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pacerwpgon US tech firms pledge at White House to bear costs of energy for datacenters

I don't care about pledges. Pledges mean nothing.

pacerwpgon I used AI-powered calorie counting apps, and they were even worse than expected

You're offloading understanding what you're eating to a sentence generating algorithm. You might as well just eat Soylent if you're going to use an LLM for nutrition tracking.

pacerwpgon I used AI-powered calorie counting apps, and they were even worse than expected

Cool, it can replace myfitnesspal features from 10 years ago, but do them worse.

Revolutionary.

pacerwpgon How the US economy went from booming to a recession scare in only 20 days

100% correct.

The executive branch removing even the concept of stability and predictability from the US markets has nothing to do with it. It's that darn press and the Democrats!

Want to have a good idea of the costs of your business inputs? Sorry, not possible. You have to guess if it's going to be roughly the same or 50% more in a week. You have to sit and wait for what one man decides. That's a great environment for running a business.

pacerwpgon COPD is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States

An unbelievably bad faith take. The original story uses CDC as their source of information. If you're willing to accept that and blame it on the jab, then you have to accept that stats showing no significant change using the same data source.

pacerwpgon COPD is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7149a3.htm#:~:text=...

It was the sixth leading cause in 2020 before anybody was vaccinated. It was unbelievably easy to check this. It makes me wonder why you didn't bother.

pacerwpgon Google Maps to Rename 'Gulf of Mexico' to 'Gulf of America' for US Users

Stupidity was certainly taken advantage of in November.

pacerwpgon Bankruptcy judge rejects sale of Infowars to The Onion

Just FYI, the plaintiffs lawyers (not necessarily the court) was requesting financial documents that FSS LLC are required by law to have. They had two years to comply and did not.

Also FYI 'a trial was never held' is a common talking point used by Alex Jones on his program. He and his lawyers are responsible for there not being a trial. Their conduct guaranteed that there was no trial. It's a farce for him to complain about something that he is responsible for.

pacerwpgon Bots on X worse than ever: analysis of 1M tweets during first primary debate

> “We look at patterns of accounts that are discussing the debate topics, and during the interview as well, that are posting the same or similar content or the same links repeatedly within five seconds of each other,” he says.

> If two accounts did this five times, the researchers took this as a sign that they were automated accounts.

It sounds like they were pretty specific in how they identified the bot accounts.

pacerwpgon Amazon Will Start Charging Prime Members for US Grocery Orders of Less Than $150

Acknowledge reality?

pacerwpgon Realistic daily range of an electric vehicle

But that doesn't make a very good mobile status symbol.

pacerwpgon U.S. life expectancy drops sharply, the second consecutive decline

Damn, you haven't been cancelled yet, how did you get around this world of censorship?

pacerwpgon Covid “Fudge Factor” – A map of Covid data corruption and approach that worked

Age adjusted or nah?

Turns out non-covid mortality is significantly higher in unvaccinated.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7043e2.htm

pacerwpgon Covid “Fudge Factor” – A map of Covid data corruption and approach that worked

Would you mind providing a link that supports your conclusion.

pacerwpgon Covid “Fudge Factor” – A map of Covid data corruption and approach that worked

200,000 working age people in the US dying isn't nothing. It could also be explained by disabilities as a result of COVID and people unable to work as a result of that.

pacerwpgon Covid “Fudge Factor” – A map of Covid data corruption and approach that worked

I'm calling bullshit.

pacerwpgon Covid “Fudge Factor” – A map of Covid data corruption and approach that worked

We cannot continue to live under the tyranny of sometimes wearing a mask.

pacerwpgon Covid “Fudge Factor” – A map of Covid data corruption and approach that worked

Of note, the 'more death early and less death later' resulted in significantly more death overall. It wasn't a wash.

pacerwpgon Covid “Fudge Factor” – A map of Covid data corruption and approach that worked

Interestingly the economies of the world seem to be fairing worse now that lockdowns have lifted and there are labor shortages in every area.

The effects of people dying and the unchecked spread of illness were ignored with calls of "you're killing the economy!".

pacerwpgon Covid “Fudge Factor” – A map of Covid data corruption and approach that worked

Especially when you consider that countries with stricter lockdowns had considerably lower excess deaths. People just want to be contrarian about this for whatever reason and throw everything they can think of against the wall.

pacerwpgon Incidence of Myocarditis and Pericarditis in Post Covid-19 Unvaccinated Patients

This study is tracking post-acute onset of pericarditis and myocarditis and as such doesn't appear to cover cases where pericarditis or myocarditis happen during acute infection.

pacerwpgon Volt, Australia's first online-only bank, shuts down due to fund-raising woes

Were they having troubles accepting deposits?

pacerwpgon Netflix cuts 300 more jobs after subscriptions fall

In what sense did it become their public face? You ask anybody about Netflix and the odds are they're going to be referencing Stranger Things or a year ago Squid Game.

I imagine most people have forgotten about it

pacerwpgon Netflix cuts 300 more jobs after subscriptions fall

What does ultra woke even mean? It seems like these threads are just an excuse for people to come and bitch about their personal pet peeves and blame whatever problems exist on it.

pacerwpgon Netflix cuts 300 more jobs after subscriptions fall

They distributed Cuties but it was fully produced before that. Greenlit implies they had a hand in funding the production.

pacerwpgon Peter Thiel helped build big tech. Now he wants to tear it all down

What conservative 'way of thinking' do people get kicked off of social media for?

pacerwpgon Carmakers feel chip crisis easing

You can believe both. The salesperson and dealer don't necessarily have the same desires.

pacerwpgon Janet Yellen admits she was wrong about inflation being transitory

It's a shame there isn't a normalized chart available. It makes a concerning situation very hard to read.

pacerwpgon Janet Yellen admits she was wrong about inflation being transitory

> Before May 2020, M2 consists of M1 plus (1) savings deposits (including money market deposit accounts); (2) small-denomination time deposits (time deposits in amounts of less than $100,000) less individual retirement account (IRA) and Keogh balances at depository institutions; and (3) balances in retail money market funds (MMFs) less IRA and Keogh balances at MMFs.

> Beginning May 2020, M2 consists of M1 plus (1) small-denomination time deposits (time deposits in amounts of less than $100,000) less IRA and Keogh balances at depository institutions; and (2) balances in retail MMFs less IRA and Keogh balances at MMFs. Seasonally adjusted M2 is constructed by summing savings deposits (before May 2020), small-denomination time deposits, and retail MMFs, each seasonally adjusted separately, and adding this result to seasonally adjusted M1.

> For more information on the H.6 release changes and the regulatory amendment that led to the creation of the other liquid deposits component and its inclusion in the M1 monetary aggregate, see the H.6 announcements and Technical Q&As posted on December 17, 2020.

Source for the additional information is the link in your post.

pacerwpgon Behold GoldenEye 007 with four screens – dream come true or travesty?

Ah cool, interesting!