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There are basically no personal,
family, or relationship problems that can’t be solved by reading the correct Berenstain Bears book
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I donated about $45k last year, mostly to malaria net distributions and seasonal malaria chemoprevention. If this is not improving the lives of the affected people, I will obviously donate somewhere different this year. What's your recommendation.
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Counterpoint: if you could give every child in your town’s schools breakfast and lunch every day, but it required firing two district administrators, would you do it?
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At what point do we stop focusing on who needs to pay more tax and start asking where all of our tax money is going.
Vermont has a republican governor???? And he won re-election??
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Looking at the referendum results around the country:
1) everyone dislikes taxes. Especially property taxes
2) abortion and weed is popular
3) voter ID is popular
4) banning transgender athletes from playing girls sports is popular
5) data centers are unpopular
6) fighting crime is popular
7) building new homes is popular
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If a single billionaire moves back to CA, it will be technically true that banning wealth taxes generates more net revenue than trying to implement them.
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his sexual desires: i would like you to use ur hands during blowjobs
my sexual desires: I imagine myself in a pillory publicly humiliated in a town square (in 1846), naked, bare but a corset, and molested by any gentleman of social standing.
the pillory needs to be of sufficient size where I see nothing but the shadows of the gentleman, and experience only fear and anticipation without mental preparations.
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It’s worthwhile to play through in your mind the kinds of motivated reasoning and self-deception that might have led academics to work on this project.
It’ll help you understand better what’s going on at AGI companies.
Purdue University's IDEAS Lab built an autonomous drone that tracks runners through dense forests completely without GPS or cloud networks.
By running 3D LiDAR mapping and obstacle-avoidance AI entirely on-chip, it can weave under tree canopies and predict target movement through blind spots in real time.
Massive implications for next-gen search & rescue and edge AI.
why is it that we don't drone strike everyone who sends out "you have an urgent overdue tax balance" SMS spam? there's for sure a guy in the pentagon who knows where they are and is just waiting for someone to give him the go ahead
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A pink-haired Boomer tried to get me to take a blue sample ballot, so I hit her with, “Oh, no thank you: my husband already told me how to vote.” Gonna be riding that high all day
My opinion is that if you have the amount of social access and career opportunities as an upper mid-tier celebrity, you maybe only have a 50% chance of regretting not having kids. Seth has a lot going on and probably still will when he's 75. I don't think this advice translates to normal people.
Seth Rogen says he and his wife are now more grateful than ever that they decided not to have children he’s not afraid to explain why.
He admits they used to question whether they’d made the right decision, but now their conversations have shifted to, “Honestly, thank God we don’t have children.”
His reasoning? They’re in the prime of their lives, understand themselves better than ever, and have the freedom to pursue their careers, enjoy life, and build the kind of relationship they’ve always wanted.
But Seth took it a step further, saying he sees people with children struggling to find the same time for work and personal enjoyment that he and his wife have.
“I seem to get a lot more active enjoyment out of not having kids than anyone I know seems to get out of having kids.”
That statement will probably divide people. Some see raising children as life’s greatest joy, while others believe a fulfilling life doesn’t have to include parenthood.
Do you think Seth has a point, or is there a kind of happiness you can only understand after having children?
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This tweet has gotten 2 million views and is wrong.
Musk doesn't think space cooling is easier because space is cold. He thinks its easier because it's a strait forward engineering problem that scales well.
Cooling in space is indeed difficult, because vacuum is an insulator.
But it's also straightforward, you just need a radiator.
Since 99% of the heat you are radiating comes from power consumption produced by solar panels, the amount of radiator panels equals a percentage of solar panels. It's around 25%.
The International Space Station has ~2,500 m² of photovoltaic panels generating power, and ~645 m² dissipating the heat.
There is no scale problem like there is on earth -- you can just keep building bigger and bigger and bigger.
Scaling is what makes cooling harder on earth. The bigger the data center, the more difficult the cooling. This comes not just from the engineering challenges but also the political challenges from communities rejecting huge data centers, taxes, etc.
However, we haven't built anything larger than the ISS for radiators. We have a lot still to discover, such as micrometeorites puncturing fluid lines. I wouldn't bet on space data center, but Musk isn't making simple errors by thinking that space is "cold" instead of "insulated".
My respect for Elon Musk has mostly vanished, but I still thought that at least he is a good engineer (Teslas are great cars). But that last bit also got a blow after hearing him say that it is easier to "cool things down" in space. The opposite is true. A vacuum is the best possible isolator. In space you can only dissipate heat through radiation. It is extremely unlikely these data centers in space will ever happen (and certainly not in our lifetimes).
The jambon-beurre—a classic Parisian sandwich of ham and butter on a baguette—is having a moment in New York. Recently, the sandwich has been cropping up at shops and boulangeries across the city. But the best jambon-beurre is also the newest, Helen Rosner writes. It can be found at Richaud Petite Bakery, a novel effort by the actor turned baker Richaud Valls. “The reason this sandwich has won my heart more than others in the city is the torpedo of bread they’re tucked into,” Rosner continues. “Which sighs and crackles, an entire universe of complexity and depth in its crumb.” Read more: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/qW…
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This is a jambon-fromage, as there's cheese in it. A jambon-beurre is just ham, butter and (optionally) some bits of cornichon on a half-baguette
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Best imaginable timeline is where room temp superconductors are invented by a trans catgirl
i'm afraid i'm going to sound insane saying this but i think i might be making some genuinely novel physics finding(s) right now and every single time a test runs i get so anxious yet every single time so far they have come back supporting the hypothesis
i feel a deep sense of aw right now, like i'm witnessing secrets unraveling before my eyes, dumbfounded questioning if this is even real... it's scary... i don't wanna sound insane because i know i sound insane right now, my heart is beating so fast, it feels like a glass house of cards... yet the tests keep coming back supporting my hypothesis
if this maintains i will publish my findings asap. i cannot wait to share this with the world