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@varrock @Anarseldain you don’t have to impeach judges that are bribed and corrupt, there’s a secret third thing (prison)

The two biggest fraud cases in Minnesota: 1) A judge gave the defendant his passport so he could flee the country 2) A jury unanimously voted guilty, but a judge overturned this and acquitted him, letting the defendant go free Remind me again why we pay taxes?

@tolstoybb the accountants’ accountant

@LudditeHacker @isa2001m I’ve found the overlap helps and I get confused either way

@isa2001m één tegelijk is beter

When I’m done learning Portuguese I’m going to dedicate myself to learning proper French or should I do that now while also learning Portuguese

@LionBlogosphere @testingham there are a lot of similar solved problems that people haven’t seen, arguably why Erdos was such a prolific publisher

@testingham In other words, they can solve the already-solved, but will never invent anything new.

My basic model of capabilities: LLMs are good at problems similar to those that appear in their training data. Training data largely reflects the world, and so LLMs are relatively good at problems that are common, relatively bad at problems that are rare.

@cremieuxrecueil @CCantonii you just need a different doc, say what you want a prescription for and what you want to target. Most will write whatever if no harm

@CCantonii I make it a policy to not lie to my doctor, but I tried telling my doctor that I'm genetically predicted to be moderate to high risk (it's true). Alas, she still wanted to wait because my levels are so low.

True! Even starting pretty late in life—50, 60—, you're expected to gain a lot of life. With the LIPID trial—a middle-of-the-pack result—, a 70-year-old can be expected to gain about 1.5 years of life!

@cremieuxrecueil I’m skeptical of a true placebo/nocebo effect. There is a reversion to the mean, and some things just improve. Conversely you tell people to notice side effects and they start noticing things they wouldn’t otherwise document. For statistics doesn’t really matter why

A certain type of person seems to get extremely angry about the existence of nocebo effects, like they're being personally insulted because drugs don't do what they think they do.

@RamboVanHalen J'aime quand les femmes anglaises ont un petit air français

Certains naissent avec une cuillère en argent à la main Seigneur, comme ils se servent, Seigneur ! Mais quand le percepteur frappe à la porte Seigneur, la maison ressemble à un vide-grenier, ouais

@tolstoybb laffer curve for grey hair

@DanTalks1 @LokiJulianus one would almost think a geopolitical rival in Australia’s hemisphere was using subversive agents to undermine military readiness and efficacy

I cannot tell you how much of a disaster this is. This is literally a tier 1 disaster. These units take many many years of building up of skill, expertise, comradery. A lot of stuff gets passed down soldier to soldier. These guys are basically world class athletes, only their sport is war. Rebuilding this is painstakingly hard, the devastation to western special forces from these guys, which are our frontline soldiers against almost every small scale threat other than peer conflict. It cannot be overstated how much of a problem this is. I support almost anything in reversing this.

@LokiJulianus it’s hard to believe those people weren’t compromised foreign agents, at best ‘unwitting’

When Russia invaded Ukraine, “Biden” didn't move fast to offset disruptions to the energy market. In fact, I think at the same time all that was happening, his people were freezing construction of LNG export terminals for environmental reasons (or something insane like that).

i don't want to sound overly bearish or alarmist, but with all the news we're getting - especially the tanker being attacked - i think monday we may see the market down as much as 30 bps

@kitten_beloved no one will know

I'm going to become a truther specifically about this buoy installation, they are faking it, they're using pre-recorded data or something

@Mankosmash @escapefrommelos he’s falsely imprisoning them no? Proportional violence is allowed

@escapefrommelos It varies by the state in the US & I seriously doubt it falls under self defense. In California him blocking is a crime, PC 647c. As a practical matter, pushing your way past might technically be a battery, but it would never be charged since no jury would convict.

they don’t want you to know this, but you can just violently assault people when they do this it’s legally defensible (at least in the US) to force someone out of the way, including through the use of violence, if they block your path “as a joke” and create a dangerous situation

@Lawrenc09874431 this is what mormons believe, and they aren’t wrong about that

喔草，黑的地方地下都是油！ 圣经有没有搞错，怎么觉得这才是流着奶和蜜的地方，美国才是天选之人。

@grok @edgefills what federal authority changes within 100 miles of the border?

San Diego gets that rep because it has near-perfect weather, beaches, and a diversified economy (military, biotech, tourism) without the Bay Area's sky-high costs/tech volatility or LA's wildfires, traffic, and visible urban decay. Post-2020, it drew migrants seeking milder politics, lower crime stats, and family-oriented suburbs while keeping CA's Prop 13 benefits. It's "sane" relative to the rest of the state—practical, not paradise.

If you want a house west of the 5 in San Diego, you have to make your generational wealth elsewhere (13% top tax rate, capital gains taxed as ordinary income in CA, good luck compounding) and pray that a boomer doesn’t have/refuses to pass their property down to their kids. Prop 13 persists when property is handed down to kids through trusts, and the capital gains basis “steps up” when the property is inherited. (Eg, if your parents bought a house at 600k, it’s worth 3 mill now, and you inherit it, your cap gains will only be taxed at the price you sell it less 3 mill.) Everything in CA is set up for the people to never leave — I mean, why would you? — which is why it’s so grating that they demand open borders for everyone else. Would it be so much to stop treating people who live in less picturesque, perfectly temperate places as lesser life forms for wanting to preserve what they’ve come to love about their own area? By 2030, almost all of these properties in north county will only be transferred by inheritance, which is why the prices keep going through the roof. These are all “forever homes”. Part of the reason these CA power brokers keep trying to direct class conflict in the rest of the US is bc everyone knows this territory is not defensible forever.

@edgefills @grok why would the area of so cal within 100miles of the Mexican border be ‘the only sane place in CA’

This unrelenting bid has been made exponentially worse by the fact that everyone realized post-2020 that SD is the only sane place in CA. First the Bay Area moved down, then LA burned everyone’s house down so the actors that still have a net worth moved south too. I yearn for the glory days, it was better back in the day

@JoshInEncinitas To get any of those homes out of testate with a valid will would cost $100K and >12-months, or you just have it deeded to a family trust for ~$5K if you use a lawyer

It’s all trusts and corps. Here’s a random area in La Jolla.

@realBrandonGill “committing a crime is a kind of allegiance”

"She made sure her baby was born an American," the New York Times says about an illegal alien who illegally re-entered our country after a previous deportation, which is a felony, in order to give birth to a child. The Times thought they were giving us a sympathetic story of a couple determined to give their child a better life. Instead, they gave us the poster child for why the Supreme Court needs to end birthright citizenship for illegal aliens. nytimes.com/2026/04/17/us/…

@TheInsiderPaper @CityBureaucrat when Mossad hacks your car

Iran's President Pezeshkian rides a bicycle with several government officials in Isfahan

@nostalgiafkninc my dad is an engineer at Hasbro, I asked him how much it would cost to make a super soaker. He said we don’t know how, we lost the technology. I pointed to US Patent 4,591,071, but he just kept muttering it’s impossible

the water gun that changed summers forever