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  • What's your definition of a wealthy person? Sure, Bezos is rich, but where do you put the threshold?

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  • Texas House introduces bill to establish a strategic bitcoin reserve

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  • To directly fund the president's choice of Bitcoin reserve to the spectacular enrichment of himself, Texas and anyone else in the know. The oil rush is on and there will only be one winner...

  • "If everyone's an asshole, you're the asshole," but what are they when they apologize?

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  • Label creation is nothing better than generalization to avoid critical thinking. While helpful at an elementary level for a basic understanding of the world, is generally harmful to humans being better humans.

    Historically used as a weapon of manipulation by fascists (immigrants are x, Jews are y, etc), it's also come into common use among "liberals" in the US who started dropping to the level of conservatives post-great recession or around the time the whole population had smartphones and their news from Facebook. It's why the US has arrived at such toxic levels of "discourse" in society, false dichotomies, and echo chambers.

  • Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger calls for prayer and fasting for employees

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  • David is right up there with Samuel L Jackson for me in his unique and satisfying delivery of the F-word and it's derivatives.

  • FBI warns users to encrypt text messages for cybersecurity. Here's how to do it

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  • Yeah we can all trust Meta, who never should have been allowed to purchase Whatsapp for antitrust reasons exactly like this. Whatsapp was innovative and very successful outside the US, rather than compete with their own decent product Facebook just absorbed them and gulped their users.

  • What is something considered impossible when you were a kid but is now known to be completely possible or even inevitable?

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  • Nikola Tesla was working on proof of concept from 1900 until JP Morgan pulled project funding in 1917.

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  • I'm a man. Staying with my wife at mt sister's flat while touring her city. Sister had 3 roommates. Went out and enjoyed the nightlife. Went to the bathroom in the dark at whatever o'clock and on my way back to our bedroom I went into the wrong door, and was in one of the sister's roomates rooms. Got super confused and couldn't find the door to the hallway again because there was all this kitch on the wall and I kept trying to find the door handle. Woman in the room was sleeping but she had a little dog that was growling and yipping at me, I was mortified at the thought of the woman waking up from the dog and asking wtf I was doing in her room so I just sat down against the wall and tried to find the door handle in the dark. Couldn't do it. Dog kept yipping louder. Woman yelling dog to shut up. Her boyfriend called and they had a quick conversation in the dark, he was drunk. This went on for about 15 minutes before she finally turned on the lamp next to her bed and found me, arms around my knees, rocking against the wall waiting for the inevitable explosion and freakout. She couldn't have been nicer and I left. We had a great laugh about it the next day when I apologized profusely over breakfast.

    I can't imagine what 90% of people let alone 99.9% of women would have done in that situation but I appreciated how she handled it. Definitely top 5 "don't forget you did this" moment my brain pulls up from time to time in mortification.

  • GM to refocus autonomous driving development on personal vehicles

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  • Sure: now that they know Elon is going to force through or dismantle any approvals still needed to drive with unproven tech, they may as well not miss the boat.

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  • For people who have been trained to eat junk food news, the headline is all they have the attention and critical thinking skills for.

  • Google steps in after McDonald's gets ‘review bombed’ over arrest in UnitedHealth CEO's murder

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  • The Luddite - An anticapitalist Tech blog helped me understand why these seemingly contradictory worldviews don't necessarily have to be--its a matter of what and for whom technology has been put to use.

    As an example, Louis Pasteur gave away his patent for the good of medicine. It sounds almost impossible to believe against the modern backdrop of pharmaceutical companies that don't even want to develop cures, they want "subscription" customers.

    People have been trained now that since no one watches out for them they have to take their pound of flesh however it can be gotten--this is what stands out to people when they talk about societal decay, selfishness and anomie but it can be difficult to put ones finger on without understanding the workings of the machine.

  • Altman to Musk: Don't go full supervillain – that's so un-American

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  • "guys, I thought when we removed checks and balances and due process and accountability and made power and wealth for personal benefit at all cost our golden idol that...well that only applies to the poors right? I mean there is no timeline in which that would ever be used against me unfairly right? I understood it that I am only allowed to benefit from this sort of arrangement. Right ? Guys?"

    It's difficult for hubris and naivety to coexist but he's managed to pull it off with this panicked effort. Seriously the Wiley Coyote moment as he looks down and feels the first tug of gravity.

  • Moderators Across Social Media Struggle to Contain Celebrations of UnitedHealthcare CEO’s Assassination

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  • Falling Down was in my head this week. The number of people in the US that are close to it is so high, it's barely fringe. Ironically Trump might just trigger a revolution when he tries to clamp down.

  • Why do I feel like I am "overclocked" when I wake up early with little sleep?

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  • Return On Assets? Roids or Adrenaline?

  • What is the worst movie that you enjoy watching?

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  • Mortal Kombat

  • Black Republicans feel left out of Trump’s 2nd-term picks - ABC News

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  • "you thought you was Kobe."

  • U.S. officials urge Americans to use encrypted apps amid unprecedented cyberattack

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  • "you wouldn't put a dump truck full of movies on a snowy road without chains on the tires would you?"

  • What's your "weird flex"?

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  • Start a limo service in Vegas with a fleet for the novelty.

  • What's your "weird flex"?

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  • You'd better be well paid, whatever you do. Like politics, all the wrong people go into Excel.

  • Australia struggling with oversupply of solar power

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  • Just read the same article about CA last week; too much solar to be used so the excess solar generated, get this, was sold-often at a loss--to Arizona(the fact AZ can't make it's own sufficient solar shows the willful neglect, economic and political nature of energy!) and it lowered AZ bills but not CA. We're back to energy traders and Enron price manipulations in the US after 20 years.

    Batteries will fix much of it but until the grid has proper storage consumers getting fucked by businesses per usual.