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The [300-billion-dollar] fund's existence has been previously reported, but Reuters is revealing for the first time that more than half of the amount has already been committed and that it will be composed entirely of private-sector funds.
The new fund is a private investment vehicle, not a reconstruction or reparations programme, and will not include any government money or grants, the source said, adding that companies based in the US, the Gulf Arab states, Asia, South America, and Africa have agreed to commit financing.
So it isn't comparable to the government-funded Marshall Plan.
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The definition of "doxing" also has been muddled by the decision of several state governments (example) to criminalize publication of personal information with intent to harm (i. e., harassment) under the name "doxing" (which, under the traditional definition, does not necessarily involve intent to harm).
Last year, the administrator of Kiwi Farms urged that website's users to switch to a different word, such as "phonebooking", "unmasking", or "sunshining".
There are two definitions of doxing (alt. doxxing):
a. Form of harassment in which personal information is used to intimidate, threaten, or distress others.
b. Searching / archiving public information and reposting it.The Kiwi Farms has always had rules against contacting people. We've always had rules against threatening or extorting people. We've always had rules against encouraging other people to do those things ("someone should...").
In the last year especially, the word doxing has become popularly realigned from the second definition (which originated online in the 2000s) to the first (which was popularized by journos).
The law has extended harassment definitions in many jurisdictions to include online harassment which utilizes personal information. This is in the same way "cyberbullying" is a crime, but "cyberbullying" does not mean any form of online critique: it specifically refers to students in highschool or college harassing their peers online in such a way to intimidate them from going to school. Doxing has become criminalized, but as an extension of already criminal behavior under the first definition, usually applied to people who already know each other in real life.
The fact that this subculture invented the term and abides within the law is irrelevant to what the average person now thinks of when they hear "doxing". That we are 'in the right' does not matter. The use of a word, which now describes a crime, to describe things which are not criminal, is detrimental to our interests and long-term prospects.
In 2025 I need the community at large to stop using the word "doxing" to describe legal information gathering and switch to anything else. The following terms have been suggested, including both verbs which describe the act of looking something up, and the noun which describes a compilation of this information.
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Am I one of the only people out there that thinks traveling just fucking sucks ass? I mean, it’s more or less “like this” almost anywhere you go (where you don’t want to put your life at risk).
I agree.
I mean, yeah, I’ve always wanted to visit the morbid, desolate, and forbidden stay-away zones your mother would never want you to go to as a sense of adventure
I disagree.
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I'm sure that most denizens of this website feel inferior to the huge-brained lawyers, programmers, and doctors. There is no need for you to expect yourself to be as ultra-cool as they are. Many of the comments that I myself make are just links to sources—not very big-brained, but not the most low-value stuff in the world, either.
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Several items indicate that the person is extremely left-wing.
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Announcement of pronouns in username
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Use of coronavirus mask in profile image, years after the pandemic
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Link to a "PayEquityNow" account in profile description
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Announcement of indigenous background in profile description
It is the opinion of several commenters here that any extremely-left-wing person is automatically a "security risk" to Trump's right-wing government.
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Dilution of the lifespan
This topic has seen significant scholarly discussion under the name "rectangularization of the survival curve".
Rectangularization is defined as a trend toward a more rectangular shape of the survival curve due to increased survival and concentration of deaths around the mean age at death.
Outer rectangularization is the standard perspective of rectangularization, and captures progress in mean lifespan relative to progress in maximum lifespan.
Inner rectangularization adds a new perspective. In contrast to the outer rectangle, we seek the largest rectangle under the survival curve.
most of SpaceX's valuation is from its investments in datacenters (renting compute to Anthropic and others) rather than from its rocket and satellite internet business
Source? Numbers from the prospectus:
| Segment | Revenue (G$/a) |
|---|---|
| Space (SpaceX proper) | 4.1 |
| Connectivity (Starlink) | 11.4 |
| AI (xAI) | 3.2 |
| Total | 18.7 |
| Item of property, plant, and equipment | Value (G$) |
|---|---|
| Servers and networking equipment | 22.7 |
| Satellites | 11.9 |
| Machinery and equipment | 6.3 |
| Data-center infrastructure | 3.0 |
| Launch sites | 2.4 |
| Land, buildings, and improvements | 1.9 |
| Flight-vehicle hardware | 1.7 |
| Leasehold improvements | 0.8 |
| Construction in progress | 4.6 |
| Subtotal | 55.3 |
| Depreciation | −12.7 |
| Total | 42.6 |
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Any unattractive or ordinary-looking person could have such a realization after being dumped by an attractive person, regardless of gender.
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I remember loving Lucky Starr and being disappointed by Norby
I vaguely recall enjoying the Norby books, though I remember almost nothing about them except the weird telepathy punctuation (was it italics with guillemets?).
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(1) As I said, the specific hostility of "tits or GTFO" is long dead. I personally never saw it first-hand.
(2) I said "of unspecified, but implicitly not low, attractiveness", not "attractive". Lots of men salivate over women who are merely "not unattractive" (three stars out of five) rather than "attractive" (four stars)—and lots of autists are interested in "dorky homeschool girls".
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What type of attention do women deserve and want? I want to imagine the internet is more egalitarian now and just being a woman online (an egirl?) isn’t enough to warrant any special treatment or attention.
LOL. Compare:
(1) An attractive woman goes to a mall, supermarket, or big-box store and basks in the knowledge that she is turning the heads of a dozen men by simply existing near them.
(2) A person claiming to be a woman (of unspecified, but implicitly not low, attractiveness) goes to a forum of mostly-male autists and basks in the knowledge that she is turning the heads of a hundred men by simply claiming to exist near them in cyberspace.
But maybe I'm just engaging in the typical-mind fallacy, and expounding on these topics despite being totally unqualified to discuss them.
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The other comment can be interpreted as a joke with two meanings.
In the misty past, it was the default assumption that all users of the Internet were ugly men, and any user claiming otherwise without providing proof was a liar—a person shrewd enough to assume a convincing false persona in order to gain social clout in online spaces. (A long-dead shorthand phrase related to this phenomenon is "tits or GTFO"—i. e., the identity of an Internet poster as female cannot be confirmed without a photograph in which the subject exposes herself while holding a piece of paper with a timestamp.)
In modern times, this assumption has greatly weakened. (In particular, the "rationalist" community has been accused of being too trusting and incapable of simulating the thought processes of liars.) But it has not totally disappeared. So, in the opinion of the other commenter, if you are actually a woman you will get the deserved attention that you want, and if you are an ugly man pretending to be a woman you will get the undeserved attention that you want from this website's "quokka" denizens (positive reinforcement for your evil trolling).
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Give in to the temptation. Rewrite the entire book with proper punctuation.
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Hooters (or adjacent-type restaurant) owner
Fun fact: Hooters declared bankruptcy just a year ago.
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In the US, the Bureau of Labor Statistics conducts the Consumer Expenditure Survey, which can be used as the framework for a very detailed budget. For example, the table "Cross-tabulated—Size of consumer unit by income before taxes—Two people—2023–2024" provides the following numbers, broken down into dozens of categories and subcategories.
| Annual income range (k$) | Average annual income (k$) | Average annual expenses (k$) |
|---|---|---|
| (−∞, ∞) | 109 | 81 |
| (−∞, 15) | 7 | 40 |
| [15, 30) | 23 | 42 |
| [30, 40) | 35 | 48 |
| [40, 50) | 45 | 52 |
| [50, 70) | 60 | 64 |
| [70, 100) | 84 | 73 |
| [100, 150) | 122 | 88 |
| [150, ∞) | 267 | 142 |
Additionally, the IRS and the DOJ collaborate on estimating the cost of housing and utilities across the country on a county-by-county basis.
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You are supposed to pick a standard of living and develop your long-term budget accordingly. The subreddit's standard terms are "leanFIRE" for being a "miserable tightwad" and "fatFIRE" or "chubbyFIRE" for living large.
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Just include the URL in plaintext! (Though you'll need to go back to your custom-CSS page if you want to actually use it. And you'll probably want to decrease the font size.)
.user-name[href$="ToaKraka"]::after{content:" [Friday Fun Thread spammer: https://www.themotte.org/post/3802/friday-fun-thread-for-june-12/452296?context=8#context]";font-size:0.7em;}
According to Reuters, all the money is coming from private companies, not from governments.
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