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Andrew Slough
@andyjss
Clojure enthusiast, C++/assembler veteran. Emacs. Nix. Exploring LLMs for programming. Classical liberal. Chess player and Chessable Eternal
Kettlestone, England Katılım Temmuz 2009
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Florida Man doing Florida Man things.
Straight Florida@StraightFlorida
Florida Man doesn’t ask for permission. He just straps on a jet-propelled hoverboard, hooks up his dog to a jet ski, and goes for a Sunday cruise like it’s completely normal. This is why the rest of the country will never understand us. Peak Florida. Never change.
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Bono spent 30+ years inside the aid industrial complex and came out saying this:
John Cochrane@JohnHCochrane
Far more poverty has been alleviated by growth than by any RCT type aid or poverty alleviation program. Like orders of magnitude. Compare China to sub-Saharan Africa.
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The juxtaposition of the story on the left “£1 billion a year to EU” with the one on the right “no money” for defence is a stark illustration of the Remainers’ delusional folly.
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The Batman effect.
A female experimenter, appearing pregnant, boarded the train. In the experimental condition, an additional experimenter dressed as Batman entered from another door. Passengers were significantly more likely to offer their seat when Batman was present (67.21% vs. 37.66%).
[Francesco Pagnini et al.,"Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect", Nature, 2025]
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The best opening line in any physics textbook ✍️
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Minimum wage should be £50 an hour. Everyone could shop at Waitrose. Young people could finally buy £1.5 million houses in Surrey. Prosperity for all. One brave politician could change this country forever. 🇬🇧
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@kevin_jordan__ I have significant ADHD, but my superpower is finishing what I start. When I start a code project, I'm not done until the documentation is, and that's non-negotiable.
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"Overwhelming evidence"....
“Cross-examination is the greatest legal
engine ever invented for the discovery
of truth.”
John H. Wigmore,
quoted in Lilly v. Virginia, 527 U.S. 116 (1999)
"An indictment is not evidence."
Basic jury instruction given to all juries at the outset of every federal criminal trial.
Roger Parloff@rparloff
The immunity ruling was reported correctly. There was overwhelming evidence that Trump had committed serious crimes. If a sycophantic @DAGToddBlanche had tried to indict Biden on seashell-grade charges, grand juries, petit juries, & judges would've intervened as normal.
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Allow me to rock your world.
America has about 6000 hospitals. 5121 of those are publicly accessible and 1224 are completely free. That's twice as many charity hospitals as Canada has Tim Horton's. Literally.
Then, when you see a doctor, the doctor speaks English and went to school somewhere you've heard of. Harvard is not the only way to get educated, but it is nice in the fall.
We don't push people into medically assisted suicide for cost reasons.
We don't ask people with emergency conditions to sit in the ER for 10 hours before they see a doctor.
So yes, if you have a cutting-edge disease and you go to a private hospital and get the best care in the world, you're on the hook for it.
But note that you are also ALIVE.
Mark Slapinski@mark_slapinski
People say Canadian healthcare is not free, because we pay taxes for it. But in America, people pay taxes and still have to pay for healthcare out of their pockets. And if they are broke, the hospital tells them to go die.
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Here's the difference.
"Trump" is a family-owned business that has been a family-owned business for 60 (?) years. It had a multi-billion dollar valuation before Donald Trump took office. It is currently run by other family members.
"Biden" had no family owned business, and it had no value before he took office. Yet family members made millions expressly trading access to influence, and concealed everything they did through cutouts and off-shore banking.
Bill Clinton had pretty much ZERO personal financial wealth when he ran for President.
Today he is worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Same for Barack Obama.
Yes, being President creates money-making opportunities.
"Same as it ever was."
Melanie D'Arrigo@DarrigoMelanie
I’m old enough to remember when Fox News threw tantrums and Republicans called for endless hearings when Joe Biden received a $40,000 loan repayment check from his brother. Trump has made over $4 billion from various grifts and shady deals, from just his second term.
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Swapping out the Bansky with something actually anti-establishment
BBC News (UK)@BBCNews
How did Banksy put up a statue in central London? bbc.in/4tDGACG
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After coding 100% agentic for 6 months, my key observation is that software design is more important than ever.
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