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Everything You Need to Know About Black Cocoa Powder (2022)(saltandbaker.com)
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by thomassmith65 5mo ago
From the point of view of the American government, Cuba did do harm to America. Eg: https://thisdayofhistory.com/2025/08/05/august-6-1960-cuba-s... To many people, America accusing Cuba of theft is hypocrisy.
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by thomassmith65 5mo ago
Hooray! No more camera bump :)
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by thomassmith65 5mo ago
Anybody who remembers the last century knows that any Democrat left of Clinton would have resulted in a President Bob Dole. And at least the Clinton administration tried to give Americans Hillarycare.
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by thomassmith65 5mo ago
In the pre-internet era, when you heard a fantastic story, you couldn't just google it to see if it was true. Today is different, but people are worse informed. Every online place that an average person visits is a hotbed of fa
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Why Footbinding Persisted in China for a Millennium (2015)(smithsonianmag.com)
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by thomassmith65 6mo ago
For some reason, I always assumed the British narration was Major Calloway (Trevor Howard), but now that you quote it, I realize it can't be Calloway. Interesting! The narrator must be someone we never meet.
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by thomassmith65 6mo ago
Cheers. I don't bicker with random internet people.
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by thomassmith65 6mo ago
It's laughable to accuse Europeans of having an 'imperialist mindset' in relation to Ukraine. It's not they who now are gambling with a third World War, it was the Russians who gambled on it when they began seizing ter
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by thomassmith65 6mo ago
The American cut of the movie has an intro narrated by Joseph Cotton, who played Holly Martins. The wording might differ (since the movie is clearly Holly's first time in Vienna)
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by thomassmith65 6mo ago
Polack jokes, too. Very classy /s
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by thomassmith65 6mo ago
I posted this link partly because there is no better background music to code to than Steve Reich... though how many years remain before humans stop programming, I don't know.
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Steve Reich reshaped the boundaries of musical time (2025)(kolapse.com)
4 points by thomassmith65 6mo ago|2 comments
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by thomassmith65 6mo ago
Anthropic's recent post https://anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem seems at odds with this blog post. Am I misinterpreting it, or does it indeed say they configured Claude to do less 'thinking&#x27
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by thomassmith65 6mo ago
Fair enough. If the comments in question were still editable, I would be happy to replace 'gaslighting' with 'being a bit slippery' or something less controversial. No worries about 'sounding preachy' ; it
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by thomassmith65 6mo ago
I'd rather not speak too poorly of Anthropic, because - to the extent I can bring myself to like a tech company - I like Anthropic. That said, the copy uses "we never intentionally degrade our models" to mean something like
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by thomassmith65 6mo ago
And still are gaslighting: We take reports about degradation very seriously. We never intentionally degrade our models [...] On March 4, we changed Claude Code's default reasoning effort from high to medium Anthropic is the best
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Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard – Now Available (2009)(news.ycombinator.com)
3 points by thomassmith65 6mo ago|1 comments
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by thomassmith65 6mo ago
It pains me to criticize the UN, since they're the best the world has, but if the UN were more judicious on the conflict, it would help. Eg: https://independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/ban-kimoon-...
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by thomassmith65 6mo ago
today. I’m aware that Jews and Muslims live in Iran today That is true, in the sense that there are more than two jews left in Iran. 5x as many Iranian jews live in the USA now. 20x in Israel. Iran has a population of almost 100 mil
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"Epicaricacy" (2025)(thisbugslife.com)
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by thomassmith65 6mo ago
Happy for Hungary, the EU, the planet. The sooner the world falls out of love with populism and illiberalism, the better.
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by thomassmith65 6mo ago
Bad propaganda contains falsehoods. Good propaganda lies by omission. Great propaganda tells the truth, compellingly. Edit: on the other hand, great propaganda is probably wasted on time periods like ours. Great propaganda isn't always
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by thomassmith65 6mo ago
I was curious about the claim so I did a web search for "Roman depiction of birth" and this is the first result: https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/1200x627/18720.jpg The mother appears to
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by thomassmith65 6mo ago
That is worse. "The product is disgusting, but there's nothing I can do; I'm only the CEO"
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by thomassmith65 6mo ago
50 years ago, progressive Iranians, predominantly young and educated, made the mistake of collaborating with violent, theocratic rednecks. After they overthrew the Shah together, the rednecks took over. It's difficult to bring nuance i
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by thomassmith65 6mo ago
Even if "it's just their culture" were a compelling excuse for using children as soldiers, it's not the culture of the majority of Iranians, only a minority of religious extremists who oppress them.
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The story of Britain's oldest sweet, the Pontefract Cake (2019)(bbc.com)
12 points by thomassmith65 6mo ago|11 comments
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by thomassmith65 6mo ago
This comment in dripping with elitism. We trusted the rocket scientists and what did that get us? The Challenger disaster. /s
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by thomassmith65 7mo ago
That theory seems unhinged to me. Somebody is divorced from reality. Hopefully not me. There are rumors that the IRGC has started to recruit adolescents (again). I'd have an easier time believing that, but where the Middle East is conc

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