And Twitter users.

And, perhaps most importantly, the investors who allowed Musk to go from just another moderately wealthy silicone valley dude to the wealthiest person on earth. And the FTC for not throwing him in jail for decades for stock market manipulation.

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Lol projecting much?

Not just that, but US police are extraordinarily different from police in most of the world. They trace their roots back to organizations first formed to hunt escaped slaves. They are heavily militarized, almost never face any consequences for abusing their power, and are usually encouraged to use violence against left-wing protestors.

At points during the BLM protests, Trump called in the National Guard, who proceeded shoot and kill both protestors and bystanders.

Oh thank you- sorry I meant to say SEC instead of FTC initially.

He can push through a bunch of unpopular policies, retire for "health reasons", and secure full pardons for himself ans his family members from Vance.

The question is: would Vance want that? He would take over in the wake of those unpopular policies, on top of Trump's already incredibly unpopular regime. The Republicans would, presumably, have control of neither the Senate nor the House. If we assume that there are meaningful democratic elections in 2028, what hope does Vance have of winning? I guess that's where I have a hard time buying this theory. I also have a hard time envisioning Truml trusting Vance enough to step down.

Like.... I agree with you, but i'm confused.... Would that be someone other than the FTC?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1456852/world-leader-approval-ratings/

Mohdi at 70% is crazy. Milei at 48%... Like yeah it's less than half but still crazy high. Truml may only be 38% but it's quite depressing that puts him roughly middle-of-the-pack.

And like, sure I have some complaints with Macron, especially recently, but 18% seems wildly low.

If these numbers are to be believed then people around the world sure do love their right-wing nutjobs.

I have heard more than enough stories from the women in my life to agree.

Also, while i don't have children myself I believe i think the parental decision making process here is pretty clear:

1. Is my child old enough that I trust them to make judgments and their own decisions?

2. If not, do i know these other children at the party? Do i know their parents and have an idea of how they were raised? Will there be adults present and do i trust them?

Personally, I like the Oral-B brushes that have the stiffer, rubbery bristles on the side. They are currently called "Cross Action All In One" but I thinj they have changed the name over the years.

For toothpaste, I go with my dentist's recommendation of Colgate Optic White. Although I think my dentist is icerly concerned with cosmetic issues that I don't care about, and he recommended it for its whitening properties. I drink coffee and I don't care at all how white my teeth look as long as they are healthy and functional. Before that i used a vanialla flavored paste (I can't remember whether it waa crest or Colgate) that I liked a lot because it was milder than the super strong mint of most flavors. I also remember liking a charcoal toothpaste, but I didn't stick with it. I can't remember why but it may have just been more expensive.

It's worth reading the instructions. The ads and pictures, and any sort of depiction of someone brushing their teeth, always shows them loading up the whole brush with paste. The instructions usually say to only use a "pea sized" amount. Making that switch helped brushing to feel better, especially rinsing.

You can buy a UV sanitizing case for your toothbrush if you're concerned, or run it through the dishwasher, or handwash with dish detergent.

Also I find that brushing my teeth wakes me up, so I only do it in the morning. If I end up putting something unsanitary in my mouth before bed I will use mouthwash instead so that it is easier to sleep.

I just went to the dentist last week and confirmed all of my teeth are perfectly healthy (well, except one tooth but that was a mechanical accident not a maintenance issue).

The first two quotes from the article are from a black man and a white woman. So I'm guesibg you didn't read the article.

It has already started

I've seen predictions of Firefox's downfall for decades. Still waiting for it to happen.

It's really easy to see the headlines saying things like "Firefox is tracking it's users and violating their privacy!!!" And panic. But digging into the latest "scandal" (the PPA), it seems like Firefox is behaving pretty reasonably.

One of the main criticisms is that it's opt-out instead of opt-in. Which... I kind of agree with Mozilla on. 99% of users aren't going to know or care about this, and the 1% that do are the kind of people who probably would have extensions to disable it or just use some obscure ultra-private browser instead.

I don't fault NOYB for bringing it up either. It's good to have organizations like that keeping an eye out for everyone.

But I also get worried that sometimes communies attack their closest allies for being imperfect harder than enemies actively working against their interests.

I'm probably going to get downvoted for this, but the Biden administration has really exceeded my expectations.

"No touchscreen" is a really great selling point imo

“The whole thing is screwed up,” said John Painter, a three-time Trump voter who runs an organic dairy farm in Westfield. “We need people to do the jobs Americans are too spoiled to do.”

What wages are you offering? Perhaps you are the one who has been spoiled by cheap labor.

“We moved to H-2A out of necessity,” added Sarah Zost, an orchard grower in Gardners, Pennsylvania. “No one wants to use the program. It’s a paperwork nightmare.”

So it's fine to require these immigrants to jump through all sorts of hoops and navigate the beauracracy, but for these poor American farmers running businesses it's simply too much to ask.

The cognitive dissonance with these fools is astounding.

Here's his voting record in the Senate.

Seems like he's the politician I thought he'd be on like 99% of the issues. But if we want to book down an entire politician's record to just one issue, sure.

For decades, weed’s deleterious health effects were exaggerated, experts said, leading to excessive criminalization

This line fron the article is exactly why I'm skeptical. I had to sit through tons of middle school and high school programs that lied to me about the physiological effects of marijuana. This article itself opens with an anecdote about one individual, but fails to identify any academic study suggesting physiological addiction because... There is none.

Psychological addiction is real. There's a reason that in most places any gambling advertisements have to include a warning and a hotline. The problem is that these sensationalist articles never make the distinction between psychological and physiological addiction. This article mentions when the case study first tried marijuana, but fails to detail the circumstances of her life, her personality, and other factors that can contribute to psychological addiction.

Add in that the medical marijuana industry is trying to replace the very physiological addictive (and profitable) pain medications... Add that to the years of lies in schools and media... Forgive me for not trusting this BS at all.

I got a lot of downvotes on Reddit for pointing out that there's no scientific evidence supporting porn addiction. It's just the latest version of religious indoctrination. ISIS was using that as part of their recruitment process: men who are sexually repressed are easier for them to manipulate.

For those who don't want to read several pages of unnecessary text telling you what you probably already know:

The math, while pretty involved, may tell a straightforward story (if you’re interested in the details of our analysis, see the Appendix). OpenAI has contracted 900K memory wafers per month from Samsung and SK Hynix. Partner commentary seems to indicate that’s a monthly number, so that represents 10.8 million wafers over 12 months. In terms of demand, a fully built-out 10GW Stargate cluster would require ~3 million GB200 Bianca Boards. Each board requires ~50% of a memory wafer in total; split between the HBM3e stacks embedded into its two B200 GPU (~30%) and its 480 GB of LPDDR5X system memory (~20%). That puts total wafer demand for the entire cluster at ~3 million wafers.

Therefore, according to our best estimates, OpenAI likely needs less than 30% of the 10.8 million wafers it's planning to buy

So this is just putting some numbers to what a lot of people already guessed. The AI companies are not just buying a ton of RAM to build out their data centers. They aren't buying enough other components to even use that RAM. They're buying it so that no one else can.

For further context, the US population is estimated to be around 340 million.

They are advocating for deporting nearly 1/3rd of the country. Absolutely insane.