Mark in SF

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@jaenicc I've always thought the season we mark should straddle the equinox and solstice, not align with them.

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@engineers_feed So they even had clickbait headlines then.

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@swedishsteel My ISP installer showed up with a cordless drill, and had to borrow my corded drill because its battery went dead.

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@SawyerMerritt I feel like we're at the point of adoption like with cell phones, where you know a few people that have one, and they still have rough rough edges in service. Then fast forward 20 years later and not only does everybody have a cellphone, but they do much more.

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@mattyglesias It is completely insane how expensive housing is in the modern world. Absolutely off the charts bonkers.

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@matthew_sigel I suppose if I look at 20 random things that have no connection at all, 5% will appear to be connected with 95% confidence.

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@SandraEckersley @MaleHumanPerso1 @SteveStuWill @Stavrosgreig74 It's bizarre that so many people still insist the differences in psychology between men and women are not genetic, when the same differences are seen across cultures. Almost all the math and computer nerds in China and India are men too.

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@SteveStuWill Chemistry seems kinda male coded, but come to think of it my HS chemistry teacher was a woman, and I had a girlfriend in college that was a chemistry major, and that was way back in the 80's!

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@emollick Wait until we find out congressional staffers are using LLMs to write legislation, and the Congressional Budget Office is using them to create detailed analysis of fiscal impacts. We'll realize were already half way to having the country run by AI.

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@oldbooksguy @SJ_Murray "ADHD" is one of the dumbest concepts of my lifetime. They're all a bunch of quack drug pushers.

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@harrisonfjobe When Obama admin switched Mt. McKinley to Denali, Google made the change a week later IIRC.

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@RickPalaciosJr Truly mind boggling that this is considered a high rate. We've become so used to the federal reserve having the money printer's pedal to the metal that we forget that the last 15 years have been very unusual.

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@JerimiahLee Meh. It's people willing to pay for refundable tickets, seat selection, checked bags, etc. that let me fly cheap.

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@cremieuxrecueil Trump is such an idiot, it boggles the mind. And there are uncountable public figures I used to respect that have proven to be nothing but sycophants.

I don't place much importance on polls or betting markets. They've shown over and over to predict little.

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@KobeissiLetter "over the last 20 year". If you're only looking at the last 20 years you're a fool. 3% inflation is mild. High inflation crushes corporate earnings and economic growth.

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@zoecabina Sounds anecdotal. But yeah, I think median is way more important than average.

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@cremieuxrecueil I really really hate stats like this that look at average instead of median. I really don't give a crap if one guy is making 10 quadrillion dollars while everybody else lives in poverty.

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@David_J_Bier Mexico is a complete disaster. That would have been a terrible idea. It's got like 6 states that are classified "do not travel".

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@lucataco Oh, nice.

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@JeremiahDJohns Oh i dunno, shitposting hilarious dumb memes suggests he's doing pretty well.