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Schadrach

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  • Clickbait asteroid

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  • The only thing to ever have a higher score than this one on the Torino scale (before further calculations reclassified it as a 0) is scheduled to come close by in 2029. Should be interesting to watch, at least.

  • Married women could be stopped from voting under SAVE Act

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  • North Carolina. There was a requirement to post notices in 3 major newspapers running for 4 weeks.

    This sounds like one of those very old requirements no one has ever bothered to remove - like once upon a time this would be a genuinely useful requirement to keep everyone in the region on the same page as to who people are, prevent county or city records from losing who you are, etc.

    And something about appearing before a judge who could reject the change for any reason they wanted, including reasons like “I don’t like what color shirt you are wearing today”.

    So, like everything else in or adjacent to family court complete with judges that are tyrannical despots over their tiny fiefdoms, who are fully allowed to apply whatever prejudices they might have unchecked for any reason or no reason at all?

    There were a lot of other requirements too, like background checks, fingerprints, character witnesses, etc.

    More very old-school requirement to ensure you aren't trying to create a new identity to escape previous legal entanglements. Perfectly reasonable for an era before easily searchable digital records, less necessary now.

  • Married women could be stopped from voting under SAVE Act

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  • And then when women decide to protest this by not getting married there will be an economic bill that will be passed that states unmarried women will be taxed at a higher rate - and they will use the excuse that we need to shore up the “traditional family” to fight against all this “God-less liberal brainwashing”.

    Historically, when countries do this kind of thing it's more often targeted at unmarried men. The English have done it, the Ottomans did, even ancient Rome did at one point (though Rome taxed both men and women for being celibate or childless, but men were subject to the tax for a wider span of ages). A bunch more places around the world have at various times either tax unmarried and/or childless men or flirted with the idea - it's a shockingly long list. Most of them didn't do the same to unmarried women, or if they did the tax applied to women for fewer years or was higher for men. Most of those have been dead for decades at this point, in large part because they're not effective at getting people to breed.

    In the US, Missouri briefly taxed unmarried men, before replacing it with a poll tax the next year. Montana did as well, though it got struck down by their courts (not because of gender inequality but because of phrasing in the state constitution that was interpreted to prohibit that kind of tax). New York, Connecticut, Wyoming, New Jersey, Delaware, Georgia, Minnesota, and California all flirted with the idea of taxing bachelors but never passed it. Michigan proposed a bachelor tax 9 different times but never managed to pass it.

    I don't know of any cases where unmarried or childless women were subject to a punitive tax but unmarried or childless men weren't (or even cases where it was seriously proposed), barring a few cases where the age ranges were different, typically with the tax applying to women starting at an earlier starting age but for men to a later final age (for example women 20-50 vs men 25-60 by the Romans, or women 20-45 vs men 25-50 by the Soviets). I'd be curious when, how often or to what extent that has ever happened.

  • Democrats keep helping Trump confirm his abysmal nominees.

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  • D) They are controlled opposition, and have been for several decades at least.

  • Jill Stein’s campaign manager: “Yeah, we are the bad guys, actually”

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  • As you said, STAR is arguably better in some ways but Approval being dead simple to explain to people and technically already supported by existing voting machines is worth a whole lot on its own as far as being a good voting system.

    Try explaining STAR or Approval to someone who is only familiar with FPTP, see which one they understand more quickly.

    Because "Vote for everyone you're OK with winning the office and it counts as a vote for any of them, whoever gets the most votes wins" or "It's just like what we've been doing, but you can pick more than one person and your vote counts for all of them" explains Approval voting.

    As opposed to having to do a cumulative total across all ballots to figure out if your ballot counts as a vote at all, before figuring out whether your vote actually counts as a vote for someone you voted 5 for or someone you voted 2 for.

  • Horse goals

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  • and the stuff about apple seeds being dangerously poisonous is just some bullshit

    The short version being that apple seeds are in fact poisonous, but you'd have to eat much more of them than you'd find in a single apple, and you'd have to break or crush the seeds in the process to release the poison. The dose makes the poison and all.

  • The government doesn't use SQL

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  • SSNs are reused. Someone dies and their number gets reassigned.

    Not even that. If you were born before 2014 or so and you're from somewhere relatively populous theres a pretty good chance there's more than one living human with your SSN right now. SSN were never meant to be unique, the pairing of SSN and name was meant to be unique but no one really checked for that for most of the history of the program so it really wasn't either. The combination of SSN, name and age/birthdate should actually be unique though because of how they were assigned even back in the day.

  • The government doesn't use SQL

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  • Not even that complicated - SSN are not unique, by design. The combination of SSN and name is supposed to be, but for most of the history of the program no one was actually checking for that so it really isn't either. Until something like 2014 the first 5 digits of your SSN were basically a code for where you were born and the last 4 were just assigned in order.

  • Luigi Mangione accepts $300K in donations for legal defense in murder case

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  • I'm just waiting for someone to decide that "Mario Party" is a good codeword for "conspiracy to murder the wealthy." After all, it's a group activity where someone plays Luigi.

  • Luigi Mangione accepts $300K in donations for legal defense in murder case

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  • I mean its basically the firearms equivalent of building your own retro-console from spare parts. Janky and underpowered compared to what's on the market from big manufacturers, but much of the point is in the building.

  • What Refutes Science...

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  • AI’s primary use case so far is to further concentrate wealth with the wealthy,

    Under capitalism, everything further concentrates wealth with the wealthy because the wealthy are best able to capitalize on anything. Wealth gives you the means to better pursue further wealth.

    and to replace employees.

    So what you're saying is that we need to dismantle every piece of automation and go back to manufacturing everything by hand with the most basic hand tools possible? Because that will maximize the number of people needed to be employed to produce, well, anything. Anything else is using technology to replace employees.

    Or is it just that now we're talking about people working office jobs they thought were automation-proof getting partially automated that's made automation a bad thing?

  • Laws only matter if you're not rich.

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  • My parents told me that I’d understand how the world works when I get older, but I just hate it more and more.

    That's how you know you're understanding it.

  • Elon Musk demands firing of ‘disgusting and cruel’ WSJ reporter who uncovered DOGE employee’s racist tweets

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  • She can try, but I expect the Trump admin is expecting to lean really hard on that thing where you need the permission of the federal government to sue the federal government.

  • Rebranding

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  • Horseshoe theory in action!

  • RFK Jr’s claim about Black people’s immune systems is ‘unscientific and terrifying’

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  • which doesn’t necessarily lead to “people with African ancestry need fewer vaccines

    But it might (and I want to emphasize might, as in would require further study) mean that people of African ancestry could benefit from a different vaccine schedule than people of primarily European decent. Another thing in the "would be interesting and maybe even useful to know, but impossible to research and/or publish in the current environment" bucket.

  • RFK Jr’s claim about Black people’s immune systems is ‘unscientific and terrifying’

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  • That doesn't qualify you to be a Secretary - that qualifies you to be President.

  • RFK Jr’s claim about Black people’s immune systems is ‘unscientific and terrifying’

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  • I do not. I don’t trust RFK Jr to do anything right except possibly by accident.

    I actually agree with him about some of the food additive stuff. Shame he blew his stopped clock moment before even being confirmed.

  • RFK Jr’s claim about Black people’s immune systems is ‘unscientific and terrifying’

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  • You don't need personal genomics to broadly do better than simply lumping everyone in one bucket. Various ethnic/racial groups have been mostly reproductively isolated from each other for most of history, which means certain things are significantly more common in some groups than others, which means you can get more effective use of resources by targeting things like screening and prevention at groups where the disease is more likely.

    Personal genomics would let you target even more closely, but using race or family history is just estimating genomics by proxy.

    For example, sickle cell and black folks, or cystic fibrosis and white folks, or maple syrup urine disease and the Amish or methemoglobinemia and one family from eastern Kentucky.

  • RFK Jr’s claim about Black people’s immune systems is ‘unscientific and terrifying’

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  • You left out Maple Syrup Urine Disease which is both not a thing I made up (despite how it sounds) and also mostly a thing among the Pennsylvania Dutch (aka Amish) that causes the body to be unable to break down several amino acids.