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The other side of the nostalgia fallacy I think is people longing for the “simplicity” of childhood. Kids only get exposed to a small subset of what adults are exposed to, and are cognitively unable to absorb a lot of complexity, so their perceived world is simple even though the actual world isn’t.

when is the next steakholder meating

Peas. We only ate them canned, boiled gray-green and mushy

Could the state government change their labor law to allow companies to reclassify CA-resident employees as independent contractors to avoid withholding (but retain whatever protections they require for employees)?

Legitimately beautiful. Burn all of them.

from the Independent: “RFK Jr claims autistic children will never go on dates or pay taxes” and @davemaru.bsky.social replied: “Someone tell him Elon Musk isn't representative.”

[sputter]

FWIW they do let you enter the name of public figures.

And to this day, poor CRM ("Crew Resource Management" or "the captain is not God") is cited as a factor in a ridiculous number of investigations, and many incidents have been much better than they could have been because of good CRM.

Authoritarianism is just domestic abuse writ large. It uses the same tools and the same logic and, honestly, the perpetrators are often the same damn people.

At work every time someone says stakeholder I hear steakholder and want to schedule a meating.

It’s a moral good to offend morally reprehensible people: any time and energy they have to put into defending their reputation or arguing with you is time and energy they can’t use elsewhere. Increase their blood pressure, make them go home and need a drink.

The only parties who will benefit from this grift longer term are the companies who make the hardware it runs on. Literally everyone else - shareholders, consumers, anyone who needs electricity or wants to breathe clean air - will lose.

If *that* gesture is a stim then this is a stim too now

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A blue, furry Muppet character with large round eyes and a pink nose, resembling Grover from Sesame Street, stands beside a small wooden pedestal with a white square card placed on top. The background features a gradient of purple and beige tones.

Excuse me everyone I’m sorry for the interruption but Merrick Garland would like to give a presentation on everything he bravely accomplished in the past four years

i've made this comparison a lot and i'm glad others are too. because file deletion is a really great example of the naive folk model of budgeting

Re: gerrymandering, either A) the top 3-4 parties in a state must all agree to the legislative map, or B) the lead party by vote draws the map, but all representatives in the state are voted for on an at large basis with the top N vote recipients assigned districts at random.

Ooh…this is a vanishingly rare example of an actually useful application for a large language model.

Hi! It’s really great to see you here.

The Paradox of Tolerance disappears if you look at tolerance, not as a moral standard, but as a social contract. If someone does not abide by the terms of the contract, then they are not covered by it. In other words: The intolerant are not following the rules of the social contract of mutual tolerance. Since they have broken the terms of the contract, they are no longer covered by the contract, and their intolerance should NOT be tolerated. inspired by 'Tolerance is not a moral precept" by Yonatan Zunger ZonenteZ commasameleon Follow Sorry as someone who teaches rhetoric this is a wonderful response to the Paradox of Tolerance. I cannot tell you how many times my students have had debates about this. This is the response. This does indeed fix it. I cannot wait to tell this to my classes now. Philosophically and rhetorically this completely resolved the Paradox of Tolerance and I am floored by its simplicity and angry I never saw it before.

Here's where experts recommend you should put your money during an inflation surge Select spoke with financial experts about how consumers can protect their cash as prices increase.

I came across this the other day. “TIPS” sounds promising (assuming US treasuries will continue being safe) www.cnbc.com/select/where...

Private prison company Geo Group's stock is up nearly 60% since Trump won. On today's earnings call, founder George Zoley said the company is prepared to handle MILLIONS of people. "In GEO's ISAP [monitoring] program, we can scale up from the present 182,500 participants to several hundreds of thousands or even millions of participants. In GEO's nationwide ground and air transportation services, we can scale up materially for domestic as well as int'l travel. The GEO Group was built for this unique moment in our country's history and the opportunities that will bring," Zoley said.

mass deportation will crater the economy for most but some are planning to get very rich

The Post’s coverage today is leaning hard into kissing Trump’s ass. Glad I cancelled my sub.

tweet from that cowardly chode elon musk: “A lot of people still don't believe me when I say that the Dems will do everything in their power to destroy me if they win on Nov 5th”

stop stop I can’t vote for her any harder

Makes it sound like he abandoned his kids at the mini-golf place.

also, as I am not personally involved in this campaign and am just some guy on a niche social media site:

Trump supporters are garbage, especially the kind who show up to a Nazi rally

The Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla Pérez standing next to Yolanda Saldívar, her manager who stole from Selena and eventually murdered her. Selena is labeled “Latinos” while Saldívar is labeled “Latinos 4 Trump.”

If you are from Texas, this is really brutal

Imagine that orange bastard, prickled with harpoons, rolling over belly-up by the side of the ship.

A google maps search result for restaurants, containing an entry for a funeral home.

This is from a search on Google last night for Indian restaurants.