Balgair

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by Balgair 2y ago
Could you explain why its a yes?
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by Balgair 2y ago
This is why in the debate of : Are they fascists or idiots? I tend to come down on idiots. Fascist can be idiots, of course, but they tend to glorify the military (per Eco). And thus far, these guys have shown that they are mostly going to
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by Balgair 2y ago
Haha! That sound exactly out of the Simple Sabotage Field Manual https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/...
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by Balgair 2y ago
I mean, that would imply some form of intelligence to all this. And, well, this first month has shown there is no intelligence.
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by Balgair 2y ago
The way I read it, Terr was being sarcastic
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by Balgair 2y ago
I'll assume you weren't there on Monday then? It was even a day off for a lot of people.
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by Balgair 2y ago
As it was told to me, the part about swearing the oath to the constitution comes before the President, and it is understood by all service-members that said word order very much matters. In that, if the President gives an unconstitutional o
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by Balgair 2y ago
> I went on a discord server where Google employees were known to hang out and informally help people Ummm, got any more details on where I can find that server?
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by Balgair 2y ago
I'll respond to both comments in just this daughter comment: > What if they offer 2x the salary to come back? Some are suggesting that is the strategy. I know of one example where this was done but in a private company with lower st
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by Balgair 2y ago
So, my SO had a fellowship with the NNSA here. As in, the NNSA paid for their grad school. I'll speak to my own experiences here though as the spouse. The NNSA is, like, bonkers important. I'll just copy-paste wikipedia here: &quo
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by Balgair 2y ago
A lot of Native Americans used Jan 1 for their birth date when signing up for WW2 service. Many service members during the drafts would add or subtract a few years with the help of local authorities. My grandfather didn't know his birt
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by Balgair 2y ago
Hey dang, thanks for the reply. I didn't know you take the flagging away. That's not a bad idea. I've been seeing you defend yourself all over the place these days. Sorry to make you feel like you had to do that here too. My
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by Balgair 2y ago
I think it was The Atlantic a few years back that ran the numbers on professors and their PhD alma maters. But I can't find the article, so please accept my bad recollection. Essentially, in nearly all of the humanities, if you did n
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by Balgair 2y ago
Knowing how petty Elon is with Diablo and PoE , I do not at all put it past him to have some bots/cheap labor just flag anything about him. I also trust dang Don't know how to square these thing either, though
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by Balgair 2y ago
Also, make sure to do with with Wills and Trusts. Going through probate is a nightmare . https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/probate.asp Also, if you can, just put your loved ones as joint users on your banking
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by Balgair 2y ago
When my child was born, they filled a hole in me I didn't even know was there. My FiL's passing has left a yawning chasm in me and an empty ocean in my SO's life. The club members are right, I think, you never really get over
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by Balgair 2y ago
We had a similar thing happen to us in COIVD. My child was born and a few weeks later, my FiL died. We were the primary caretakers for both as one came into the world and one went out. One thing I will suggest is a death doula. Birth doulas
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by Balgair 2y ago
Oh no. No, death doulas aren't woo woo, at least the ones I've used. They're more : Here's a the best brand of diapers, here' how to move a 200lbs man about in a bed to clean him, here's good local grief suppor
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by Balgair 2y ago
Bit warmer there though?
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by Balgair 2y ago
I'm so sorry to hear about what you are going through. one small piece of advice from someone who had to do something similar with close family: Look into death doulas. Though your FiL is not dying, these people have a lot of resources
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by Balgair 2y ago
Yeah, I mean, it's not going be a one size fits all solution here though. Some people get really finicky with titles. And with about 2.3 million employees, simple rules aren't going to work, there's too may execptions. Just w
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by Balgair 2y ago
One I've heard a lot from boomers is: "Mr. Doe is my father. Call me John" And yes, even the 70 year olds still do this around me, and yes, I find it really weird too.
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by Balgair 2y ago
I've been listening to Michael Lewis' (of Moneyball fame) latest podcast series about the sports gambling legalization. I'm struck by how the groups of young men, and gamblers, and vapers, and crypto bros are all a venn diagr
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by Balgair 2y ago
I mean, the playbook here is pretty well used: Create an emergency that wasn't there (cut all the fed aid and grants, muck up the government, etc) Make a solution that will fix it (the soon to be tax bill, also the secretary positions
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by Balgair 2y ago
> Labels matter. Even a few words helped me know when-and-where something happened: “1955 Nova Scotia” or my grandfather’s name. One of the saddest experiences was looking at a family-gathering photo from the 50s with several people in i
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by Balgair 2y ago
Essentially, Deepseek is showing that there is a lot of room for improvement with AIs. To paraphrase Orwell, AIs are a lot more like Alarm Clocks and a lot less like Manhattan Projects.
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by Balgair 2y ago
I think what this all is showing is that language itself is the key invention at making some thing reason. The next step is to get it working with math symbols (I'd think they'd have already done that). Then it's to combin
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by Balgair 2y ago
So, the Iliad ... ?
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by Balgair 2y ago
> (I mean "nobody" in the sense of "nobody likes Nickelback". ie, not literally nobody.) Reminds me of the old Yogi Berra quote: Nobody goes there anymore, its too crowded.
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by Balgair 2y ago
I don't know if this is a troll, but in case it isn't: Buddy, listen to your doctors. At least, please, go talk to another MD about your blood work and see if they recommend other methods. You don't have to listen to just one

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