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Lambda Thoughts
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@hitbyacar2 @jdcmedlock Among other things private contractors are subsidized more by a factor of like 5,000, it’s not even in the same universe.
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I think Zohran's co-opting of efficiency from the right will be seismic for the American socialist project. We need to run a national campaign against The Contractor State—neoliberalism's grand, massively inefficient outsourcing of government functions to private contractors.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@NYCMayor
Government must deliver for working people—and every dollar in our budget should work as hard as they do. That’s why I directed every agency to cut waste and help close our budget gap. Here’s some of what we found.
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@QuetzalThoughts This is literally a metaphor for how women emotionally ditch men when they are at their most vulnerable. Oops, hope you got down from that mountain babe, I had to go. Ick.
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I can't wrap my head around men who do this. When I've been in nature with women, even the ones I have zero romantic entanglements with, I've always understood it as an unspoken but sacred fact that I am there for protection if anything goes awry. Deserting a woman in the middle of nowhere is so vile it offends my deepest conceptions of what it even means to be a man.
Jennine K@jennineak
this is kind of surreal to me, who the fuck would do this to anyone
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Jericho Lands of indigenous MST Development Corp. will have 3 times the density of Hong Kong.
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@matrix07012 @sleepy_devo Bro you literally said:
> The right wing plan regarding immigration should be to follow the gulf states, a defacto slave caste
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@lambda_thoughts @sleepy_devo Paying people money for labor and nothing else isn't slavery
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the reason why this keeps happening, in every country the right-wing wins, is because once they get into power and see the actual numbers regarding birth rates and the economy and the labour force, they realize if they do as they promised they would destroy the country.
Kumashun🇯🇵🐻💎@isfjcutebear
PM SANAE TAKAICHI won a 75% supermajority on the promise of strict immigration she did the exact opposite 805k Specified Skilled Worker 426k new training program with path to family reunion and permanent residency = 1.23 MILLION additional foreign workers WHYYY?????
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@matrix07012 @sleepy_devo Call me a radical leftist but slavery is bad mkay
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@sleepy_devo The numbers are indeed dire and immigration is a costly temporary hotfix (it's borrowing money to payback debt).
The right wing plan regarding immigration should be to follow the gulf states, a defacto slave caste that has no pathway to political power.
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Of note that Mamdani is developing a reputation with not-particularly-political people outside of New York as “a guy who fixes municipal problems quickly”
alexa@alexadoingstuff
Can LA please please please get our own mamdani
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@jetinarround @PEWilliams_ None of Mamdani’s wins are socialist policies. For example, his response for the snow storm earlier this year was to hire private citizens temporarily to help shovel.
It worked, and it worked well. But it’s about as capitalist as a govt can get lmao.
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@PEWilliams_ The reason elites have always fought tooth and nail to keep anyone vaguely socialist out of office is all their propaganda is based on a perception of socialists not based in any lived experiences of voters. Once you actually get someone in they can show the propaganda is wrong.
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@MonkeyDFuu @eriatarrka @cactusncookies @Blacksword011 Go on your phone or read a book. You can game some other time
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@eriatarrka @cactusncookies @Blacksword011 Respectfully how much can we actually do to help her? The nurses are constantly making sure she’s okay and checking the labor process and labor can be anywhere from 5 mins to 40 hours 🤷🏽♂️ you expect him to watch paint dry and wait while being completely subservient?
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Top 5 icks that men do from a Labor and Delivery Nurse
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@verynormalman Have extra oats? Click on the link for one weird trick that will solve your problem (doctors hate this!)
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I like how every other platform has perfected targeted advertising but twitter is still serving up stuff like this
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@glitterjuj The average household uses 300 gallons of water per day. So a large ass data center uses the equivalent of 1,000 households of water, yet serves millions of people.
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there is no way to make generative ai data centres more environmentally friendly btw
aidan@aidan7501
Zara Larsson weighs in on watching AI comedy and AI discourse “I’m just a girl with a phone. [...] I do use ChatGPT, I’m sorry. And I google shit, I don’t like the Google AI answers but I use it, I feel like it’s everywhere. It’s taken over. […] I don’t ever see us going back to not using it, so I think for the future the only way forward is to make what we are consuming more environmentally friendly. That shit [AI] is not going away.”
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@li_xinrui It's no replacement for real pen testing and/or real CSO
But it'll help people avoid the obvious mistakes
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I didn't drink at my birthday party so I could start crushing PR's all day today. I have 99 PR's to work through from the community, but a hangover aint one
First big feature of the day: a chief security officer to audit your attack surface (informational only, please hire a pentester for real production code and mission critical situations!)
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@wesyang The crazy part is how much better their governance is. I say let them govern the rest of Canada and it'll end up being actually affordable
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You laughed at land acknowledgments and made the safe, politically acceptable critique of them ("they are dumb because they are empty signaling") without realizing that a Canadian court was about to hand over Vancouver to a tribe.
Your pseudo-knowing gambit was just bait for someone to take the land acknowledgment at face value -- which the courts were about to do, and which was the whole point of propagating the land acknowledgment in the first place.
Jim McMurtry@JimMcMurtry01
The wealthy 1500-member Musqueam tribe, which claims all of Vancouver, is building 11 towers (some 56 stories) on an 11.7-acre waterfront site. This density breaks all the rules, but when you’re a court-supported racial oligarchy, you can do anything.
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@thekitze @NotZainAgain It was like 7 movies but also you can surely understand why it’s annoying.
It’s like being 7 feet tall and every single person you meet telling you you should be a basketball player.
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@NotZainAgain actors who don't like the only movie that made them famous are annoying af
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Went to my second ever broadway show the other week and it was a one-man performance by Daniel Radcliffe aka Harry Potter.
He spends the 20 minutes before every show handing out props and recruiting people to interact with him during the show.
Never seen someone so dialled in.
Was an amazing performance, 1.5 hours straight, no intermission.
He does this night after night. Did some math with Claude and he probably makes $50K per week which is great $$ but still considerably less than what he would make for a movie role.
His parents also helped him invest his Harry Potter earnings well and he makes $660K/month just off investments (UK companies are required to make full financial disclosures, very different from the US but very useful for this kind of pocket watching).
Which means he never has to work again he just continues to do this for the love of the game.
These kinds of in-person experiences and acts of passion are one of the few things that can’t be replaced by AI
Oh also he does not like it when you call him Harry or bring up his old movies. Ask me how I know.
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@devahaz @Envytruncat @tenobrus I think you give voters too much credit. I want Ossoff but I’m preparing for Harris
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@lambda_thoughts @Envytruncat @tenobrus That’s why he has a chance, but a lot of Dems are over slick California libs. And his performance record on things like homelessness, transit, taxes, housing affordability/creation, etc won’t stand up to tough attacks. But…
Deva Hazarika@devahaz
I’ve been vocal about Gavin not being the pick for 2028 because California slick lib has too many negatives, but then I remembered how he had an affair with his friend/campaign manager’s wife and was just like “oops my bad” and boom scandal was over, so maybe he CAN be the guy
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@lambda_thoughts @Envytruncat @tenobrus It won’t be AOC. Gavin obv has a chance, but even with all his advantages, overcoming slick California lib super Biden supporter will be very tough.
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@devahaz @Envytruncat @tenobrus Ossoff is such an online pick. It'll be Gavin or AOC. Probably Gavin since he's a tall handsome white man.
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@Envytruncat @tenobrus Ossoff currently my top pick, but early 2027 post-midterms is when things will start to get much clearer
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@jungletek @HashashinTag Yeah I’ll stay a normie on this front. Have fun in jihad training camp homie.
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@HashashinTag "It looks just like a bomb vest", say all the muppets that have never seen one in real life.
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lmao poor dude was just wearing a weighted vest at an outdoor gym
Salford Police (GMP)@GMPSalford
#UPDATE | We received a report of a suspicious male on Bristol Street, Salford, at around 11:52am today. Officers established that the individual was wearing a weighted gym vest and carrying a skipping rope at an outdoor gym. There is no threat to the wider community.
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@andrey_kurenkov @AndyMasley All of that is insignificant to the actual drivers of emissions like transportation, heavy industry, heating/cooling etc.
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@AndyMasley To be fair, downstream of not using AI is less demand which would translate to fewer model trainings and data center which translates to less energy usage.
Though I doubt the og poster had this level of nuance in mind
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If I wanted to let every last major contributor to climate change completely 100% off the hook, this wildly popular talking point would be how I'd do it. 70k likes on this.
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