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If you’ve got better ideas, we need them, get out there and get on it. As it is, we’re sleepwalking into catastrophe.

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Gas prices mean nothing if you can take the train. Every time gas prices jump, people start thinking about alternatives. Might be pretty sick, actually.

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So here’s my question: what happens when Israel finishes swallowing Palestine and there’s no more land left to steal? What then? Are they going to start shit with Jordan or Egypt to steal their land next? At what point does the US let them know that we’re not going to let them drag us into WW3 just because they need to steal some land.

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Fucking embarrassing tbh. We’re going to decimate the global north because somebody said no to our ethnostate pal.

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Be me

American

See shitty right wing government doing shitty right wing things.

Sigh.

I bet I know who’s behind this.

Google the history of that government.

Greece was the first proxy war of the Cold war, with the US backing the Greek Monarchy, who were ultimately the victors.

We probably ran similar propaganda and right-wing violence campaigns there as we did across the global south.

What a fucking surprise.

Happy July 4th everyone.

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Paramedic here, this is still half of how it’s done for choking in small children and babies. Five back blows, flip, five chest thrusts.

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I think anon has it 100% correct. The instant Gabe is out of the picture, I expect to hear talk about how “you don’t understand, we have to fuck out users, won’t someone please think of the IPO?!”

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Those tech bros are up to something

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I wonder if the investors are happy yet

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California has, for a while now, required that tipped workers be paid the same minimum wage as anyone else, period. Tips are extras on top of minimum wage.

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I’m starting to think it’s about time we had some meaningful consequences for these bastards, and I don’t mean the journalists.

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This doesn’t seem all that awful to me. The waterfall isn’t fake, it’s just something they do in the dry season so visitors don’t feel like they wasted a trip. It’s not the choice I would make if I were running the park, but it doesn’t seem that bad to me.

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I tend to agree with you, nature should be experienced as-is, imo. I just don’t think this is that terrible.

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I work near Yosemite, we don’t need one extra body there in the summer at all.

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But with all the money they’re saving, they’ll be able to renovate the admin building for the first time in two years, or have a nice dinner for the big donors, or give even more money to the football team.

Edit: assuming this is a uni. If not: won’t someone please think of the investors?

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It’s called Lazarus Syndrome. I was exposed to a case once at a large ER while waiting for a bed for my own patient (hello, am paramedic). Not too much to say about it, the ED staff were working a code, like they do, and called it. About twenty minutes later, some staff was in the room cleaning up when they noticed the patient breathing and told the nurses. Staff came running like hell and worked them for another 15-20 minutes before calling it again. Weird shit, and pretty unusual in my experience, AFAIK we still don’t understand the mechanism behind it.

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Thanks, I appreciate it

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TLDR; Bowlero buys up local lanes and either closes them or renovates them into a new Bowlero. Then they cheap out at every expense, raise prices, and push expensive drinks and food.

That’s private equity for you.

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Is there anything private equity hasn’t made objectively worse?

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You know, the funny thing is that nominally, the point of PE is to take a struggling asset, get it back on its feet, and sell it for more than you bought it for. It’s flipping for businesses. That honestly doesn’t sound bad, it sounds like probably a good thing when you put it like that. IRL, though, it just ends up being vulture capital all the way down.

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And rubber chickens, apparently. The secret service went around confiscating them at Trump’s libertarian party speech.

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In a healthy housing market, there’s enough competition that renting is much cheaper than buying. Indeed, I remember it being that way when I was a kid. Over the course of my life, landlording went from something that retired people did for a very small additional income stream to a get rich quick scam.

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This is so frustrating to watch as an American. I spent much of my youth on the internet getting clowned on by Europeans for the consequences of my country’s hard right policies. The UK has been deservedly getting clowned on for the consequences of embracing the Tories. It beggars belief that the same people clowning on the US and UK would then turn around and say to themselves “yes, but it will be different for us, it will work for us, our situation really is different, you don’t understand”. No, it won’t be different. Pretty soon, you’re going to be following the path that the Tories set the UK on, marvelling at how dysfunctional your government is, and hearing about how the only solution is even more gibs to the people who are already the most economically advantaged and the private sector. Before you click reply, just consider that you guys deserve to get fucking dunked on, because you guys spent decades laughing at other countries for doing this shit just to say “hmmm… but what if sticking the fork in the electrical socket works out for me?” I’m honestly sad and disappointed for Europe, not least of all because after years of deservedly shitting on the US for being racist, all it took was one big wave of immigration for you guys to hold up blonde dumbasses with bad hair and worse ideas as the solution to all of your problems.

“Oh, great bozo of the European trailer park, what is your wisdom to save our culture from the immigrants?”

“Deregulate sewage plants. You will certainly not regret deregulating sewage plants.”

Enjoy your US-style healthcare system in a few years, I guess.

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I mean, not trying to sound like a pessimist as much as a realist. Even if Europe started paying the full sum of what we’re paying in defense subsidies, I seriously doubt we’d cut that spending. Raytheon and Lockheed’s investors are counting on us.

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The right in the US really isn’t so different. The thing we know for sure is that fascists lie and lie often. The fascists here in the US aren’t above paying lip service to certain issues; Trump tried to convince the libertarian party to vote for him by letting the guy who ran Silk Road out of jail, for example. But they’d be fools to believe them, as Europeans are fools to believe their own dollar store Trumps when they say they’ll protect or embrace the social programs. Exhibit A: what the Tories have done to the NHS. The program really isn’t all that complex, they just sneak in some modest reforms that erode the service and enshittify it slowly, or do some bullshit temporary measure that puts the service permanent behind in terms of (one to all) money, employees, or output. Then, they use that as evidence for why they must further enshittify the service and give more taxpayer money to the private sector.

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I think that’s a bad take. Here’s the thing, “freedom fries” wasn’t a self-enclosed phenomenon. It was part of a broader jingoistic fever that swept through the US post-9/11. Yeah, sure, it’s fair to joke about Americans being dumb, but our brains dead ass shut off after 9/11, and anyone could do anything if they just waved their hands and said “terrorists, 9/11”. And Operation Iraqi freedom was just one of the turd sandwiches we ferociously gobbled down under such framing. Freedom fries happened because France wouldn’t support our stupid, pointless invasion, and the boomer email network kicked into overdrive to create a new meme (in the literal sense of the word) of replacing anything having to do with the treacherous French with Freedom. And that was what we did to people who owed us nothing, so it felt much more dangerous to step out against it as an American, at least in the early days of the war.

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IIRC, one of the effects of Brexit is that the UK’s sewage outlets to the ocean were no longer bound by EU regulations, which led to extremely high sewage contamination and closing of a number of English (specifically English, I want to say) beaches.

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Yep. Dunno what else to say, we’re absolutely responsible.

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Not my jokes, and I don’t think it’s funny. You might want to re-read my post, I certainly wasn’t celebrating the attitude that spawned freedom fries.

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Okay, bud. I re-read and I didn’t see what you were talking about about, so I really think there’s been some kind of misunderstanding. But okay.

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Thanks for this insightful response. It’s clear I need to do more reading on this.

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It’s the internet, take a breath. I mean that seriously; you don’t have to like me, idgaf, but it’s not worth getting worked up about. You might benefit from taking a break, maybe drink some water or something.

No need to respond, I concede, you won the argument. Just take some time and reflect on the good things you’ve got.

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Yep

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I was alive and in the US then, too. I very plainly remember the nationalist fervor that the US was wrapped up in at the time; I remember the Dixie Chicks getting cancelled before cancelling was a thing because they called Bush out. Nothing exists in a void, history is ALL context.

Look, in a week, I’ll be drinking water, downloading memes, and going to work, not thinking about freedom fries. If you want to still be thinking about this shit by then, don’t let me get in the way of a good time.

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What’s a pirate’s favorite letter?

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I don’t have one, but the pirate one is pretty good

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What’s a pirate’s favorite letter?

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I’m 35. We took out a refi and paid off our credit card debts in 2019, and we were doing financially great for probably the first time in our adult lives. In the course of the last year, we’ve nearly maxed out most of our credit cards on living expenses. It’s not only that the cost of living jumped up, but that our wages haven’t gone up with it and our combined student loan load is like $1000/mo. There’s also the creeping understanding that we’re one big unexpected expense from disaster. I was really looking forward to taking the kids on their first real trip or something, but I guess we’re just going to stay here and play Vidya until they’re adults. But hey, glad to hear that the economy’s doing great.

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What this guy said. No way the richest people on earth are walking around without body guards.

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Tbh, I didn’t hear the similarity in the GPT4o demos. Not saying OpenAI did right or wrong, just that I wouldn’t have guessed that the Sky voice was meant to be ScarJo.

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Anyone paying attention knows that we’re heading towards a wave of domestic terror.

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Or that people who paid attention in history class don’t plan on explaining why they did nothing to their grandkids.

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True. I sometimes fantasize about a livable future

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You know what’s cheaper for everyone than buying cars? A good public transit system and safe, actually useful/enjoyable bike infrastructure. I’ve run the napkin math on this and it’s absolutely no contest.

Source: I’m a stranger on the internet and you will certainly not regret taking me at my word.

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When I say good, I mean good by the rest of the world’s standards, not good by the US’ standards. I’m talking 3-5 minute peak frequencies between even medium cities (NL) or even 30 minute frequencies to small towns (I want to say the swiss even have this to small towns). I’m talking protected bike paths that don’t put your life on the line, not bike lanes that are considered good because they actually exist at all. I mean cities that have been been reformed (this one will take a while, I know) so that they’re human-centric and it would never occur to you that you need a car.

It sucks, in all likelihood, because the US has spent 70 years making policy choices that puts cars over all other considerations. I find it difficult to express to you how big that gap is; it’s something I’ve come to appreciate via exchange students. We’re so ridiculously car dependent that there’s all kinds of infra that we ought to have that just seems unreasonable from where we are now. That’s not something you can walk back overnight, but it can be done.

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Are you asking for LiquidGrue?

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It’s a regional dialect, that’s what he calls genocide.

Computer Scientists Invent an Efficient New Way to Count (www.quantamagazine.org)

Traditionally, algorithms for counting distinct items in a stream of data would store all the items. A new algorithm, called CVM, uses randomization to estimate the number of distinct items with minimal memory usage. The trick is to keep track of items by recording them and then randomly deleting some. The probability of an item...

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This is really cool and clever. I think for a lot of applications, the output will be truthy enough to be useful.

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