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[MagicFox]

[SallyM]

Possibly untrue science news

Docosc, I love you, but I gotta correct you: chocolate is the single most powerful development in human history. Or maybe bicycles? Carry on!

[SallyM]

You can call me AI

Replacing middle managers? Well if your job is doing what David Graeber called bullshit jobs, writing reports that nobody actually reads, well AI should replace that job. It’s perfectly suited to writing reports that nobody should ever read.

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The problems of the Democratic party

Addiction is weird. It’s kind of hard to fully understand exactly how it all works. I’m a recovering alcohol and opiate addict. But gambling just never flipped any of the same switches for me. I’ve played slots a few times, and I just don’t get the attraction. It’s completely random and literally rigged to favor the casino, so while you might win big in the short term, in the long term, the house always wins. Always. And the game itself I don’t find interesting at all. It’s about as fun as flipp…

[SallyM]

Speaking of Faith: discussions on religion (broadly defined)

the sooner, the better, i say… i know it has been said in these threads many times, but what exactly is it that makes these evangelical xtian ethno-nationalist twits believe the he ( and it is always “he” in their minds) needs their goddamn “help” in bringing him around to kill everyone on the planet that ain’t them?! i mean, if this “god” is infallible, yet works in “mysterious ways”, WTF is aiding and cheering the self-destruction of civilization, the entire planet and all life on it, going…

[SallyM]

The goddamn Trump Administration (Part 2)

These kinds of gotcha stories send me! I mean I saw two panhandlers get dropped off out of a decent looking SUV but… It also doesn’t mean anything. You can have situations were 8 people live in a friend of a friend’s rent house and one of them can make a car payment but not rent etc so they all kind of pool resources like that. Like I guess to me you can still be poor and have a car. You can be homeless and have a car. The worst thing you could do if you are poor and have a car is sell that car …

[SallyM]

It's perfectly cromulent to say font

Chiquita operates all over the globe and has a perfect reputation. Perfect? Aside from running a monopoly, mistreating workers, pollution, trafficking cocaine on their ships, evading laws on land ownership, forcibly preventing workers from joining unions, paying terrorist groups, having ties to terrorist groups, ignoring congressional subpoenas in several countries, making threats, murdering opposition leaders, murdering 47 to 1000 people, using toxic pesticides, forcing 12 hour work days, p…

[MagicFox]

@mindysan33

this is the kind of thing you get when you live in a society that continually shits on and guts non-scientific education for years. People unable to distinguish between problems as they actually exist and problems that are just, basically, made up.

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[mindysan33]

[SallyM]

The goddamn Trump Administration (Part 2)

It’s a character issue if you prefer criminal Presidents who may have assaulted minors over other options.

[SallyM]

Economics - science, theories, programs, and policies

Here’s a crazy idea: just make med school free. California could tuck that into their G7-level state budget like a grain of sand under I-5. Fund it with a tax on Health Insurance and hospital CEO’s income…

[SallyM]

Speaking of Faith: discussions on religion (broadly defined)

Trump believes in God. Talks to him every morning too. In the mirror.

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Olds go nostalgic for the good old days of tech

I didn’t write that comment (and was born a bit later) but I might as well have. For the longest time, I thought my nostalgia for the 80s and 90s was just typical longing for the time of one’s youth- even as a kid I knew that was a thing for every generation. The Boomers’ longing for the 1950s pervaded absolutely every aspect of culture when I was growing up. And of course as children, we don’t register most of the fears and problems that weigh heavily on our parents’ minds. But the longer time…

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Mathematical jokes

There are two hard problems in computer science: Naming things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors.

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You can call me AI

I hate these stupid thought experiments where you’re somehow responsible for someone else being a awful. “Oh, you don’t think people should say racial slurs? But…what if saying a slur got you a billion dollars, would you give up the chance to help all the people you could with that?” And then we just ignore that the real problem is that there’s some billionaire who won’t help people unless you appease him with slurs for some reason. I say we tax and/or guillotine him, and as for Roko’s Basilisk,…

[SallyM]

ICE capades - travails of the detained

Brown and gay. Yeah, I would guess they labeled him as “not one of us” immediately. “You have no rights at a port of entry…” Since when is the Constitution suspended at an entry point? I suspect that, as a citizen, you carry your rights with you. That’s kinda what “inalienable” means, after all.

[chgoliz]

SCOTUS Happenings

This is a load of crap. I mean grade A, stinky as hell, bullshit. This isn’t hard. This is easy, if you care about the Constitution. It certainly hasn’t been a tough call for Sotomayor, Kagan, or Jackson. Trump isn’t doing things that are of questionable Constitutionality. He’s not taking advantage of ambiguous language in the Constitution. He is ignoring parts of the Constitution, and doing things that are explicitly in opposition to the Constitution. This is the easiest fucking call in the hi…

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You can call me AI

I didn’t finish it. I knew from the start that he’s wrong about heat (typically it’s at at .8 as far as I know. Why? Guess what, they don’t know. Trial and error shows that this gives the best balance between boringness and batshitness. The Markov chain has the most likely token next 80% of the time. It’s just a rule of thumb because there’s no science there). But I stopped reading immediately when he said radiologists were obsolete. Now don’t get me wrong, far more eminent people than he have …

[MerelyGifted]

Can’t understand for the life of me why this wasn’t already here

Weird, odd stuff

Catholic bishop resigns after falling in love with Satanic erotic fiction novelist Headline of the week already won.

[subextraordinaire]

Two important posts about living outside a traditional home. Thank you @PsiPhiGrrrl and @KeybillyJefe !

Injustice Systems

I watch RV news channels and they have been covering the increasing changes in parking laws at state/municipal levels, recent attacks against national park funding, and attempts to increase camping costs on public lands (or privatize them). Now the regime (and state/municipal governments) are working hard to criminalize homelessness in a way that casts a wide net that will trap occasional campers, as well as full-time nomads, vanlifers, and RVers: [They're Coming for VANLIFERS: The TR…

The goddamn Trump Administration (Part 2)

is signaling to them to keep going - and it’s not just going after the homeless. It’s chipping away at privacy rights, as well as the ability to use public and private property as we did before the regime started monetizing poverty. As @KeybillyJefe pointed out, the more people they can impoverish, take their property, eliminate their freedom, and push into prison puts more money into the pockets of the oligarchs. As a bonus, they get to test all of their new tech t…