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ArbitraryValue

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  • The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth

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  • I'm not sure what other system is even conceivably possible in the general case. There's no straightforward universal relationship between tariffs paid by businesses and prices paid by the customers of those businesses.

  • RFK Jr.'s staff shuts down questions as he admits he eats 'stuff I find on the street'

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  • I tried to eat natto but I couldn't go through with it. The taste was fine, but the appearance was just too much for me. It was like eating a bowl of mucus.

  • RFK Jr.'s staff shuts down questions as he admits he eats 'stuff I find on the street'

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  • The one I had was actually pretty tasty, but it tasted like ordinary (but well made) fried tofu. I suppose I should be grateful that it didn't taste the way it smelled, but I admit I was a little disappointed.

  • RFK Jr.'s staff shuts down questions as he admits he eats 'stuff I find on the street'

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  • Sorry to disappoint you, but I was in Taiwan. It did smell so bad while the vendor was still out of sight that I thought my friend was pranking me by leading me to an open sewer or something.

  • RFK Jr.'s staff shuts down questions as he admits he eats 'stuff I find on the street'

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  • I've had stinky tofu from a street vendor, which is both a fairly normal food and absolutely something that might cause a person to gag.

    (As for the grossest thing I've eaten: one time, I found that beetles had infested my stash of buckwheat, so rather than letting them have it, I cooked it and skimmed them off when they floated to the top. I wouldn't do that again because I'm a vegetarian now...)

  • ‘Stark example of brutality’: Trump’s ICE used court orders in plan to force-feed at least 10 hunger strikers in detention

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  • I wasn't asking a rhetorical question. I think letting these people starve, as opposed to force-feeding them, is arguably the right thing to do, but my impression is that that would be a view far out of the mainstream and I would be surprised to hear prominent human rights groups advocating it.

  • ‘Stark example of brutality’: Trump’s ICE used court orders in plan to force-feed at least 10 hunger strikers in detention

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  • Forcing medical procedures on detained hunger strikers is seen as torture by many human rights groups and medical organizations.

    So do these human rights groups and medical organizations advocate a policy of letting hunger strikers starve to death? Do they extend this to allowing prisoners to commit suicide by any means, or is it specific to refusing food? I don't think that would necessarily be unreasonable but the article doesn't specify.

  • US Government lists fictional nation Wakanda as trade partner

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  • Trump Admin Argues Even Terminally Ill Patients Shouldn't Be Exempt From Medicaid Work Requirements | Common Dreams

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  • That’s treating people as existing solely for your own benefit, to be exploited.

    What do you mean by that in this context? I don't think Medicaid pays for people's healthcare in order that they might work (at least not in this context). It is rather more like a charity program, with the associated reasoning being that people who could work instead of accepting charity should.

  • Trump Admin Argues Even Terminally Ill Patients Shouldn't Be Exempt From Medicaid Work Requirements | Common Dreams

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  • The same place you do for people without a terminal diagnosis - you have to have a system for doing that anyway.

  • Trump Admin Argues Even Terminally Ill Patients Shouldn't Be Exempt From Medicaid Work Requirements | Common Dreams

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  • I have to say, that doesn't seem unreasonable. My understanding is that one can get a terminal diagnosis long before one becomes too sick to work.

  • Google shuts down its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold project as it focuses on Gemini

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  • Other former staff members were reassigned to Alphabet's drug-discovery company Isomorphic Labs, which is a DeepMind spin-off.

    They're still actively working on this area of research.

  • The American Transgender Refugee Crisis

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  • I'd say that this actually illustrates one of the strengths of the American system. In a context of bitter partisan division, the delegation of authority to individual states prevents an all-or-nothing national outcome and gives people places to go where the government is aligned with their needs and their values. Obviously relocating is expensive and disruptive, but the most powerful right a citizen can have is his exit right.

  • Would you date a workaholic? [DuckDuckGo Sociology]

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  • I think to me it would depend on what that work was and the person's attitude towards it. I dated a doctor who complained a lot about how her hospital was making her see too many patients, how the patients were rude to her, and how she had to spend her "free time" at home on paperwork she didn't have time to do while at work. I was not happy feeling like I was less important to her than a job she didn't even enjoy. I might have felt otherwise if she absolutely loved her job. (She did see being a doctor as an important duty, and when we talked about this she was hurt that I saw it as a negative because from her point of view it was an example of how she was loyal and dedicated.)

  • House passes SAVE America Act anti-voting measures in budget reconciliation, stock trading bills

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  • They don't have a majority in the Senate for it even if the Senate accepts it as a budget bill, which is not guaranteed.

  • Can't control

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  • What's something that gives you hope about the future?

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  • In science fiction robots were almost universally portrayed as struggling to understand human emotions, but it has turned out that AI has no problem at all understanding them and generally acts friendly, caring, and likeable. It's still possible that we'll end up in a scenario where a more sophisticated future AI turns out to be deceptive and only pretends to share human values, but at least my expectation was that AI would be inhuman from the start and that has already been disproven.

  • AI has torched the market for junior programmers

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  • AI will improve more quickly than senior engineers will age.

  • Elon Musk is boosting an anti-immigrant film loved by the far right

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  • But whatever you do, don’t call him an extremist.

    The author of this article seems to be arguing against an attitude towards Elon Musk which doesn't actually exist. There's no widespread perception of him as a moderate, and no taboo against calling him an extremist. Major newspapers aren't making a big deal of his endorsement of this film because it isn't surprising, not because they tacitly approve.