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I greatly enjoyed the most recent Maintenance Phase episode about sugar which goes into the confusing and contradictory evidence about glycemic responses to different kinds of sugar. That being said you couldn't catch me drinking a smoothie. [more]
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There were a few years there that were possibly the best time ever to be a movie buff, and that was in the early 2000s before netflix launched its streaming service. You could get *any* movie. You would hear about a movie, read about it in an essay… [more]
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I don't have experience with it but everyonce in a while I toy with signing up with Moonlight which seems to offer much better rates than upwork type sites. [more]
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> Don't most politicians' and businesspersons' ISPs already have that info? "Incognito mode" isn't what most folks think it is. I mean all they can know is that you went to a porn-hosting domain. SSL covers the URL in the GET request,… [more]
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Funny, all I think will happen when I order a whiskey neat is I'll get heart burn. [more]
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people (not here) are reacting to this like it’s pope benedict retiring all over again. i love playing and even used to passionately study chess, but it’s just a game, and carlsen would no longer be the champion at some point no matter what. if age… [more]
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Yet Anders Breivik can cold-blooded gun down 69 teenagers in Norway and get 21 years. The difference is pretty stark and should give you some pause. After generations of the crudest sort of pervasive propaganda, I think the average jury of US… [more]
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At least in the near future, I don't see your sort of role, which has to do with verification and due diligence, being completely replaced by AIs. Even where AIs start doing some of the work, they're currently unreliable enough when it comes to… [more]
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People can use this technology to learn just about anything, not if they can’t trust it. it’s explanation of german grammar is correct but it confects imaginary truths often enough that i can’t use it for anything i’m not already familiar… [more]
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The fun thing about chatgpt is it literally never says it can't answer something. I went to Wikipedia's list of unsolved problems in math and physics and asked ChatGPT about a few of them. It gave me a positive and allegedly definitive solution for… [more]
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a good inspector is very important. don’t be afraid to read everything you can about common problems with houses and ask the inspector about them during the inspection. also, once an offer is accepted, don’t let the sellers make you feel pressured or… [more]
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> The piece about the dating algorithms was interesting in theory, but the author began the piece by making fun of a date's height. It felt meanspirited and ruined the piece for me. I don't want to derail the whole thing to be about that dating… [more]
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it's wild how federal and local gov'ts have just stopped covid 19 messaging, or doing much of anything special and it's now just another disease. Close to 2000 people are still dying of it every week, and I don't even know if there's going to be… [more]
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Get that Heinlein the hell out of here. Don't want to see it, don't want to suffer through reading it again. Bad books! Bad! I guess they were important or something? But they're the worst of sci-fi. [more]
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Browser fingerprinting is pretty effective at narrowing down to a specific user even without tracking cookies. If you want to avoid having your public persona connected to your naughty self, using a separate browser entirely is a decent… [more]
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i find that delta 8 edibles, which are legal in a lot of the us at the moment, do not make me anxious the way normal cannabis does and are very effective at helping me get to sleep. [more]
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> There's a reason that most fortunes don't last past a third generation you hear this a lot but i don't know how true it is. The wealthy in florence in the 15th century are still rich, for example. In fact class mobility, up or down, is pretty… [more]
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Current theory is that Mark's wife was braindead but they can revive her with severance (maybe she donated her body to science). When she's not severed she's in a coma [more]
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> I'm curious how people get access to ChatGPT4? if you pony up the $20/mo for ChatGPT+ you get access to GPT4, although I think it fallsback to GPT3 under heavy load since version 4 is more computationally intensive. [more]
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how long before AIs are brought in as expert witnesses in court. the horror. [more]
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> Republicans have every right to panic that Dobbs might usher in a new era of Democratic dominance in critical swing states. Dobbs may end up being a kind of pyrrhic victory for the conservatives. Swing states are turning against them because… [more]
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The referendums are advisory only, and don’t have any legal consequences. Wisconsin doesn’t have binding referendums. the cash bail and victims "rights" referendums were *absolutely* state binding referendums that changed the… [more]
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> TRUMP 2024: PARDON ME? "pardon me?" feels like a running joke they would have on Arrested Development if they wrote in a timeline where the Bluths make it to the white house. [more]
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so amazing that trump has managed to be the most entertaining news story without fail since 2015. this is the funniest thing that could have happened. imagine how insanely he's losing his shit at this very moment in mar a lago. just fuming… [more]
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> And yet, like his impeachment, I fear a conviction will not be forthcoming. How do you even field a jury for this case? The jury pool is inevitably poisoned. Really I was hoping they wouldn't indict because if he gets a not guilty verdict, i… [more]
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I had stopped playing video/computer games entirely from about 2003 to 2017 when my wife, inspired by I don't know what, bought me a switch + breath of the wild for christmas. I don't know if she was expecting the dam would break open and I'd end up… [more]
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> So what is stopping people from forming strong unions and demanding pensions, I guess, if everyone acknowledges this? Having worked to form a union and won the election: 100 years of antiunion propaganda, legislation and did i mention… [more]
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In AA they will say that you can replace the Higher Power with the Group of Drunks (GOD), there isn't as snazzy an equivalent line for Al Anon. But chances are very good you will still start the meeting with the Serenity prayer. There's no escaping… [more]
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verbally you said: "if you give me a w9 i'll sign it but only for the first two weeks", well those weeks passed and you weren't given the w9 to sign, you have no obligation to do so and they are not allowed to withhold your last paycheck… [more]
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this album is a lot more listenable than their first one (to me), but i came of age rocking venetian snares. Anyway I quite like the Gecs, they seem cool. I hope their next album is 1 million gecs. [more]
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the guy who decided retirement was time to both become a slumlord and study philosophy is a special kind of evil to me. funding the pursuit of otium and the understanding of truth, beauty and virtue by exploiting the poor is really something else. [more]
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> Hasn't it been shown that pretty much all forensic "science", even fingerprinting, is basically astrology, except for DNA analysis and even then only under certain conditions? Yep! Everything, basically, from arson detection to… [more]
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the wired piece is trying to be a little too hunter s thompson but i suspect i’d have a similar reaction to him. he’s a committed mormon so you can take for granted that he thinks i’m destined to burn (or whatever mormons thinks happens to sodomites),… [more]
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not gay. He’s just an odd person My grandma said the same thing about my uncle for years but we all knew better. [more]
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> (Zelda is the princess, but that’s not an answer to your question.) I dunno I think Zelda is the boy [more]
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what! it's the #1 place i go to ogle digital cameras i can't justify buying. but honestly it's one of those cornerstone websites that make the web good. what a shame. [more]
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last night i was out at a bar eating dinner and saw the chyrons scroll by that the international criminal court has issued a warrant for putins arrest and the first thought was well what about old painter of tub toes, mass murdering yankee George W… [more]
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I've had this printer for about 10 years and am only on my second toner cartridge so I can cosign this [more]
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More about game two scroll away scroll away: i’m excited about season 2 because i’m one of the apparently rare fans who thinks the second game has a much better and tighter narrative, and i loved all the changes they made for the first… [more]
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I knew nothing about the early origins of VB so this was pretty fascinating. I think it would have been great to continue it with a discussion of the bizarre longevity of one version of VB: VB6. VB6 was end of lifed in 2008, I think, but still runs… [more]
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i do firmly believe a martini should have gin and generally i think you should just put in a tiny bit of vermouth in the glass, swirl it around, then pour it out. you should smell but not taste the vermouth. if it has anything other than gin and dry… [more]
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And to add: absolutely incredible way to fill in the blanks in Jeevan's story. Just a beautiful yarn. [more]
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It has been a very long time since a TV show made me cry this much [more]
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IMO My Year of Dicks was robbed. I see someone at Slate agrees: "That Oscar Absolutely Should Have Gone to My Year of Dicks." Similarly Fire of Love was robbed. Navalny is a pretty bog standard doc, bordering on… [more]
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Moonlight is definitely the best movie to win best picture in a long time, and really unexpected (although less unexpected than Parasite, since I think it was the first foreign language film to win?). I do think something is happening to the academy… [more]
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ok now we’re back to classic oscars, an award for a performance in a movie specifically designed to get an oscar but that nobody has ever seen. all the awards for EEAAO and i was getting worried the academy had moved into the 21st century [more]
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So many of the movies on these lists are so hard (or even impossible basically) to see now, not available in streaming and not playing in a theater near you (I'm dying to see EO and might train it all the way to chicago just to see it at the Siskel… [more]
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also, no alice, sadly. the people demand more ruth wilson but they do not always get what they want [more]
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Combine this with going back to draconian migrant detention and Biden seems determined to make sure everyone disillusioned with politics can find new reasons to argue themselves into a "who cares, they're all the same" apathy Stay… [more]
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The Last of Us: Look for the Light
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