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Mirshe

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  • So he's still alive then?

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  • I still don't see what keeping him alive does. Sure, I'm assuming rational actors, but this is a guy who already got caught twice, was dragging other people into the gravity of his criminal investigations, and killing him makes way more sense. Two people can keep a secret if one of them is dead, as they say.

  • Quick! I need a chili recipe. What would you add to a pound of hamburger, diced jalapenos, chili powder and bloody mary mix?

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  • No no no! I don't know who started this fucking thing, Cincinnati chili has never contained cocoa. I literally live here, and I've heard it from tons of transplants and natives alike. No chili parlor here uses it, no recipes I've seen use it.

  • Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested and in custody on suspicion of misconduct in public office

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  • They got Capone on tax evasion, etc.

  • Lara Trump reveals president has speech ready to announce the discovery of aliens

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  • Same as "President has speech for if astronauts die on Moon". Pretty easy to prep ahead and simply fill in the blanks, so to speak.

  • Meta patents AI that takes over a dead person’s account to keep posting and chatting - Dexerto

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  • Ehhh, the idea predates Cyberpunk pretty well. Digital immortality was a theme in some sci-fi going all the way back to the 50s with Asimov's "The Last Question" (though that was more Matrix-style consciousness upload).

  • Cops Are Buying ‘GeoSpy’, an AI That Geolocates Photos in Seconds

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  • Bingo. You use ML to narrow down results, not to give you answers. I have a friend who uses ML models to analyze radio telescope data, because it's really good at the mind-numbing work of throwing out noise and junk from broadcast satellites and known radio sources. Then you go through the narrowed stuff to see if anything in that is more interesting.

    It's the question between sifting a million hits or a thousand.

  • They just wanted to grow food. Their suburban neighbors declared war.

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  • This isn't always just limited to produce either! Several CSA farms near me do livestock as well, from chicken to lamb to venison and everything else.

  • If the next pres. is a Democrat and wants to roll back all of Trumps bullshit. How can they do that quickly and efficiently?

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  • There's also the fact that there's an enormous machine of conservative think tanks and funding groups and PACs and corporations that will fight every and any change tooth and nail. The obvious ones like abolishing ICE? They're an enormous source of revenue for dozens of companies, from tech to defense, not to mention that private prison companies are running the concentration camps. They'd need to be ready to effectively run things as a true dictator in order to get anything done, because large portions of the economic sphere have been retooled to rely on things continuing the way they are.

  • Child protective services called after parents express concerns about high school’s Turning Point USA event

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  • Remember that one of the biggest internal dangers to average people in Nazi Germany was literally children. The Hitler Youth and the girl's group that I can't remember the name of literally turned kids into snitches against each other, against neighbors, against parents, everyone. This was all dressed in the clothes of "being a good citizen".

  • "Huzzah! The UN is here to save us!"

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  • Lions Led By Donkeys did a well-researched 4-part podcast on the Rwandan genocide, I highly recommend it.

  • "Huzzah! The UN is here to save us!"

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  • The French, I think, literally handed over a diplomat's wife and children to be killed in front of the entire convoy AT THE AIRSTRIP.

  • 911 call describes woman screaming to ICE agents that she’s a U.S. citizen

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  • No no, you can't call it that because Kavanaugh hates that they're associated with him.

    So do it as often as possible and remind people of it.

  • This is what someone just posted in our class group chat...

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  • Might be a nurse, too. I have met some nurses who very clearly weren't taught to do things like solve problems or think critically.

  • Chad Ronald McNair

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  • Could also honestly just have been "man I don't wanna do the paperwork for something like this." Never underestimate the laziness of the average man.

  • Parents opt kids out of school laptops, ask for pen-and-paper

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  • All of those are MORE expensive, at scale. If you can just hand 1500 kids a $200 Chromebook that fulfills ALL those functions, that's $300k, vs 1500 e-ink readers at $40 a pop, 1500 digital typewriters @ $100 apiece, etc. Hell, that scientific calculator ALONE might be $200+ in some markets because Texas Instruments practically has the market cornered (to the point that I had to go to the administration of my school district to show them that the Casio I had was functionally identical).

  • Parents opt kids out of school laptops, ask for pen-and-paper

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  • So many donations and funds for schools are earmarked, you can only spend them in specific ways. If you spend them in ways that don't align with the earmark, it's incredibly easy for the donors or the state to claw them back. So that $40mil your local suburban school district spent on a new football stadium? That was likely earmarked SPECIFICALLY for football, they can't really just swish the money to better textbooks, or whatever. Same with tech funding - you get $250k to upgrade your school district with Chromebooks or whatever, you MUST buy within what the funding packet tells you you can buy, and you can't really do anything else with it.

    That doesn't even get into the cartelization of textbooks and school software. There's so few real options that it's incredibly easy for these companies to collude without really looking like it's collusion.

  • Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks

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  • The SAM episode was a little meh, personally, but I like that they're dealing with the shorter season format and still doing episodes based around each character.

  • Nice horsie! 🐎

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  • IIRC a few African groups have legends of people trying to tame zebras as long term mounts or livestock, and these legends rarely end well for the attempter.

  • Father faces no charges for fatally shooting daughter after fight about Donald Trump

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  • So someone else also pointed out grand jury members in TX are appointed positions of "respectable" members of society.

    Sadly, this just sounds like the Good Old Boy Network doing exactly what it's supposed to do.