TaurenHunter

No, it is not. Instead of allowing the one-time Covid emergency spending to expire, your guy kept spending at that level. It will take time and effort to undo all that damage.

Reminds me of the Tuareg peoples.

Don't be a IYI, learn something: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003

An idea that looks good on paper but can be disastrous in reality. Interconnected systems increase exposure to cyber threats.

The study found that strong endorsement of liberal postmodern beliefs - such as skepticism of absolute truths and emphasis on subjective experiences - was significantly associated with left-wing authoritarian tendencies.

This included support for progressive ideologies such as censorship and revolutionary measures to address social inequalities.

Notably, the research contrasted this contemporary form of postmodernism with earlier iterations from the 1960s and 1970s, which broadly rejected authority in all domains.

Orkut was one American social network that barely had any American content because it was taken over by Brazilians.

I clicked the link wondering if it would be about this "Arnold the Cat" or perhaps related to Simon's Cat:

https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780316638111

That reaction is due to the recent app updates, but the device has been solid for years. Even after the update fiasco, it is still a great appliance.

The cartoon "The Disappointed Abolitionists" that prefaces the article, is about the case involving the fugitive slave of John Darg who stole $7000 from him, fled, and was harbored and assisted by African American abolitionist and writer David Ruggles, Quaker arbitrator Barney Corse, and Quaker abolitionist Isaac T. Hopper (1).

Corse had arbitrated a deal with Darg that in exchange for the return of the money, the slave’s freedom would be granted, and a small stipend would be paid to Corse.

The arbitration was discovered and annulled by the New York police who then arrested Ruggles and Corse, although they eventually won the slave’s freedom. The illustrator seems to criticize the Quakers and Ruggles for their supposed timidity and self-interest when confronted by the slave owner.

In the cartoon, Quaker Isaac Hopper says: “Verily friend Darg since we have returned thee thy money, I claim the reward of $1000. Brother Barney Corse was merely my Agent, verily!!”

David Ruggles: “I don’t like the looks of this affair. I’m afraid my pickings will not amount to much!”

White Man Barney Corse (Quaker arbitrator): “Yea verily I was but thy instrument Brother Hopper as Brother Ruggles here knoweth!

Man with a Chair: "Of all the d—-d pieces of impudence I ever know, this surpasses! Reward indeed! Get out of the house! The only reward you deserve is the halter or the States Prison, you scoundrels!”

--- (1) Quakers were a Christian denomination very involved in human rights since the 17th century.

Thank you for mentioning the windmill problem. Great insights!

https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/windmills

"More Agents is all you need" https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05120

I could not find a "Agents considered harmful" related to AI, but there is this one: "AgentHarm: A benchmark for measuring harmfulness of LLM agents" https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.09024

This "Agents considered harmful" is not AI-related: https://www.scribd.com/document/361564026/Math-works-09

This image shows how it was in Brazil around 2006:

the general manager of Worldwide Anti-Piracy at Microsoft, Keith Beeman, looking at the copies of Windows Vista and Office 2007 sold on Sao Paulo streets for R$10 (something like 5 USD).

https://web.archive.org/web/20070119230014im_/http://g1.glob...

No, there is no need to assume "hordes of people", just the top echelon, the ones knowing the real situation.

The hordes of people you have in mind are very malleable and are easily conducted.

One example: https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/tv-anchors-decryi...

They have messed up so much in this election that it must have been on purpose.

No need to get emotional.

We agree that there was a good reason for Trudeau to not be in power for a while.

I am just focusing on the timing and history.

It wouldn't be a conspiracy, just strategic thinking.

It wouldn't be the first time in history where one party/group/individual decides to relinquish power anticipating some crisis:

- Sulla was a dictator who retired before the collapse of the Roman republic. - The British handed over power to India before the communal violence escalated. - Nixon resigned to avoid the spectacle of impeachment.

Someone in power may be able to better see some things inevitably coming and bail out sooner to avoid the worse.

You said Trudeau was unpopular for years and yet only now he's leaving.

For liberals to give up power in both Canada and US so hurriedly, there must something really bad brewing that they don't want to be blamed for.

'unimaginable sums of money’ considered harmful.

That must be because they see AI as the next step in human evolution.

Other notable constants and where they show up:

Euler–Mascheroni Constant (integrals and sums involving the harmonic series, Gamma functions)

Catalan’s Constant (certain trigonometric series, lattice Green’s function)

Feigenbaum Constants (logistic map, chaos in dynamical systems)

Khinchin’s Constant (partial quotients in simple continued fractions)

Glaisher–Kinkelin Constant (asymptotic expansions of the Barnes G-function, combinatorial limits and certain product expansions)

Ramanujan’s Constant (complex multiplication of elliptic curves)

Omega Constant (Omega times e to the power of Omega = 1, Lambert W function, x^x^x^... = 2)

This is related:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternions_and_spatial_rotati...

It was very cute, like a feline golden retriever.

If you started with a galaxy that is a nearly uniform ball, the gas and bodies near the equator would attract the gas and bodies that are further out.

Those further out would tend to collapse towards the equator and eventually that initial ball would become more disk shaped.

Then there is this explanation refering to the conservation of angular momentum: https://van.physics.illinois.edu/ask/listing/18318

> Insurance did not pay all the claims, including one ambulance bill. And Lindsay said the family received a letter this summer suggesting they owe an additional $11,300 for Brigland’s care. While the landmark No Surprises Act protects patients from many out-of-network bills in emergencies, the law controversially exempted bills for ground ambulances.

That is probably analogous to what happens in the American healthcare sector with physicians/hospitals/insurance carriers/pharma/etc. Each one padding their bills making it horrendously expensive for everyone at the end of the chain.

The article seems to be only justifying the waste without going near the well-established fact that butter is made of milk.

If you have allergy you're supposed to know butter is made of milk, or no?

What am I missing?

That reminds me of the documentary Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcHbZZPce_ZMUuYr5u6sx...

See Gresham's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law