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Corruption is worsening and never attenuates on its own. We need a third party devoted to indiscriminately tackling the problem. Problem is, the people who pick and choose which politicians win will never allow it, because they are significant benefactors and fostered this duopoly to begin with.

Khan Academy was free and used to obtain 99th percentile SAT scores. Academic resources for success are abundantly available, but they require discipline, time, and effort.

The last movie we attended people were incredibly disruptive throughout the film, to the point that it was difficult to focus on the film. Some people enjoy screaming, laughing, and talking as part of the experience, but it's apparently been normalized beyond my tolerance threshold. Add in the cost and overall movie quality decrease of Hollywood productions, and it's difficult to justify.

Presently, we watch foreign movies at home 95% of the time and maybe a Hollywood production when they manage to find their roots and create something worth watching.

Once you figured out a training system, it was easy to pump out 7x GMs. UOAssist was incredibly helpful to reduce the tedium and automate it.

My preferred methods at the time, sneaking/breaking into houses, stealing, and ganking/PKing unsuspecting souls (emphasis on graveyards, dungeons, and miners). Stealing items, often the offensive spell reagents, out of someone's bag before a fight made for no shortage of quality interactions.

It was a sad day when UO introduced Trammel.

My nontechnical friends only know about ChatGPT, all other LLMs are a complete and total mystery to them outside of what is built into Google's search engine and Copilot. I imagine they represent the majority of consumers. It'd require significant marketing campaign for most of them to switch or for OpenAI to make a substantial mistake.

It's worse than that, Condé Nast is owned by Advance Publications.

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

They own a depressing number of "local" newspapers to project excessive influence.

The only game I regularly play refuses to pay their anti-cheat for Linux support. After Windows 10 support ends, my gaming days are probably over.

It's rare to find local newspapers owned locally, and even rarer to find a local newspaper that's a fair representation of the local population instead of an insulated clique with heavy handed control over what's represented.

Local online forums dedicated to a locality produce more representative content and everyone can participate as long as their isn't a similar controlling clique in charge of moderation. See /r/Seattle and /r/SeattleWA for how moderation manipulates outcomes. Both perspectives are important, but each clique tends to omit what others deem important; leading to topic over-representation/under-representation problems.

There's clearly a loss on long forum informational pieces, but your community is misinformed or misrepresented if those pieces only support the motives of the clique.

The overall food quality in Germany is significantly higher than in the US. Visit an Aldi or Lidl in Germany, then visit one in the US; night and day difference in food quality.

You can tell Germany cares for its population via food regulation and from what's offered; whereas, it's a toxic trash heap in America solved with drugs or paying a higher premium for healthier items. The healthier items in America should be a baseline instead of pricing out people. Feels like Americans are paying for a premium upfront or downstream via pharmaceutical/healthcare solutions.

This, and most law schools are businesses capturing student debt and too many law students foster a flawed perception of legal practice. There's a surplus of debt-laden law graduates who are unemployed, underemployed, or working in completely different fields. Transitioning to an apprenticeship styled career path would help solve the significant mismatching that's occurring. Too many people misspending their youth and incurring debt by falling for law school marketing ploys.

Turn Tier-1 law schools and state flagship law schools into legal scholarship graduate studies for people interested in pursuing highbrow judicial work.

I've never seen it in a tree, but I do see some owners leaving their crap bags on hiking trails and often forgetting about them on the return trip. I'd rather they let the dog poop in the forest instead of encapsulating it in a plastic bag until a Good Samaritan picks it up.

Texas and most other states should push for additional freedom in this space. Anyone who can pass the state's bar exam, should be allowed to practice law. Let the legal market sort out the rest from there.

California, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington already allow people to practice law within their states without attending law school, but via "reading the law" type apprenticeships. Extending this nationally would benefit lawyers and the people who need them.

I sincerely hope it works out this way instead of pricing out open sourced development. A couple open sourced projects changed their licensing to help mitigate the increased cost burden from skyrocketing hardware costs. It'll be a sad and potentially dangerous day if most people are permanently priced out.

It's absurd, I've blocked outgoing connections for all home devices and appliances by default. The printer and TV were some of the worst culprits.

Waking up to chaos. Nice.

Wait until Congress figures out about all the new "free" games pouring out of China, each requiring kernel level anti-cheat software to operate in the background.

While we're still a fair distance away from creating polished products capable of replacing Hollywood gatekeeping; the bursting of the creative dam is on the horizon and it's exciting! I'm looking forward to when you can write a script and effectively make your own series or movie. Tweaking it as you go to fit your vision without the exhausting a large amount of resources, capital, and human networking to produce similar products pre-AI.

We see muskrats swimming along our shoreline at least once a week. They're very skittish and once you spook them into the water, they don't pop back up within visible range. I think they're relatively uncommon around here due to most properties installing anti-erosion structures along their shorelines--a seawall or riprap with metal mesh. Also, we still have a healthy amount of predators, eagles, hawks, foxes, raccoons, pollutants and speeding cars.

Sad to see the clear decline in muskrat numbers.

While overall automated traffic is a problem, I'm a bit more concerned about bots in comment sections or social media in particular. Unfortunately, bad actors are deploying them to shift public opinion in ways I don't think we fully comprehend and are deeply underestimating the negative effects. Political parties, foreign interference, public relations firms, etc... It's unsettling to think about.

I've often seen freshly posted articles covering a controversial geopolitical topic and within less than 2-3 minutes the comment section is inundated with similarly aligned comments all liked or upvoted to immediately place them at the top of section. But, it gets better, opposing opinion comments are poorly constructed disliked or down voted. Of course, there's the chance that I'm completely wrong, but I cannot shake the feeling that it is not organic human interaction taking place.

Anyone know how liability works in this situation?

The article is missing significant context surrounding "reducing bycatch," so I'll try to provide a little.

Bycatching is a problem, because you have large trawler fleets drag netting for a specific species, like pollock; but, since nets do not discriminate, they also catch other fish and animals, including thousands of chinook. Those same fleets fishing for other species are involved in community development quota programs that share a portion of their profits with tribal Bering Sea coastal communities.

The Bering Sea communities are extremely dependent on such subsidies and a restriction on the trawlers to the benefit of Yukon and Kushkokwim tribes, comes at the detriment of Bering Sea tribes.

It's a weird situation.

When Powerball makes the news for having a huge jackpot, we purchase a few tickets with relevant family numbers. The tickets always generate ridiculous conversations of what we'd do with the winnings, and assessing how those conversations change each time is more than worth the occasional few dollars spent on it.

We're very aware of the probabilities involved.

Recently endured a significant case of post-traveling influenza, I was absolutely useless for 5 days and required a full month to recover fully. The flu is definitely nothing to joke about.

Real estate is insane. Land I was scouting in anticipation of buying to build a retirement home have become unaffordable. I'm talking increases of 300% in value between 2020 to today. The spike in value came out of nowhere, I honestly cannot explain it.

US government and politicians would not care if not for the greed of large food corporations lobbying for absurd restrictions that only large corporate farms can economically afford to follow. This effectively pushes small farms out of business and they eat gobble up the market share. On top of this, only about 15 cents of every dollar goes back to farmers, the remaining amount pays for processing and marketing. The US food system is insane and WAY overpriced, due in large part to corporate greed.

Yep, I realized I was using Chrome out of nothing but habit and convivence. Made a concerted effort to switch to Firefox, Mullvad, and Tor.

Just to piggy back, people need to be aware how degraded their legal protections have become over the past two decades. For example, mens rea protections are becoming nonexistent, because certain administrations have eroded them and they may disappear if people don't stop voting for the political entities pushing for their erasure. It's an incredibly dangerous situation that most Americans are completely unaware of.

We made the mistake of expecting Amazon to continue improving their Prime Video selection and Alexa smart home device dominance, and they've completely nose dived since around Bezos' departure. Once we realized the devices were only useful to us as Spotify speakers or making announcements, and, Prime video selection was becoming infested with ads or ad infused content (Freevee); we Sold all the devices and cancelled our Prime subscription.

Cutting the cable originally meant decoupling from wasting time on nonstop marketing BS, but here we are again. I guess it was inevitable and great while it lasted, but time to cut the cable version 2. New smart home and streaming setup is independent and flexible, no more investing in anything linked to Amazon, Apple, or similar.

This article is dubious.