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monotremata

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  • Manufacturers say Trump has made opening U.S. factories impossible

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  • You left out the most important reason: getting people to come kiss Trump's ass to ask for exemptions. Nothing is more important than getting Trump the sycophancy he has to settle for in lieu of respect.

  • Republicans are already plotting to steal the midterms

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  • Thanks, that does help.

  • Republicans are already plotting to steal the midterms

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  • That has nothing to do with the claims about bullet ballots though. You made it sound like there were a bunch of people all united behind a single, specific claim about a statistical anomaly, and as far as I know that's simply not accurate.

  • Republicans are already plotting to steal the midterms

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  • So, when I search on this, I can only find reference to a single guy, Stephen Spoonamore, making this claim. You said "multiple prominent Computer Scientists and Statisticians"; do you have a link for that?

  • Do you know the answer?

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  • Pick a number. Any number.

  • Liquid Trees

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  • It's an episode of "The Climate Denier's Playbook" entitled "Let's Just Plant a Trillion Trees."

  • It was magnificent

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  • Thanks! I debated whether to include it, because it's definitely one of those "well my brain sure isn't normal!" things, but now I'm glad I did.

  • It was magnificent

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  • And the ringer in the phone was a physical bell with a little magnetically-actuated hammer, so if you slammed the receiver down hard enough, the bell would actually resonate for a little while after. You know how some people use a bell slowly fading out as a meditation tool? That's the association I have for that sensation.

  • Name them

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  • I grew up near a place called the "McGuffin Lumber Company." It was just a tiny storefront business, and I never saw anyone go in. And, of course, "MacGuffin" is a Hollywood term for an arbitrary thing that motivates the plot of a movie, like the Maltese Falcon in that film. So it was a running gag in my family that it must be a front.

  • RFK Jr. set to launch disease registry tracking autistic people

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  • Especially since he's already been on TV talking about how "these are people who will never pay taxes. they'll never hold a job. they'll never play baseball. they'll never write a poem. they'll never go on a date. many of them will never use a toilet unassisted." He's explicitly pushing the narrative that autistic people are useless.

    Seriously, I was thinking about getting evaluated, and this gives me the chills. I will not be seeking an evaluation at this time.

  • Dear Big Tech, Stop Shoving AI Into Operating Systems

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  • The "specific program" I have trouble with is Autodesk Fusion (formerly Fusion 360). There are projects that try to run it through Wine, but there's a specific function that isn't implemented in Wine right now that Fusion relies on as part of its authentication service, so it won't log you in correctly, at least on the default Mint install. I think at least one of the relevant functions is currently in the Wine beta, so it may work again in a bit--I did manage to get it working briefly at one point, but I somehow screwed it up again subsequently. (I may just have forgotten how I launched it...I think I have two versions installed at this point, the Flatpak and the Snap install.) But even when it worked it was slow and janky in a much more severe way than when it runs natively on Windows.

    The "specific program" my dad is interested in is Hesuvi, a piece of headphone virtualization software that also does equalization and crossover. At some point I identified a program I though would work on Linux as an alternative, but I would want to test that before committing to switching his computer over from Windows, and I haven't got around to that yet. Other than that he mostly uses Zoom, and I think I tested that and it worked okay in Mint, though my memory is a little weak on that too.

    I dunno. Basically everyone has their own little patterns they use with their computers, and switching to Linux requires changes to those patterns. It's an adaptation. That's not to say it's not worth it--for a ton of people it probably is. But I'm not sure my aging parents can do it, and thanks to Fusion, I'm not sure I can do it either, because I just don't have a good replacement.

    The other option I'm looking into is Windows IoT LTSC. That omits a LOT of the problematic bullshit.

    I'll figure something out before the end of support, anyway.

  • You can stop asking where the mass opposition is. It's everywhere.

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  • The White House is more than 40 hours away from here driving non-stop.

    The number of people from here who could have participated in a march at the White House (maybe taking a week off work in order to get there and back traveling 16 hours a day by bus) would have been very small. Instead, thousands of us marched in our local downtown yesterday in a solid throng.

    Protests at a specific location convey a message, but mass protests everywhere convey a message too.

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  • I think they move too smoothly. I think it's maybe a combination of the "ew, tiny things are parasites" and the "ew, smooth-moving things are snakes" responses, even though neither of those is appropriate for the silverfish itself. I think that's part of what happens with the house millipedes, too.

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  • I dunno, silverfish are smaller than flies, but they still give me that revulsion response.

  • Arrest Of Elon Musk For Felony Vote Buying Demanded In Wisconsin

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  • Hubris is a kind of boastful pride--like a sense of invulnerability. It also implies a kind of dramatic irony, that this sense of invulnerability will eventually prove false. (The term comes from ancient Greek theater, where it's often the Heroic Flaw that will eventually be the undoing of the tragic hero.)

    Chutzpah is more...audacity, nerve, gall. A person with chutzpah doesn't believe they can't be harmed; they're just willing to bald-face it out in the hopes you won't actually call them on it. In English it can have a positive connotation, the way "cojones" tends to, but it can also have a negative connotation, like "cheek" or "gall." It comes from Yiddish, where apparently it's more uniformly negative. (Leave it to us Americans to interpret a condemnation of shameless effrontery as somehow laudatory.)

    I guess I would say the key difference is that someone with hubris thinks they are invulnerable, whereas a person with chutzpah is aware they are vulnerable and absolutely refusing to act like it.

    They're definitely kind of related, but they just have really different feels to them

  • OpenAI declares AI race “over” if training on copyrighted works isn’t fair use

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  • The one I thought was a good compromise was 14 years, with the option to file again for a single renewal for a second 14 years. That was the basic system in the US for quite a while, and it has the benefit of being a good fit for the human life span--it means that the stuff that was popular with our parents when we were kids, i.e. the cultural milieu in which we were raised, would be public domain by the time we were adults, and we'd be free to remix it and revisit it. It also covers the vast majority of the sales lifetime of a work, and makes preservation and archiving more generally feasible.

    5 years may be an overcorrection, but I think very limited terms like that are closer to the right solution than our current system is.

  • Marco Rubio melts down at Musk in furious Cabinet shouting match

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  • Sean Duffy is the transportation secretary.

  • John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed

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  • I feel like there's a buddhist lesson about impermanence here.

  • John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed

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  • Thanks, Stefon.