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4mo ago
lots of people get their windows smashed in, say, San Francisco, too,
A bar so low it's painted on the floor.
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4mo ago
Containing viruses is hard. I'd consider a lab leak to be within the normal range of human screw ups. In light of that fact, everybody up and down the chain of command who thought it was a good idea to do gain-of-function research on coronaviruses should be tried on 10 million counts of manslaughter.
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4mo ago
Meh. Like feet, cups, tablespoons and teaspoons, it’s something I have around the house.
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4mo ago
"threaten" doesn't really do it justice. She was mid-throw in an attempt to do so.
Is it constitutively part of policing to kill someone because they threaten you with being scalded?
Hard to tell if this is a rhetorical question, but in the interests of speaking plainly: Yea, of course. Police officers killing people who attempt to harm them is a shitty system, but it's better than all the alternatives.
You have this exactly backwards. Centralized services force a singular moral sensibility on everyone in the world. The cure is federation, or some equivalent of self-hosting or associating with like-minded people.
Edit: Zuckerberg, Musk, and Pichai are the people I should never empower.
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4mo ago
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4mo ago
Then your post has zero entropy. The world would have been a better place had you not bothered.
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4mo ago
You should use this as an opportunity to re-evaluate your esteem of 538. Nate Silver left and it’s not what it once was.
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4mo ago
“Generic X” always does better than any concrete candidate because people will think of their own perfect idealized person. Means very little other than as an upper bound.
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5mo ago
To many of his voters, Covid was Trumps fault
You say this as if it's not true. I thought it was common knowledge amongst the people who cared enough to look into it. In 2017, Trump lifted Obama's ban on gain of function research, and subsequently the NIH funded gain of function research on coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
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5mo ago
Shockingly, yes, people are mostly betting no.
https://polymarket.com/event/will-joe-pardon-hunter-biden?tid=1721237578763
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5mo ago
While hilarious, this is wildly inappropriate to say under most any circumstances imaginable. These are people going through the same struggles we all go through.
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5mo ago
Whether you call it "dementia" or "age related cognitive impairment" is irrelevant. Pretty clearly something changed since 4 years ago. It's hard to notice because ablity to read a teleprompter is an extremely low hurdle to clear. I was just commenting that noticeably more people started saying the emperor had no clothes earlier this spring, rather than just the right-wing political hacks who've been saying it for years. I'm thinking specifically of the Wall Street Journal and Special Counsel Robert Hur.
Despite fumbling the beginning and ending, Biden had a legitimately pretty good 30-minute stretch in the middle. I suspect he was given a shot of something good, but the timing was too close to the start of the debate. There are a lot of nootropic-interested people on this board. I should ask if this sounds congruent with any cognitive performance enhancing drug.
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5mo ago
Biden has been gaffe-prone his entire life. But I believe there's been an increasing chorus of voices talking about something adjacent to early stages of dementia starting around the beginning of this year. Sorry, no specific citations, just my general impression from listening to lots of news and pundits.
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5mo ago
Nah, it's the opposite. Psychopaths can only thrive if they can meet new people to victimize. A close-knit community that stays together for a long time is the best defense against psychopaths.
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5mo ago
Huh?
Are you saying an overwhelming majority of humans are your political enemies? Or that your political enemies have a inordinate disposition to needing blood transfusions? This is a bewildering comment.
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5mo ago
Feelings and preferences are legitimate. Full stop. Anybody trying to shame you into thinking otherwise is not your friend and is likely trying to manipulate you to their own selfish ends.
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6mo ago
Around two-thirds to three-quarters, because, along the lines of what other commenters are saying, that's what I'm paying now vs the counterfactual where I live in a low cost-of-living locale.
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6mo ago
If you have a bachelor’s in computer science degree outside the US and a master’s (but no more) from an American university then you will be the worst programmer I talk to this week.
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6mo ago
Thanks for clarifying. My eyes just glaze over on the prompts to upgrade, so I really have no idea what the differences between the free and paid tiers are.
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6mo ago
I use ChatGPT and phind.com for programming. It's great for generating ideas and I sometimes use it for writing some boilerplate code, but there are substantial bugs in perhaps 1 in 3 of the code snippets I ask it to write. Overall, it saves time, but you need to have a pretty good understanding of what a solution should look like, or you'll be led astray. Note, I'm using the free tier of both tools. Maybe it gets better if you pay for a subscription?
Here you’ll get modded for not speaking plainly.
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