olivermarks

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by olivermarks 3y ago
I drink ridiculous amounts of English Breakfast tea with 1% milk every day. The water HAS to be boiling when it hits the tea. You cn really tell the difference if the water is less than boiling. Same but more subtle with green tea imo
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by olivermarks 3y ago
The Guardian will never let a good divide and rule story pass by. As someone said recently they more and more seem to see themselves as our self appointed 'guardian' nannies
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by olivermarks 3y ago
IHSS insurance institute for highway safety are a credible organization but I agree it is a surprisingly small sample size and analysis. Urban, suburban and rural cycling also have very different risk factors. Regarding vehicle size, driver
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by olivermarks 3y ago
Not in the circles I move in.Sounds like paranoia to me...
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by olivermarks 4y ago
Sounds like Biden, career politician! (Although admittedly Biden enabled the vast US credit card usury industry out of Delaware with the private banking sector) https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/11/bid
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by olivermarks 4y ago
I categorize 'the left' as either anarchist/progressives with no practical experience in running anything, the petit bourgeois woke leftist trend fashionistas but with lamentably few actual working class (in some case histori
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by olivermarks 4y ago
My take was that Macron was seen as a very unpopular globalist selling out the French people, do you feel this is accurate @srge? As is the case in many places, particularly the USA (where I currently am) the whole left/right party te
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by olivermarks 4y ago
My comment wasn't directed at @benburton, I was just pointing out amongst all the warm memories of a very decent human being that San Francisco is becoming increasingly lawless. I was badly beaten and robbed 12 years ago in the early h
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by olivermarks 4y ago
Most murders are for a reason, not 'senseless'. THIS NEEDS TO STOP. 'Surveillance footage reviewed by The Standard appears to show Bob Lee, a 43-year-old former top executive at Square, walking on the sidewalk up Main Street
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by olivermarks 4y ago
I had a young relative I chased around to try and get clean for years before he OD'd on opioids in a bay area Air BnB with his girlfriend. He would order laminated 'diving certificates' with drugs encased in them by mail, and
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by olivermarks 4y ago
Bizarre thread. The Sinaloa and Jalisco cartels run China origin fentanyl in California. It is an enormous, industrial scale operation.
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by olivermarks 4y ago
Meanwhile 'TikTok Ban Bill Is PATRIOT ACT 2.0 Trojan Horse | Counter Points' is 2nd most discussed topic on Hacker News right now. https://youtu.be/FWQGA_n5Z4M
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A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century(tabletmag.com)
3 points by olivermarks 4y ago|2 comments
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by olivermarks 4y ago
'As researchers pointed out when GPT-3 was released, much of its training data was drawn from Internet forums, where the voices of women, people of color, and older folks are underrepresented, leading to implicit biases in its output&#
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by olivermarks 4y ago
Some of the film production money laundering rumors I've heard about make the fabulous Mel Brooks film 'the producers' look run of the mill..
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by olivermarks 4y ago
Surely not 'chatGPT' but AI & AGI? ChatGPT is ephemeral.
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by olivermarks 4y ago
Between fire risk, lack of environmental logic and sheer expense in multiple areas I can't wait for battery powered transportation to enter the trough of disillusionment and for realists to put some checks and balances in place. '
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by olivermarks 4y ago
Make sure you charge your ebike battery outside and/or in a steel ammunition box to mitigate fire risk . What's driving the battery fires with e-bikes and scooters? https://www.npr.org/2023/03/11/11
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Mobile home parks offer refuge from Cal housing squeeze. Who’s watching them?(calmatters.org)
3 points by olivermarks 4y ago|0 comments
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by olivermarks 4y ago
That's fair - the link is Abigale speaking at Google in 2017. There's a disclaimer as the first frames of the video but it's still up.
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by olivermarks 4y ago
Abagale would make a perfect US politician, major league bullshitter who sticks to his stories for gain. https://youtu.be/vsMydMDi3rI
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by olivermarks 4y ago
'Everything' isn't being called woke, just the virtue signaling, self congratulatory racialization of just about everything, emotion driven fashion trends and general 'compassionate' incompetence, inevitably resulti
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by olivermarks 4y ago
https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/the-silicon-valley-bank-... Silicon Valley Bank “Behested” $100,000 Gift To Newsom’s Nonprofit etc etc
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by olivermarks 4y ago
It was naive, lazy and dangerous of SVB to assume in a 10 year window nothing would change IMO
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by olivermarks 4y ago
From the link I posted: 'What this means going forward An unintended side effect of the Federal Reserve’s rate hikes is that many banks and institutions are holding an unfathomable amount of low-yield debt that is now worth far less th
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by olivermarks 4y ago
It was their unwise bet on ten year T bonds that got SVB into difficulties, a far larger societal economic issue than is being acknowledged. 'This decade’s learning: bonds aren’t a universally safe asset class.' ...the US federal
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by olivermarks 4y ago
A few libertarians are no match for the California supermajority and their pals, which of course includes the @FT... https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/the-silicon-valley-bank-...
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by olivermarks 4y ago
French Foreign Legion was a famous example of putting people in service instead of expensive prison time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_French_Foreign_...
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by olivermarks 4y ago
Couple of typing errors on my post earlier: flood was 1862 not 1892, and 4k died not 40k. I didn't mention that the 1860's also had 2 major earthquakes, a drought and wildfires.
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by olivermarks 4y ago
New towns and cities. Sprawl is last century thinking based on commuter xurbs etc. People should be able to chose to live in new 15 minute towns, historic metropolises or rurally.

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