cal_dent

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by cal_dent 9mo ago
We’re just 3 weeks into Jan and we’ve already had Venezuela, Iran and now Greenland crisis……
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
i think they'll be lots of kids out there banking on inheritance who will find themselves surprised by how much aged and end of life care cost soon
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
>If all their countrymen were equally down on their luck, then there would be no rage. Instead, it's the result of one group of people that used to enjoy success watching it all fall apart while different people just do better and b
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
What i find fascinating is that, if we hold that Trump being elected twice was because of frustration and rage against society, this is the way they are now when the US is literally the most dominant country in the world. Can you imagine th
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
One of those speeches that makes you feel like you're living in history^TM
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
Yeah for sure. "Just luck" is a bit too glib from me. Noticed a typo in my original post; my last point is about how different things are when you do have a job vs you don't have a job. Money, not even a lot but enough to sto
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
the independent is a shadow of its former self (which wasnt that great to begin with). Its just content & clickbait farming now
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
FWIW one of the things about advice on job hunting (and a lot of other things in life tbh) is that no one ever seems to acknowledge that, more often than we like to think, it's just luck. Yes reaching out to your network is good, putti
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
Throw into the mix inherent mimetic desire and where we are in society makes sense. There's a need for a more that frankly can't be satisfied and hard to see how we turn back from that without a structural rejig
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
Exactly. People spend less time thinking about the underlying structure at play here. Scratch enough at the surface and the problem is always the ads model of internet. Until that is broken or is economically pointless the existing problem
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
This is the view I mostly subscribe to too. That coupled with more sites going somewhere closer to the something awful forum model whereby there is a relatively arbitrary upfront free that sort of helps with curating a community and added f
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
Ahh we’re getting there! If it’s more coconuty you need then I’d suggest seeing if you can get coconut cream where you are. Usually comes in a tin but sometimes carton. Make sure it’s 100% coconut. Then you can experiment with adding a doll
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
This is really interesting as it more or less sounds like the recipe for Jamaican "rice and peas" which is delicious and very easy to make. This recipe (minus the bacon, which has no place in rice and peas imo) is a solid easy ent
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
Sure but my point isn't that ChatGPT will be dominant, it has already changed the world. Even if Openai fell over tomorrow, that doesnt change that it was the step change from a public consciousness in the potential of LLMs. And LLMs a
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
LLMs are able to do human-level work. I think surely now that is unquestionable? They can't do all human-level work, in the same way that not all humans can do all human-level work, but a lot of criticism implicitly benchmarks it again
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
Ladies and gentlemen......the internet.
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
Related question, why has there been a sudden rise of everything needing to be labelled as having "x amount of protein" now? It seems like the last 12-18 months it really creeped into all supermarket labelling
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
I'd say this is true of almost all corporate conferences
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
I suspect there is more propaganda warfare (online) between ideological different countries everyday than we think. Spend enough time online and you'd think Ukraine is populated by not so undercover Nazis, everyone wakes up stabbing ea
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
I'm pretty certain it will be. It's a society thing. Much in the same way you have "artisan" items or "organic" food, a similar thing seems like an obvious development of ai in society. Very easy to apply a val
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
Exactly. One defining thing about the current administration is the view that Main Street matters, not Wall Street. Whether their actions match is one thing (it doesnt always when the market throws a wobble) but the surface level optics of
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
especially as if the risk premium for the US increases because of the methods used to challenge Fed independence, the rates that truly matter, treasury yields, will increase causing limiting how much consumers can actually benefit from lowe
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
For me, the key lies in the "We know they lie. They know we know they lie.". I'd argue that the transparency of lies is a fairly immature theme, relative to the long arc of history. Probably post-Iraq WMD is where I think it
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
One thing I think is sometimes forgotten about shifting the overton window is that it sort of doesnt matter what political leaning has their hands on the lever. When it serves a purpose, which is not always a public first purpose, people in
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Mafioso politics
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
The US drift into Adam Curtis' broad thesis in hypernormalisation(a) continues apace I see. Great to see J Pow putting up a fight but I fear this is all going one way. (a) >We live in a world where the powerful deceive us. We know t
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
More so about this thread than the post, but I think it's a shame that so many immediately go to the edge cases of safety concerns (parricularly for women) or strangers with difficult mental illnesses. I don't want to belittle or
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
Ahhhhhh I love this and love that you referenced This Is Water something I've held dear to me as my default perception of life. There's so much to the world which we can access on our very doorstep, we just need to open up to it.
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This is a wider concern. And partly the issue where economies have become very reliant on monetary policy being the controlling mechanism rather than a better mix of monetary and fiscal policy. The fear now comes in the rock and a hard plac
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
I'm not American or live in the US, and haven't visited since before covid, but those who are or have been, can you give someone looking in some insight? Does it all just feel so much more explicitly like a state sponsored grift d

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