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‘The World Is Watching’: Top Economist Rips Newsom for Working to Tank Billionaire Wealth Tax
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Great. Show up to the primary and maybe nobody has to hold their nose to vote.
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‘The World Is Watching’: Top Economist Rips Newsom for Working to Tank Billionaire Wealth Tax
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Great. Show up to the primary and maybe nobody has to hold their nose to vote.
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We have brownouts in the summer and Kevin O'Leary wants a Data Center built here.
curious that O'Leary doesnt want to build that DC in Quebec. I wonder why. You'd think he'd want it close to home, since it's so good for the economy and all.
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i have to imagine new yorkers would be quite annoyed by this
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magic
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Because specific kinds of plastic (like polyurethane) undergo hydrolysis when exposed to moisture, which causes what you see in the op
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magic
On second thought maybe collecting things made of volatile petroleum compounds wasn't a good investment
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Photo of the moon's surface taken during the first extravehicular activity (EVA 1) of Apollo 12.
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The first would have been taken during Apollo 11, as that was the first manned mission to the surface of the moon.
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Three wishes
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Dear lord candlejack has retu
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3 die in France as temperatures to exceed 105 F in Europe heat wave
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brain dead take
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Created by dorks to keep us down
You can actually get to almost 10000 on your fingers using Bede's finger reckoning technique.
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Tipping
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Wait til you hear how they handle breaks
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Do LLMs "have" the "abillity" to be told they are wrong or incorrect and be able to contest that?
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That's a great observation —the sycophantic nature of ChatGPT can be really offputting when you're not used to the way the AI writes. Would you like:
I'm here to help. Just let me kn
can't do it anymore the bit isnt worth it ew ew ew
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bermuda triangle
Unfortunately they had to shut down the Bermuda Triangle due to austerity.
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How not to advertise 101!
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Okay, you're the one rational detergent actor. They don't have to get you. They want your mom, your neighbor, your boss. Your kid. Saturation works, it's literally proven. Repetition legitimizes. They do studies on this shit.
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How not to advertise 101!
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Yeah, but you still gotta buy laundry detergent. You are not immune to propaganda.
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At this point half the reason i use Lemmy is curse management. I can't tell you how many times a week I'll be going about my business and then wham, I get hit with a curse. The other day I sat down to eat dinner and found that my burrito was full of spiders. The spirit that haunts my apartment block sure does have a sense of humor. Not sure if he was a shaman or a wizard or what. I'd move, but the rent is cheap, and sometimes the curses have a silver lining. My kitchen tap ran red with blood the other day, so I made sausage. Tastes awful, but probably saved me a good $40 with the amount I was able to fit in the freezer. Anyway, I appreciate the semi-regular curse-lifting I get from lemmyshitpost.
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How not to advertise 101!
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Look, all I'm saying is what you're expressing now is fucking textbook, dude. There is no way you have a complete list of every brand that has ever pissed you off. Heightened emotional arousal makes you more suggestible. Not less. As long you're human, that's how it works. And understanding that, understanding that you are not immune to propaganda, is the first step in fighting back. Not violent fantasies, or visions of revolution, not by "if only everyone else would..." Not by getting pissed off, even though they're infuriating. By avoiding them when you can, and trying not to react when you do see them.
Edit: On a reread my tone here sucks. My apologies. Clearly I need to take my own advice about not getting pissed off about stuff a screen puts in my face. I stand by what I said, not by how I said it. I hope you have a good night.
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Tipping
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The service I got was slow. I come here all the time, so i should know how things should be around here. My waiter sucks, I demand that he be fired.
[Paraphrased, but this is actual feedback I got the day before mothers day, when our dishwasher was broken. And yes, he stiffed me, because of course]
I've also had a father tell his children that "tipping is optional and they should be happy with 5%" after I spent an hour and a half busting ass for his family's ridiculous requests. After taxes and tip out 5% can literally be less than zero into your waiter's pocket, fwiw.
Y'all suck. I assume anyone I see bitching about waitstaff getting tips, or implying they dont tip, is an asshole, because IME those are the complaints of an asshole. Tipping culture in general is a whole other topic that there can be reasoned and nuanced discussions about, but if your take is "tipping sucks and I don't have to," then you are willingly taking advantage of a system that denies people of the fruits of their labor.
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California forces Disneyland's Autopia to change or get shut down
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They could replace it with an area that has a bunch of different modes of transit and gives you a scavenger hunt of bus stops as a goal, maybe with flavor of the week interactive futurism/science exhibits at each one they have to write down a fact about. It could handle thousands of guests, and have infinite replayability. Collect all the badges. Kids would love it, parents would see it as STEM enrichment, and everyone would secretly be learning how to read timetables and routemaps. Then again I have an agenda so of course I would like them to build world's biggest model trainset in order to indoctrinate the youth
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How not to advertise 101!
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Have you ever heard of the "third person effect?"
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multilevel marvel
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bad news