teachrdan

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by teachrdan 4mo ago
Fun fact: The version Normal Rockwell painted shows Rosie stepping on a copy of Mein Kampf. Good times! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:RosieTheRiveter.jpg
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by teachrdan 4mo ago
> It confirms your political priors while ironically making you feel smug about your scientific knowledge. You are making the same error. Other Republicans (if not Trump) indeed criticized government-funded research into the screwworm li
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by teachrdan 5mo ago
> "did you look at the PR I pushed yesterday, do you think this is something we can get into production soon?" ChatGPT, look at the status of the PR and compare it to the flow chart of how we merge into production. Check agains
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by teachrdan 5mo ago
Musk could spend 10 or even 100 billion on more down to Earth efforts without affecting his quality of life in the slightest. Instead he's promoting a self-serving idea, one that relies entirely on his own rocket-company infrastructure
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by teachrdan 5mo ago
Billionaires could trivially fund uncontroversial projects like planting trees or solar electrification, especially in the developing world, both of which would help stop global warming. But I'm not holding my breath waiting for Elon o
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by teachrdan 5mo ago
> I don't want to be liked by everyone. Why would you? Eh, this is a bit of a straw man, no? It's one thing to be liked by everyone. It's another for a (presumably) long time, close friend to say they can no longer respect
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by teachrdan 5mo ago
I am looking at your link and thinking I took crazy pills. The graph shows just under 23% in 1989, going up past 27% by 1996, then dipping a few years later only to go up to 29% a bit before 2008, then another dip and rise to almost 32% tod
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by teachrdan 5mo ago
> AI _properly_ integrated into education will be a huge improvement for students because it will enable each student to have personalized instruction and tutoring. This is a fine thing to wish for. But literally every AI company today w
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by teachrdan 5mo ago
> But how much would you like to bet that 90% of those students who were booing also used AI to do their homework for them quite often? So your take away would be "the AI stole their education". No, they were dishonest and the
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by teachrdan 5mo ago
Hey, I'm pretty sure the person you're replying to is being satirical, and you're both in alignment on this one.
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by teachrdan 5mo ago
I can tell you're upset, but it's hard to understand what you're arguing for with those last two points. > 1. Let's not pretend that young people... don't make their own terrible decisions too. Look at the divorc
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by teachrdan 6mo ago
With any luck, oil prices will rise enough to make that conversion worthwhile!
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by teachrdan 6mo ago
Interesting. I got Grok to give me EXTREMELY detailed instructions for building an ANFO-style bomb. It was impossible for me to find where to submit this bug (and instructions for reproducing it), and when I eventually got an email for a Gr
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by teachrdan 6mo ago
Fun fact: The crime of passing off inferior sweeteners as (higher-priced) honey is referred to as "honey laundering". https://kinghavenfarms.com/blogs/from-the-hive/the-sticky-bu...
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by teachrdan 6mo ago
> I think that the odds are quite high that a 3 years old child will get hit by a cyclist You should see the odds of a child being hit by a car! Here in the US, about 6 children a day are hit and killed by a motor vehicle. And yet the nu
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by teachrdan 6mo ago
You are either very paranoid or very bad at math. The odds of a pedestrian getting killed by a cyclist are minuscule. The best data I could find making an apples-to-apples comparison showed that pedestrians are *160 times* more likely to be
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by teachrdan 6mo ago
Next project: putting a repeater on that ridge!
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by teachrdan 6mo ago
> You cannot take a single gesture and say that performing it is outright behaving like a Nazi with the implication that such a thing would only be done by a Nazi I am continuously surprised by how hard you work to rationalize away every
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by teachrdan 6mo ago
> the way we tackle that is with conversations, not violence I think the breakdown here is that conversation seems to have no power. To only be a bit hyperbolic, the only language with power is money -- or violence. To the extent that or
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by teachrdan 6mo ago
> Honestly, I think so many people were calling him a Nazi at the time that he just did it to fuel the trolls If your reaction to being called a Nazi is to behave like a Nazi, then perhaps you actually have Nazi sympathies. Honestly, tha
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by teachrdan 6mo ago
Here's some explicit promotion of white supremacy for you: Elon quote tweeting -- to over 43 million views, including many people who only saw it because Elon ordered the algorithm changed to promote his tweets! -- the following: &quot
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by teachrdan 6mo ago
I'm going to assume good faith on your part, and that you're ignorant of specific things Elon has said and done in support of white supremacy in general, and promoting antisemitism in particular. A quick Google produces a pretty g
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by teachrdan 6mo ago
Some cursory googling shows you have to make capital gains of between $185,000 and $250,000 to have to pay $37,000 in capital gains tax. This is between three and six times as much as someone in their 20s will earn in a year. I think you ne
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by teachrdan 6mo ago
I hate to be uncharitable but the comment seems to simply be parroting conservative talking points, rather than being an accurate (or sincere) representation of young people's pessimism about the future. > high housing costs which d
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by teachrdan 7mo ago
Someone on Twitter bragged about buying it for $54.20 a share.
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by teachrdan 7mo ago
It's not clear to me what your argument has to do with the license laundering service that Malus (Malice?) is offering. Their stealing from the digital commons does nothing to address paying Doctors and Plumbers and Electricians.
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by teachrdan 7mo ago
Any recommendations for art objects worth 3D printing at home? Bonus points if it would appeal to a grade schooler.
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by teachrdan 7mo ago
Global climate change will make much of the world barely habitable, and devastate crop yields. Those living outside "the West" will far and away be the most adversely affected. Reducing CO2 emissions is an urgent global priority.
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by teachrdan 7mo ago
But what's a pupper?
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by teachrdan 7mo ago
Is the Illinois one the same pronunciation as "KAY-ro", Georgia?

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