I stole this metaphor awhile ago and modified it slightly.
I was born on second and made it to third, I didn't hit a triple.
I worked hard to improve my situation from birth, but I didn't haul myself out of poverty or something, my parents were college educated and I got a professional degree.
I'm a white man who wears a suit every day for work, which means when I go out for errands I'm a white man in a suit.
Don't even try to tell me that it doesn't make a difference with how people treat you at stores, the DMV, etc. I generally get a salesperson or service very quickly because of it
Financial literacy indicates that the rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer. It also indicates that the greater the financial inequality, the less stable a democracy becomes and the lower the quality of life is for the population overall.
Is he sure he wants us to be literate?
It was 82 degrees here 24 hours ago. It's dropped 50 degrees in 24 hours and has gone from pure blue sky to snow.
This morning, driving to work, I saw the most amazing wave of clouds rolling in overhead and you could almost feel the air chill as it came by in real time. It was awe-inspiring.
I think when some people hear this, they hear "life as a Straight White Male is easy" and that's not what he's saying. It's relative to other groups, not a statement in and of itself. Life can be a challenge for everyone, but being in a traditionally advantaged group sure doesn't hurt you.
Speaking as a Straight White Male coming from an upper-middle class background, yeah, it's easy mode. Doesn't mean there's no challenges anywhere or that you can't still mess it up, but compared to the struggle I see in other groups?
Denying that it's easier to be something else is just delusional
Did they never sing that song about Jesus loving ALL the little children of the world? I don't recall that song excluding anyone, but maybe these bigots have a version that starts listing a bunch of unacceptable children. If someone finds it, please never let me know, thank you.
I mean, that's one way to make sure your writers have a specific agenda.
This isn't some kind of inside joke that we're all missing? They are actually that openly biased that they put that in their ads for freelancers? That's just nuts man.
Sorry, my point was AI companies are coming for the content without attribution, while Grammarly is coming for the attribution/author profile, both are taking something of value from the authors without compensation, just different things, but both are harmful and will hurt the industry.
Should be illegal and ARE illegal are two very, VERY distant concepts from one another.
Writers ability to protect the value of their work is being attacked from all sides by the AI industry, which probably pays more to lawyers than the entire professional writing industry earns combined.
Well, I've now taken the leap, so it worked at least once!
Is there any difference to the author in how much money they will make based on where the pre-order is from? Or basically just the same ratio as if the book was being sold after release in the same way?
Have him fly out there and do all his "reporting" for the foreseeable future from ships transiting the Straits. I'm sure he would be happy to show some guts himself by sailing on oil tanker after oil tanker, he could interview the crews, complain about living conditions, it would be great!
May the metal dragons never decide that you are delicious and good with ketchup.
We're about three press conferences away from this administration saying that death benefits are cheaper than lifetime disability benefits for veterans so we are eliminating emergency combat evacuations.
America's randomly violent foreign policy and military adventurism says "You're welcome"
Hopefully Russia giving Iran targeting information on U.S. forces will "encourage" better cooperation between our militaries in the future. Maybe call Trump "Sir" a few times and you'll get a few dozen ICBMs.
He has stated in the past he always asks for permission first. I think he said that only one time has he been denied permission.
Feel better Phil, we will carry the torch of enlightenment on your behalf tomorrow across the country!
Yeah, they aren't going to hit anything in stable orbit, but if we have enough debris coming down, maybe that could hit things. Again, it's all wishful thinking and if anyone's launching nukes we're probably all screwed regardless of orbital debris.
The one possible, yet somewhat limited upside, is that if we can cause Kessler Syndrome, maybe intercontinental ballistic missiles will all get hit with Starlink fragments during their boost stage and be destroyed. That's a real thing that could happen right? Right?
I have gotten phone calls, probably synthesized by AI, from known people in my field asking me to change where I'm going to wire money and things like that. That was already a massive fraud issue to have it done by email. Emails or phone, now I say "thanks" and call the client directly to be sure.
Fortunately the winter heating season is approaching its end in the Northern Hemisphere where most of the people live, but for those people who use heating oil, this is definitely going to massively increase heating costs which will overwhelmingly negatively impact rural households.
I have all EVs, so it doesn't as directly impact me, but it's up about $.30/gallon here in the last week and even though I don't have to fill up, everything I buy is shipped by truck, and will cost more as shipping costs increase, so this is just another thing that Trump has done to increase prices.
Found: Phil Plait. Analyzing following list, standby.
You're one of three people I specifically looked for to follow on Bluesky.
I've almost reached the limit of how many people that is productive to follow as if I follow anyone else, I'm never going to be able to keep up.
It's quite relaxing as long as you don't spend too long thinking about what it is that you're watching.
Mine is the first openly trans person in Congressional history. So I'm going to say she's doing quite well and every time I talk to her I think she's doing well. She's fairly new and the GOP absolutely hates her, so in terms of pure legislation, she hasn't done that much yet, but she'll get there.
Be the change you want to see in your community and you might be surprised how much things improve over time.
There are few things in small communities to win people to your point of view more than publicly having that point of view while being a good person.
It's just a bunch of corp-speak nonsense about things. Not even the slightest condemnation of ICE's actions. They are too afraid of alienating fascists to take a moral stand on anything.
This is, in my opinion, worse than if they had said nothing at all. Still not going to shop there.
Like a lot of things, the announcement got way more press than the retraction is ever going to get.
People will still believe this is a thing twenty years from now and people trying to get attention will keep repeating it breathlessly forever.
They were being a different type of combat drone and it didn't work out great for them.
