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Are the tolerances in education really that tight? How many terrible teachers are allowed to continue to teach after decades of disastrous results? How many ideologues with no interest in teaching, but every interest in indoctrinating young
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I know you're being silly, but there's an interesting observation there. Silvergate's failure doesn't affect BTC on paper, yet Bitcoin did go down. SVB's failure doesn't affect the USD on paper, yet the dollar
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> For example, Sweden’s National Board of Health and Welfare, which sets guidelines for care, determined earlier this year that the risks of puberty blockers and treatment with hormones “currently outweigh the possible benefits” for mino
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> depriving people of energe now is only a temporary inconvenience. Where do you live? I mean this rhetorically, because for a couple billion of people your definition of "minor inconvenience" is literally death. Ask a Canadian
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> Sometimes i want to know how much tfsa room i have on sunday evening Which you wouldn't want to check with the CRA either, because the information is often incomplete and updated annually at best. The CRA even advises that whateve
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The great news is that changing your gender is but one government form away in most of these countries. It's been done before: In Canada, to deal with the sexism of car insurance premiums for example: https://nationalpost.co
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> There's a reason why Harvard is happy to take people's money and give them an education in the Harvard Extension School, but why they firmly tell those people they can't call themselves Harvard graduates. Just wanted to
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The mind-boggling side for me is that the West is obsessed with Apple leaving China, but never bothers to check where all the EV manufacturers are. Even Tesla, without the Shanghai factory, would probably be doomed. If I had to put money o
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> When I was in Peru coca tea was available everywhere for literally pennies. Just for the sake of adding to this comparison: it takes 300 kilos of coca leaves to make 1 kilo of cocaine[1]. The coca leaf tea to cocaine analog, is somewh
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> Tesla plans New content for https://elonmusk.today
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Not sure about London, but I've always gotten a kick out of Neil Oliver's mail, which manages to arrive despite some of the oddest addresses: Without even a name: https://twitter.com/thecoastguy/status/16
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I'm actually very afraid of precisely that, because knowing the EU, they will want administrator access, to "combat misinformation and disinformation" and "monitor for extremism" of course. Nothing nefarious.
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Jokes on them, I'll call my AI product Full Self Thinking. It's $10,000 if you buy now, but we'll be raising prices to $15,000 by June. And yes, it will just be a worst version of the latest ChatGPT, but I'll hide it in
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A big problem was that Trump was into this theory early on: the Chinese virus, from Wuhan. Let's time travel back to May of 2020 for example: "Trump claims to have evidence coronavirus started in Chinese lab but offers no details
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I think the better example is that when you're young, the world hasn't sorted you into a bucket yet. Education, university, and your first jobs are largely that process: figuring out in which bucket you'll fit in society. Wh
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I found depression to be a two-edged sword in the aging department. Mentally, I felt older, "an old soul". But physically, not having the energy to do anything, sleeping almost in excess, not going outside, not laughing or smilin
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Ironically, I wonder if something like lettermail is now more secure. We do know that the exterior of every single piece of mail handled by the USPS is photographed, documented, and retrievable later[1]; but the content of the envelope seem
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The site is up, but apparently the entire planet stopped tweeting about 36 minutes ago because there haven't been any new tweets. Couple of days of this and the West might heal itself.
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> He's so young, and he already feels that society is hostile against him. This really shouldn't be surprising. It's incredibly tough when from the moment you enter the education stream, every single chip is stacked again
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Early on in the whole balloon situation, there was discussion about how - having seen the US response - the most logical course of action would be to launch 10 balloons. Then 100. Then 1000. By all means, let the US military shoot as many
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> If you don't own 51% of the company, you are disposable. If you own 51% of the company, not only are you disposable, but unlike any employee on earth, you can actually lose money by working. You can also work and make $0 for your
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> these bureaucrat's hearts are in the right place I disagree. While there are certainly some people with honestly good intentions in these departments, they are also lairs of Marxist-types that would gladly march others into death
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I was actually surprised there wasn't some energy-based laser that could be shot at it, even if from an aircraft, but I agree with your assessment. Which brings up an interesting question: would launching thousands of balloons at the U
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I would honestly love to see a poll of Mastodon users just to see if they understand that administrators can read everything in an instance, even direct messages between users. It's going to take a few scandals for this to sink in, b
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Sure, I'll take you on one of the crown jewels that "the Right-wing Trolls" use to discredit Fact Checkers. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hillary-clinton-smash-phon... Read it. The point of the claim
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> No one wanted that last part, no one wants that last part, and anyway "incorrect" according to who? On the bright side, it means ChatGPT will never replace humans. Catering to a Democrat fantasy that is ever more diverging f
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The really scary part is when the kill switch is in reference to your life rather than the car's movement. Like the theories about the death of Michael Hastings in 2013. Hacks of cars were demonstrated in 2015 and documents from the C
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> If you actually want to save the world then you need to do the science and engineering to make it happen. And that's where I think Thunberg does the most damage. She encourages hysteria and students to skip class for "the en
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I didn't realize this was considered a "new" solution. I always assumed that there would be no contact because we are utterly uninteresting. We probably lie well within the middle of the pack in every single way as far as sp
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Should my gamer heart flutter at the idea that this might be long good-term for Blizzard? NetEase seemed to have an extraordinary influence in making modern Blizzard as financially extractive as possible of its player base. And surely, the

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