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I have a math degree and still can't do basic addition

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Alto , to nottheonion in Sam Altman Says OpenAI Would Like to Enable Gore and Erotica for "Personal Use"
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...why would you put that image im my head

Alto , to technology in Helium-3: Mining the fuel of the future on the Moon
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Car bad, train good

I fucking hate stroads

Alto , to technology in Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs
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If we're going old school, go old school. Oldest kid rides in the bed.

Alto , to nostupidquestions in What is the longest discontinuous marriage?
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Ah yep, you're right that's the one I was thinking of. Both are pretty interesting, forget how young this country is sometimes.

Alto , to nostupidquestions in What is the longest discontinuous marriage?
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So I went to double check, and I got a fair bit of it wrong.

Irene Triplett
She was actually the daughter of the woman I thought I was talking about. Her mother married her father at ages 29 and 78 respectively, and she was born one of five children in 1930, living until the age of 90 before passing in 2020.

Alto , (edited ) to nostupidquestions in What is the longest discontinuous marriage?
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Not at all an answer to your question, but a very semi-related tangent.

The last receipt of a US Civil War pension passed away relatively recently. She was a young woman who would regularly help out a local older man, a civil war vet with no kids or family otherwise. Towards the end of his days, he married her so she'd get the benefits of his pension, as things were really really tough.

Some of the detail might be off, going off of memory, but that's the general gist.

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So I went to double check, and I got a fair bit of it wrong.

Irene Triplett
She was actually the daughter of the woman I thought I was talking about. Her mother married her father at ages 29 and 78 respectively, and she was born one of five children in 1930, living until the age of 90 before passing in 2020.

Alto , to news in GOP introduces bill that would send anyone convicted of unlawful activity on a campus since Oct. 7th, 2023 to Gaza.
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Ding ding ding. Authoritarian governments never disarm the right. The police have shown that they won't protect you, if they're not actively joining in on it.

We protect us.

Alto , to technology in Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs
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Russia could've, y'know, just not done an illegal invasion of Ukraine.

Alto , to technology in Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs
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While true, the general cultural preference for larger vehicles will inherently carryover to when people are deciding what EV to buy.

Alto , (edited ) to news in Trump flubs son Barron's age, ahead of his graduation
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I really, really don't like this growing trend of refusing to believe that people can change. I was caught on the young, dumb teenage libertarian > far right pipeline fucking hard. If I hadn't had friends that recognized that and (figuratively) knocked some sense into me, I'm not entirely certain I would've changed.

Edit: apparently hit send mid thought, fixed that

Alto , to news in Trump flubs son Barron's age, ahead of his graduation
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People that didn't grow up in environments where you're surrounded by shitty, bigoted opinions don't understand just how fucking hard it is and how long it takes to deprogram yourself from that shit. Took me longer than 18.

Once he starts personally getting on stage and being a bigoted shitbag, I'm more than fine with putting him on blast. Til then, I'm willing to give the kid at least some of the benefit of the doubt.

Alto , to noncredibledefense in The Iran-Iraq War was a Terrible War, even by War Standards.
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I'm not sure why this guy's so reluctant to accept something that sticking a bunch of high voltage cables in a swamp isn't something Iraq would've done in that war. I don't even mean in a "oh they did immoral things way", I mean in a "they were basically doing ACME shit the entire war" way.

Did Iraq probably heavily inflate the number killed? Absolutely. Even if they weren't trying to, they had tons of barbed wire and floating mines in that swamp, so kinda hard to distinguish what killed who when all you care about is building corpse road. But they also absolutely electrified a swamp during the battle of the marshes, and it absolutely did kill people.

Alto , to nostupidquestions in When did the show "Suits" suddenly get popular?
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It's a feedback loop. A fairly small jump can get you trending, which makes people watch it, which makes it even more visible, rinse and repeat.

Alto , to noncredibledefense in The Iran-Iraq War was a Terrible War, even by War Standards.
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CORPSE ROAD

Alto , to noncredibledefense in The Iran-Iraq War was a Terrible War, even by War Standards.
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As awful as it is, gotta admit that electrifying a swamp is a pretty creative move.

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