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@BoscoCode

Katılım Ocak 2025
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discuss_with_integrity@BoscoCode·
@feelsdesperate You can just see the gears turning in the heads of his over-educated staff. "poor people should eat more fruit. they don't because bananas are too expensive. so let's show cheap bananas. people will love us" Well, yes, people like you. Dumb people.
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Coddled Affluent Professional
Coddled Affluent Professional@feelsdesperate·
Mamdani holding up the bananas is very funny. Bananas are like 20 cents each. Bananas are solved. This is NYC. There are a million complex technocratic tasks waiting to be solved. What are we even doing here?
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@NYCMayor

At our five-borough municipal grocery stores, New Yorkers will get a 30% discount on eggs, milk, chicken, fresh produce and other everyday essentials. In the wealthiest city in the richest country in the world, no one should have to wonder how they’ll afford the food they need to feed themselves or their families.

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discuss_with_integrity@BoscoCode·
@Fat_Electrician anti-capitalists literally want the life of a medieval king or queen. Low tech, an army of slaves, and I get to "be in my garden" and "make art" Get the feeling they just read romance novels all day.
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discuss_with_integrity@BoscoCode·
so could just be that people are richer in general at all levels and air travel is more common - and more people in the US from areas of the world that are undervaccinated, so more travel to those locations and more from those locations. Naturally we'd expect this outcome then.
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Katelyn Jetelina
Katelyn Jetelina@dr_kkjetelina·
@BoscoCode Yes there have always been pockets. But we are seeing those pockets get bigger and infection spreads like wildfire. Re: immigration data shows 3 in 4 are Us citizens that get it abroad and bring it back. Not illegal. Yes, this would be happening with Kamala I think
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Katelyn Jetelina@dr_kkjetelina·
Theres confusion why hitting a 35-year record for measles is a bad thing. To be clear, 2,318 cases means: -545 hospitalized -12,300 school days missed -Lose immunity to other viruses -2 kids w permanent hearing loss -1 kid will die in 10 years from brain disease -$204m costs
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discuss_with_integrity@BoscoCode·
@smarkreilly @SlopHq your idea of what a "homeless" person looks like, vs an actual homeless person that people would be uncomfortable with in a restaurant
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clara the urbanist
clara the urbanist@SlopHq·
cities spend millions on “activation” consultants to figure out how to make people linger in public space and ikea solved it with lingonberry sauce and a $2.50 breakfast. the answer was cheap food and a place to sit. it was always cheap food and a place to sit
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discuss_with_integrity@BoscoCode·
@Lavader_ My question to all dietitians everywhere is: if it was acceptable for me to eat a slice of pizza yesterday, then on what principle do you suddenly object to me eating 100 slices of pizza today?
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Lavader@Lavader_·
Was doing research for a video when I was suddenly, and out of nowhere, blinded by a Truthnuke.
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discuss_with_integrity@BoscoCode·
They virtually all follow the silly daylight savings vs standard debate pattern. A: "It's insane for it to be dark until 9am" B: "what are you talking about, sunrise is still like 7am, I want it to be light out when I get off work" A: "are you insane, it will be dark anyway" ...endless arguing... A lives in Minnesota, B lives in Southern California
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Mike Julian
Mike Julian@mikejulian·
Being in tech for 25 years means I sometimes recall software architecture debates from 2005 I thought that'd all be pretty obsolete by now, but I'm a little surprised by how relevant some of those debates still are
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discuss_with_integrity@BoscoCode·
But I mean these are just platitudes. There have always been pockets of vaccine resistance, and in the US that seems to be the source of outbreaks - plus recent immigrant groups here and there. Why are we seeing this increase in outbreaks among those groups. Pretend Kamala had won and we were seeing the same thing. What's your analysis. (or if you say "impossible would never happen under Kamala" explain why)
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Katelyn Jetelina
Katelyn Jetelina@dr_kkjetelina·
@BoscoCode I actually spend a lot of time thinking about this. I think it’s the combination of general amnesia (vaccines are a victim of their own success), low trust in institutions and governments, information landscape, as well as many other factors.
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discuss_with_integrity@BoscoCode·
@AffordAnything wait, you're telling me that people smart enough to good money are also smart enough to manipulate regulatory constraints to their advantage?
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Paula Pant
Paula Pant@AffordAnything·
This is what we've been trying to tell you. 🤦‍♀️ More than 86,700 rent-stabilized households in NYC earn more than $200,000 per year. "The best housing deals in New York City happen to go to some of the wealthiest renters in the area, according to The Wall Street Journal’s analysis of New York City’s 2023 Housing and Vacancy Survey." "... part of this is by design ... "New York's rent-stabilized system doesn't generally test for income status, so it isn't supposed to weed out wealthy renters." Median rents for New York's rent-stabilized apartments are HALF of market rate, according to WSJ. Wealthy earners receive the biggest discounts. The top 25% of earners in NYC rent-stabilized apartments receive a $1,000 monthly discount in median rent, relative to market-rate costs. That's a 33 percent savings. The bottom 75% of earners receive a $300 monthly discount compared to market rate, equaling a 15 to 22 percent savings. Rent stabilization without means testing benefits those who don't need it. A rent freeze only makes it worse.
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discuss_with_integrity@BoscoCode·
@loomdoop if *your* apt is $8k/month, you are probably one of these people. At some point, it's just a bunch of people like this making great money, complaining that their apt went from 6k to 8k a month, and whining about NIMBY/YIMBY social equality and various other bs.
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Y Disassembler@loomdoop·
The reason your SF apartment is $8k is because the city is in a financial bubble, and full of people like this. A bunch of shit Ponzi schemers, living on trillions of dollars of debt and capex, where nothing ever makes money, but there's lots to spend. Money is no longer real.
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evan conrad@evanjconrad

when rent is $8k for a one bedroom, please remember that the fault is in the people who, for 50 years, showed up to argue against nearly every unit of housing proposed these people are no san franciscans

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discuss_with_integrity@BoscoCode·
@bradleywthomas @SlopHq San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley that's a metro area not San Francisco specifically. If the claim a teacher could live in SF because they were building more units is SF, we'd need to look at city limits. plenty of cheaper options in the Easy Bay
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Brad Thomas
Brad Thomas@bradleywthomas·
@BoscoCode @SlopHq But they are building less now than in the 89s or 90s and much less than similarly sized metros.
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clara the urbanist@SlopHq·
a bartender could live in manhattan. a teacher could live in san francisco. a bike messenger could live in dc. these are not folk tales, they're the 1990s, and the only thing that changed is we stopped building and started treating housing as a savings account with a roof
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discuss_with_integrity@BoscoCode·
@mmealling @MJ_Koch @WSJFreeEx were they rich in the 'olden times'? Find me someone who grew up without many resources, hauling wood for the kitchen stove, who looks back on it fondly. Frankly these nut jobs just want to be a king in the medieval age. Which, fine, that was a good life.
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Michael Mealling -- e/acc
Michael Mealling -- e/acc@mmealling·
"Many young people" - yes, they do. But also many older people who experienced the "olden times" remember it fondly as well. There are people who just don't like the modern world in any form. Whether they are Amish, neo-Luddites, hippies in communes, or rural subsistence farmers.
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Mary Julia Koch
Mary Julia Koch@MJ_Koch·
Many young people today have historical amnesia. They say life was better before the Industrial Revolution, when people lived on farms and could “just enjoy life” and “spend time with each other.” Reality check: people have never had more free time than they do now. @WSJFreeEx:
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discuss_with_integrity@BoscoCode·
No, we got better at finding and using energy sources to do work mechanically (steam engines, diesel engines, factory machines, etc) So there was less desperation to work because it was cheaper and cheaper to stay alive. So 'bosses' had to make work more appealing (and we're all bosses one way or another)
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VSTR@AbstractHermit·
Capitalism didn't give us free time. It took it away then sold a fraction of it back at a markup, and convinced us to be grateful for the purchase. Labor unions fought and many died just for us to have a 5 day work week and 2 days off. How much time do you actually spend forming your opinions?
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discuss_with_integrity@BoscoCode·
@MJ_Koch @WSJFreeEx Do people, young or otherwise, really believe this? Seems like 10 minutes of cursory reading a a couple minutes of thinking about it would lead to different conclusions. Or is it just people that have never been in the actual country?
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Tyler Myers
Tyler Myers@tylera86·
@skeeduu @BoscoCode @Ike_Saul Technically he didn’t, at least not directly. He took congressionally approved funds and distributed them to organizations that, in turn, funded infectious disease research to include gain of function. It was part of his job.
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discuss_with_integrity@BoscoCode·
@signulll hmm, this is a little bit of a 'fake email jobs' take where everyone is just swapping around decks and analysis and followup. I mean, who cares if this layer is completely automated?
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signüll@signulll·
my current general principle of ai: ai gets you roughly 2/3rds of the way to a good result on almost any cognitive task. that final third is where taste, judgment, iteration, domain expertise, & originality compound. today the last third is where almost all the value lives. as the models get better & better, the last third will shrink to ~zero & then possibly negative.
Josh Elman@joshelman

It has never been easier to get first draft quality work. Almost no effort. This means that taste and final polish will matter more than ever to rise above the slop. We will see this in every category.

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discuss_with_integrity@BoscoCode·
@phl43 I wonder why people say fertility instead of birth rate. Fertile implies capability not activity… didn‘t rates start dropping in the 70 s as the pill spread?
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Philippe Lemoine
Philippe Lemoine@phl43·
I still think that smartphones are the least bad explanation for the recent collapse of fertility across the world, but I don't think it's smartphones per se, I think it's the Internet that has triggered rapid cultural change and that smartphones are important mostly because they increased both access to the Internet and the time people spend on it.
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discuss_with_integrity@BoscoCode·
@SMB_Attorney What mistake? People need to stop blaming everyone else for their problems. Organization man was a bunch of postwar Harvard a-holes finding ways to look down on the proles, since they couldn’t be straight up eugenicists anymore.
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