to me, they seem like someone who is so angry about the concept that they can’t think clearly about it, and as a result, are probably incorrect about it.
birb_cromble
16hr ago
I like them now that I'm an adult who has learned how to cook them properly.
As a kid being served rice and beans boiled in the same pot so one is over cooked or the other is under cooked? Not a fan.
birb_cromble
16hr ago
Also for @Amadan, who asked in another thread.
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/fairfax-county-butt-slasher-to-be-sentenced-friday/1924072/
Pimentel was arrested near a shopping mall in Peru, in January 2012. He was extradited to the United States in December.
zPvQINBQvfFR
16hr ago
Was the Nazi-saluting pug guy calling for violence?
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
17hr ago
If you believe in the government as mother and father of us all. Outside that, over 99 times out of 100 you can avoid getting involved with fentanyl by not indulging in recreational opiates... which are, after all, illegal.
birb_cromble
17hr ago
especially in the Baltimore -DC corridor
That might be a big part of the distinction here.
articles would be tantamount to asking someone to dox themselves,
I'll give some location details anyway. I'm not talking about Chevy Chase and Darnestown. I'm talking about Rocky Ridge and Harney. These were poor, fucked up areas that only got more fucked up. The people living between the beltways just assumed it was rednecks doing redneck shit and never looked any deeper. Given the age of the events and the crap sack quality of the local newspapers, I doubt that I could find anything without going to microfiche at a local library. Since I'd rather set myself on fire than go back there, you can retain your sense of disbelief.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
No. Rice and beans are cheap and tasty(although beans are not exactly quick).
BurdensomeCount
—Your em dash is showing...
17hr ago
Yep, it's a surprisingly healthy and really cheap and easy to make meal. Even if the money is no issue it's still a good staple meal that should absolutely be in your cooking rotation.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
17hr ago
Not only have you disseminated the concept but your additional tortured censoring likely results in the mind of the average reader lingering on the concept longer than the plaintext, rather than glossing over the meaning of the words. Quit fooling yourself, no one here has been saved from learning what "black lives matter" says due to your blurring.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
None of these statements sound like believable or normal behavior for poor unassimilated Hispanic migrant workers. Public urination, drunk driving, catcalling getting a bit younger than gringos would go, bar fights, poaching, cockfighting- all sounds like the sort of thing that might happen(and which is just generally a hazard of importing male-skewed unskilled laborers in large numbers). But these stories never confine themselves to the plausible.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
17hr ago
Serial butt stabber sought in Fairfax County
They did get him, he indeed was an immigrant
I don't know about there being two more.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
I can believe that illegal farm workers are poaching, maybe stealing small stock, but they'd butcher a cow and there wouldn't be a 'carcass' left(Hispanics are actually very fond of animal parts not normally eaten in anglo-american culture; poor unassimilated Hispanics[which farm laborers would be] are actually known for not liking steak very much in comparison). I can believe there were cockfighting and maybe dogfighting rings set up by illegals but the rash of ass stabbin's doesn't sound realistic to me- do you have a news article? Obviously I have no trouble buying a one off floridaman-type serial offender, but you'll forgive me if just this one guy shitting in truck beds doesn't sound like the sort of thing to paint with a broad brush over.
I am not afraid of saying anything. I am avoiding disseminating the concept because it's harmful.
There are any number of people and organizations we all hold in disdain or worse. Inventing euphemisms or derogatory epithets to avoid naming them is the level of response I expect from young teens.
This is not about that organization. It is about the idea spread by the words that are used in that organization's name. And about people forced or compelled to say those words and thus contemplate that idea.Even if that organization did something really admirable and I wanted to praise the organization, it would still be justified to avoid saying those words.
phailyoor
17hr ago
If they actually made the letter themselves then there's a remote but real chance they get sued into oblivion and back. But if some "anonymous source" provides the letter then wsj is in the clear even if the letter is quite easily identified as fake under detailed investigation.
if a whistleblower snuck the paper out of the files, showed the journalist, and then snuck it back in and they don't want to leave any hard evidence behind the security violations while still getting the info out. Hell maybe even a journalist got snuck in to see the files directly
If the letter is real, transcribing it and publishing that is still absolute proof that a security breach occurred. I don't see how posting the text but not an image covers any source's butt more.
solowingpixy
the resident car guy
17hr ago
From my perspective, America has outperformed its economic peers in Europe and Asia over the last forty years despite this supposed "anchor".
Being the best of a bad bunch isn't good enough (and it isn't as if the EU and commonwealth don't also have tons of immigrants, so we can't blame nativists for their poor performance). Unless I'm missing something, real GDP growth in the US was worse in the 2000s (and far too much of that growth went to the healthcare sector) than it was in the 80s and 90s and has been thoroughly mediocre since. Aside from the post-covid rebound in 2021 the average Millennial has never seen real GDP growth exceed 3% during their working lives.
Of course, thanks to the fact that federal spending has grown far faster than the economy during the last 25 years, VA-7 is doing better than most.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
17hr ago
Oh good. The worst parts of the books so far have l been Sanderson’s various pathetic attempts at insult humor, which he apparently considers the height of wit, and that entire mini-arc brought out the nadir of it.
4doorsmorewhores
17hr ago
But the guy who wrote that even flagged that those pointless degrees "Don't pay.", am I now to take that the men in this scenario are poor because their potential girlfriends have psychology BAs and work at Starbucks? What's the connection here, beyond asserting that it's evident? The number of undergrad degrees as a percentage of young people has been increasing steadily for decades, and women have been earning them at a greater rate than men since at least the 80s (People who are now likely out of the dating market or irrelevant). Where's the link in this argument? It sounds just like vague outgroup complaining "Those idiots with fake degrees/who control HR/ who don't want to date me" etc
cjet79
17hr ago
I do think you have had a uniquely bad experience. I'd maybe have similar views if my experience was at all like yours.
I've generally had a very different experience, and I'll share since you did.
Lived in the suburbs of St Louis for a while where inner city bussing policies made sure that there was at least one or two black kids in each class that were uncontrollable by the teachers and would mercilessly bully everyone else.
At the time I lived in a neighborhood with few kids my age, they were at youngest two years older like my brother, so he had a bunch of friends. I only managed to make friends in school with a nice Indian boy and his immigrant parents had me over for sleepovers.
We then moved to Charlottesville. And I went to a school that was semi infamous for being one of the last holdouts on segregation. That was decades before. By the time I was there it was still mainly two types of people liberals that had left a city and wanted a 'quiet' life in the country. Or rednecks that had been there for dozen generations and couldn't throw a rock on the playground without hitting someone they were related to.
Some of the rednecks bullied me. I made friends with the nerdy liberal's kids. The worst bully that I remember took his dad's gun in middle school and blew his own brains out.
When I was in middle school things didn't change much except I went to the school that was in the suburbs rather than the one that served the rural areas. So the bullies switched to being white jocks and rednecks were a minority, but I'd learned how to have friends at that point and I was no longer the one being bullied. One kid I remember getting bullied was a happy Mexican boy that lived next door in one of the apartment complexes. He eventually punched one of the kids in the nose after the kid took his backpack and that seemed to resolve things.
There were ESL classes in all of my elementary/middle/high schools and they were full and I never knew a single one of these kids.
Most of my friends in middle and highschool were white, because that was about 80-90% of the population. I was on friendly terms with the very few Muslims, Indians, and East Asians that were actually in our school. I teamed up with an Asian kid to represent the libertarians at a school wide political debate.
When I got to college things became way more diverse. I went to George Mason University because they had a reputation for a libertarian friendly economics department. My best friend became a 2nd generation Indian Immigrant. For two years my roommate was a Hispanic of some kind. I made a habit of intentionally forgetting and confusing him with Mexican origins because it annoyed him. He might have been Cuban. His parents were doctors, he eventually became a doctor too.
I graduated college and went to work at a company founded by an Indian entrepreneur. Met my white wife there and we have three beautiful blue eyed daughters.
I still live in Northern Virginia. I live in a predominantly white neighborhood my main encounters with immigrants is when they come to mow my lawn. There has been a homeless problem in the area lately, the worst of them look like drugged out old white people.
Overall my life has been awesome and not filled with much tragedy. My encounters with immigrants have been almost entirely positive. The race and ethnicity of people I've known has rarely provided me much insight into whether I will like them, get along with them, or find them totally odious. Usually the people that like or dislike me for my race are the people I get along with the least well.
I'm not ashamed of my race or heritage, I'm currently serving on a board for a family heritage organization. They've been here since the 1620's. We often field requests from people looking for more information on slaves that my ancestors once owned.
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
17hr ago
Yeah I wouldn't worry about that. Even in the third book (let alone further), it isn't a factor any more. And to be fair, I don't think it was ever much of a love triangle. I think the story was just there to show Kaladin and Shallan mistaking normal human relationships for romantic feelings because they are kind of screwed up, not to have there be a serious contention.
Cow heart kebab is the bee's knees, even if it upsets my stomach. I've never cared much for cow lung, but I'll eat it if there's nothing else. Organ meat is good for you; that's where all the nutrients are.
Amusingly, I've slowly assimilated into the American taste for steak. When I was younger I would only eat it well done, because I thought bloody meat was gross, and consequently I did not enjoy steak any more than I did chicken, and I found it distinctly inferior to fatty pork, despite being more expensive. But after years of getting bombarded by the medium rare meme, I broadened my horizons, and now I realize that the gringos were onto something with this whole steak thing.
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