Pavement princess is my favored term for trucks that clearly have had work done but do no work.

One of the only Christmas movies I want to watch yearly is the BBC adaptation of Terry Pratchetts The Hog Father

Police responding to a shooting found Sanchez-McCray’s body in the early morning, according to early media reports, which misgendered her. Officers entered a home with an “unsecured door” and found Sanchez-McCray, who had suffered multiple gunshot wounds and died at the scene.

Damn, almost seems targeted

I like primer, but I'm not sure I really understand it even with all the charts and diagrams that are out there

The account has two comments from 10 months ago about how there is no real justification for using the atomic bombs on Japan, and this post. Really not sure what the dela is

IIUC the calculation of GDP doesn’t factor in whether the produced goods serve a human need - the system can in theory continue to optimize for ever-increasing GDP while every human on earth starves to death.

There's an old joke I remember about economists and the GDP.

Two economists are walking through the jungle and come across a gigantic pile of lion scat. One turns to the other and said I'll pay you 100$ to eat a bite of that shit.
Being an economists and 100$ being worth a lot, the guy eats the shit and gets paid.
A little while later they come across a pile of rhino dung. The now richer economist turns to the first and offers 100$ for him to take a bite out of this pile. 100$ is again a lot of money so he does it and eats the shit.
As they're walking along, both picking their teeth, one turns to the other and asks "did we both just eat shit for nothing?" And the other days "of course not, now the GDP of the jungle has increased by 200$!"

27 divided by 3 = 9
Wish spell once per day with no material components cost.

Diversity, Equality, Inclusion.

Yes, DEI is just the new name for "stop discriminating against non-white males"

The real comparison will be this thing vs a set of basic swim flippers.

Challenge accepted, deploying invisass

I've seen a similar thing where the machine learning model started associating rulers with cancer because the images it was fed with known cancer almost always also had a ruler to provide scale to measure the size of the tumor

Firefly vs lightning bug

I've always called them fireflies growing up but it seems like that's dependent on where you grew up

I'm most excited for fusion power generation. Currently we can ignite a fusion reaction but it takes more energy to control and contain it than you get back because it takes a huge amount of electricity to generate a magnetic field strong enough to contain the plasma. The strength of the magnetic field is proportional to the current flow, which is limited by how much cooling is required to maintain superconductivity. Without cooling taking a huge chunk of the power created by the fusion reaction we could net positive energy from the reaction and finally have a clean source of scalable nuclear power.

Enameled cast iron is definitely a thing, our le cruset Dutch oven is a work horse

We had a bob tailed void named Robert, the most loving and friendly cat I've ever met. Literally the only things he cared about were food and being loved on.
Only lived 5 years, congestive heart failure. Apparently he wasn't a true bob and the mutation that causes the shortened tail can also cause other health issues. issues

When my dogs are asleep and clearly dreaming they'll make little noises and twitches like they're running and barking in the dream and little bits of it make it to the surface

Can I vote for rotate 90° counter-clockwise? I know it's objectively wrong, but I also think it looks the nicest.

"An Ontario court ruled against popular clinical psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson and is upholding an order for him to receive social media sensitivity training or lose his license to practice medicine... The court declared Dr. Peterson’s activities as harmful to the public and damaging to the profession of psychology, with his statements threatening to erode public trust... ...He has not worked in clinical psychology since 2017,"

Article from August 2023 https://leaders.com/news/public-speaking/jordan-petersons-appeal-denied-requires-training-for-medical-license/

Behind the bastards podcast on JP https://youtu.be/v9zjjj8NP3g?si=_YSIx7AjAH4p-g3O

You practically need tech bro money to afford a ticket though don't you? The article says tickets are up to $2750, and while I know they go for less if you get lucky in the lottery or something like that they're still like 800-1000$ just to get in. Who can afford that just as the entry fee, let alone what ever you need to survive the desert for a week?

IThere's a pretty simple way to test the alarm, make it go off when your awake and waiting for it. Say the current time is 11:57, set the alarm for 12:00 and sit and wait for it to go off.