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  • What It’s Like to Staff the Home of a Billionaire

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  • It's a bit more complicated than just adding up all the money and dividing it by the number of people.

    Rich people don't spend their money, they use it to outbid each other for control of existing assets that the rest of us need and have no choice but to pay them for. Instead of spending that money on things that other people get paid to make (the "trickle down" lie), they use it to extort us for access to things we need to survive.

    There is plenty enough in this world to go around. That so many have so little is nothing to do with the amount of arbitrary exchange tokens that exist.

  • Climate deniers don't deny climate change any more | Simon Clark

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  • followed by fiery death

    Any minute now, they'll be saying it's the Apocalypse and a welcome fulfillment of Biblical prophecy (see also: Israel).

  • Self-pay gas station pumps break across NZ as software can’t handle Leap Day

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  • This was one company, with only their NZ code affected. It'd be astonishing if all the pumps in NZ were still using the same code as four years ago. And not at all astonishing that coders are still making careless errors to do with dates.

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  • It really surprised me when I first read about it. The stereotype of ADHD is so far removed from the reality for many. Kids who do well academically don't get diagnosed and end up struggling because the hyperfocus element of ADHD isn't common knowledge.

    Or, perhaps, hyperfocus on socially desirable activities isn't recognised as being problematic even if it's causing the individual with ADHD no end of trouble.

  • can anyone recommend a website that will return ACTUAL useful results from Amazon?

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  • No.

    But if you have to buy from Amazon (and sometimes it is difficult to avoid), find it via a search on your less evil search engine of choice so that Amazon has to pay them for the click.

  • OpenAI: 'The New York Times Paid Someone to Hack Us' * TorrentFreak

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  • Are you charging for your performances?

  • AI Determines Sex of Person From Brain Scans - Neuroscience News

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  • You can't point to a difference and say it's (directly) caused by chromosomes or the SRY gene or hormones, whatever. Brain differences increase with age, suggesting that they may be more to do with socialisation than genetics. Does this evidence prove that women should be treated differently or is it evidence that women are, in fact, treated differently?

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  • Of course. Apart from all the many things you can say about the creativity and fun of 'the' ADHD brain, the absent-minded professor is a lesser known ADHD archetype. That kind of single-minded focus might not always be healthy for the individual but, for pushing back the frontiers of knowledge, it does come in handy.

  • I made shepards pie but with steak!

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  • This is not like those other things.

    We have shepherd's pie (lamb) and cottage pie (beef) and fisherman's pie (fish). They're all constructed in much the same way but the name refers to the contents.

    It's just a misunderstanding and it's not important but there is a real non-obsolete reason these dishes have the names they have.

  • Why Britain Is Struggling With Nuclear Power | The government wants more nuclear plants to help tackle climate change, but delays and soaring costs are complicating the effort.

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  • Of course they'll be useful. Because the money spent on them was not spent on renewables. Renewables would be a bigger, better, and quicker return on investment.

  • Why Britain Is Struggling With Nuclear Power | The government wants more nuclear plants to help tackle climate change, but delays and soaring costs are complicating the effort.

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  • Fifteen years ago we would never have dreamed that renewables would work so well. Fifteen years ago we would not have known what to spend the money on instead. Now we do and more renewables make much more sense.

  • Shamima Begum: Woman who joined ISIS as a teen loses challenge against the removal of her UK citizenship

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  • Because they're not relevant to the point I was addressing. How is that not obvious?

    I have elsewhere said that she should face justice here. There has been no trial, no accounting for what she did and why, and no opportunity for the Yazedi she was complicit in enslaving to have their say about it.

  • Elon Musk's Battle with Swedish Unions Is Now Impacting Tesla's Charging Stations | The months-long battle between Nordic labor and the petulant billionaire has led to perpetual humiliations for th...

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  • Try reading the article.

  • Shamima Begum: Woman who joined ISIS as a teen loses challenge against the removal of her UK citizenship

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  • Sales of SUVs surge as concerns grow over rising emissions | The market share of the larger, heavier cars has reached 60 per cent in the UK and most are still powered by petrol and diesel

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  • Bear in mind that this is new car sales, which are a small proportion of all sales. The vast majority can't afford to buy new, or don't because their limited budget buys more secondhand.

    So the question is "what the fuck is wrong with rich people". Plenty of scholarship out there speculating on the answer.

  • Sales of SUVs surge as concerns grow over rising emissions | The market share of the larger, heavier cars has reached 60 per cent in the UK and most are still powered by petrol and diesel

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  • "As" works better in this construction. If you decided you wanted to use "amid" instead it'd be "... amid growing concerns ...".

    "As" in this construction means "while" (or "at the same time as").

  • Why Britain Is Struggling With Nuclear Power | The government wants more nuclear plants to help tackle climate change, but delays and soaring costs are complicating the effort.

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  • Climate change is a far more pressing issue, and it needs to be solved ASAP

    Exactly. We don't have decades to wait for new nuclear to start generating power.

  • Why Britain Is Struggling With Nuclear Power | The government wants more nuclear plants to help tackle climate change, but delays and soaring costs are complicating the effort.

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  • You're right that there is no institutional will, nothing happens unless it suits Money (see also: climate change). But I think you're downplaying the problems.

  • Why Britain Is Struggling With Nuclear Power | The government wants more nuclear plants to help tackle climate change, but delays and soaring costs are complicating the effort.

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  • Nuclear plants SHOULD take a long time to build and SHOULD be crazy expensive and built with safety factors and for 1 in 5000 year weather occurrences

    This is why it is, in fact, bad compared to renewables. The same money spent on renewables would start producing energy much sooner without the still-unsolved problem of disposing of nuclear waste.

    I do agree that existing nuclear should be retained but it's very hard to see how new investment in it can be justified, given how much more the same investment in renewables and storage would deliver.