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They should have just called the magazine "Pact (With the Devil)." It's cleaner.
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They should have just called the magazine "Pact (With the Devil)." It's cleaner.
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I bet a week ago some of those same people were angrily declaring that calling for Biden to step down is ageist. It's the worst incarnation of modern liberalism, breathlessly bouncing from panicked response to panicked response.
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As a miserable reply guy, this is my Citizens United.
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How many chapters does Robert Caro devote to each one?
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Nah, it's the rare movie that asks Leo to play two kids in a trenchcoat failing to act like an adult, which is what he's best at.
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He also seems to have escaped the fame trap. Being a public intellectual can melt your brain, but he dropped off of social media and started writing comics at the perfect moment.
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No fraud prevention technique exists that doesn't also affect some legitimate use. And so governments are often even more conservative about what enforcement to put in place, for good reason.
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Except there are no such thing as technological issues that aren't societal. Fraud departments at private corporations all have to do the calculus of how many legit customers they are OK dropping via fraud enforcement. Except for them the only metric is profit. The government has a much higher bar.
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Ok, so then let's say you block all calls from Azerbaijan to the US, and the five people actually trying to talk to their family now can't. Anyway, many of the major centers of fraud are countries like the DR with huge immigrant populations in the US.
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No what I'm saying is that fraud is unsolvable. For many people all over the world it is a full time job to look for new loopholes and mechanisms to defraud people. Could the government do more? Almost certainly. But you have to constantly keep up.
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What about legit international calls?
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I've seen first hand what private companies do to fight spam, and they have a huge incentive to prevent the kind of fraud that leads to chargebacks. And let me tell you, they have not solved it. It's an uphill battle.
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I was talking to somebody who worked for the anti-fraud unit of a company and they said that their team noticed a weird seasonality to fraud. It took them a while to figure out that fraud goes way up from 9-5 in a few very specific time zones, and way down afterwards.
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I've heard that some employees of overseas call centers don't actually know if they are spammers or working for a real help desk. The processes are so similar.
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Not without stopping a lot of legitimate phone calls. The problem with fighting fraud is that people might hate spam but they hate legitimate calls being blocked way more. There is no magic solution. For many people, fraud is a full time job.
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Whenever I read about non-human animals that are vocal learners, I think about this Ted Chiang story: electricliterature.com/the-great-si...
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Yeah that's what filler means to me. And it usually is bad because the original creator had no input and it exists just to fill time. There are exceptions, like Goku learning to drive.
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My dog is so leash reactive that no dog can get close enough for that to happen. It's bark bark bark from a block away.
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Al Smith, rolling in his grave.
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I don't know. Maybe they fear death?
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HN moderation is dystopian. The more you learn, the bleaker it gets.
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There's just something about animation that is so much more visceral than comics (for obvious reasons). When it happened in Grant Morrison's run it was one thing, but this was brutal.
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The company founded by Peter Thiel? It couldn't be!
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Of course it's a Compact guy.
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Some raw milk advocates believe that lactose intolerance can be cured by drinking raw milk, and I think that just about sums up that movement. Though I would love to try pasteurized but unhomogenized milk. I'll just have to crush up 30 lactaids and mix them in.
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Sometimes I wonder if some of the same facets of the Reformation that led to the Enlightenment also led to Mormonism. Or maybe that's just tautologically true given the impact of the Reformation.
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The Reformation: A History by Diarmaid MacCulloch. I don't want to give you the wrong idea. The book is 900 pages long and covers 1490-1700, so America only shows up in the epilogue. He's a phenomenal writer, though. Would recommend.
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I read a book about the history of Protestantism that argued that America transformed all other religious traditions into forms of Protestantism.
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It's a great deal for Walters, because letting the school system atrophy kills two birds with one stone. He can gut public education AND he has plenty of free time to try and build a national political presence.
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Only because he looks vaguely like Anthony Bourdain.
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I believe it was Tom DeLonge who said, "work sucks (I know)."
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Also one of the best films about the psychology of baby boomers.
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Is there a Yeshayahu Leibowitz of Christianity? A religious thinker who believes that mixing religion and nationalism is idolatry?
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Have you read Spoiled by Anne Mendelson? Covers similar ground, but with a focus on the history of lactose tolerance. Amazing book.
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I mean, it was the very clear subtext of X-Men: First Class (the movie), but I guess because it wasn't explicit it flew under the radar.
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The most comics-ass scene in the whole trilogy, even more than the shots Nolan cribbed directly from Long Halloween for Dark Knight.
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Did you run your skeet through a shitty thesaurus?
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The liberal Jewish groups that argued that the end of Roe was a violation of their religious liberty were clever, as it's an argument easily rooted in traditional texts. But right wing Orthodox groups disagreed, because right wing Christianity has reshaped religion in America in its image.
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It's sort of the perfect midpoint between the 2D era and the 3D era. It's got more cinematic aims, but it's not too self-serious.
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Sucks that the only way to sneak video game content into the Times is if you have another beat, but good for Zachary Smalls that he gets to write shit like this and that profile of the creator of Katamari in between articles about Jeff Koons or whatever.
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I tried a mood stabilizer for the first time on a trip to Hawaii and it turned out great!
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Gesundheit!
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Like the Supreme Court, it's a lifetime appointment.
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I already know the opener for Medicine Man: "Haven't you ever lost anything doctor Bronx? Your purse? Your car keys? Well, it's rather like that: Now you have it and now you PODCAST."
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‘If Destruction Be Our Lot, We Must Ourselves Be Its Author and Finisher’ www.nytimes.com/2024/02/03/o...
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I demand an entire episode on how Guiteau shooting Garfield led directly to America's first fermented dairy craze.
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By the time of the Salem Witch Trials, the major Catholic Inquisitions had banned most witch trials on account of witches not being real. When will Protestants catch up?
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Oh no, he's the "Jews turn to Fox News" guy? I see he has a very specific beat.
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Yeah! There is maybe one picture of the previous residents of the neighborhood in the whole piece. It spends more time lamenting the closure of businesses during recent waves of gentrification that were established during earlier waves of gentrification
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