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poverty is not a moral failing that the poor inflict upon themselves


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incredible that someone can pitch a chat bot for students by saying it will fall in love with them and that isn’t immediate grounds for killing the project and cleaning house

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the video version of this
www.theonion.com/this-war-wil...

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oh hey you basically said that 15 mins later good call

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comparing venture capital and regulation to devs and hackers- once hackers get to use their exploits to extend their influence and control over the dev team, there is no "patching" the system, the fixes will never be allowed to happen. it's not so funny a metaphor, then

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cue the Elon reply “have you considered talking positively about anything else”

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no he’ll just use it to beg for reelection as if he doesn’t hold the very office right this minute and does nothing

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there is at least one YouTube channel that stole your writing called “disaster strike”

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didn’t he answer an abortion question with an immigration talking point?

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eh, you gotta know when to fold em

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this is what it looks like when you are so brainwashed in the machine of corporate America so much you think your house needs to operate with OKRs and offsites

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imagine how well Dems could do if they ran someone who didn’t shit their pants

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the sheer arrogance

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the infrastructure that keeps the system running is in fact part of whether the system works, even if it’s external to an individual car

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not just recharge time but you can trust that if the gps says a gas station is in a place, it will work or another one will be nearby, charging off the Tesla network is spotty af

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also the gasoline distribution network is solved but our generation and electric grid is not prepared to power a significant fraction of vehicles

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is that “95%” value actually data driven or did they just make it up for the headline

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but were the clubs compatible with my obscure sound card?

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bombing innocent children does not bring them back

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once again begging these clowns to read a book

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the kind of art that really screams “honored treasure here”

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and while some politicians are trying to ban masks 😒

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one of those scenes where the good guy is chasing the bad guy in a house of mirrors but it’s my boss trying to find the Zoom meeting with the real me so he can fire me

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what’s the 5% of things that actually happened, that’s the most shocking part

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the editorial discretion for what makes news vs not is also opinion

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people bred them to be pretty, most pidgeons are feral not wild

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Because their ancestors had 5 digits (through coincidence of history and no specific reason) and the genetics that control this form are either too dangerous to mutate or not advantageous enough to thrive and overtake. Some animals do get an advantage enough that the change thrives, see Pandas.

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why do people act like men and women are two different species it's just bizarre

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people really don’t like Ramsay’s heel character lol

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what is the actual material outcome though, he’s still running and could win again

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drilling is a bigger project than just venting steam

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isn’t 1.50 for a hotdog in the 80s a really bad deal?

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on average aren’t phev worse than a hybrid car because most people don’t plug them in consistently, and as soon as you are off electric range it’s just a less efficient hybrid

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I assume Olimar is there because he uses slave labor so we presume anarcho-capitalist

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solution: put a fake placebo gas engine in every car as a token to overcome range anxiety

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it’s not wrecking havoc, the model has no agency- people are, by using it to replace manual labor it can’t actually perform

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actually the idea of a state where all the Jewish people can go be separate that is made by seizing land from brown people is extremely congruent with white supremacy

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interesting to note the causality is reversed; first came animals’ fear of bees and wasps then came flies that were selected for their likeness

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yeah, everyone needs a union

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and that’s the exact vibe these articles give

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human says something strange: cite your sources ai says something strange: omg so true

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it’s simple to convey: nature can’t see genes.

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I caught myself replying to tickets at work the other day using what I'd call Clippy voice

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Tesla releases its own self reported autopilot safety stats that basically claim it’s a magnitude safer than other cars. Why then does insuring a Tesla cost so much more? Simply: Teslas self reported numbers are marketing, not real

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I’m sure laying off the entire department responsible for the most beloved service will win shareholder favor as well

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so it went down like we thought... this is such a basic like wannabe tough guy leadership style, and it's been proven time and time and time again to be a terrible strategy

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they're just out here pumping the stock, now they can claim to be an ai company in the q2 reports

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the heavier the vehicle the less regulations there are, but anyone can buy and drive one without special requirements... insane

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