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by mcphage 1y ago
Well, they’re hoping that all these companies just fold. Which, let’s face it, they might: companies aren’t at all known for bravery. Still, it probably would have been better for X to sue before Musk and Trump had their Very Public Break
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by mcphage 1y ago
I remember seeing my first drone show in 2016, and it was fairly rudimentary. But even still, it was awesome-inspiring and moving.
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by mcphage 1y ago
Yeah, that’s fair. I was including downstream, like not just the immediate pushers, but the tv stations, and politicians, and podcasters, that were repeating those claims. But you’re right, it wasn’t really a large group, it was a loud grou
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by mcphage 1y ago
> People became more anti-vax largely due to the prior administration more than RFKjr. People became more anti-vax because of the large contingent pushing anti-vax conspiracies to a credulous audience. The previous administration’s polic
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by mcphage 1y ago
> You know who I’m talking about. All of them?
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by mcphage 1y ago
> to protect the states from invasion What on earth do you think an “invasion” is?
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by mcphage 1y ago
Now do the kidnappers.
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by mcphage 1y ago
I’m planning to take my kids to Washington this summer to see the Smithsonian museums. It doesn’t seem like a great time to go to Washington, but I don’t know if they’ll be there, or in what state, next summer or the summer after.
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by mcphage 1y ago
This is good news. Scary, but very welcome.
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by mcphage 1y ago
A media channel mostly read by older people complaining that the youths are doing life wrong, regardless if it’s real or not, is also a story as old as time.
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by mcphage 1y ago
Yeah, I think it not happening on Android is probably evidence it won’t happen. Unless Meta et al have been waiting until they can do it on both major platforms.
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by mcphage 1y ago
Well, we’ve kinda already decided. I don’t trust Meta, and am happy with them having very strict limits on what they can access.
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by mcphage 1y ago
They certainly haven’t done a great job of it.
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by mcphage 1y ago
The worry (not sure it is merited) is that major app developers like Meta, Google, etc will start their own app stores, leading everyone to need to start downloading apps from outside Apple’s App Store.
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by mcphage 1y ago
Which software does support the universal standard?
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by mcphage 1y ago
> I feel like this is the sentiment I hear from most friends. [...] I’m confused who is buying all these switches Well, Mario Kart 8 sold about the same as the 5 Zelda titles for the Switch put together (BotW, TotK, Link's Awakening
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by mcphage 1y ago
> and wish they already would release X 2 Wouldn't that be Xenoblade Chronicles 2 & 3? Or are they too different? (I only played Xenoblade Chronicles 1, so I'm asking honestly)
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by mcphage 1y ago
> IMO they lost the plot on what made Zelda games interesting That's definitely an "IMO"—I've been playing Zelda games since the first, and Breath of the Wild revitalized my love for a series I was getting bored with.
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by mcphage 1y ago
Or Lego City: Undercover, which is also a really good game.
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by mcphage 1y ago
> we were always taught that fractions are the "real" representation of rational numbers There is no "real" representation of rational numbers, and fractions are no more real—or fake—than decimals. > And there simp
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by mcphage 1y ago
> their best known approximation had pi ≈ 25/8, which is too small I'm curious if they had a better one that we don't know of yet—their best known approximation of sqrt(2) is significantly more accurate.
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by mcphage 1y ago
> We don’t need the government to kickstart space exploration anymore. Oh, the government still funds space exploration. That’s still where most of the money comes from. It’s just, the government (and by extension, we the people) no l
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by mcphage 1y ago
> a certain one springs to mind Why hide behind weasel words? Say what you mean.
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by mcphage 1y ago
> Maybe they're just busy shipping code instead of proving stuff to you, which they stand nothing to gain from? Well, in this case they’re busy writing articles trying to convince us, instead of proving stuff to us.
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by mcphage 1y ago
That’s part of it, but that’s a pretty bad idea, no?
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by mcphage 1y ago
Right, and I don't really have anything interesting to say in that direction. I was more discussing that Waffle House claimed "This information is incorrect. We currently do not have a live website tracking restaurant closures&q
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by mcphage 1y ago
Well, I can think of at least one person, unfortunately.
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by mcphage 1y ago
> There is a difference between definitions of "small government" The traditional Republican definition of "small government" has been something like Norquist's: "I don't want to abolish government. I s
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by mcphage 1y ago
On one hand, yes, the author was using Waffle House's own data to populate the site. But on the other, Waffle House has no way of guaranteeing that remains the case, and they don't want their private APIs to be depended upon by
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by mcphage 1y ago
The article claims that wages started growing again in the mid-90s: https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_... I don't know enough economics to determine which graph is correct—yours or t

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