ceejayoz

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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
> I mean, I don't agree with the assumption that he was simply irrational and chose this because he wasn't thinking straight. And I don't agree with the assertions that that's not a possibility .
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
That depends significantly on how wonky it is. There's a big spectrum between "just knowingly a dick" and "deeply delusional".
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
This happens with (theoretically) non-profit insurers, too. Like the BCBS networks.
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
> I asked Google Gemini… Why?
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
> I feel like ascribing it to "wonky brain chemistry" serves to erase agency. Wonky brain chemistry can erase agency. (As can an empty bank account from an insurance denial!)
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
No, selfish would be more like knowing it, being of reasonably sound mind, and doing it anyways. Being convinced of something by wonky brain chemistry isn't necessarily a personal failing.
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
Anyone who's passed high school history should be able to name a hundred dead people. Kings, Popes, Hitlers, Caesars.
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
No.
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
> I would be a lot less impressed if I found out the session was guided by an expert in the field who already had a good idea of where to look. Why? The conjecture stood for over a hundred years. Plenty of such experts have tried. "
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
The #2 headline on nytimes.com literally right now is "Pentagon Identifies Two U.S. Troops Killed in Jordan". (Same slot for nbcnews.com; https://www.bbc.com/news/us-canada currently has "US soldier kill
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
Food photography is regulated; they have to show the actual product being sold. They just pay a lot more attention to the presentation; pick the nicest bit of lettuce, the ripest tomato, place everything with care. Stuff you aren't s
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
https://comptroller.nyc.gov/services/for-the-public/nyc-agen... > The New York City government employs a workforce of more than 280,000 full-time employees. You know, I think they'll find a few.
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
It's been like this for months.
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
Updated now to say it's an oops.
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
https://status.claude.com/ says it's an oops.
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
Eh, Capital One has long been surprisingly progressive on open source and whatnot. They were one of the first to properly adopt OAuth to connect accounts, too, back when Plaid/Mint/etc. were mostly proxying logins. https:/&#
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Truth Social to sell Wall Street firms the 'fastest' access to Trump's posts(nbcnews.com)
12 points by ceejayoz 3mo ago|1 comments
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
> If you could find meaningful examples of USAID doing such, you would have shared them. Thus it's safe to conclude that cannot find such, and so are now here trying to claim that nonsense is pertinent when you know it is not. That&
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
Someone's always gonna be first, but that's not gonna be a difference for long.
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
> The Taliban are attempting to develop armed drones. I think it's safe to assume that every militant group with more than one or two members is doing so.
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Iran asked Yemen's Houthi movement to stand ready to close the Red Sea oil route(bsky.app)
4 points by ceejayoz 3mo ago|0 comments
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White House teleprompter operator made $100K+ betting on Trump's speeches(abcnews.com)
22 points by ceejayoz 3mo ago|1 comments
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
Both of those reasons boil down to Trump at the end, though.
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
> I think literally nobody knows where much, if not most, of USAID's money was going. Oh, bullshit. https://www.usaspending.gov/agency/agency-for-international-... / https://foreignassistance.go
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
Wrong Flash.
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
> And the whole point of discretionary spending is that it's money that could have been spent on society instead of e.g. setting up fake social media sites to try to cause chaos in another country. You think that's where most o
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
> "No Snowflake in an Avalanche Ever Feels Responsible" You're trying to prevent the avalanche with a hair dryer that isn't even aimed at the snow. > We have a massive SPENDING problem. Guess what we'll have i
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
Yeah, any subscription I can push through PayPal, I do so, because I can cancel it directly on their end. I don't need to go through a ten click justification process with the merchant.
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
> It's not, you're just being argumentative for no reason. Aww, twinsies! > It's very normal for someone to value a planet or other celestial body in terms of the value of the minerals or other resources on that body. I
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by ceejayoz 3mo ago
> Well not really. So you're wrong here yet again. I can do this, too, you know? "Nuh uh!" > What's the total value of all minerals and resources on Earth. That seems like an odd definition for Earth's value.

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