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ArbitraryValue

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  • What do you think goes on in a dog's head when he's following you around?

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  • I think dogs are usually more "in the moment" than a human would be, but they're able to imagine future scenarios and then choose the course of action that they expect will bring about the scenario they prefer rather than the most immediately gratifying course of action. In other words, they do sometimes "stop and think" rather than just acting on urges, although of course they don't think in words. I'll go even further and say that some dogs have better impulse control than some humans.

    I even met a dog who appeared capable of the sort of regret about past actions that I would call "guilt". His owner and I were returning from a trip and when I opened the house door, he was agitated and blocked my way in (he's a big dog) while holding an empty plastic bag in his mouth. I went back to his owner and she was familiar with this behavior. Apparently the dog had given in to his urges and eaten a bag of bread while we were away, and now he was confessing. His owner told him to go to his time-out corner and he immediately did while appearing relieved.

  • His Family Voted to Support Trump’s Deportation Plan. That Includes Him.

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  • Human-interest pieces like this make me think of the human-interest pieces not being written about the kids in other countries who grew up in poverty because their parents didn't take them into the US illegally. I sympathize with the man this article is about and I think people in his situation should receive clemency. At the very least, the ones married to American citizens should have a straightforward path to legal residence for the sake of their American spouses. With that said, I don't think the man this article is about deserves more sympathy than all the poor foreigners who wanted to come to the USA but didn't because the didn't receive legal permission.

  • The art of subtlety

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  • Mistake? He came, didn't he?

  • The art of subtlety

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  • Well, the Ninja Turtles were originally an unsubtle Daredevil parody...

    (Is "parody" the right word? I think they were part parody and part homage.)

  • The art of subtlety

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  • sentient brain

    That's the usual state of brains, isn't it?

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  • I suppose this is just nitpicking, but I think $500 a month is a lot more to a barber than a million is to Altman.

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  • "Protection money" implies a significant expense. A million dollars is so little to a big tech company (and not that much to Trump) that this is more like a "Congratulations!" card with a Starbucks gift certificate inside. It's as little as Altman can send without being insulting, but if the fact that he sent anything at all sways Trump even a little bit then the return on investment will be enormous.

  • What's the last post you started typing an answer to, thought about the replies you'd get and noped out of?

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  • Anything related to the Gaza war.

  • Scam scam scam

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  • This became a big problem in New York a few years ago. Thieves would put skimmers on top of the card readers at supermarket checkouts and then drain the food stamp accounts of people who went through those checkouts. The state initially refused to compensate victims despite the fact that this wasn't even a scam that someone could chosen to avoid. The only safety measure was to try and disassemble the card reader to see if there was a skimmer that would come off.

    Eventually politicians changed the policy and compensated people after there were so many cases of theft that major newspapers were writing about it. I don't know if theft is still frequent but less talked-about because victims get compensated, or if the authorities managed to put an end to it.

    I'm not surprised that criminals would do such a thing, given that they do so much worse.

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  • The Democrats do have to think about the 2026 election. Even a lame duck has limits.

  • ‘People feel drained’: anti-Trump Americans face temptation to tune out

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  • I'm going to go ahead and respect democracy. Trump won fair and square. He should be able to implement his policies because that's what the majority wants.

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  • I'm not making a value judgement. I'm explaining why New York City's murder rate is so much higher than London's. It's because NYC has a population of white and Asian people who are as safe as Europeans and another, de facto segregated population of black and Hispanic people who are much less safe.

    I presume that a big part of the reason why things are the way they are is that society places a higher value on white people's lives, but I'm not doing that here. Explaining isn't the same as justifying.

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    Black and Hispanic people make up 52% of the city's population but 88% of the murder victims. The murder rate of the white and Asian population works out to approximately 8.4 per million, so the average European tourist is not in much danger here.

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  • New York's murder rate (and the overall murder rate in the USA) is shaped by a history of race relations which is quite different from London's. A white person in New York is much less likely (and conversely a black or Hispanic person is much more likely) to be murdered than the overall murder rate for the city might lead someone to think.

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  • Only 7 murders? The population of London was apparently about 400,000 back then so that's less than half the murder rate of present-day New York City (which is considered a relatively safe city). I don't think that can be right...

    1632 London: 7 / 400,000 = 17.5 murders per million people

    2023 New York: 312 / 8,258,000 = 37.8 murders per million people

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  • I like my women with armor plating.

    14 legs

    I'm a leg man but that's going too far!

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  • So it's not just me? Sometimes my body decides that I must constantly keep my face pointed down and to the side for a few days, and these muscles are the enforcers.

  • Remember: the SUX 3141 Ti is 60% slower than the SUX 3141 Xt. because it's 5 years older and has no components in common.

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  • They periodically run out of integers so they have to reuse old ones.

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  • I never thought about Mesozoic fauna having external ears. Birds don't, so presumably their dinosaur ancestors didn't. But maybe pterosaurs did? (Would we be able to tell by looking for muscle attachment points on their skulls?)