@rickard_ja92102 @iambri_97 Also, they want to conflate reading faster with reading better so they can claim superior reading skill over those who read at a more leisurely or analytical pace.
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@iambri_97 It’s all part of the anti-intellectualism going on. They don’t want people to really get into a book and take it all in and understand what they’re reading, they want you to go through it as fast as possible without comprehending it because they don’t want you to think critically
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why is there actually, legitimately, discourse around reading speed right now “8 hours to read a book is slow” “you should be able to read a book in 3-5 hours”
bro we are in a literacy CRISIS, i do not care how fast or slow you read a book, just pick one up and read it
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@lexum0 @maxdeploy @Wario64 What about if people could buy a copy of the game, with the price per copy being set to what the developers think the game is worth?
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@maxdeploy @Wario64 What would be a btter model? One that incentivizes quality
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@_154831 I like hot showers, but my hair doesn't come out al dente.
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Okay but have you considered that my hair isn't pasta
Syifa audi@audisyif
Don’t brush your hair while it’s wet!
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@SantoroSystems You fnd yourself in the middle of a multi vehicle crash on the highway, do you a) get out and help, or b) drive on?
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thick smoke? 0 visibility? that car just disappeared?
Full speed ahead.......
TeslaGirl@TeslaLoverGirls
Tesla’s brakes and maneuverability are truly outstanding. The car’s advanced Automatic Emergency Braking and precise handling helped prevent a serious accident. $TSLA
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@Quadcarl But this is white Jesus, so he wouldn't do anything until he had an audience.
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He’s not supposed to be in the cave when they roll the stone away 🤣
Ochiedike@_Ochiedike
Jesus has risen. Atheists don't laugh, please.
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@Barbeauxbot @ryankatzrosene Nah, Australia definitely includes fish and chips, so potatoes must be fair game.
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D is the right answer: Not only does it include Butter chicken, Pad Thai, Dim Sum, Pho, Ramen noodles, and Korean BBQ, it also includes Kebab, Baclava, Shawarma and Falafel… AND… if you zoom in, a little bit of Sicilian pasta, pizza, Greek salad and Moussaka. Seal the deal with a nice New Zealand rack of lamb, a glass of Shiraz and Pavlova for dessert.
Amy Eileen Hamm@preta_6
This is an impossible choice 😭
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@SenatorWong You lie almost as much as Morrison.
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Australia is not taking offensive action against Iran and we are not deploying troops on the ground in Iran.
The Australian Government continues to support de-escalation and the resolution of this conflict.
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I joined over 40 countries on a call on the Strait of Hormuz as part of Australia’s support for international efforts to reopen the critical waterway. I thank @YvetteCooperMP for convening the meeting with representatives from every continent, and organisations including @IMOHQ.
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@donthaveanapple @rosebugzzz So mint jelly is actually an apple jelly (because apples are cheap, and have high pectin/acid) flavoured with mint. Grape jelly is made from grape juice, etc.
But jellies aren't as popular outside the US. Bits of fruit are seen as a sign of authenticity.
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@donthaveanapple @rosebugzzz Jelly is made with fruit juice and (traditionally) set with the natural pectin found in said fruit. Jam is similar, but includes the flesh of the fruit. Fruit butter is what you get when you strain the flesh out of jam, and has low moisture and low pectin.
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Realising that jelly means smth different in America made this whole sandwich make so much more sense
Pop Base@PopBase
Today is National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day.
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@donthaveanapple @rosebugzzz Curd is thickened with eggs and usually contains some dairy.
Oh, and a jam that contains whole or mostly whole fruits is sometimes called a conserve.
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@CommiNathan @NASA @SpaceX Imagine you get into a very complex piece of machinery that can kill you in a dozen different ways and discover it's operated via an electron app.
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@Comrade_Dolphin They're not saying that the top end of stem doesn't require critical thinking, they're saying that the long runway doesn't.
But humanities also has a runway (vocabulary, spelling, etc.) we just tend to start it earlier, particularly in western education systems.
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"Mathematics doesn't require critical thinking."
People REALLY have no idea what math is huh
catgirl geddy lee 🌲❤️🔥@Ancapta
At the top end I expect STEM and humanities to be about equal cognitively. It's just that STEM has a longer "runway" that's conceptually-easy, coursework-heavy, so to speak. Takes years to learn calculus, physics, chemistry, etc., but it doesn't really require *thinking* (1/4)
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@pskocik @OwariDa @robertgraham There should be no way for the login portal to know how old the password being used is.
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@OwariDa @robertgraham I think the auto-uppercasing doesn't apply to newer passwords, which can utilize the newly-introduce case sensitivity. But auto-uppercasing should still continue for older passwords instead of being made the user's responsibility, unless they don't have the pwd birth dates (odd).
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Um, no, they are still stored as hashes.
They were just converting text to upper-case before hashing.
There's no reason to believe they stored plain-text passwords.
Indeed, this message indicates the opposite: they can't fix the problem because they don't know your plain-text password, so have to force customers to fix it themselves.
vx-underground@vxunderground
1. This isn't fake. 2. Credentials are stored as hashes. It should be literally, with no exaggeration, impossible for a vendor to know your credentials while uppercase UNLESS they weren't storing passwords as hashes. What the fuck is HSBC India doing?
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@MarkDGeorge @Test179102 @sonyasupposedly Yes, because they're handing over all their wealth for a reduced quality service.
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@Test179102 @sonyasupposedly So the elderly receiving end of life care should be concerned about that?
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everyone is gonna be so pissed when the supposed "generational wealth transfer" from boomers goes straight to end-of-life care
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@hpglassford @nathanxromeo @kristin8X Having to use our imagination to see how Labor is helping people is the problem.
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@nathanxromeo @kristin8X Use your imagination if you haven't already worked it out.
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With fuel restrictions likely to be announced tonight & presumably no COVID-scale support to come with it, I think folks who assume Labor can’t possibly lose the next election are vastly overconfident.
Morrison alleviated discomfort with COVID restrictions by HELPING people.
jeremy poxon@JeremyPoxon
Requiring welfare recipients to waste money and petrol on unnecessary meetings, and exploitative work for the dole programs, is nonsensical. Poor people cannot afford to pay even higher prices for their own punishment" - @kristin8X thepoint.com.au/opinions/26033…
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@hearinladotcom @falcundo It is probably vended opened due to the venue license not permitting takeaways.
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@falcundo it's also bizarre to think Dodger fans (as troublesome as some of them can be at times) would spend $20+ on a beer to hurl it at someone.
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You can now get your $20 can of beer from a machine at Dodger Stadium.
RIP human jobs at the Ravine.
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@thebitterlesson @BigGulpAmerikan In some sports this is 100% true.
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@BigGulpAmerikan The analogy presumably refers to the freshly-minted trans/feminist talking point that women's sports exist because they were beating the men.
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I don’t think anyone at any point ever, in all potential existences, has assumed that weight classes were devised in order to protect the big guys from little guys.
Steve Stewart-Williams@SteveStuWill
"In many species, being larger gives males an advantage in fights with same-sex rivals... That’s why we have weight classes in boxing: They’re not to protect the big guys from the little guys; they’re to protect the little guys from the big." stevestewartwilliams.com/p/sizing-up-th…
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@alex_rohlf @grahamscheper No it would be "thou is a fool".
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@grahamscheper Oh, so saying "you are fools!" Is proper if you're talking to multiple people. And "thou are retarded" could be proper talking to one person
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Why does English not have a plural “you”?
Well, it’s because “you” is already plural. The singular is “thou”. This was observed grammatically in Old English, when one person was þū and multiple people were ġē, but after the Norman invasion the plural became the polite form of address, and by the 1800s that became the nigh-universal standard.
Nowadays, as a result, we have to reinvent the plural with contractions like “y’all”.
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@tmuxvim Because if it was used for laying out articles in interesting ways it wouldn't be anything new. Automatic typesetting isn't anything new, this is just calculating the typesetting every frame, like would happen in, for example, a video game.
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why are people so obsessed with this lol
like it's cool tech but almost every demo I see of it is totally impractical. it should just be used for laying out articles in more intersting ways
Kat ⊷ the Poet Engineer@poetengineer__
woa this is so fun!
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@LockheedMartin With such precision you can kill children without accidentally hitting nearby military targets.
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PrSM production accelerates! A new DoW framework will quadruple Precision Strike Missile output. This expansion comes on the heels of a historic first as PrSMs were used in combat, providing an unrivaled deep‑strike capability.
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