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Americans tend to live in a world that appeared suddenly, without warning or back story, somewhere between six months to two years ago.
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Kirk: "New tab! New tab! New Tab! New tab! New...."
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Doesn't this just boil down to "making things better for white people "in the middle", while not making things better for other people, & not making anyone better off"?
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It managed to tag the city where I have lived for 20 years as one of the least similar ones. I must sound really weird to people, or something.
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I wish my parents had had better sex, because I think that affects children's development. My mother asked my father if he had wound up the clock, and he was annoyed.
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Everyone draws a number, and has to simplify that chapter of Tristram Shandy!
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"AI generated art will finally put those people getting respect for making art in their place! Below me!"
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It doesn't hurt that for people who aren't paying close attention mostly just you saw the media pivoting from constant op eds saying "Biden is too old" to a a lot of op eds saying "Biden is too old."
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That simplication sounds completely hilarious, and trying to do this to books on the fly would probably be a great party game.
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"... or at least not those human minds."
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But you haven't Maximized Your Reading Potential yet. I, personally, have already read at four books today!
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When it comes to AI boosters it's pretty clear that the goal is to bring it down *below* their level, so that they are finally justified in their contempt for it.
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So, basically, judicial review?
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Is Hubert Humphrey still around?
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Daniel Dale sitting off to the side with a large gong.
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I was really hoping they would enter with fireworks and badass guitar riffs playing.
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The fentanyl machines "that roll over everything that comes across the border" is pure Judge Dredd style absurdity. All I can imagine is a giant steamroller crushing everything into powder and then sifting it to look for fentanyl.
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New internet mascot right here.
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At least the combination of the last two shows a path forward for people experiencing homelessness. I bet the congressional chambers during the legislative session are more comfy than sleeping outside, too.
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Someone who wasn't familiar before the fact probably saw an old person with a cold having a terrible debate against someone younger with more energy who couldn't answer questions. Biden did get better through the debate while Trump got worse, but from his starting point...
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Are they just going to make them stand there looking blankly ahead for the entirety of their "analysis"? That would be amazing.
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Biden just needs to step back and yield his time to Trump so he can babble even further off topic.
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Biden is numbering things so constantly that he's starting to sound like The Count.
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Just be patient, the way this debate is going it won't be that way soon enough.
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One of the first things I wondered when he started talking.
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They should evaluate them on the grounds of what they're told afterwards when they go to the Lying-To-You Room.
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At that level of commonality every non-Southern state between Pennsylvania and Nevada is in the Midwest.
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Drink whenever: 1. The debate is on. 2. The debate is no longer on.
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The 'microphones off when it's not your turn' rule could make this really funny. Biden just needs to jab him in the very beginning, then give a sensible boring answer while Trump stews in it, only to explode incoherently when asked to respond to the sensible bit.
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Wittgenstein (Wittgenstein, 1929)
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By making him sound smarter!?
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My understanding is that this is how blockchain worked as well, for a bunch of boring infrastructure projects worked, so maybe it is on balance a good thing?
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My dream is that he does this but tries to escape to Puerto Rico which, and this is true, does not have an extradition treaty with the United States.
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In fairness to the agents the ability to distinguish between something you know and something everyone knows really only shows up developmentally around the age of 3, and if you consider their general level of understanding and emotional self-regulation...
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Also there were already deworming pills available to people, but they were mostly only taking them when they were... infected. The Altruism! fad was just giving them out to all the children whether or not they did. (In at least one case without telling the parents, which nearly ended very badly.)
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There are phenomenally-wealthy people who will do this, but normal boring millionaires* don't have nearly the economic resources needed to make arranging this kind of thing worth it. *I KNOW. But.
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We need a tidy label for getting drunk enough on economics to believe obviously dumb things. High taxes pay for good things, and rich people are the ones who are least impacted by those taxes. Why would they flee the states that have the good things for ones that don't!
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The official slogan of employment law!
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And just because something was available there was no easy way to determine what it actually was! I remember going to Blockbuster and picking things because there was a nice picture of Peru on the box* or something, and hoping I wasn't burning money. *(it was Aguirre, I was Not Prepared.)
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In the US "no medical or specialized relevant knowledge and their morality is a gamble" is a pretty decent description of randomly selected judges, too.
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Without the third panel I would definitely believe this was from Sin City (if I hadn't read so much Calvin and Hobbes growing up).
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Court records in most places are also public - a decently funded private non-profit could probably spend a few days going through court filings and then put up a billboard with names and infractions.
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Easy enough just to pick out the biggest parking garages in the city, and then task a couple of officers to sit outside the entrance writing down the license plates of people going in.
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They're probably just rationally looking at how well they did and recognizing that it was entirely on merits, and even if they had to start over with a different pedigree or something they'd still be better than everyone else at whatever it is.
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I remember this exact progression of sentiments from when there was a graduate student union drive where I was studying.
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Regulatory agency rules, along with parking spaces, are one of the greatest places to see pure business-owner-brain running wild. Regulation is good for business!
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And to do so with special public comment periods for anyone who wants to to weigh in on it, which they do have to take seriously!
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The private sector version of "foreign policy is domestic policy". We talk about corporations having intentions, but really it's just people doing stuff for whatever reasons they personally happen to have.
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