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by atmavatar 1mo ago
That's almost like disbanding the CDC's pandemic response team mere months before a once in a lifetime global pandemic. And then he was re-elected. Unfortunately, it would seem that stupid, unnecessary, self-own changes are not a
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by atmavatar 1mo ago
Maybe grandparent meant fruit salad.
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by atmavatar 2mo ago
I'm not so sure about that. See: https://www.independent.org/article/2026/01/14/flock-condor-... However, what Jordan found was a free-for-all, with less security than even what a standard Net
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by atmavatar 2mo ago
That's a tough ask of a court where half its members (including the chief justice) were caught not only accepting lavish gifts from wealthy individuals who brought cases before the court, but where the outrage was that the gifts were m
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by atmavatar 2mo ago
Because they're sabotaging the country from within. In this case, they're alienating (former?) allies.
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by atmavatar 2mo ago
In the US, you're at least as likely to have half the population vote that anyone who cannot find a job should be exterminated, despite a large proportion of those voting for it being the very people most likely to become jobless, beca
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by atmavatar 2mo ago
> Collectively, people born in rich countries between 1930 and 1980 could have done something. In the US, I would narrow that a bit and place the blame squarely on the boomer (or "me") generation. Slightly less than a majority
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by atmavatar 2mo ago
It's not quite that simple. Most people who reduce/eliminate meat consumption are going to substitute something else rather than eat less, and what they substitute may be just as water intensive as the meat they replace. For ex
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by atmavatar 2mo ago
Alas, we do, because in the case of water, basic economics are stymied by pre-existing water-rights laws that are batshit insane. As such, we need legislative action to (at minimum) clean up that mess.
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by atmavatar 2mo ago
Ukraine has been fighting for its right to continue existing for several years against an aggressor (i.e., Russia), who, from day one, attacked their civilians and civilian infrastructure. Russia shows no signs of giving up after all this
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by atmavatar 2mo ago
> Corporations cannot vote, etc. That is no longer universally true: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/delaware-court-upho...
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by atmavatar 2mo ago
I was under the impression that one of the key reasons for corporate personhood was explicitly to shield the owner from civil and criminal accountability. Granted, in extreme cases, there are still ways to pierce the corporate veil and impr
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by atmavatar 2mo ago
Sabotage as a Service Even a feeble attempt to PR malicious code costs the target time and resources to review and deny -- far greater than the time and resources spent to spin up the agent.
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by atmavatar 2mo ago
I'm willing to give his base some benefit of the doubt, given how heavily propagandized they are via Fox News, OAN, Newsmax, Sinclair Broadcast Group, etc. On the campaign trail, Trump disavowed any connection to Project 2025 when it w
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by atmavatar 2mo ago
Much of the self-destruction flowed from the pages of Project 2025. You can't just blame Trump: you have to include the Heritage Foundation and the entire Republican party. This is not a problem that goes away when Trump ultimately le
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by atmavatar 2mo ago
I suspect many more have realized that unless they live in one of a half dozen or so states, their vote for Presidential (or even Senate) candidates is unlikely to affect the outcome. For example, the state I live in (Kansas) has chosen the
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by atmavatar 2mo ago
I'm in the midwest, and 1lb 73/27 ground beef rolls are $6.44. Even 80/20 rolls don't drop below $7 unless on sale. If I want to get $5/lb ground beef, I have to stick to 73/27 rolls, and they have to be 5lb o
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by atmavatar 2mo ago
Unfortunately, it will take a lot more than that. One of the bigger issues facing us is that you have the billionaire-owned right-wing media telling the lower classes to hate one another, and you have the billionaire-owned "left-wing&q
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by atmavatar 2mo ago
"Over 1,200 vendors had access to our information through the Flock system," Steinmetz said, adding he did not know the identities of all those entities. Even if for some strange reason you're OK with the police hav
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by atmavatar 2mo ago
I believe the point is that doing supply drops with C130s and C17s is vastly more efficient than any hackjob you could do with F35s, both in terms of throughput and cost. With that in mind, if you were to say the US should spend more on c
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by atmavatar 2mo ago
A simple first step to me would be to update the DMCA so that platforms using engagement-maximizing algorithms lose their section 230 protections. If you're targeting individuals with specific content algorithmically, you're hardl
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by atmavatar 2mo ago
Data centers also enable the NSA to store the metadata and contents of every phone call you make and police to (without a warrant) to track anyone who's walked in front of your doorbell or many street corners in your city. They also s
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by atmavatar 2mo ago
To be fair, my experience has been exclusively with hospitals running a specific EMR with a relatively new-ish (at the time) and difficult to configure billing system. Still, we were expecting to see shortfalls nearly an order of magnitude
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by atmavatar 2mo ago
I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member. - Groucho Marx
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by atmavatar 2mo ago
> Hospitals have an operating margin of 2-5% I'm curious where you got this figure, because it doesn't track with my own experience. I used to work for a place that worked closely with hospital clients (and prospective clients)
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by atmavatar 2mo ago
A big part of his draw is that there are a lot of truly reprehensible people out there, and Trump gives his base permission to say and act out their worst instincts. For example, before Trump, it was slowly becoming increasingly unacceptabl
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by atmavatar 2mo ago
What's really fun are the places (typically upper-scale restaurants) which automatically include a tip, and then still add a space for custom tips, hoping you won't notice that there's already a line item for a 15/18&#x2
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by atmavatar 2mo ago
A confounding factor is you don't generally know whether a server gets the tip. Many places create a pool of tips that gets distributed across the wait staff and sometimes even the rest of the staff.
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by atmavatar 2mo ago
Originally, yes. But Trump campaigned on eliminating taxes on tips, and that was part of the BBB. Workers are now allowed to deduct up to $25k of their tipped income from their federal income tax, though they still have to pay into Social
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by atmavatar 2mo ago
More recently, there's also United States v. Chatrie, which was a 6-3 decision that searching Google's location history data is covered by the Fourth Amendment See: https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-app

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