Why have a gradual transition when you could update the clocks continuously in real time so that noon is always whenever the sun is at its zenith in your current location, 365.24217 days a year?
Oh, you need to schedule an event involving people more than 1km apart? Unix epoch time. 😤
If you too, are like me, annoyed that you were unable to watch them all before they were taken down. The Data Hoarder Reddit saved them. If you scroll down you can find the torrent link.
Everyone should pay taxes. The more you make the more you should pay. Exempting people under any amount of income will only encourage innovation in getting around th cap.
Katie Porter: 0% state income tax for California families making under $100,000. That's thousands of dollars back in your pocket where it belongs. As Governor, I'll work the issue at both ends-lowering taxes for those who are struggling and raising them on the biggest corporations that can afford to pay.
I hate saying things like “a memo went out” because it’s quasi-conspiratorial and unnuanced but something, like, HAD to have happened in the last couple months for several big Dems to suddenly rally around this (bad) idea, right? I truly had not heard it before then
In your time on this earth you will chance upon works of art. And for some, you'll conclude with desperate rationale that they are the mere capstones of creative lineages unbeknown to you. The alternative explanation—that someone invented them from whole cloth—your ego as an artist will not permit
The folks going "what are PhD students even for if we have effective LLM agents" are really telling on themselves
As fanciful as Richard Scarry can get, this is straightforwardly a en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piaggio... , literally a three-wheeled Vespa scooter with a cargo bed.
I don't know what it would take to import one and get it road-legal here, but they've been in production in Italy for nearly 80 years.
The odds of this turning into an abject humanitarian disaster and a permanent stain on a very stained ledger of US foreign policy is just sitting there on the table all the time every time they decide to do yet another wave of aerial bombing, which is incredibly postwar brained
It is very easy to read statements like this as a joke.
This is not a joke.
We have proven with AI, completely by accident, what knowledgeable people have been saying for decades: the environment that rich people live in gives them a very specific personality disorder.
I dunno man, I think precipitously canceling people's funding caused a lot of damage to other people's careers and lives and reputations and maybe they should live with the blowback. They come from a media ecosystem that makes public lists of insufficiently bigoted professors.
he still doesn't seem to understand that when you put someone in a no-win situation, and also prove yourself completely untrustworthy, then they definitionally have nothing to lose. whereas you have a lot to lose and literally not one coherently defined thing to win. deals master
THIS.
Charging for water isn't anti-agriculture.
It's a basic guardrail that keeps lowest-common denominator bulk goods, that can be grown just about anywhere, from crowding out more financially rewarding types of farming.
That brings MORE MONEY to farms & rural areas.
I'd really love to see the @katewagner.wehwalt.net McMansionHell interpretation of this window layout.
Photo of 4 apples, two are large and two are tiny. Text says: 2 Apples + 2 Apples = 4 Apples It's simply a mathematical fact
Here's a meme style version:
every quantitative measure is actually a stack of qualitative assumptions in a trenchcoat
Graph showing warning period results
SF Chronicle piece: Speed cameras generated tickets sent to more than 16,500 drivers in San Francisco in August, the first month those tickets came with fines, according to data from SFMTA — more than 600 a day. That’s good for more than $1.2 million in fines, if they are all paid in full. The speed camera citations come at a critical time for street safety. Speeding is the leading cause of deadly collisions, and last year, 42 people were killed in car crashes in the city — the highest number in almost two decades. At the same time, San Francisco police have come under fire for what critics say is a lack of traffic enforcement after ticket numbers plummeted during the pandemic and have stayed relatively low.
Compellingly, San Francisco saw a *huge* (~75%) drop-off in speeding just two months after the cameras went in, even when they were still sending warnings!
Now, SF has gone from 12k warnings/day at the start of the program to just 600 tickets/day. A 95% drop in illegal speeding!
this is about as baffling as that grammarly baffling decision; post subscribers, almost by definition as newspaper readers, are going to be *intensely* curious about how and what, exactly, determined this
Sewers being built in Paris, 1920s.
Hey so you know that joke "I read Playboy for the articles?" They were not joking this stuff is more text-dense than basically anything today and this is a fluff article about Google.
Playboy, September 2004
"I draw inspiration from those who came before me in the fight against tyranny when I say, 'Give me liberty or give me the chill life of an expat in a foreign city that has a similar climate to San Francisco.'"
I knew it was made later than it seems. The rims on the car are reproductions. They weren't made until the late 80s and weren't popular until the mid 90s. Cars in the 50s had drum brakes on all four wheels. Disc brake conversions were popular in the 80s but the original rims didn't work.
This happens with*everything* now. No matter how grave the crime or one-dimensional the injustice, after four days the hivemind of American punditry decides that the Real Story is how the people upset about it are the real villains.
incredibly 'the unix way' to have a directory named 'etc' for stuff that the first draft taxonomy couldn't sort better then never revisit it
Think of the pallet wrap! llpde is the linchpin of global trade. Shipping companies are going to start skimping. Means increased ‘cargo shift’ damage. Spike in ‘damaged on arrival’ insurance claims for electronic goods and fragiles.
Ok now it’s several plastics suppliers all saying 7-10% increase effective immediately
So anything you see that is mostly plastic, which is most stuff these days, is now 7-10% more expensive
I should note I did not get plastics notices in the past when oil spiked
It was always steel/metals
First fall out of the inflation from the war:
My label company says the polyethylene market has skyrocketed bc of oil issues elsewhere, people are buying American polyethylene
So my label pricing has jumped 10%
In my work it’s wild how often the packaging costs more than the food packaged
But seriously, how fucking dumb do you have to be to run a dark money influence op on a professional influence op researcher and her influence op former reporter boyfriend? Just insane dummies. Vote Kat and she'll out this shit in Congress constantly.
Is that a lower-case "2"?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxTi...
Crows in Tokyo learned to construct fake dummy nests to distract municipal workers whose job is to remove nests
anthropic is going to win because they are not a supply chain risk. palantir should be declared a supply chain risk because we cannot have people openly dedicated to overthrowing democracy in charge of our intelligence backends.
