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some people say "perverts" when they really mean "sick fucks"

yeah i think this is a great example of how every single value is downstream of party for them. liberals do not realize how much republicans absolutely love when other republicans scam the government. it's not *just* an exception they make for trump.

it's too bad he's not running in florida because this would win him a lot of respect there

Whenever one of these stories comes out, I wonder whether the company has ever attested to meeting any standard that has least privilege requirements.

you learn a little about caloric accounting and it quickly becomes clear that the answer to a lot of "why didn't people in the past do X" type questions is "because the bottom 80% of the income distribution didn't have the caloric budget to exert themselves that much"

the fact that the graft opportunities for the DHS secretary are so overwhelmingly huge and so easy to get away with makes it especially funny that noem managed to do it in pretty much the only way that would raise actual backlash from what is left of congress

maybe we could "contain" Turkey by bringing it into a military alliance with broad mutual obligations

I've been noticing this as a general issue with AI providers. "Zero data retention" policies, even if they're not full of asterisks, are only one small piece of what it takes to meet compliance standards for sensitive data, but we hear this bland assurance that this policy is sufficient all the time

I think the only way to answer this question in general is "you should definitely ask your risk assurance team before turning this on"

I've been noticing this as a general issue with AI providers. "Zero data retention" policies, even if they're not full of asterisks, are only one small piece of what it takes to meet compliance standards for sensitive data, but we hear this bland assurance that this policy is sufficient all the time

People get all huffy about HIPAA being some kind of big hassle over nothing, and then they go and do this. Not giving a shit about patient privacy is the new not washing your hands because you think they're not dirty

claudre lorde

butcher, Spam factory worker

the new wing of Rush University Medical Center

academic and residential complex at University of Illinois-Chicago

Behavioral Sciences Building at UIC

Science and Engineering South building at UIC

oh you work on Harrison? Are you in a bouba building or a kiki building

as a non-specialist, the part of undergrad linear algebra where you just keep learning more and more things that are equivalent to a matrix being invertible was right up there with the central limit theorem and euler's identity for me

by unsubscribing from exclusive deals, I give the up-and-comers out there a chance at the deals I've passed up. this is called passing it on

he's a stick figure showing off his invention, the hula hoop. behind him are some wall sconces

"you will destroy a great empire"

of course it's always just a corny little formulaic joke. I'm not offended on behalf of Spanish honor or anything, but the fact that this is always the first response within reach reflects the basic model of Europe still held by even relatively enlightened Americans.

a lot of Americans always respond to stuff like this with jokes about specialty foods. In the American imagination, only Germany and the Nordics are industrialized, and the rest of Europe just sends us cheese and wine. But Spain's top exports to us are things like gas turbines and pharmaceuticals.

this feels completely accurate except i would move nicaragua to wisconsin and honduras to iowa

there's a world where being downwardly mobile into the primary sector and being a chronic underachiever who is prone to impulsive decisions and aggressively emotion led to some godawful discourse about him being the poster child for adult ADHD and in a way we're lucky to have been spared that

same. I get the desire behind it but I do think it worked better back in my day when you could just start reading Vonnegut and flatter yourself that it was for grown-ups. I think people have probably been getting stuck at what we now call the YA level for a long time, though

yeah it's the same urge behind addressing ten-year-olds as "young man"/"young lady": you flatter them a little with aspirational language to invite kids to explore the concept of being mature. Performativity in the truest sense

excuse me but I don't see how you could describe these bites as "small." I'm going to have to send it back.

"did this guy 'lose power' when he was convicted at a show trial or moments later when he was shot just outside the courtroom," greatest thread in the history of the forums that will replace our civil trial system, locked after 34 reprisal killings

"did this guy 'lose power' when he was convicted at a show trial or moments later when he was shot just outside the courtroom," greatest thread in the history of the forums that will replace our civil trial system, locked after 34 reprisal killings

the obvious bullshit answers are whatever, I'm more bothered by the number of people who put Iran in Iraq, a country the US very recently occupied for a decade

they're thinking of John Kerry and absolutely salivating at the prospect of following in his footsteps two years from now, answering simple questions about their position on the war with Iran and having nothing to say except sputtering nonsense about being for it, then against it, but but but

even worse, he starts it off by recounting a personal conversation. this guy and his staff seem to exist in a world where chummy palace politics is so central that they think what the American people need to hear about is something he said to the secretary of state one time