Avshalom

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by Avshalom 4y ago
Noticably that handwriting would have gotten me a B at best printing in grade school, maybe failed if I insisted on continuing the f below the base line. Certainly not the copperplate cursive that most of the 'kids these days' usu
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by Avshalom 4y ago
25.5g. although another way of think of it is 13 tylenol arthritis pills is the ld50 for a kindergartner and in the US they come in a bottle not a blisterpack.
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by Avshalom 4y ago
"American children are less likely to live to age 5 than children in other high-income countries," the authors write on the second page. It goes on: "Even Americans with healthy behaviors, for example, those who are not obese
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The sad state of U.S. life expectancy(npr.org)
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by Avshalom 4y ago
The rhetorical problem is that it's a sort of inverse of Yossarian's "they're trying to kill me", coordination is often not usefully distinct from a system which incentivizes the same actions that would be achieved
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by Avshalom 4y ago
>>four bank rescues not two - Signature Bank, First Republic, SVB and Credit Suisse. so when I said two and a half banks with two rescued it was actually two and a half banks with two and a half rescued. feels to me like even less of
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by Avshalom 4y ago
I mean hubris and arrogance are in full and open display pretty constantly. The inability to actually control shit is why its always a moving target. but the idea that rich people are acting in a manner to maintain/increase their wealt
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by Avshalom 4y ago
Specifically the recession talk seemed to be an attempt to destroy what little gains labor had made in the past couple years. A banking crisis is not exactly the same but would lead to the same public justifications. As a personal anecdote:
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by Avshalom 4y ago
It aint fucking lost on me that financial papers spent the better part of 2022 arguing that we were headed for a recession. The q4 numbers came in showing the US economy was still expanding and now those same papers are telling me we'r
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by Avshalom 4y ago
Well unless Levi's also makes the pants that the AI generates it's just horseshit isn't it?
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by Avshalom 4y ago
>I thought in the 90's Ah, see that's your problem. It's 2023.
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by Avshalom 4y ago
>(in some cases pornographic) so what was going on in all those other cases? >they'll try to remove it from the [everywhere else] too" https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/05/gop-lawmaker-petitions-c...
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by Avshalom 4y ago
well I mean we're doing it to them too. it's not paranoid to assume large countries are engaged in just-barely-sub-causus-belli levels of shit against each other. But that doesn't make trying to ban or force the sale of tikto
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by Avshalom 4y ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/07/22/south-c... https://mashable.com/article/texas-abortion-website-bill
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by Avshalom 4y ago
because yeah, if this happens it will definitely be the only thing the leg does, this definitely isn't just the first thing they got out of committee.
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by Avshalom 4y ago
neither of those mean much with regards to tiktok specifically though.
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by Avshalom 4y ago
That's nonsense though. Yes cost/space was a factor but it's not like they built the first one in the absolute cheapest acre they good find, then put the second one in the second cheapest... Proximity to amenities, to neighbo
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by Avshalom 4y ago
https://jalopnik.com/charges-dropped-against-driver-who-open...
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by Avshalom 4y ago
New Mexico (and a lot of other states) has had a lottery funded scholarship for decades. We've had an oil boom for a few years and yeah mostly funded the remainder through oil revenues/permanent fund. But yes the fundamental notio
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by Avshalom 4y ago
well we made university free in New Mexico, and it's free or cheap in a lot of other places.
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by Avshalom 4y ago
>>say what you like about it, it isn't bot spam. It might be. There have been some threads where it very obviously has been and some threads where I can't prove it but I suspect.
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by Avshalom 4y ago
you're opposed to selling your attention to the highest bidder but you think it's a good business model to sell all of "your data" to any "market rate" bidder? you know those are just the same thing right?
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by Avshalom 4y ago
I really like buy myself flowers about this. They're nice, but inherently temporary, I can't save them for a special occasion.
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by Avshalom 4y ago
"Kinda wild" that they're attributing a change over 8 years to the last 6-9 months of that period.
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by Avshalom 4y ago
autumn 2020 wouldn't even have been a year of missed school.
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by Avshalom 4y ago
Camera is a bit shit (by 2020 standards) but that's my only complaint (my current phone is the g8 power) and that might be fixable with a different camera app.
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by Avshalom 4y ago
The moto g's continue to be great budget(ish ~200 new) devices. They're the last two phones I've bought, the first lasted ~3 years before I broke it, still good enough for the internet at large when I did. Replaced it with a
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by Avshalom 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry_KeyOne
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by Avshalom 4y ago
I dunno what the software on this looks like (wrt writing a custom driver) but if you can add knobs it seems like it could pick up trackpoint wiggling around
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by Avshalom 4y ago
The Land Before Time is a Universal Picture property. Which I only point out because Don Bluth very much left Disney.

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