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FuglyDuck

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17h ago

Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI
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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 17h ago
i always catch recommendations from the help desk librarians. Some of the best books I've read I'd never have picked up otherwise. We were chatting about it and they decided to plug in the books I gave good feedback for, just to see.
It was a comical five minutes.

17h ago

recycle

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 17h ago

that sounds like they're defrauding you.

17h ago

recycle

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 17h ago

or not.

I'm okay with taking multiple tries.

17h ago

recycle

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 17h ago

Where we eat the corpses of all the billionaires we’ll be killing. No sense in letting that meat go to waste!

don't eat junk food! instead, compost and eat the veggies.

23h ago

Univ. of Oklahoma Punishes Instructor for Failing Christian Student Who Didn’t Do the Assignment

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 23h ago

Like, one of the first classes they make you take is exactly how to do that. Though, I don't find it surprising either. I find it depressing.

1d ago

Univ. of Oklahoma Punishes Instructor for Failing Christian Student Who Didn’t Do the Assignment

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 1d ago

That’s an essay I would have been failed for in high school. A ba in psych is still going to be science heavy.

The teachers were right to fail her and it’s pretty clear that OU is punishing them anyways.

Because the student is a crisis actor who ran to Turing Point to pretend she was some how persecuted for her beliefs.

1d ago

Where does the revenue gathered from taxes go and what is national debt?

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 1d ago

You're still wrong.

the M1 money supply is the vast majority of the m2 supply in 2020, it was 18 trillion and peaked at 21 trillion and then went down to 19.5 trillion. That's not "80-90%". That's 16.67%

And once again:

The increased money supply caused rampant and near catastrophic inflation that is the root of today's affordability crisis.

So do you get the point yet?

1d ago

Where does the revenue gathered from taxes go and what is national debt?

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 1d ago

Not sure who downvoted you, lol. You're quite correct (I just didn't want to get into the weeds, heh.)

and yes. it's good to remember that not all debt is "bad" debt. Especially on a national level. I still think it'd be nice if they passed a balanced budget, though. (and one that covered everything that was important. like healthcare and housing and infrastructure and climate resiliency and stuff, and not bombs for genocidal maniacs)

1d ago

Where does the revenue gathered from taxes go and what is national debt?

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 1d ago

This is factually incorrect.

the M2 money supply expanded from 15 trillion to ~22 trillion from 2020 to feb. 2022 Then 1 trillion or so was removed by apr 2023.

You'll notice that inflation tacked that fairly closely. when there was an explosive growth of the m2, inflation was insanely high and then when some was removed, inflation began cooling off.

Also, Please go study some history.

This is what caused hyperinflation in the Wiemar Republic

This also caused hyperinflation in Hungary,

This is what triggered hyperinflation in Zimbabwe

In fact, there are many countries that have experienced hyperinflation, in which printing money is a common factor.

Is it possible that there's some wiggle room, where the effects won't be so bad? sure. Does that make it good economic policy? not really. COVID wasn't about perfect, or even good. If you're on fire, it's natural instinct to start patting the fire out with your hand. It burns your hand, and that's not good, but it's better than burning to death, right? Same concept.

1d ago

White House demands British supermarkets stock chlorinated chicken

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 1d ago

said another way.... they think our food cleanliness is somewhere between "dirty as fuck" and "You eat that?!"

2d ago

Univ. of Oklahoma Punishes Instructor for Failing Christian Student Who Didn’t Do the Assignment

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 2d ago

to expound on that. we're talking about a junior in a psychology major. It's a science heavy major.

She should know how to:

cite sources
Discern good sources from bad.
understand that the bible is not a good source for psychology.
know how to right a fucking essay and answer the question that was being asked.

There were all of two sentences relating to the article which she was supposed to talk about. Those two sentences were basically "I disagree with this article".

Her only source- if you want to call it a source- was the bible. But she didn't even bother cite specific parts of the bible, just waxed inelegantly about "traditional" gender norms and insisting that bullying people because they weren't cisgendered is good. (which is what the article was about, IIRC, bullying of noncis kids in middleschool.)

(for people interested, Forest Valkai has a good break down on the essay, and why she failed

2d ago

Windows vs. Linux User

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 2d ago

except nvidia drivers.

fuck nvidia.

2d ago

Genius

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 2d ago

I'm not sure if Troggle is supposed to enjoy this or not.

2d ago

Genius

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 2d ago

a hearth!

(or do you mean Troggle's cave. Because Troggle is an ass and deserves to get his shit burned?)

2d ago

Where does the revenue gathered from taxes go and what is national debt?

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 2d ago

cash is largely minted by the government, and they usually aim to maintain "enough" (currently 2.3k billion dollars currently?)

Most of the money supply is not in physical cash, though- they call that the m1 supply which is found in things like savings and checking accounts, other kinds of deposit accounts, etc.

Currency is added to the economy by buying back government securities (think bonds). Specifically this is the Federal Reserve. we also pay interest on money held at by the Fed. (Banks invest the money.)

2d ago

Where does the revenue gathered from taxes go and what is national debt?

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 2d ago

Printing more money doesn’t make more value- it actually reduces the individual value of a dollar.

That value needs to come from somewhere.

When a currency is backed by some commodity (we backed by silver and gold, historically.) that value comes from whatever is backing it (ie you could go to a bank and get that stuff.)

Today, the dollar is backed by the confidence of the people using it. Specifically, the confidence in the US government. The value is also affected by supply and demand for that currency.

If the US suddenly decided to print the trillions dollar coin, the market reaction wouldn’t be all that hot. There is some wiggle room but generally not a lot.

If you want to know what happens when you push it too far, check out the Weimar Republic (Germany), Hungary after ww2 and Zimbabwe in the late 2000’s

It’s very much not-good.

2d ago

Where does the revenue gathered from taxes go and what is national debt?

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 2d ago

In the US, at least, the government has 2 ways it can fund itself.

Taxes, which are collected through a variety of means- income tax, for example, or import taxes, etc. these funds go into the treasury, which then get doled out to pay for things.

If taxes are insufficient, or there's some type of emergency that requires an excess of funds more quickly than they can levy with taxes... the government takes on debt. Specifically, they use a number of different instruments including bonds.

The "national debt" is the the sum of all those bonds, loans and whosiwhats its that are taken out to pay for things. it's the debt that the national government owes to others.

2d ago

White House demands British supermarkets stock chlorinated chicken

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 2d ago

and then somehow blaming Clinton, Biden, or for nostalgia, Obama.

2d ago

White House demands British supermarkets stock chlorinated chicken

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 2d ago

what's funny is we're stopping it's use. very few processors here use chlorine as part of the chilling process. Even then, it's extremely dilute. We now mostly use a diluted peracetic acid (It's vinegar- acetic acid- and hydrogen peroxide.)

edit to clarify: When butchering animals, you want to get the temperature down as quickly as possible after you kill the animal. This keeps the bacteria lower, and reduces the chance of spoilage while increasing it's life. To do that, chicken are chilled in a cold water bath, to which they add the acid (or chlorine.) to reduce it as much as possible, which expends it's shelf life tremendously.

The EU has questions about Chlorine's safety; but more importantly.... they view the use of additives as a way to mask hygiene problems. It's a concern that the poultry is not up to par, and the wash is there to hide the fact or make up for it.

2d ago

You lost me at "Stormtroopers" and "Precise"

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 2d ago

Yeah. Sun Crusher is.... uhm.

Like. Why. even? Even the Deathstar serves no real functional purpose. That's the problem with brinksmanship, and mutually assured destruction. Eventually, you're gonna have to grab that other guy and jump off the cliff. And now, instead of a economically productive and valuable planet, you have an asteroid field. That, sure, you can mine for minerals, but that effort is now going to cost orders of magnitude more.

And lets be honest. If the goal was to keep people too afraid to try anything, eventually some dumb kid from a dried up backwater is going to blow it up. And then you look really fucking weak.