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Nougat ,

I can only hope it was with a side of fava beans and a nice Chianti.

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That's just God telling you to go to the bad gateway.

Biden invites Trump to work together to lobby Congress on an immigration bill as both candidates visit border (www.nbcnews.com)

“You know and I know it’s the toughest, most efficient, most effective border security bill this country’s ever seen,” Biden said. “So instead of playing politics with the issue, why don’t we just get together and get it done?”...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism

Because you clearly do not know what that term means.

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Gaia is such a slut.

Nougat ,

Carroll's case is federal, this one is New York State.

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I am right now sitting on a Steelcase Series 1, and while it doesn't have great lumbar support, it is far better than any shitty $150 "gaming" chair, and is right in your price range brand new.

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Tangent story, I was in Manitowoc, WI, on a motorcycle trip. In WWII, they built submarines there, and they have a US submarine at a museum on the lake.

You might remember Manitowoc as being the area where Making A Murderer happened. Turns out that series only gives a light impression of the local accent there. The tour guide for that submarine sounded like he was speaking a completely different language from English.

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The scourge in my grade school was Rubik’s Cubes.

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Finally! You fuckers want to eat “steak,” well you’re going to have it with a delicate murder sauce.

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This presumes that there is demand for Wendy's.

Nougat ,

Get back to killing adult men like god intended.

Nougat ,

That's so reddit.

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Ellen Pao.

2G, 3G, 4G, 5G mobile data made some sense as it represents generational leaps in the technology itself but then Xfinity wants to advertise "10g" internet...

Comcast says it represents a 10 Gigabit cable internet network they are building (it doesn’t exist) so they are basically changing the meaning of the g from generation to gig to act like 10g is 5 generations better (or twice as fast)…or that they have a 10 gigabit network. Neither is accurate. It’s still just cable...

Nougat ,

Sure, but they really should be describing it as 10Gb (gigabit). Even that could easily get confused with 10GB (gigabyte), which would be used for a file size.

Nougat ,

Our subdivision was built in about 2004. They didn't put dark fiber in the ground, for some reason. It took about fifteen years for a private company to come in and lay fiber. I had Comcast/Xfinity at the time (I think it was 250Mb, and definitely asynchronous), who had already started sending out their promotions for gigabit internet service, so I called them up to see if I could get that. "That's only available if you get internet and TV and phone."

Oh, so you can give me just gigabit internet, but you won't give me just gigabit internet.

It was another year before the fiber service was lit, I was the first person to get it in my neighborhood, and it is absolutely fantastic.

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Hey, isn't that the horse from Horsin' Around?

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ACAB ... including Sting.

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I don’t think it will die, it will probably just fade into irrelevancy.

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https://fark.com

https://myspace.com/

https://friendster.com/

Nougat ,

I don't find the distinction particularly useful. We seek to understand more accurately how our universe works, with disregard to whether it is direct reality or simulated reality. The increased accuracy that we discover may result in our knowing whether we are in a simulation, or it may not.

Either way, something is base reality, whether it is our universe as we observe and experience it, or some number of simulated levels "below" it. Our own state as simulated or real doesn't change that. There is isness.

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This is especially true if a simulated universe is indistinguishable from base reality - so perfect in all its aspects that it is identical.

You can also get into the fact that we do not and can not objectively experience reality, simulated or not. Our experience and perception is based on the senses we have, which are inaccurate, and the brain that interprets the inputs, which makes shit up and is wrong all the time. Yes, we can use tools and measurements to enhance our perception and make it more accurate as far as understanding is concerned, but we actually each live in a universe manufactured by our own mind.

Nougat ,

You can always do better than linking to the Daily Mail.

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I was unaware of that, good to know.

Not saying the original commenter is wrong, or that these media outlets are necessarily wrong in this case, of course.

Nougat ,

New headline: Louisiana legislation poised to allow dueling between police and CCW holders.

Four members of the Arkansas supreme court are trying to jump to different seats on the bench, a situation that could empower the conservative governor by granting her more appointments. (boltsmag.org)

Voters are filling two supreme court seats in two separate nonpartisan elections. Neither seat’s current occupant is seeking a new term, so at first glance it may look like the cycle will add two fresh faces to the court. But of the six candidates running for these two seats, four are already sitting justices on the...

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Arkansas Supreme Court is corrupt, got it.

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Math time!

Let's use nice round numbers to make this easy. We're going to pay community mods a salary of US$100,000.00.

Now, keep in mind that the cost of labor to a business is much more than just salary. Employees need technology, 401K matching, health insurance subsidies, an HR department, management, company stock programs, training - all sorts of things. Again, to make this easy, we'll say that each community mod costs the business another US$100,000.00, at least in the first year. (I would expect that kind of cost to diminish as an employee gains tenure, even if it never vanishes.)

This means that for every US$1M Reddit decides to spend on human capital instead of a CEO whose job appears to be largely centered around cuntery, you get five community mods. Since we are referring to diverting US$93M, that would give us 465 community mods.

This doesn't work perfectly, since employees generally like to be paid in cash, while executives (who already have all the cash they'll ever need) are much more willing to be compensated with stock options and other similar non-cash strategies. Huffman certainly got some kind of pre-IPO stock grants and/or options that make this IPO very personally rewarding for him, and which cost Reddit US$0.00. (One of the drivers of inflation is how public companies get to essentially print money by issuing stocks.)

All that said, you can keep that kind of math in your back pocket whenever you become aware of any executive salary. Every million dollars one dick swinger gets would employ five well-paid workers (or ten who can live independently with some level of comfort). That executive who gets $200M a year? Half of that would put 500 people to work, and not impact the quality of life of the executive at all.

Reddit is licensing its content to Google to help train its AI models (www.engadget.com)

Google has struck a deal with Reddit that will allow the search engine maker to train its AI models on Reddit’s vast catalog of user-generated content, the two companies announced. Under the arrangement, Google will get access to Reddit’s Data API, which will help the company “better understand” content from the site....

Nougat ,

Not since they shut down API access. Now it's obvious why they did that.

Nougat ,

Why the fuck isn't one of his unemployed sons drive other people's shit around for twelve hours a day instead of him?

Nougat ,

Bring a second bike along with you, and lock it with a $10 combination lock chain.

Nougat ,

All you have to do is think about this reasonably (I know, I know). Undocumented immigrants to the US want to come here so badly that they're willing to do it outside of the law. They know full well that if they get caught just for that, they're in a fuckload of trouble. It is clearly in the immediate, direct, and personal best interest of an undocumented immigrant to stay well clear of law enforcement. This means - wait for it - not breaking any other laws.

Undocumented immigrants have a very strong incentive to be absolutely well-behaved.

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And I fully expect there is a higher ratio of "bad apples" among other groups, including "American citizens."

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The only way Microsoft or OpenAI would know this would be to spy on chatbot sessions. I’m sure the terms of service—if I bothered to read them—gives them that permission.

Well there's your problem.

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I haven't even gotten to the text of the story, because I was stopped in my tracks by the stupidest stock photo I have ever seen, wherein someone in full riot gear with an ultra-modern machine pistol is prepared to shoot someone at point blank range, when they're already in handcuffs, which are, inexplicably, in front and not behind. And how cold is it in that basement that you'd be working while wearing a hoodie (with the hood up, of course) and a jacket zipped up over it?

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While that's not strictly a Guy Fawkes mask, holy shit does the non-blurred version get even stupider. It's like the people who picked the image for the story thought, "Even we can't put up something that stupid."

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I was so confused for a moment.

Nougat ,

And if that doesn’t work, then plan for the revolution.

Don't wait until "that doesn't work." It's already not working well enough to turn the tide. My gut tells me that come November, no matter the outcome of the election, there are going to be a whole bunch of people who need protecting. I intend to be prepared for that eventuality.

Nougat ,

If Americans wanted Americans to care about the US, including treason against it, they shouldn’t have voted to sell it, including its people, off wholesale to the capitalists.

That's kind of literally what the American Revolution was about, at least in the north.

Nougat ,

Not saying you're wrong, but -- it turns out that more people with indigenous North American heritage prefer to be called "Indians," followed by "Native Americans," and then "Other." I still think "Native Americans" is the best general term, but even that papers over the vast array of different indigenous nations on the continent.

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It was not so long ago that it would have been unfathomable for France and a united Germany to team up in support of a country which was once part of the Soviet Union.

Nougat ,

We have different definitions of "not so long ago."

Nougat ,

Poland wasn't a member of the USSR. They were a vassal state.

West Virginia House passes bill allowing prosecution of librarians (www.newsandsentinel.com)

CHARLESTON — The West Virginia House of Delegates debated the merits of removing protections for public librarians and school librarians from criminal prosecution in the off chance a minor encounters books and content some consider to be obscene.

Nougat ,

There's room for you in Illinois.

Nougat ,

I mean, it was a Black Lives Mystery march.

Nougat ,

I also oppose this bill, because I don't think that the rest of the country's power grids should be negatively impacted by Texas' grid mismanagement.

Mexicans turn out in droves to 'protect democracy' ahead of elections | Reuters (news.yahoo.com)

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Huge crowds filled Mexico City’s main square on Sunday in support of the nation’s electoral authority, accusing President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of trying to weaken the body ahead of a presidential election in June....

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Huh, kbin.social ate it then.

Edit: I'm seeing it there as "deleted by creator."

Nougat ,

If all it took for you to change your mind was for me to say

Tianeptine is extremely dangerous, and the fact that it's being sold as an entirely unregulated supplement is a bad thing.

Maybe your initial assertion that

The answer is education, not prohibition.

Shouldn't have been stated so confidently.

Nougat ,

How dare anyone ever question your assertions, indeed.

Nougat ,

Hey no problem! And I didn't mean anything by it; my reply could have been read with snark included, and I definitely didn't intend it. Good on you for taking breaks when you need to. You're good people, and the world needs more of you.

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