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"All visualizations were drawn/generated by me and code can be found in this project's github repo"

Also, I feel it's not who the generator is that should concern you--it's the quality of the text.

I would much rather read something that is clear, concise, and consistent regardless of the source.

Even worse is the number. When you count, how many people actually own their own home, and don't have a mortgage on it and thus are paying rent in the form of interest and possibly mortgage insurance.

I am of course excluding property tax from the ownership- if you fail to pay property tax, you'll find out you really owns your property?.

And yet, there is. You just have to keep reading

Once money or prestige gets in play, science leaves the room

The way they used to before medical insurance took over that industry: charity

That's just it, I do not believe they are trying to improve the world.

I believe they are just acting out, and doing so and yet another non-constructive way.

Flock: You thought we put the cameras up to spy on you. Haha on the police who buy them and rat themselves out!

The vegan who ignores the last sentence and the definition "In dietary terms it denotes the practice of dispensing with all products derived wholly or partly from animals"

It's kind of like the Christian who ignores the conversation in the gospel of John:

"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another."

"At the beginning of the study, participants completed detailed food questionnaires describing what they had eaten and drunk during the previous year. "

My goodness.

I almost expect a clause stating that this study was in part funded by the Brazil Sugar Export Consortium...

Worth the read If just to find this sentence

"Smartphones are anti-enchantment devices."

Full disclosure: I am using a smartphone right now.

Sorry-- I did not mean to imply that the USA has fixed their crime problem.

I was making the point that there are countries that used to have a lot less crime, which reduces the demand for policing. Now they have more crime. Problem solved.

Maybe he's trying to prove the point of why he's ready to retire...

You think they did math on this? No, all he did was have a tantrum where they got attention to themselves and patted themselves on the bat for doing something.

They didn't think through the ecological results of someone scraping off the destroyed concrete and pouring more.

Did the Data Center get canceled? If not, then no it is not ruined and instead what's going to happen? Is someone's going to scrape up a whole bunch of that concrete releasing a whole bunch of carbon dioxide and then someone's going to pour down some more concrete which will increase the CO2 in the atmosphere.

Cluster B society tantrums

Go ahead, take it further.

Imagine you are immensely intelligent beings who project into our space-time Continuum as mice. You need a lot of memory and processing but you don't need it quick. What do you do?

(With apologies to Douglas Adams)

Platform decay is real.

I have relatives who share sourdough starter yeast and make their own bread.

Orson Scott Card saw this coming last century and wrote of a character who maintained 2 online personas who became the thought leaders of opposing groups.

Some of the late gen-x/millennials who saw this coming may have been inspired to read Endor's Game after seeing the movie

Any president that wants to pause it can cite "national security".

That sounds pretty reasonable since Israel spies on the USA a lot

Ublock Origin for the win.

Again.

And those stats represent the arrest records as well.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4111266/

We could choose the same response that England chose, but I would hope there would be a better way.

At least the USA did not fix their crime problem like Germany did.

I wonder if, like with lip reading, they switch from American English to a different language that's not so peculiar they would have and much less error rate

Wouldn't that be exactly the board's fiduciary responsibility? To know?

And yet an executive action is not a law. It's a dictate.

Course, one should never underestimate the value of a benevolent dictator...

As a White western with the obvious means to travel, I feel like they (tours in just about every second and third world country) look at me as if I am an ATM machine and they just need to figure out the PIN that will cause the money to come out.

I don't take it personally. Just pressing forward mumbling "no thank you" seems to work okay.

At one ancient temple in India I did hire a young kid to drive all the other entrepreneurs away cuz it was so bad. I don't remember the insignificant amount I gave him but I'm pretty sure it was enough to feed himself and his family for a few days.

' “56 percent of undergraduate respondents [at Brown] and 67 percent of graduate and medical student respondents reported intentionally using GenAI tools daily or weekly,” '

and the rest are lying.

(With apologies to the original example of anomalous self-reporting)

Apparently it's really expensive to convert to meet reasonably sane residential standards.

Add in required shrubbery, section 8 housing set-asides, rent control, etc., it becomes unattractive -- especially if the jobs have moved to business friendly suburbs

Krugman--often wrong, never in doubt

So you give a pass to those who have a job to stop naked conspiracies on price control but don't?

I wonder if anyone ever did the math on transiting hundreds of thousands of people through the previously impassable Darien Gap would have unintended consequences?