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  • Paul Krugman. He is the author of 27 books. He has a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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  • My family got ISDN, a slight upgrade from dialup where you got two lines, so your mom could talk on the phone while you were waiting for websites to load about 14% faster.

    Problem was, the extra line also had a phone number, and both numbers reached both lines. Our new number apparently used to be the fax line of some business downtown, and we'd get phone calls from fax machines several times a day. The other end was a robot, so yelling that we're not a fax did nothing.

    We had to borrow a fax machine so we could receive the fax. It was an ad from Dell. Then we called the number on the ad and asked for our number to be deleted from their database. Thankfully they turned out to be the only vendor faxing that number.

  • Jeffrey Epstein's brother stuns with response to email about Trump sex act with 'Bubba'

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  • You're not well versed in pedophilia lingo? How embarrassing.

  • Paul Krugman. He is the author of 27 books. He has a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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  • So are fax machines. The bulk of the faxes received by corporate fax machines in the 90s were ads.

  • Drop in U.S. Religiosity Among Largest in World

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  • That, and the reason it's happening to a larger extent in the US than elsewhere is that the US is pretty much the only place where the prosperity gospel has any significance.

  • US: Used E.V. Sales Take Off as Prices Plummet. Electric vehicles on the used market often cost less than comparable gasoline models, making the technology affordable to many more buyers.

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  • To some extent that, to some extent that people notice concerns more than refutations of concerns.

    In the early days of electric vehicles, there were legitimate concerns about what would happen as the battery aged. None of them had aged before, and other devices (e.g. phones) were known to experience pretty severe battery degradation over time. People remember this concern. They do not remember that this turned out to be much less of a problem than anticipated, because good news doesn't circulate nearly as widely as bad news.

  • US: Used E.V. Sales Take Off as Prices Plummet. Electric vehicles on the used market often cost less than comparable gasoline models, making the technology affordable to many more buyers.

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  • I think the concern is that the previous owner might have abused the car, but the same concern applies to combustion engines.

  • AOC reacts to question if Chuck Schumer should remain leader

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  • She's in the House, Schumer is in the Senate. It'd be like asking a fireman to put out a fire while he and his truck are two counties over, and complaining when they tell you to get help from your local fire station instead.

  • FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs

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  • I think that was separate, actually. Google also had an outage caused by them upgrading and not testing enough to notice that some config or command line parameter had been renamed, and they were hounding the bugtracker as if they had a 30 second SLA. Somehow them having an outage and not having the presence of mind to roll back the upgrade was supposed to be an emergency for an unpaid volunteer.

  • What old movies hold up because of a lack of special effects or because clever use of effects?

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  • Kubrick was in charge of faking the moon landing, but he insisted on shooting it on location.

  • turing completeness

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  • Does following the 3 laws of robotics increase profits? Does ignoring them increase profits? Are tech bros empty husks without a shred of shame or empathy? Is this too many rhetorical questions in a row?

  • Trump says he'll issue $2,000 tariff dividend to all except 'high-income people'

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  • It'll probably work, too, if he does it a month before midterms.

  • Washington’s struggling economy takes another economic hit from the government shutdown

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  • For those wondering, this is talking about Washington, DC, not the state.

  • '2026 will be a blood bath': MAGA says 'warning signs are flashing' after blowout losses

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  • It's okay, the laws will only apply to democrats

  • Mamdani wins New York City mayor’s race

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  • There were last minute funny ads at least, but I don't think they did Cuomo any favors.

  • ICE pushes Chicago restaurants in immigrant neighborhoods into survival mode: ‘We are dying a slow death’

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  • They don't need those workers anyway after ICE kidnaps all the patrons.

  • Just to be clear this is the UFW Union flag. It was adopted by the late great Caesar Chavez. It is an important symbol for working class solidarity. My first real gallery piece heading out this week

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  • Your art is great. They're questioning the judgement of the flag designer, not the quality of your art.

    They chose the flag that they did, so what can you do? Not like you can redesign the flag without losing the reference.

  • But here we are

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  • Calvinism did a number on this country. "Good things happen to good people" -> "Bad things happen to bad people" -> "If you are poor you probably deserve it, so we shouldn't help you" -> "It's okay to give money to billionaires, they wouldn't be billionaires if they weren't good people".

    Corollary: "Even though poor people are bad and I'm broke, that doesn't mean I'm a bad person. I'm just a temporarily inconvenienced millionaire, thus a good person, so it's okay to help me specifically. But not the poor, they're bad."

  • Dear neighbor...

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  • That battery will be low for a long time before it is fully dead.

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    TIL Larry Silverstein, the leaseholder of the World Trade Center, secured insurance coverage for the complex, including terrorism risk, six weeks before the September 11, 2001 attacks.

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  • The Twin Towers were a known target for terrorists. There had been attempts before. Media portraying what would happen if the terrorists actually pull it off could hardly be called foreshadowing.

    There are also lots of movies of hurricanes or earthquakes wreaking havoc as well. Are those also "foreshadowing" and part of a conspiracy?