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If I was trying to astroturf anti union sentiments this is the sort of stuff I'd post

I only ever see "Pray for the people of Israel" ads which is basically thinly veiled "fuck Palestine" messaging

"We tried but this unpaid volunteer didn't cooperate by continuing to work for free"

Unfortunately three letter agencies are going after exit node operators and threatening them in pretty fucked up ways. I think there's also likely some issues with very wide spread use of government owned nodes to be able to deanonymize people

Range in EVs is impacted very little by weight

This stupid hazing ritual is only happening because of the AMA, which is doing it for really stupid "because we had to" logic.

I don't think it's incompetence, I think it's planned, merciless strategy. It costs nearly nothing to fire a ton of people, so why not hire a bunch with free money and dump them as soon as the free money disappears

It goes on to say it'll be reviewed by independent third party so I think "declare" is accurate, they're declaring a milestone

Around $350 to $400 billion from a couple sources I saw, but it's a lot of speculation

Desire isn’t really the right word. A riverbank doesn’t desire to route water. It’s just what it does when you introduce water.

Why do we need journalists in a military building that is presumably full of classified information and people having conversations about said information? I was surprised to hear this was even a thing, it seems really odd to me.

If I was tasked to start the Pentagon from scratch and was asked, “should we setup a system to provide offices and constant access to journalists?” I’d be like, fuck no, what a dumb distraction.

Members of the military should not be talking to the press about their work while at work. Sure, talk off the record, just don’t do it at work. And talk as an individual, not as a representative of the military.

Unless of course your job is literally PR for the military. In which case maybe go to the journalist.

It is mental effort to have to recognize what is triggering you and to take positive action to fix it. The radio is more symbolic of having to do it 40 times a day across all the things you find triggering, or having to find ways to live your life outside common neurotypical ways that take more energy. For example, finding dishes clinking to be really triggering means I have to use ear protection to unload the dishwasher, and if I can’t find ear protection that I have to spend time looking around for it, and now dishes have taken me 3 minutes longer than it would someone else. Over a dozen instances a day of something like this adds up

Brave in iOS and yeah. Pinch to zoom better on images sucked, the auto zoom effect cut off the part it was trying to highlight on my smaller phone, and various other jumpy problems

my understanding is post docs are virtually all on J1 visas, which is a meaningful part of uni hiring

i also thought i wasnt disabled/traumatized for a long time until i came across reading material of symptoms that perfectly described me, and life experiences that perfectly match my own.

trauma and disability can look like a lot of things, and the things in your life that you may think aren't a big deal actually can be, and you have no idea because you've never had it any other way.

realizing i have intense trauma and C-PTSD and a real disability made me shame myself so significantly less, and while it doesnt make me act like a victim or that im helpless, it gives me a butt load of compassion for myself. because the real basic things that people find easy, i find difficult, and to get the same results requires 3x more effort for me. people can view this as me being lazy when in reality im working much harder than they are.

not trying to diagnose you. maybe just keep an open mind, because the way your life is operating is not typical, and there's probably reasons for that.

Happiness is not a single metric you can use to determine what is best. The most rewarding lives are ones where you can sacrifice for something meaningful to you. Sacrificing to have a rewarding, independent life without children may not be the easiest life, but it’s definitely not an any way inferior to a “happier” one raising kids. Because of this, that statistic, even if accurate, doesn’t matter. And doesn’t suggest that anyone should go raise a family.

I don’t think people want to murder for opinions, but rather the actions they take because of this opinions.

It’s also irrefutable fact that pro-state or pro-cop agitators throughout history will pretend to be a demonstrator and throw a single brick to give the cops an excuse to break some skulls

Infringement, not theft :)

Yeah the corporate bootlicking around all of this is weird. We’ve hated patent trolls and Disney’s abuse/corruption of the copyright system and record label lawsuits, but suddenly intellectual property is great?

‘Member journalism? When any effort was actually made for news articles?

You mean like the one we carry on us 24 7?

Agreed, it’s bad form to comment about this but good god is this writing bad. It’s like the first 5 paragraphs were repeating the same thing and only changing the wording

This seems factually incorrect? There are massively more scientists on X than bluesky, and they seem to engage in their profession on X all the time.

The scientists I know personally are actually using LinkedIn the most for discussions around their work, and extremely rarely using any platform other than LinkedIn for this

I would rather every vehicle be high quality autonomous than humans, I think if all cars could signal both their locations and intentions we’d probably never have accidents and save millions of lives

My worst personal quality is that while I tip extremely well for everything (like $15 for a $40 haircut) I absolutely refuse to leave tips almost always for Ubers. I will if it was genuinely good service, a clean car that doesn’t have a gallon of fragrance in it that I’m massively allergic to, and the driver either leaves me alone or has a nice convo with me when it’s clear I’m trying to engage in one, and drives safely. However the combination of these things is really uncommon, and I’m usually very unhappy with at least one aspect of the ride.

On the flip side I very rarely take Ubers so my shitty obstinance here doesn’t have a big impact

I was also really salty when they decided to make tips a huge part of it. I hate tipping culture despite tipping very well. And if you read the subreddit for drivers they are constantly complaining about how people tip, and complaining that even 20% is not anywhere near enough

It seems to greatly reduce odors for me? Maybe placebo effect but it does seem to help a lot.

Also when someone farts it’s the particles that smell bad, not the air itself

Being charged the same percentage of income is still the same punishment. It’s a non-controversial concept in economics that there is a marginal utility to money, as in, if you have a billion dollars, then getting an extra hundred doesn’t give you more utility. However a struggling family would be thrilled at a hundred bucks and maybe that means eating for the next several days. These people should not be charged with the same static dollar amount.

This is why I fly with an N95 regardless of Covid risk lol

That’s not what they mean. ADHD is a legitimate and sometimes debilitating disability that involves significantly more than being distracted, and distraction is not even really the right word for ADHD