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scarabic

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  • Go stroke your lobes bro

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  • Go stroke your lobes bro

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  • I guess I can see some ways that “lady” or “ladies” could sound sleazy but I’m surprised if this is someone’s first or only association. “Lady” is literally a landed title, the equivalent of “Lord,” and the highly dignified counterpart to “gentleman.”

  • Go stroke your lobes bro

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  • I think we often forget about “young man” and “young woman.”

    When someone is too young to safely call a woman, “young woman” is quite a compliment and gives her the respect of an adult anyway. If someone is just barely too old to be called a girl, they will probably find it neutral enough. And if someone is much too old to be called a girl they will appreciate it as flattery.

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  • Speaking generously, I can see what you mean. But I think people only have this problem when they are used to calling people “girls” far too long. If you shake that bad habit, you won’t find yourself coming into conflict with these terms so often.

    May I suggest the term “young women” as a highly respectful way to refer to younger folks. And if you are truly in doubt or referring to a mixed group, “ladies” is an alternative too.

    I don’t recommend “chicks.” Some people are okay with it but many are not. A chick is a newly hatched bird, so this is quite infantilizing.

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  • I’m going to adopt that as a personal reading rule, right up there with “if the headline ends with a question mark, the answer is no.”

  • Could the United States lose the war in Iran? Why one professor thinks it will happen

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  • I knew someone would call it 4D chess but I’m not suggesting mad genius. I’m just maybe waiting for the other shoe to drop.

  • Could the United States lose the war in Iran? Why one professor thinks it will happen

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  • Which makes you wonder if it’s chapter 1 in some other plan.

  • Could the United States lose the war in Iran? Why one professor thinks it will happen

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  • He has another long YT video about how immigration ruined Canada. Full of stereotypes.

    I get that when you want to talk about geopolitics you have to generalize a bit, but this guy generalizes hard multiple times per sentence, these big crystal palaces out of those generalizations and then fashions predictions based on the layout of those palaces. It’s all a bit facile.

    Speaking of easy, someday we will realize that this is a guy who predicted Trump would win and that there would be a war with Iran and those two things are not exactly Nostradamus-worthy.

    Still I like him. Good food for thought. He thinks about things at a very high level.

  • No evidence ADHD is being over-diagnosed, say experts

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  • I will just add one thing perhaps in contrast to this. But inasmuch as I’m offering an analysis of how people think about this, please don’t infer that I agree with them

    With some things, ADHD being one, I think the grumbling we hear is not really that there can’t be all these new cases suddenly. It’s that we’re pathologizing something that’s a normal part of being a kid.

    Again, I’m not saying ADHD is like that, just that “no one had this when I was a kid” isn’t the most on-point way to characterize people’s incredulity about ADHD. They think we’re over diagnosing it because we want to turn something into a problem, and turn boys into girls, and yadda yadda.

  • No evidence ADHD is being over-diagnosed, say experts

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  • Why do we need to have a study on this when we can just listen to grandpa’s opinion, planted in his mind by Fox News?

  • Israel launches ground invasion of Lebanon

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  • No apology necessary. It is very frustrating material. I hope you have a great weekend.

  • Iran is 'confident' it could counter a U.S. ground invasion, foreign minister says

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  • They got in there!

  • Netanyahu's son 'highly vulnerable target' while living in Miami as he dodges IDF reserve

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  • I heard while he was in Miami he created a pretty big mess for his dad when he stole a retired assassin’s car and killed his dog.

  • Iran is 'confident' it could counter a U.S. ground invasion, foreign minister says

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  • Without holding it, it’s pretty hard to even define what “succeeding in invading” even means.

  • Big-brained execs are outsourcing decisionmaking to AI

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  • I wish I were more surprised. The truth is I’ve been watching executives take their own intelligence out of the equation for some time.

    They’ll say “is there any data we can use to make this decision?” And there’s nothing wrong with that yet - more information is good.

    But they’ll press and press. “How are we going to measure outcomes? We need to agree on metrics first. What’s our OKR for this?”

    They need everything to be spelled out in black and white. Number go up or number go down. That way they don’t actually have to think.

    I’ve worked under some really good leaders who could see three steps ahead and knew where we were trying to go. They didn’t need to lay down data gathering instrumentation before taking any single step. They didn’t just throw A/B tests at a wall to see what stuck. But those days are behind me.

    Outsourcing the whole shit show to AI only makes sense once you’ve already abdicated all complex thought and judgment.

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  • Just making sure. Cheers

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  • Yeah I hope I made clear that while I know what they will say, I am not agreeing with it or justifying.

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  • Their farcical claim has been pretty visible for a while now: they need not only the land they consider sacred and theirs but also a security buffer around it. If pressed, they will explain how a security buffer is not just an arbitrary distance of land but possession of key surrounding geographic positions. And that requires them to go all the way to THIS map.

    Their acquisition of the Golan Heights set the template for this. Israel used to enjoy saying that they never started any of the conflicts, but even then they would admit that they annexed the Golan proactively because of its strategic positioning and key water sources in the area.

    Clearly they won’t be talking about how they never started any of the conflicts anymore. They think they have more to gain than lose by letting that claim go.

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  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    Sam Bankman-Fried is angling for a pardon from Trump

    gizmodo.com /sam-bankman-fried-thrown-into-solitary-over-tucker-carlson-interview-report-2000573371
  • cats @lemmy.world
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    Sisters hanging out, holding hands (and feet)

  • cats @lemmy.world
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    Cuddle train has left the station!

  • Gardening @lemmy.world
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    It’s not a proper gardening community without this posted at least once, so let’s get it out of the way :D

  • Gardening @lemmy.world
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    This potted succulent REALLY gave our doorstep some pizzazz this year