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When I checked back in [not a number] University of Illinois had many copies. All missing for some reason…

So, what happens if I'm a parent and I know that my kid needs highly paid teachers, a library full of books with diverse characters, trans-inclusive bathrooms and extracurriculars, and a curriculum unpacking topics like systemic racism, colonial oppression, economic inequality, and climate change?

I'm just glad Article I isn't alive to see this

The age of earth based astronomy is over. With multiple countries and companies each launching thousands of LEO satellites like this in constellations, it'll be impossible to see the stars without them interfering. It also tremendously raises the risk of Kessler syndrome.

Yes, we should be worried that Sam Altman would say this. “You need to understand that Sam can never be trusted,” [Aaron Swartz] told one confidante. “He is a sociopath. He would do anything.”

"Remigration" is the polite term for forced deportations of unwanted minorities and ethnic cleansing. The punishment for being a "traitor" is execution. But yeah, you've got to stay on Twitter for baseball highlights or some shit. I get it.

For those of you who are still over there because of "the reach" or "the discourse" or whatever.

this pulls at something that makes me extra frustrated at transphobic gay folks. historically, being gay was seen as gender nonconformity. it’s all the same hate

Gore, also, failed to horse around with the press. Would that have made the difference to that catty clique that hated him? Dunno. It’s just disgusting that it matters

Booooring

That’s how it was with W, also. Press eats it up when powerful people act like they are buddies. And so none of them defend the journalists Trump attacks

Solving "how far could you throw a floppy naan discus" numerically is one of the hardest possible problems in fluid dynamics btw, two-way fluid structure interaction at high Reynolds number. Multiple PhD theses and maybe an entire research group worth of papers there.

In addition, I imagine people employ heuristics that give weight to such matters as “If I win the coin flip will this asshole actually pay?” Instinct tells many of us to play it safe when someone is dangling that kind of money in front of us

Also there is no universally rational single choice here, from an economics view. Risk neutrality is not demanded

It was bad enough to see that CAP backed away from their earlier categorical support of trans kids in sports but I'm now extra frustrated to learn that their retreat is in a report called "Ending the Backlash on LGBTQI+ Issues" Your strategy for ending backlash is to yield to it? C'mon, man

Fun thought experiment! Let's say you are given a choice between the following two options: 1. You receive $50,000 right now, cash on the barrelhead. 2. I flip a coin. If it's heads, you get $2,000,000. If it's tails, you give me $1,000,000. Which choice do you take? Which choice is rational?

was reading about Bill Moyers, who passed away this year came across an interview in which he talked about how you can’t have honor in a society that no longer has a sense of shame, and that we need to bring back shame to restore honor

People are making fun of AOC for having a slight southern accent while speaking in Memphis but they clearly don’t know the pain of habitually and unconsciously imitating the speaking style of the people around you

Get in there now while it’s trading at only 347x its earnings

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