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socphoenix

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  • Drug dealer whose sentence was commuted by Trump found guilty of violating terms of his release

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  • While you are right on the federal level, you are wrong on the state level. Colorado did legalize it, from their own website:

    Retail cannabis is legal in Colorado

    See: Colorado.gov

    Wikipedia

  • Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task [edited post to change title and URL]

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  • I’d expect similar at least. When one doesn’t keep up to date on new information and lets their brain coast it atrophies like any other muscle would from disuse.

  • Argentina federal judge bars publication of audios attributed to Milei's sister

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  • That will definitely end speculation about corruption and restore Argentina’s morale!

  • Fewer People Are Reading for Fun, Study Finds | From 2003 to 2023, the share of Americans who read for pleasure fell 40 percent, a sharp decline that is part of a continuing downward trend.

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  • Maybe it’s just me but I lack the free time to get meaningful progress, if I’m lucky maybe 2-3 chapters a week by the time works and housekeeping is done. It often feels unrewarding to need to look back and remember the plot by the time I get back to the book

  • Why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment

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  • Could yes but they are definitely training new ai’s. So same as I’ve cut most meats out of my diet I’ll do the same with ai and talk loudly about how catastrophic their water and electricity usage is until it’s no longer true. Both are not good for the environment and both are completely unnecessary to our survival.

  • Why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment

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  • They only raise beef once too unless you’re pretending there only one ai model ever trained you’re purposefully trying to create a false narrative.

  • Why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment

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  • *as long as we don’t count the shit load of electricity spent training the model.

  • Apple made a 24k gold and glass statue for Donald Trump

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  • That looks like their laptop “gold” coloring so I’m gonna guess it’s not real gold.

  • What things that are legal today could become illegal in 50 years?

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  • Exactly! When we gamed out the cost, it was almost double for the loan. Oil changes cost double (there’s your $40 every 3-6months), and the parts were vastly more expensive. So we only pulled even renting a truck a 3x a week. At 80k I’d need to be pulling something daily more than 10 miles 7 days a week to beat the cost of renting a vehicle.

    Nevermind there’s basically nothing I can buy that can’t be delivered from say Home Depot without me needing a truck.

  • What things that are legal today could become illegal in 50 years?

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  • It’s insane how much trucks have skyrocketed in price! My wife’s job occasionally needs a truck so we had considered one as our second vehicle years ago and ended up figuring it was cheaper to own a car counting total cost of ownership unless we used the bed/hitch more than 3 times a week and that was at 40-50k… it’s like they’re allergic to money.

  • Kentucky man wakes during organ harvesting procedure, prompting federal investigation

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  • The sad thing is we desperately need people to stay organ donors if organ transplants that save lives are to stay a thing and these ethical catastrophes that should lead to mass arrests instead end with people leaving the registry and seemingly 0 consequences for the ghouls that caused the issue…

    It’s not unlikely this will cause shortages for people in need that was completely preventable due to greed and capitalism.

  • Missouri governor repeals paid sick leave law approved last year by voters

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  • Anecdotally, it’s both. Most of the people I talked to would be very pro Republican but then talk about how they didn’t understand why we didn’t make weed legal or help people in poverty* or whatever the ballot initiative was.

    *aid or minimum wage and stuff was often times very dependent on phrasing. They liked the ideas but only if they thought of people they liked. If you let them run long enough they’d eventually start talking about “druggies” or something like that to justify why $7.25 was where they’d rather leave the minimum wage for example. Or start riffing on how McDonald’s workers shouldn’t make as much as they did typing at a computer doing “real work”

  • Singapore Workshop owner gets jail, fine for illegally modifying motorcycles' exhaust

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  • According to the article he needed a license to sell modified exhausts, yes. So the fine and jail time were for that.

  • Missouri governor repeals paid sick leave law approved last year by voters

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  • The weirdest thing when I lived there was ANY liberal ballot measure was basically guaranteed to pass, but straight down the ticket only republicans won their elections guaranteeing this kind of outcome in the state.

  • Singapore Workshop owner gets jail, fine for illegally modifying motorcycles' exhaust

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  • So he sold parts he wasn’t allowed to sell without a license, that he didn’t have. This outcome shouldn’t be shocking to anyone. All he had to do was wait for the license like anyone else who applied.

  • Huge fines coming for Californians caught by drone with illegal fireworks

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  • Plus it’s outside where there already is t an expectation of privacy? It’s always been legal in the US to take photos from the street/sky for evidence

  • UFC confirms Trump's plan to host a fight at White House in 2026

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  • I think the mistake we (myself included) tend to make is assuming people have any intelligence on average.

  • any advice on buying a window AC unit?

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  • I’ve been told this everywhere I’ve rented with different reasons ranging from it’ll put undue stress on the sill, liability (non first floor apartment would’ve been bad if it fell out), and the current ones thought was they tend to leak water which can damage the pain and then damage the sill.

  • any advice on buying a window AC unit?

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  • Long as the landlord isn’t regularly coming by the property for inspections then yeah fair