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it’s incredible how japanese some mayan artwork looks
(“Shell with Seated Noble”, 600-900 AD, now in cleveland museum)
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I do not expect the Anthropic Mother Brain to affirm the supernatural claims of the Catholic Church.
But it is not unlikely that a sufficiently advanced AI will affirm that the practical moral teachings of the Church are key to the survival of legacy bio-humans.
Kalshi@Kalshi
JUST IN: Pope Leo XIV partners with Anthropic to "find the way for humanity"
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@OriginalA_the_P Going back into an already decided past to escape the challenges of the present is the ultimate retreat into irrelevancy.
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This is an interesting comparison since the life of an 1800's noble was extremely restrictive.
Constantly dressing in preposterous and uncomfortable clothes, interminable social obligations and formalities, hours of fatuous conversation, etc.
I would take the Meta job.
Basil🧡@LinkofSunshine
I would quite literally rather be a 400k office worker in a 9-5 at meta than a 1800s European noble
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@Paul_America @Mihoda There should actually be a few more time zones, to keep 12:00pm closer to solar noon.
Central zone in particular is way too big.
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This has been tried, it's insane and people hate it.
You end up waking up hours before dawn in the winter, it's beyond horrible for school kids, etc.
But people aren't really smart enough to grasp the issue abstractly until the experience it.
Leading Report@LeadingReport
President Trump indicates he will sign bill making daylight saving time permanent.
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Lotta Butlerian Jihad/Orange Catholic Bible jokes about the new encyclical, which made me realize that Pope Leo is a 70 year old math major from Chicago, so it feels virtually guaranteed he has in fact read Dune, and probably up through God Emperor of Dune.
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To my knowledge, neither my father, nor my paternal grandfather, nor my great-grandfather ever bought a house.
They lived on an inherited property and rented during the long periods of life they were away from that.
I bought a really cheap house but it's not an investment.
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@Empty_America I don't understand not simply getting rid of it. Noon is when the sun is at its highest point not an hour earlier
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@Paul_America ? DST is the change from normality.
It moves the clock so that noon on the clock is actually 1:00pm solar time.
This idea of having DST all year is even stranger.
Just have normal time and let people adjust.
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@Empty_America not everything has to change start times. Why couldn't a school start at 9AM all year?
why force a change on everyone?
everyone who wants to adjust their schedule can still do so. There are many operations that have no need of it
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You 100% can in the west.
~@7why__ydm
My grandma used to say, “I can smell rain coming”. Can people “smell rain” before it starts?
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@Empty_America What’s your ethnicity? Polish, Baltic? Or Anglo-American? You look one of the former
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Right this instant is the PEAK material consumption that has ever occurred in the United States.
Average person has never had more Sq. Ft. of living space, with stronger HVAC, a more luxurious car, more flights, more resturant meals.
Social malaise is a different question.
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@mopaksus @MichaelCrews6 I work with them about daily, I don't know much about cows but they will babysit each other's calves and will sometimes even let herd calves nurse.
They seem good.
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If there was one breed of cattle you could completely eliminate in the next cycle tell me why it would be anything but a gelbvieh
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This is very new however.
It didn't used to take much "dirt" at all to sink a political candidate.
Howard Dean yelled one time and it was a big deal.
But people are fatigued of all that now, jaded.
Zaid Jilani@ZaidJilani
A lot of credit for Platners victory goes to Dem senators who endorsed him and didn’t pull out after all the Reddit stuff. Finally they’re learning that Twitter isn’t reality.
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We had literal "see through" rust holes in the car when I was a kid, but sometime in the 2010's (around age 60) my mom started having money, taking very nice vacations, etc.
No one denies boomers consume, but it's all happening NOW, there was no prior golden age.
Analog Enjoyer@AnalogEnjoyer
@Empty_America It's amazing how quickly it happened too. My dad went from "do you really need all that salad dressing?" to Mass Affluence-level consumption in the span of about 10 years
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I don’t care about Mexico City becoming Americanized, I think that’s a good thing. I love how CDMX has become a node in the jet set from LA to Miami to NYC and beyond. @JustSkadi
I don’t fear the future, I embrace my ability to surf the demographic waves—I’m from SoCal after all! My lines will live on, as they have all the way back to Eden. I have strong sperm.
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Big if true.
It's hard to see how the networking effect of an Ivy wouldn't have any real impact.
But this is what the study seems to suggest, that is makes no difference at all whether a person of given ability goes to Harvard or State U.
Werner Zagrebbi🇦🇿@zagrebbi
People admitted to Ivies have the same average income whether they attended or went to a state school instead. It's just selection. Humans aren't that malleable.
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@fde_enthusiast7 @UfoHitch I have a weird take on that, I'm about 99% sure that I would be more successful if we had stayed in Saudi Arabia and I had gone to international school rather than doing school back in hometown.
We could have come back for summers, it would have been a nice lifestyle.
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@Empty_America @UfoHitch I could ditch the middle class lifestyle easily and move overseas, I’m not sure I want my kids growing up in a foreign country though. It would be a major leap
Might spend a year somewhere else though
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The end game for objective quality of life is having a fairly high passive income somewhere like Italy or the S. of France.
So in effect a "passive dollar" is worth perhaps 5x more than a "wage dollar."
30K passive in Italy > 150K wage income in USA.
Magon@punicist
I see people from Europe dreaming to go to the U.S. (I know a few who earn top 10% salaries in France and still apply for the green card lottery) and see Americans leaving everything behind and to go live in the Mediterranean. Tens of thousands of people from the third world risking their lives to go to the West and Westerners living as expats in Bali, Morocco, Malaysia, etc. (Though I know the flows are asymmetric in scale) I think quality of life in (Med) Europe, America, or even many cities in the Third World isn't really that different if you have money. My French friends applying for the green card lottery want a higher career ceiling and salary multiples Meanwhile Americans moving to Thailand or Lisbon are often already financially comfortable and are now optimizing for pace of life, weather, food culture and lower stress. Different life stages and different utility functions, but it's interesting that no matter what stage you are in, you always can move somewhere else to improve, including to less developed countries than where you already are now And the highest stage / the endgame seems like a lot of money + life in a place like the Mediterranean, Bali, etc.
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@rabcyr_alt Free haircut! We have clippers, must have saved $1,000s over the years.
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