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by mapt 2mo ago
This is a problem generally with food aid, but in Gaza specifically there is abundant charity involved. All of the problems stem from the Israeli government telling trucks and ships holding that food aid that they will be shot at if they c
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by mapt 2mo ago
"Local warlord seizes food relief intended for starving residents" "Local government distributes food relief to starving residents" They're the same picture, it's just a judgement call on whether you see them a
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by mapt 2mo ago
Your favorite anti-AI political candidate turns out to have not written their thesis, with a 73% confidence level.
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by mapt 2mo ago
In the US, we have a massive grainfed meat livestock sector that in an emergency could basically all be slaughtered in favor of feeding the grain to people. But we also have recent history demonstrating that this will not be allowed to happ
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by mapt 2mo ago
Some of these places don't get very cold, others rely on coats, others south facing window solar gain. Very old buildings are common. I'm not claiming all of Europe is uninsulated, just a large enough portion to render heatwave
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by mapt 2mo ago
I will say this - air conditioning costs to establish room temperature are inversely proportional to the degree the building is insulated. If your whole country is comprised of uninsulated or barely insulated housing stock, you have a MUCH
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by mapt 2mo ago
A difference of a sufficient degree becomes a difference in kind, because whatever the internal justifications, the external implications of the system for society change drastically.
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by mapt 2mo ago
Personalization came along in MMOs around the same time, and it was hard to communicate the difference to people between a persistent MMO zone as a "place" where people and things exist, even if those things are inappropriate for
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by mapt 2mo ago
They are paying for early access to Trump's posts. The first post they received after this system was turned on, was Trump literally posting "GREEN CANDLES. BEAUTIFUL GREEN CANDLES!!!" This is an informal stock market term f
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by mapt 2mo ago
A video has been going around pointing out one of the consequences of the Strait of Hormuz closure. Over the past few years, China has quietly purchased more than a billion barrels of oil from Russia and Iran at a discount in CNY rather tha
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by mapt 2mo ago
If a civil engineer made a negligent mistake that bad which "made it to production", rather than being caught before the structure collapsed, he would spend a decade in prison for negligent homicide. https://www.constru
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by mapt 2mo ago
The institutional media departments, journalists, and headline writers add back in the insinuated causation and effect size as a routine matter. That way we can't find fault with the researchers for their clickbait study.
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by mapt 2mo ago
Preservation rather than ingesting them into the gaping maw of an Intelligence Engine that preserves the soul of the book in crystalized neural network form? That would be a copyright violation.
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by mapt 2mo ago
People who get carjacked often enough to have an informed opinion about countermeasures don't exist in real life. Instead, refugees exist, and people trying to make first-principles opinions about carjacking-in-theory exist.
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by mapt 2mo ago
What law? The US code? Does that matter anymore? Congress has made their ruling, now let them enforce it.
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by mapt 2mo ago
Will Mexico be paying for us to destroy this national park? If not, why not?
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by mapt 2mo ago
Why yes, I also believe this action was solely a result of one administrator's low intelligence, and not any kind of concerted campaign to take over my country through media channels. Such a campaign is literally unthinkable to me, de
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by mapt 2mo ago
You mean Google Wave? Or Google Metaverse?
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by mapt 2mo ago
This was joking about GP, if that was not clear. A society simply cannot function with the cartoon levels of crime seen in Batman or Grand Theft Auto; People leave for abroad. Planning what you should do after you're kidnapped is a f
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by mapt 2mo ago
> sign-balanced to a hundredth of a point with no constraint asking for it." This isn't their model, this is (probably?) ChatGPT doing a brag / promo deck authorial voice. It routinely uses half a dozen sentence construct
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by mapt 2mo ago
The rest of the world is chasing models of investment in procurement of goods and services that get stuck on neoliberal capitalist antipatterns where every action demands a short-term profit motive. These are now very large-scale, highly-c
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by mapt 2mo ago
As one does. Why, six of the eleven times I've had my car stolen, it was a carjacking with myself or my family member in it.
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by mapt 3mo ago
Smart TVs replaced dumb TVs not out of consumer demand, but out of subsidy from commercial databrokers and streaming services. Despite adding $100 of hardware they were priced $100 cheaper.
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by mapt 3mo ago
The Chinese models keep American financial markets at "To the Moon" levels rather than "Igniting Jupiter as a binary star" levels. This amount of capital pressure exerts its own gravitational pull in markets and in geop
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by mapt 3mo ago
Regulations are a bit different, not just on what counts as rest, but on physical format. The normal US front-engine is rare in Europe. The US extended sleeper generally doesn't exist in Europe The European compact cabover generally do
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by mapt 3mo ago
So build them stops.
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by mapt 3mo ago
Skeptic here. Many of them probably are. Individual EMF concerns are often debunked. It is possible but unlikely that all of them are categorically complete nonsense. But let's put them aside for a moment. There are real, known cons
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by mapt 3mo ago
A year of plugging it in once or twice a day to recharge it, and it blew. Old rectangular USB-A was only rated for 1500 ideal insertions. USB-C is a big improvement at 10,000 ideal insertions. Most insertions are not ideal, and it is rela
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by mapt 3mo ago
"Feel free to create your own university where you have the funding for petri dishes. In the meantime, I'm going to publish without them, because I feel like this tissue culture I'm growing on my lunch is statistically signi
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by mapt 3mo ago
My phone's USB-C port is worn out, and so now it's a brick if I don't have a wireless charging dock around. Is it physically impossible to get bandwidth and power out of something as durable as a Magsafe connector, even a lar

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