Does work for Tampa though
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A European starling called “The Mouth” was able to mimic sounds well enough to reproduce a drawing in the spectrograph:
RustyEarthfire@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Mamdani Pounces as Leaked Audio Shows Cuomo 'Expecting Trump's Help' to WinEnglish81·1 month agoWhat I’m not seeing is any explanation for why the DNC … is accepting help
Cuomo is running as an independent. He is running against the DNC.
RustyEarthfire@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Trump fires commissioner of labor statistics after weaker-than-expected jobs figures slam marketsEnglish12·2 months agoWell they saved “258 million” people from fentanyl overdose in 100 days; finding half of them jobs in a week should be no problem.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pam-bondi-fentanyl-258m/
Capitalism isn’t unique in perpetuating injustice, but it certainly excels at it, with passive exponentiality and unprecedented scalability.
Regarding comparison to planned economies, I was solely referring to resource distribution. Planned economies (including the planned aspects of mixed economies) typically have significantly more equitable distribution of resources than capitalism. Certainly there is still massive inequality, but it is far less than capitalism. E.g. the Gini index for USSR/Russia basically doubled when capitalism replaced communism.
Amplifying that last point:
- Capitalism amplifies and perpetuates injustice. E.g. descendants of both enslaving and enslaved are receiving exponentially multiplied effects of actions 100+ years ago.
- Because wealth is power, concentrated wealth often receives far better than average returns by rigging systems in its favor.
Even ignoring these perversions, capitalism is terrible at answering the economic question, “for whom to produce.” This isn’t much of a change relative to previous systems, but it compares unfavorably in this regard to planned economies.
bought in exchange for political capital
That’s a very uncharitable assumption of his motivations.
Dropping out of an (FPTP) primary is like awkward manual runoff voting. Once you clearly aren’t winning, you drop out so those votes can flow to the next preferred candidate.
People voting for Buttigieg switched to Biden because he was the most similar candidate. Of course Buttigieg would support the candidate that best matches his policy preferences – and the preferences of voters.
RustyEarthfire@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•Damn Fox, you didn't have to turn me on more.English16·3 months agoWe find that a 10% minimum wage hike translates into a 0.36% increase in the prices of grocery products. This magnitude is consistent with a full pass-through of cost increases into consumer prices.
RustyEarthfire@lemmy.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•As far as I can ascertain, Peter Thiel* is the 103rd richest man on the planet, with a reported net worth of $20.5 bn US. How and why does his influence reach farther than so many others?English33·4 months agoThose “richest people” lists are based on publicly known wealth, which is almost exclusively public stocks. There is a lot of dark money out there.
Strange things are afoot
In the EU-wide survey conducted by Eurostat, participants were asked whether their household could afford the adequately heat the home. No fixed temperature was specified; answers are based on self-assessment.
Could have been worse:
https://lemmy.world/post/24169630
RustyEarthfire@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•The California fires could scorch the state's broken insurance marketEnglish12·9 months agoMost of them are leaving. I think the ones remaining rely on bundling with other insurance or services.
Seems to mostly be called “Screaming Seagull” or “Inhaling Seagull”
RustyEarthfire@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Scientists unveil first-of-its-kind plastic alternative that could shake up the packaging industry — here's why it's importantEnglish10·9 months agoPaper is paywalled, but from the SciTech article it looks like mostly it was sodium sulfate. They did also make some “ocean-degradable plastics”.
RustyEarthfire@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Human thought crawls at 10 bits per second, Caltech study findsEnglish4·9 months agoThanks for the link and breakdown.
It sounds like a better description of the estimated thinking speed would be 5-50 bits per second. And when summarizing capacity/capability, one generally uses a number near the top end. It makes far more sense to say we are capable of 50 bps but often use less, than to say we are only capable of 10 but sometimes do more than we are capable of doing. And the paper leans hard into 10 bps being a internally imposed limit rather than conditional, going as far as saying a neural-computer interface would be limited to this rate.
“Thinking speed” is also a poor description for input/output measurement, akin to calling a monitor’s bitrate the computer’s FLOPS.
Visual processing is multi-faceted. I definitely don’t think all of vision can be reduced to 50bps, but maybe the serial part after the parallel bits have done stuff like detecting lines, arcs, textures, areas of contrast, etc.
RustyEarthfire@lemmy.worldto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK There’s someone running around Lemmy posting misinformation against WikipediaEnglish151·9 months agoIt does look like they don’t currently have any funding issues. They have 1.5 years of reserves and give about 15% of their income out in grants to other organizations. And like most web sites, the actual hosting costs are a relatively small part of their operation.
leaves no calling cards
I think the engravings on the bullets were intended as a message. It seemed like he expected to be caught with his “manifesto” as well. Not saying that’s sufficient to call it terrorism, but it does show a bit of intent beyond anger/revenge.
I feel like there may be a subtle statistical error in judging the overall will of “Democratic voters” based on rough observations of attendees of a Mamdani rally.