Apparel Manufacturer Guy
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Apparel Manufacturer Guy
@lb_412
Turning ideas into quality garments. Sharing industry insights & production know how. Let's create something amazing!
California, USA Katılım Ekim 2013
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Everybody is freaking out about the midterms but would a Dem Congress be radically different than the current Republican shitshow? They haven’t codified shit and can’t even get the SAVE Act through.
Nothing matters lmao.
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@charlesmurray I seek out younger East Asian physicians who attended quality schools. Theory being the most heavily discriminated against during admissions must be extremely smart in order to have made it into the program.
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[This was written in response to a post that apparently is now unavailable].
I'm curious about the numbers on people preferring docs of their own color. It's not intuitively obvious in the same way that women preferring female gynecologists and men preferring male internists is.
I can't resist giving my own family's roster. Me: Persian internist, Korean cardiologist, black dentist, Latino opthalmologist, black dermatologist. Wife: white internist, Filipino/Chinese obstetrician, Latino immunologist, South Asian opthalmologist, black dermatologist. The kids' pediatricians were white.
Isn't that typical in today's America?
And, just for the record, all of the above physicians have been terrific. The only physician whom I ever wanted to sue for malpractice (didn't do it), was white.
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@CasuallyGreg Account is from SE Asia and citing an almost impossible US outcome
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Everything the government touches rises in cost. The tragedy is that people then turn to the very institution that created the problem to solve it , only for its solutions to make matters worse.
So it goes…
skum@skumWgmi
My dad got a blood clot last year. ER visit: $31,000. Insurance covered: $6,200. He owed: $24,000. He has insurance. He has a supplemental plan. He's 71 years old and making payment arrangements. The American healthcare system doesn't fail people. It was designed this way.
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@skumWgmi There is no scenario in the US where this type of of situation would result.
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My dad got a blood clot last year.
ER visit: $31,000.
Insurance covered: $6,200.
He owed: $24,000.
He has insurance.
He has a supplemental plan.
He's 71 years old and making payment arrangements.
The American healthcare system doesn't fail people.
It was designed this way.
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@razibkhan Meanwhile the SEC schools have never had more applicants
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i know of one major midwestern system that is lowering standards to keep numbers up at the flagship campus (this eats into the potential student bodies at satellite campuses but they don't care; first, they survive)
Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D.@neoavatara
Colleges are going to become harder to get into.
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Wild to watch Shein acquire Everlane. Two completely opposite ends of the brand principles spectrum, yet manufacturing scale wins again. Everlane built itself as the antidote to fast fashion, only to eventually become part of the machine it once pushed against. The real moat was never just branding, it was supply chain dominance.
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Shein is acquiring Everlane.
Luckin Coffee is acquiring Blue Bottle.
Anta Sports acquired controlling stake in Puma, Arcteryx, Salomon.
Chinese consumer brands have quietly become global.
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@RichardHanania this seems plausible
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Chamath Palihapitiya@chamath
I took the first chart on fertility rate and then asked the following: “Run a Monte Carlo simulation where you overlay various economic indicators on this chart of fertility. For example, GDP, GINI, cost of housing, middle class income growth etc. find the economic indicator that has the highest correlation to the chart provided. There may be a lag effect where the chart is the byproduct of some economic event so consider this lag in your correlation analysis.” Result: the strongest match was not GDP, Gini, or housing alone. It was a derived “middle-class squeeze” indicator: real GDP per capita ÷ real median household income, with the indicator leading fertility by 10 years. The correlation was r = -0.853 over the 1994–2024 fertility window. Interpreted plainly: when output per person rose faster than median household income, fertility tended to be lower roughly a decade later.
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People denying phones are behind the fertility decline keep making worse and worse arguments. Something remarkable happened at the same time everyone without precedent in human history and there’s literally no other plausible theory.
joseph francis@joefrancis505
Did anything else happen just after iPhones were introduced in 2007?🤔
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@wil_da_beast630 1/3 of LA is foreign born. I believe NYC is over 20%.
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What? That actually is crazy.
Brock Crocker@CrockerBrock
47 percent of Toronto's population is foreign born. Not just second and third generation immigrants. Foreign born. Almost half the city wasn't born in this country. Toronto isn't a Canadian city anymore by any reasonable definition of the term. It's a tragedy and a disgrace.
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@elonmusk @GuntherEagleman Identifying the shooter isn't very important right now. The most important thing is to get the system right, abolish gun law in America and save lives.
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BREAKING: There are now reports of THREE PEOPLE who lost their lives at the Islamic Center shooting in San Diego.
"There are two teachers or staff from the school to be more specific, that have been killed as a result of the shooting. That is separate from the suspects we are hearing about."
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@politicalmath LA is 25% White… Pratt has almost no chance
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Spencer Pratt is going to lose so hard but it's nice to see someone who actually seems to enjoy the chase
Michael Shellenberger@shellenberger
“You are not alone.” Yoga moms, silent majority, and a preference cascade all in one. Whether or not Angelenos elect @spencerpratt as LA mayor, he and his team are revolutionizing politics.
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I am about to enjoy the Sunday evening cigar and scotch so let's play a game. There are vast amounts of cliche and personal animosity slop so let's break it down:
You are the lead negotiator for the Trump admin dealing with China. You are tasked with formulating the US position an strategy to deal with China. What are you asking for, what will you sacrifice?
There are three rules.
1. It must be plausible for both sides
2. The deal must have a near 100% probability of being adhered to through the end of the current administration.
3. You must be detailed and specific in your proposals. No cliches like Trump is transactional, weak, etc. Only thing that counts are specific results, gives, and takes.
I am skeptical there is anything there but I am all ears. Impress me people
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@lb_412 @PaulRoundy1 @MorePerfectUS Can you provide a rational reply? If you are a troll, please save us all some time and admit it.
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Data centers are the leading cause of a 76% increase in the cost of electricity for America's largest power grid over just the first 3 months of this year, according to Bloomberg.
The 13-state grid managed by PJM serves 67 million people, and costs have spiked this year.
This time last year the cost of electricity on this grid was $77.78 per megawatt-hour. Now that cost has almost doubled to $136.53 per megawatt-hour.
Bloomberg attributes that skyrocketing cost to the "booming demand from artificial intelligence data centers, which require vast amounts of energy and are putting a significant burden on America’s aging power grids."
Full story: bloomberg.com/news/articles/….
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@FabiusMaximus01 @PaulRoundy1 @MorePerfectUS They have become significantly cheaper (see TX) and ROI on a data center is such that they can afford the expense. Unfortunately they are politically unpopular.
CA desperately needs more off peak usage to broadly distribute the cost of the delivery infrastructure.
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@lb_412 @PaulRoundy1 @MorePerfectUS 1/ Batteries are an expensive way to shift power supply in time.
2/ They are a mature technology - becoming cheaper, but only slowly.
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@lb_412 @PaulRoundy1 @MorePerfectUS The cost to operators of data centers of that would be astronomical. They want exemptions from local taxes AND cheap electricity (cost-shifting to residents) - and these facilities probably will still be unprofitable.
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@PaulRoundy1 @MorePerfectUS @FabiusMaximus01 CA could reduce residential rates by installing data centers, that can power themselves from 4pm to 9pm daily, near existing infrastructure.
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This doesn't quite check out, there are Supply concerns that have become worse in some states like California and New York, but the state with the greatest number of data centers is virginia, and it's electricity prices are considerably cheaper. Fortunately, that technology being developed at these data centers can be used to increase the efficiency and production of our electrical grid, including helping us solve Fusion, which will result in incredibly abundant low cost energy with only a small strain on resources.
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You are blindly cheering for a multi-billion dollar corporation while completely ignoring the people who actually have to live next to it.
Also you’re really comfortable with giving up our agricultural land and water for a glorified server room so that we can slopify anything and everything.
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@the_transit_guy SoCal would be the best place in the world for a high density city where you bike and walk everywhere. Photos like this make me sad.
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“California is full!”
Hunter📈🌈📊@StatisticUrban
Orange County looks so stupid from the air. What are we doing, with land use like this??
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@mattyglesias The only conspiracy theory in which I will partially indulge….The companies that are behind in AI pursue more government regulation via comments like this.
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Should this make us more or less worried about the budget deficit?
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