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  • "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens

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  • Seems like his career has largely been lying and making impossible promises, so. The folks who do that well always manage to exit the stage before the magic tincture is revealed to just be piss 🤷‍♂️

  • the influence is immense

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  • One heartening fact is that even with all this, people are increasingly angry and dissatisfied with the thick layers of constant bullshit.

    We haven't lost. It takes all this to accomplish what they're aiming, and it's not a given they pull it off. Not all of us welcome comforting lies over devastating truths.

    Make it hard for them, recruit people away, back to reality by offering real info and sources. And otherwise watch the gross simulacra of society thrash about from as much distance as can be managed.

  • Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products, making Amazon richer

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  • I definitely can't comment on what your situation looks like to you directly, but where I live, I find your description of nothing but "lil Istanbuls" in the "inner cities" to sound super suspicious. Gross, honestly.

    In the US that's roughly the exact sentiment (not far from exact words, truly!) that the most egregious Trump supporters spew everywhere they can. To be clear, these folks rarely visit a city in any capacity and will often tell stories for weeks when they do. All the while getting themselves worked up enough to collect legitimate small arsenals (not hypothetical "har har, Americans", I've known many people young and old like this).

    I dunno. I can't see what it looks like from your eyes, fundamentally. But are you sure you're as unwelcome as you think in the immigrant shops, or even shopping areas/neighborhoods? I randomly pop into whatever vaguely or strongly "ethnic" shop or restaurant and never have a bad time. Pretty often have some fantastic times! Just go shop there and let yourself be (a little) vulnerable and clueless, is the advice I'd give my lost warped countrymen.

    Sounds like you're describing a different desired experience, I don't mean to be TOO reductive, but idk. Cultural integration can work both ways, it's fun and dope to learn and enjoy what other people like, might be my single favorite experience on Earth 🤙

  • A two-child household must earn $400,000 a year for childcare to be affordable, study says. ‘It’s easy to see why birth rates are falling’

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  • Dad of girls myself and have experienced (and helped support my family through) a loss that felt similarly severe, when I was kinda too young to do so. Nothing you could say would bother or surprise me (at least not too much), so - with all sincerity, feel free to drop this random Internet stranger (me) a line anytime. Can be literally about anything, I don't know you and promise to never judge, no matter what you say. There is nothing about what you're going through that invites sanity, wellness, reasonableness, etc.

    Good friend of mine is facing similar, on an unknown but not great timescale. It's rough out here. I've got some gas in the tank for now. Holla if ya wanna, don't feel any obligation, but don't talk yourself out of it for silly fruitless reasons either, I guess I mean.

    Edit: and if me DMing you first and laying out some credibility on my own story helps you get the ball rolling, I can sum that up too. Again just saying, there's enough barriers in life, no need to introduce false ones (unless they're helpful, anyway).

  • A two-child household must earn $400,000 a year for childcare to be affordable, study says. ‘It’s easy to see why birth rates are falling’

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  • Yeah that's probably an important point and I should be slower to phrase things like I'm speaking for teachers en masse.

    Frankly the public school system is largely babysitting so adults can work and has been for a while, no reason we couldn't reorganize that to function better. Well. There are reasons. Just not good ones.

    Edit: ya know what, I really just springboarded off of your thought to deliver my own half-related frustration. Even without needing to change money in big ways, there could be large improvements from reworking the schedule. Certainly for students' ability to retain any info. Thoroughly agree with you and apologies for the unneeded slightly off topic bummer vibe.

  • A two-child household must earn $400,000 a year for childcare to be affordable, study says. ‘It’s easy to see why birth rates are falling’

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  • Sadly because the rich would never allow it to be funded, so it was never a serious possibility, and summers off is among (or the sole?) thing keeping many many educators hanging on at this stage.

    Make no mistake, far as I'm concerned they should all get probably 100% raises no bulshit, and anyone who was at it throughout COVID should get some kinda large thank you bonus too.

  • A two-child household must earn $400,000 a year for childcare to be affordable, study says. ‘It’s easy to see why birth rates are falling’

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  • It doesn't help that the state of schooling and instruction here has grown abysmal, largely non-functional.

    Kids, on average, aren't learning shit here.

    While "preparing for" and entering the economy of today and tomorrow. Things are grim.

  • High school students protesting ICE remain jailed days after police assault in Pennsylvania

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  • Yeah maybe so, I took some liberties.

    [Edit: as in, half the scenario I'm describing probably happened a buncha years ago and he's kept his dork coward ass off the mat since lol]

  • ‘I Genuinely Am Upset That Your Kids Are Vaccinated’

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  • More like God's Plan, these fools don't understand genes, but yeah same outcome.

  • Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products, making Amazon richer

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  • That's about what I was thinking. Can't entirely fault the sellers, everybody's got their hustle to keep their heads above water.

    But goddamn that should ring alarm bells for any policymaker who gives a shit. (I know, I know)

  • Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products, making Amazon richer

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  • Yeah, I'm in the US and what you described matches the experience here too.

    One major point though, the physical locations still have to pay humans, in my community, to operate. It's not much, but these days I consider it roughly a moral duty to do what I can to force companies to spend money on employees.

    And then otherwise at our house we just buy more and more stuff second hand. Quality in everything is trash anymore, even just packaging is barely functional trash these days. Everything you open destroys itself, including stuff that's supposed to reseal with a zipper, like a bag of cheese. Gotta make line go up!

  • Ouch

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  • I tried to watch that interview (not this well-deserved rebuttal, the original) and just couldn't force my way through about half, wherever the (dumbass) Brazilian favela story ends. Despite Callaghan and team's sincere efforts, Nick just comes off like the fucking moron he is.

    Ignorant about the things he himself has chosen to squawk about, while also truly lacking the mental "equipment" to engage with the topics in any complexity.

    Like, any complexity, he seemed completely unable to manage the difference between the ideas "95% of Somali immigrants are law-abiding" and (his claim) "89% of fraud in Minnesota is committed by Somalis". Those can actually both be true and they aren't even very complicated but it was too much for him.

    To be clear I'm not weighing in on those stats whatsoever, just the fact that he could not navigate the nuances between them at all.

    He's not just wrong and hateful, he's fully incapable of understanding the exact phenomena that he somehow feels called to scrutinize and then scream about. He doesn't realize that "real" conversation on the topic would go completely over his head, he's so foolish that he can't even see how out of his own depth he is.

    I'd love to just call him a clown and move on but his flavor of horseshit is SO dangerous these days, as we see!

  • Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products, making Amazon richer

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  • Lol! I think this AliExpress shop was doing the same probably. Just maybe more automated (maybe).

  • Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products, making Amazon richer

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  • Bought something from AliExpress last week. Showed up in an Amazon box 😐 Aggravating that the only way to avoid them is apparently to never shop online. I already mostly don't, but sheesh.

  • 20 Years of Banning Phones. We Don’t Have That Long for AI.

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  • 100% the situation. He provided exactly zero info or context that he was up to that, however 😂

    First - intense lecture - terse, clipped, accurate - then half-shouting while eyeballing everyone in the room, at the parts one can only assume are most often misunderstood.

    And then, "you may ask questions". Lmao. Legend. And he really would do exactly that, and extremely competently, and would enjoy it if anyone engaged. His enjoyment was genuine but also similarly illegible, lol. I have a feeling he wildly outclassed even his peers at the school, bro's frustration was like a wound, sadly.

    Learned a ton from the guy, but can't say many did overall, he offered it but didn't exactly invite. Gateway experience for a ton of degree candidates, that whole deal.

    Not even at a particularly serious school lol. Like I said. Legend. "You will learn this [hapless candidate chasing a dollar by pretending knowledge] - to my standards - or you will not proceed. I offer everything you need and much more, but you must do the work."

  • Yes, providing spoiler warnings for very old films is still appropriate and necessary

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  • That's exactly it for me. The moment I discover I might want to watch something, I immediately avoid anything related to it. Stupidly, I probably only watch ~20-40% of those 😅

    But yeah. I don't want the marketing firm's take, I don't want to know what the Internet or friends think, none of that. That's fun after. I exclusively want to experience what the artists involved intended to deliver. What kind of jackass interrupts that?!

    Previews and everything else are a bane on dope art.

  • What's a piece of Media that is so underrated you must mention it?

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  • Yo homie thanks, this record has been getting an extraordinary amount of play this last week lol, somehow it lines up with a lotta my favorite sci-fi AND favorite metal. Like it was made especially for me 😂

    Ridiculous gnar. Over the top good.

  • she makes more $$$ serving drunks.

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  • Feels to me like COVID really pulled the mask off, on that idea, and it just...stayed off.

    "Essential workers"...who we permanently, societally, treat as disposable.

    (I realize I'm muddying the waters with what you said and what I'm saying, my bad. "Essential workers" never really meant teachers on the COVID tip, but the fundamental point of the most actually useful workers in our society being shit on the most is profound, and feels at least somewhat new (new lows we've reached, to be sure) - this place is super fucked)

  • TrumpsteinHub

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  • Wtffff