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1d ago
Their apartment gets rattled by that train. I thought that was some east coast thing. I don't specifically know about Seattle but I don't suppose they were getting rattled like that by light rail in the 90s. Google backs up my vague feeling and says Seattle had no light rail or commuter trains in the 90s.
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1d ago
We just break the law. Mass disrespect of the law and youth alcohol consumption are common. Starts in high school for most. College is awash in alcohol.
This is the replication crisis. And it wasn't just one metastudy. People try replicating published results from prominent journals and keep finding around half don't replicate. And of course for psychology it is a vast majority not replicating.
I think I've said it before here: given the replication crisis a single published paper is a very weak unit of evidence. No one should significantly shift their views based on so little and so weak of evidence. If many papers by different researchers all point in the same direction then we should seriously consider the results.
If you are in the mood: Google "snl joke swap" some time and watch some funny really edgy race humor. Or "mid day news". Their crassest race humor is their most popular bits.
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3d ago
here in Europe we certainly have companies which have both the capabilities to manufacture PCBs
Yeah same thing in the US. We also have PCB assembly in the US. With a few emails you can get PCBs etched, laminated, drilled, plated, SMT parts assembled, etc; all in the US.
The US pcb supplier cost more than 10 times as much as the equivalent shenzhen house. They took the order (nothing special, an OTS bit you can get by the 40 foot container from china), made promises, delayed for a couple weeks before providing samples which failed to meet requirements, delayed for a couple weeks before providing samples which failed QA, delayed for a couple weeks until providing samples which were great, delayed for a couple months and then shipped the first tranche, which failed QA, then dipped.
I've ordered many PCBs from many American vendors. Most accept ITAR and EAR projects and only have US persons work on those parts or see the design files.
I have not had these problems. Quality and timeliness is good. Yeah it is more expensive than Chinese PCBs.
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3d ago
https://automatetheboringstuff.com/
My go to recommendation.
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3d ago
That 80% gets to vote too. I wonder what sorts of welfare they'll vote themselves.
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4d ago
And if you think marriage and children is a conservative pipeline
There is a gulf in voting preference between unmarried women and married women. Unmarried women are almost +50 D, married women are majority R. Looking at the stats from Pew it appears that getting married and having kids transforms a significant portion of women into Republicans. I get the opposite could be happening in that those women who already leaned R seek out marriage and children. But the first possible causal claim is defensible. Not some "selling you a bridge" obviously wrong idea.
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4d ago
Still got the guns though, I don’t trust the fascists to act politely.
If someone actually believed the sort of hysterical anti-Republican "they're fascists and they'll never let us have a fair election again" rhetoric common on reddit, then this is the only sensible view. He's wrong in a bigger sense, but starting from his premises this is the only correct conclusion. It's the "they're fascists, they're running concentration camps, every cop is bad, and you must disarm so only those wicked cops have guns" people who are silly.
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4d ago
My dad likes to tell his story about getting a mortgage with something like a 13% APR and that was a "low" rate relative to recent rates at the time. Home prices were low but monthly payments weren't compared to his salary.
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4d ago
No, there's no way that's true. I don't know those people or specific details of their work, but that can't be the case.
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5d ago
I'm worth more than two people in their twenties at work. I'd say they're underpaying me in some relative sense.
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5d ago
High frequency traders that make the fastest lowest-latency hardware to enable their financial parasitism.
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5d ago
They don't want to admit they overhired. That's a failure in leadership. Blaming AI is putting a positive spin on things.
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5d ago
You seem to be advocating for committing federal crimes. "HBD posters" hiring criteria is illegal. You can't Family Guy "okay/not okay" meme test candidates.
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5d ago
Yeah I read that Meta has more employees now even post-layoffs than they did pre-covid. Enormous hiring followed by moderate cuts.
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5d ago
I'll be old someday and don't want to be "cleared out" in any sense. I don't want to work and save for decades just to have it seized by entitled youths who feel it is unfair that I have much and they have little.
Yes: Grindr the gay hookup app hosted a private White House Correspondents' Association party in DC attended by the head of the DNC and some (or all?) Pod Save America hosts. He means this in the most literal sense. I just googled this and confirmed.
Presumably this was a Grindr hosted political event rather than a literal gay orgy. News articles don't specifically state the level of drunkenness or gay sex.
I listened to the Pod Save America episode in which a few Harris campaign staffers were interviewed. They said that they tried to counter that ad, but the counter ads polled poorly with test groups. They were better off with generic ads about the economy.
Supposedly the "she's for they/them, Donald Trump is for you" ad is the mightiest ad in modern history. Around a 2% shift in voter sentiment; arguably election flipping if somehow that was very well targeted to likely voters in swing states.
I think an accurate autopsy would say to not stake out the most extreme and unpopular positions on culture war issues on camera. But they can't plainly state that so we get this report instead.
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6d ago
Recently one of the Pod Save America hosts interviewed DNC chair Ken Martin about this report.
It's quite the train wreck. Ken kept asserting that the report was free and the host kept cutting in to question how that's possible. I guess this is how. Your incompetent buddy does it for free. Not literally free since people supposedly traveled to every state to interview voters and the effort took more than a year. But free-ish compared to actually paying for a well made report.
Indeed. Look at them heightmogging this shortcel. Or whatever gen alpha slang Clavicular's fans would say to describe this.
But yes it looks silly when your soldier or guard looks like a child next to theirs. There was an incident during the Obama administration in which a woman Secret Service agent was shoved out of a doorway by a man breaking into the Whitehouse. She's small, he isn't, he just pushed her out of his way.
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8d ago
That person is anonymous and large bureaucracies are opaque and resistant to external investigation. In a better world this person would be in prison. But alas we don't and won't live in such a happy world.
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8d ago
I think that is comedic exaggeration. USAID was funding similar things. Trans theaterperformances and whatnot. Raw progressive culture warring funded by my tax dollars. Also I presume graft in which a cut is kept by a non profit.
I don't want to excuse everything Trump has done by pointing to the excesses of the other side. On the other hand, now suddenly they care that Republicans (or Trumpists) are getting a taste of this.
Yes to your points and also the matter under dispute was if the Federal government can ban a documentary that was critical of Hillary Clinton. The government's representatives were arguing that they can and additionally have the power to ban books that have even a small portion political advocacy. Even one sentence of political advocacy is enough to trigger this power. They claimed they hold these powers during election season but not during other times.
It is a travesty that four justices agreed that the government can strip us of our first ammendment rights if a group makes something critical of Hillary Clinton before an election.
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