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Will be useful for the inevitable war against the offworld colonies.

The amount of school administrators and non-teachers have increased at 10x the rate of teachers relative to students since 2000. I have no doubt funding keeps going up but virtually all of it is diverted away into bureaucracy.

I was asking it rather specific research questions about a stock the other day and kept getting equivalents of "Would you like to know one weird investment trick that most people don't realize?"

If I agreed, the "tricks" were always something blindingly obvious like recommending I buy a S&P500 index fund. It honestly felt insulting.

I used to subscribe to some podcasts that were distributed to subscribers via the app.

That bathroom layout has become extremely common in normal hotels in parts of Asia and the Middle East.

They are likely being pressured to meet minimum obligations as part of NATO membership. Canada's military realistically isn't going to be called on for defense of the homeland but as part of a support force for NATO.

I have a gut feeling sycophancy would become a huge problem if I were ever to ask any AI assistant with even a vague idea of my political opinions to start summarizing news stories. If AIs twist other things around to give glowing responses to their users I'm almost certain they'll resort to giving a "spin" to news stories they think is in line with what the user wants to hear. Everyone will get a bespoke biased cable news station in the future!

It's probably much higher than that in reality if you look at assets spiking compared to the dollar. Gold is going completely parabolic right now. Real estate shows no signs of slowing down. Crypto (regardless of your opinion of it) is spiking as people try to store value anywhere besides the dollar. We hear about the AI bubble propping up equity markets all the time but I always wonder how much of it is just investors desperately converting dollars into anything else with a bit of liquidity.

The hand-wringing in this article about Republicans signing up election monitors and having lawyers on stand-by is absurd. Both parties pour huge amounts of resources every election into this sort of thing and aggressively pursue it. If you really want integrity in elections you should want interested parties to be able to audit the results and mount legal challenges if they feel it is justified (and, yes, that means all interested parties and not just who you consider to be the "good guys").

This is great! Is there a way to set the visualization to the present moment and real-time?

I recently migrated to Obsidian for personal use and configured it to sync my data to a private git repo that I can access across my devices. The data is all in markdown so I figure if Obsidian ever plays games I can migrate to another app pretty easily and still have my information intact and under my own control.

Screwworms could probably be eradicated in theory but it would require spreading the sterile fly program to the entirety of the Americas which isn't going to happen. There would always be a pocket somewhere in the Amazon of fertile flies so it isn't really viable. The point of stopping them at the Darien Gap was that there was a geographically small area where their spread could be halted from entering Central and North America and re-establishing themselves.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.

They're knowingly contributing to abuse of the discovery process to violate privacy and drive the cost of litigation through the roof. They're absolutely bad guys along with the justice system itself.

I'm sure they're doing it domestically too, but due to the relative size of the markets and currency conversions what amounts to a serious disruption in the Indian stock market would just be background noise that gets ignored in a US market.

Probably by if you're cooperative and lucid enough to file the papers ahead of time and schedule your visit.

Because the author's worldview requires him to compel other people to do what he wants, and if they're not doing what he wants that's a problem.

The whole point is to get rid of government employees. Going on strike is just volunteering your members for the chopping block.

Incredibly sad. The people of Myanmar were already suffering a terrible civil war.

I live in Mexico City and a large part of this is the odd compulsion that chilangos have to put concrete over absolutely everything. It rains but there is very little unpaved surfaces to absorb any of that water and return it to underground sources. I've had friends and family members inexplicably rip out nice gardens at their houses and replace it with paved surfaces. My in-laws have a large yard that only has a few square meters of unpaved ground left. My street has flooding problems during intense rains every couple years in large part because no water can be absorbed anywhere and if the small street drains get clogged with branches it is a disaster.

We can let them dominate us but feel smug and morally superior in the process.

All the seasonal content gets automatically flushed too, which means even if an expansion is retained you lose like half of the activities and story anyway. I jumped back in to play The Final Shape after being absent since Shadowfall and was lost since 60% of the story was missing seasonal content ripped from the interim expansions.

I take this to mean that the assets exist and could be compiled back into the game, but doing so would be a pretty intensive undertaking that isn't worth it for what appears to be a nuisance lawsuit.

Anthony Fauci is a big reason for the hate against people like Anthony Fauci.

I remember a presentation at DEFCON some years ago on this topic. Most of the state death registration systems had virtually no security or verification at the time. It's probably a stretch to describe this as "hacking" when it was probably more akin to fraudulently filling out a couple of forms.

Yes, it's a flag that the text of the post itself will be AI slop.

Yeah, a "commercial trial lawyer" who vehemently supports court interference with companies and lawsuits to seize control from shareholders and founders. This parasitic class will be the end of the United States.

One of my biggest complaints about Google is the prioritization of pop culture slop over everything else. I feel like I'm frequently getting auto-corrected because some Netflix show is titled with a pun of a phrase or there is a dramatization of some historical figure that Google considers more relevant than the real person.