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by etchalon 8mo ago
I'm being snarky because your criticism of the tool, and its data sources, is a weird form of nut-picking. You're able to purchase groceries for your family, for your diet, in your locality, from your available stores, for less th
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by etchalon 8mo ago
I agree that the very term "averages" implies "an average".
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by etchalon 8mo ago
I don't perfectly weigh our groceries every week to hit the exact counts they recommend, no. But we stick to the essentials, utilize different stores for the lowest prices we can get, and don't purchase nonsense.
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by etchalon 8mo ago
My household food costs are about 20% more than what the calculator shows (and that's a very minimal budget) Behold, "averages" are not perfect.
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by etchalon 8mo ago
Norway has many wonderful things American voters are terrified of giving people less they use them.
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by etchalon 8mo ago
"Living wage" means the ability to live, not scrape by with the bare minimum possible.
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by etchalon 8mo ago
Yeah, it is terrifying there are people who think other people deserve to be killed just for existing and yet, behold, the world is what it is.
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by etchalon 8mo ago
Punching people who think you and your friends should be killed just for existing is a form of self-defense.
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by etchalon 8mo ago
Conservative speakers are so very sensitive to being called stupid.
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by etchalon 8mo ago
Everything is estimated. If you want to trust estimates and "best-guesses", neat.
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by etchalon 8mo ago
We have absolutely no way of gauging this until after SpaceX goes public.
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by etchalon 8mo ago
What this tells me - xAI is essentially a failure, though at what level I'm not sure.
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by etchalon 8mo ago
EVs were profitable. The loss of the incentive has meant vendors need to adjust their pricing. "Profitability" is a momentary property. You could make ICE cars unprofitable by charging less than they cost to make too.
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by etchalon 8mo ago
Well, they pivoted to saying they're going to make robots. Any day now.
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by etchalon 9mo ago
Maybe the federal government shouldn't be sending "pretty much just militarized citizens with lacking experience" into "stressful situations." Kooky idea, I know.
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by etchalon 9mo ago
Bigotry, mostly. It's usually bigotry.
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by etchalon 9mo ago
"The beatings will continue until morale improves."
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by etchalon 9mo ago
There is plenty of concern for victims of crime. That's why there are jails, and people in the jails.
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by etchalon 9mo ago
The state police are not "for" non-violent enforcement.
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by etchalon 9mo ago
A few of the things he says will happen, happen. Many of them happen late. Most of what he says will happen never happens, but people point to the few things that did happen, but were late, and say, "This too will happen."
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by etchalon 9mo ago
Nintendo shareholders seem to have a fundamentally different value set. I'd argue it's a better one.
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by etchalon 9mo ago
It's generally a-ok to insult anyone as long as the recipients are evil or not well-liked. Kinda comes with the being evil or not well-liked territory.
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by etchalon 9mo ago
Django manages to autogenerate migrations that work in the VAST majority of cases.
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by etchalon 9mo ago
This energy, every day, for every one.
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by etchalon 9mo ago
You should probably update your search tool.
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by etchalon 9mo ago
I've never thought someone should be fired based on a blog post but man, this comes real close.
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by etchalon 9mo ago
I think the point is we can afford massive machines for the TSA that are essentially paid for by the Federal Budget, and used by millions each day for free, but we can't do the same for MRI machines.
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by etchalon 9mo ago
Thanks for explanation. I had absolutely no awareness GPS jamming was a thing, let alone at scale.
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Wait what
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by etchalon 9mo ago
It absolutely weighed risks and benefits.

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