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We Went To Nebraska: The Beef Crisis Will Shock You

"guy who has proved he is bad at business does a bad business deal, his supporters suffer for it. More at 11."

Some of these ranchers are family, so blinded by fear of ethnic minorities and "them damn antifuh slurs" that they can't see how their blind faith in orange man is actively hurting them. These guys are literally about to lose their ranch to a corporate firm who will almost certainly hire them again to tend it until they die at starvation wages. And when their kids refuse to take those reigns they'll bring in the very ethnic minorities those idiots are terrified to do the work instead.

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I have a friend who does not have a uterus. She also has some minor chronic problems that have her seeing a doctor a few times a year.

The first visit with a new doctor he insisted that she was pregnant and that all of her symptoms were easily explainable by pregnancy. She had to explain to him 4 times that she physically could not be pregnant before he'd actually let her finish that sentence. Then, evidently, had the audacity to chastise her for not mentioning that sooner. That was the last visit to that doctor.

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Trump signs executive order blocking states from enforcing their own regulations around AI | CNN Business

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Everything about the llm industry is suspicious and predatory. They're doing something that is not only unpopular, it's not just going to put people out of work. People are doing to die. And not in the vague economic sense of "40k extra deaths per point drop in the stock market" sense. I mean in the direct "AI directly caused these deaths and there's no other way to look at it" sense. I'm not sure how, when, or why. But I am sure that the people pushing LLMs the way they are do. And they're trying to establish a legal protection for when that happens.

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What do I make of this person I met online?

First thing, a hard truth.

She is not, and never was, that in to you. She never considered you to be more than a casual friend, and never wanted more out of the relationship.

Second, she, almost certainly, has a difficult time finding reliable people to game with that don't ultimately confess some unrequited affection for her. As a result, she will instinctively pull away from relationships she feels are heading in that direction.

Something I wish I had learned earlier, If you have to initiate every conversation, you can just stop. She's moved on, you can too. You'll be ok guy.

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Because it's happened at least a dozen times since then.

The tactical equipment these guys use, they see it like kids see toys. They're actively looking for any excuse to break it out and play with it.

The handful of cops I knew when I was younger and thought I wanted to be one all had the same attitude. If there's any possibility that the toys could be useful, they get the toys out. They're giddy about it.

So miscommunication? Maybe. Sounds more like they heard what they wanted to hear and anything else was just noise between them and getting to get the toys out and kill a man.

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ISPs created so many fees that FCC will kill requirement to list them all

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ISPs are doing the opposite.

They advertise a price and stack an assload of fees on top. A few of those fees are out of their control, but the majority are fees they themselves are charging.

69.99 a month for 100 Mbps suddenly becomes 170 dollars after taxes and fees.

If you happen to live in an area where Google fiber threatens to compete, suddenly a plan appears where those fees magically disappear, and you get a decent rate for gigabit Internet.

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Let the slavers die if they want :)

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You have repeated propaganda spread by the Daughters of the Confederacy almost verbatim.

The Confederacy required a state to ratify slavery in it's constitution to join. The secessionists more than once in the build up to the war said that their identity as states was inseparably tied to slavery.

There was an entire ethical 'code' in the South that required a gentlemen to beat with a stick any man that dared speak openly against slavery. This lead to a senator beating a man nearly to death on the Senate floor in 1856.

Slavery in this case specifically refers to the involuntary and permanent bondage of all black people. Having a single traceable ancestor of African origin anywhere in your family tree meant you were black.

The primary and only issue that lead to the civil war was the threat of talking slavery away. This is an indisputable fact. Arguing otherwise is like trying to argue the earth is flat, and camels can pass through sewing needles.