@AGoldmund I'm sorry for your loss, Alex. Grandma's hold a special place in our hearts and lives. I hope her memory is a blessing to your life and every life she touched.
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Jared Vagle
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@SirActionSlacks It's crazy your kid is playing soccer since you only had them 6 months ago 🤔
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at my kids soccer game today and this giga roided out dad was yellin at this other dad cause their kids were grabbin shirts
I think "dis is it this is where my dota training comes in" and I yelled "YEAAAH FIIIGHHHT!" so awkwardly and cringe it sucked up the tesostorne of the field and they both looked at me disgusted and lost the will to battle
some would call me a hero but it's jsut another pub the pub of life
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@FangYi11101 @JeremiahDJohns I'd think most legacies have SAT tutors leading to higher scores. They also probably have wealthier upbringings (also correlates to higher test scores).
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@JeremiahDJohns wow, I have never met anyone with a score in the 1300s (but they probably wouldn’t have volunteered the info). This would be close to the extreme lower bound. I read that legacies to Harvard had a higher average SAT than non-legacies though
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One of my least favorite discourses that pops up every single year: "This kid got a 99% SAT, and no Ivy Leagues!" followed by blaming wokeness or whatever they hate.
Look. 2M kids take the SAT each year. By definition 20K will get top 1% scores. It's impossible for them all to get into the Ivy League, who admit around 15K per year.
And that doesn't account for the fact that a bunch of Ivy admits are legacies, rich kids, or athletes, so the pool is actually smaller. And it doesn't account for the idea that the Ivies would legitimately rather have a kid with top 5% scores plus [other really cool thing] rather than the top 1% TestBotOptimizer.
It is *not a story* that kids with strong numbers get rejected from elite universities, but every year it's portrayed as a shocking new trend caused by whatever the current culture war item is.
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@Liv_Agar I always get him and cybersmirh mixed up. They really feel like the same guy.
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@RealRockatansky @Liv_Agar Seeing that the people that live in my phone are real people who do things is very unsettling!
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@TheStalwart It's valid because it exists. However I think it's not the most clear way to communicate that information.
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@AnnaBower The hardest question to answer continues to be, "who was president in 2020?"
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This report on the “Biden Administration’s Weaponization of the FACE Act” repeatedly cites conduct that occurred…during the first Trump administration.
U.S. Department of Justice@TheJusticeDept
TODAY: The Justice Department’s Weaponization Working Group published a report detailing the Biden Administration’s weaponization of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. “This Department will not tolerate a two-tiered system of justice,” said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. “No Department should conduct selective prosecution based on beliefs. The weaponization that happened under the Biden Administration will not happen again, as we restore integrity to our prosecutorial system.” 🔗: justice.gov/opa/pr/justice…
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@MattBruenig @Sheesh_barak @TheStalwart @xwanyex I think you’d be surprised at how many people would be willing to defend their own land and happily pay >$0 for it
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@xwanyex Your reply is completely nonsensical. After you buy the land, what makes it “yours” is the ability to exclude others from it, which is a service that the state provides to you in a variety of ways.
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@MattBruenig @jbillinson It's misleading because people think they are ordering from the grocery store and getting it delivered. In reality they are ordering from instacart and instacart is just the drop shipper.
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@jbillinson it is a little misleading to markup each item rather than line item a specific delivery fee (they do have such a line item but it is not the actual delivery fee)
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it costs money to have a personal shopper deliver groceries to your house???
aadilpickle@aadilpickle
made a $175 instacart order and the shopper left the reciept in the bag found out it would cost $125 if shopped in person 40% markup what a great business model
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@TheStalwart How can a shoe company be seriously worth 4 Billion? Be for real
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Allbirds just sold for $39 million. The company was once worth over $4 billion. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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@FuzzyStonks @dieworkwear This isn't even a Costco size thing of mayo. It's like the mid tier size at your local Walmart/target
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@dieworkwear That’s not why at all but I’m so sorry you don’t have a Costco
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"American" here is a shorthand for "car dependent country where people stock up on supplies like they're on the Oregon Trail instead of buying small portions because people live in walkable neighborhoods"
DaVinci@BiancoDavinci
In Sweden, the extra large size of several products is advertised as 'American size'
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@kenklippenstein They are calling her the most humble woman of all time!
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KAMALA HARRIS: "I predicted a lot about what's happening right now. I'm not into saying 'I told you so' — but we did see it coming."
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Why We Struck Iran kenklippenstein.com/p/why-we-struc…
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@QuinnChasan @mattyglesias @besttrousers We already have chore robots! We have dishwashers, washing machines, dryers, robot vacuums, ovens, microwaves, etc. All of these automate tasks for us. Every household buys one and then not another for like 10+ years lol
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@jvagle875 @mattyglesias @besttrousers Yeah I think chore robots of all kinds would be the highest selling physical products of all time and it wouldn't be close
Scale to everything from line cooks to mechanics and the world looks pretty different
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"B2B SaaS is less than half a percent of US GDP. It's simply not an important industry relative to anything macroeconomic."
Somewhat tangential, but I think lots of people really overweigh how importance start ups like this are to "the economy".
Eli Dourado@elidourado
OK I read the thing. I think the future will take longer to arrive than this assumes. I also think it will be both weirder and better. B2B SaaS is less than half a percent of US GDP. It's simply not an important industry relative to anything macroeconomic. Furthermore if all B2B SaaS rents disappeared overnight, all other businesses would become that much more productive and profitable. Again, this is a small effect, because B2B SaaS is small potatoes. It's funny how the piece assumes Uber driver will still be a job. In SF the Uber drivers are complaining about losing out to Waymo already. The article doesn't talk about who takes home the high profits that accrue to GPUs and what they do with those resources. They sit in some Scrooge McDuck money vault, I guess. If you believe the scarce factor of production is permits for energy and data center builds, various bureaucrat-whisperers and lobbyists end up with all the money. Not exactly what I believe will happen, but it struck me as a glaring omission—many white-collar jobs are some version of this, and in the future they may become moreso. In general, there is no amount of human or AI cogitation that will be as valuable as a handful of bits of actual information about the future. Cultivate equanimity and patience.
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@QuinnChasan @mattyglesias @besttrousers Like robot vacuums? Or things that cook for you (oven/microwave)? Not trying to be obtuse, but I don't see a reason to think the Jetsons is going to be a reality or why we would even want that?
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@jvagle875 @mattyglesias @besttrousers Ubiquitous consumer robots. Everyone with a robot serf and a clear path towards autonomous blue collar work
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@QuinnChasan @mattyglesias @besttrousers What do you mean by robotics? Robots have been in industries for decades.
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@mattyglesias @besttrousers Imagine the market panic when people realize robotics is absolutely going to happen. Once we cross that rubicon I'll start to take the doomers more seriously
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@angie_rasmussen Also men should also get an HPV vaccine as well!
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Definitely get your Pap smears, but also get your HPV vaccine. People vaccinated against HPV don’t have abnormal Pap smears
TMZ@TMZ
Snooki is sharing that she’s been diagnosed with stage 1 cervical cancer. 🙏 tmz.me/ETUVj1x
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@Robotbeat @ramez @billybinion Just think logistically how is he going to do that? He would need documentation to travel, he would need a visa, he would need money, speaking the language may help (although English is probably good there). Presumably he wouldn't have a valid passport from any country.
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@ramez @billybinion No, I mean can’t he just go to Costa Rica as soon as he’s dropped off in Africa?
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Hard to think of a story more pundits misunderstand.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia *agreed to be deported*—months ago—to Costa Rica, which accepted. The admin refuses & is insisting on sending him to various African countries, which declined.
He's still here because of the government.
The Associated Press@AP
BREAKING: The U.S. can't take Kilmar Abrego Garcia back into immigration custody because it doesn't have a viable plan to deport him, judge says. apnews.com/article/abrego…
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