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BilboBargains

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  • TIL I'm in the top 5% of drinkers in the US. Whoo!

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  • The toxic limit for alcohol is half a glass of wine per year. Literally every drink you take is causing some damage. Personally I would legalise all drugs and provide harm reduction but people are delusional about the harm any given substance causes. Most people consider LSD a hard drug because it is scheduled but it doesn't have a toxic limit and has zero recorded fatalities. It's actually a known therapeutic for PTSD and other conditions.

  • Why do we keep measuring the value of things with something that constantly loses value over time?

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  • I didn't know it had a name but marginal utility sounds like the concept behind the early form of eBay, before it became a corporation. You can still find people giving stuff away on there but that sort of exchange has now moved to places like Freegle, Freecycle and Facebook Marketplace, to a lesser extent. What people value has always been a mystery to me, I would be horrible in business. Most of my decisions are pretty much utilitarian, aside from food and drugs. I am happy in a junk yard, salvaging materials and components, that stuff feels under utilised and valuable to me.

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    The single biggest roadblock for casuals to use Linux

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  • Just torrent that shit while the streaming platforms get their house in order. It's not acceptable to be racist to Linux.

  • The inside story of China spy case collapse: ‘It came from the very top’

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  • The English are involved in a struggle to remain relevant on the world stage and that involves managing relationships with allies, partners and adversaries. There's no logical reason to roll out the red carpet for trump other than we may need their military support and access to their market. Similarly, we need to trade with China and can't stand on moral principles when they break our rules.

  • Polling Suggests The Country Is Absolutely Done With RFK Jr.

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  • Hilarious. Does anyone at Dem HQ ever stop to consider the implications of that stat or do they continue with their strategy of corporate kleptocracy? It seems that a FPTP system tends to converge to a race to the bottom where the electorate is forced to permanently choose a lesser evil. The civilisation we are building is too big to fail and we need an anti trust action. That seems to be emerging in the form of climate change while we argue about gender politics.

  • Why do we keep measuring the value of things with something that constantly loses value over time?

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  • It feels like you're asking what value is. Value is a sentiment that depends on many factors but it eventually decomposes to some utility factor. You could argue that water is not valuable because it is abundant but that depends on context. In the desert it becomes extremely valuable for people to live. It's difficult to make a numerical assessment of value and measurement implies a level of precision and universality that is inappropriate. We estimate value based on contextual factors such as supply and demand. It's not a great way to assess it but better than nothing.

    I'm always pleased when I buy stone construction materials because they deliver 1000kg of material and it only costs £20. I don't know of any other material that is seemingly so abundant, inexpensive and useful. I'm not convinced I would feel the same way about a tonne of gold, aside from the scarcity. Maybe I would make a gold toilet and get x amount of fame on social media, that's apparently extremely valuable.

  • What's the status on Wikipedia donations?

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  • Making a monthly contribution. Who knows where the money goes but I've never heard of a wiki project I disapproved of and there is a lot to like about what they do.

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  • Never knowingly shadow banned but never bothered to find out either. It wouldn't be a total surprise in some subreddits. The whole concept of secretly muting people is sinister and feels like it was a later development, as the rot set in. Pretty much any commentary platform that grows large enough turns to absolute garbage. The reason I left YouTube was the same reason I left Reddit and it will be why I leave Lemmy if it grows large enough. It was kind of interesting to witness the evolution of Reddit over the thirteen years I was posting, like a car crash in slow motion. Civilisations follow a similar arc. There's something messed up about people in large numbers, they get toxic.

  • US citizen sues after twice being detained by immigration agents

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  • Oh how we chuckled at the idea of an absurd racist police state.

  • Polling Suggests The Country Is Absolutely Done With RFK Jr.

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  • That 33% approve of his governance is an amazing stat.

  • Greta Thunberg arrested by Israeli forces after military boards aid flotilla headed for Gaza – Middle East crisis live

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  • Greta is terrorising these bullies.

  • AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds

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  • This is a sane way to use LLM. Also, pick your poison, some bots are better than others for a specific task. It's kinda fascinating to see how other people solve coding problems and that is essentially on tap with a bot, it will churn out as many examples as you want. It's a really useful tool for learning syntax and libraries of unfamiliar languages.

    On one extreme side of LLM there is this insane hype and at the other extreme a great pessimism but in the middle is a nice labour saving educational tool.

  • Can we trust LLM CALCULATIONS?.

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  • Use Wolfram Alpha for mathematics

  • Where's the weirdest place you've used a laptop?

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  • I once used a laptop in a coffee shop to write a screenplay. I had ornate facial hair and wearing a beanie. Shit was tight af. Later on I clogged their toilet.

  • 79-year-old US citizen claims ICE agents body-slammed him at his business, seeks $50M

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  • Police get universal state provision of insurance? That's a really cool idea we could apply that to healthcare.

  • #freepenisman

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  • How big is Penis Man?

  • Peter Thiel: strict AI regulation will summon the Antichrist

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  • By antichrist he means Peter Thiel's inner child. How have these morons amassed so much power?

  • OK what is your Roman name?

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  • Assius

  • How do people in cities have fun without spending money at every turn?

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  • I spend a lot of time in my workshop. It's not free but upcycling materials into something new is infinitely satisfying and often saves money.