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> I'm still trying to square how 98% of American voters went for candidates promising to continue arming the world's most live-streamed genocide, even with all those protests; even with all the footage we've seen

in case you’re not being flippant and genuinely believe what you’re saying, it’s because we had only two viable candidates, one of whom should never have been legitimized. the line of thinking you present throws the baby out with the bathwater and represents a false choice. it comes across as saying that you’d rather do nothing than do something to—if not move things in the right direction—at least make it easier to permit the right direction in the future. no, instead you or others like you choose to exercise your cynical blend of moral superiority, demonstrating that you care more about your own sense of self worth than actually, you know, holding your nose and doing something. holders of that philosophy can’t seem to stand the smell of ‘imperfect’, regardless of how much damage they’ll allow to happen in the name of some false standard.

I am going to adopt the phrase “toxic negativity”. I’m not yet familiar with “virtue spiraling”, however.

I could not agree more. Finding succinct written information on the internet feels more difficult every day.

Learn everything you can about cleaning/standardizing datasets and the boots-on-the-ground process of labeling data and training algorithms. These are fundamental, and are often overlooked and undervalued.

Interesting and interested. I’ll be following, for the learning experience if nothing else.

> Of course, in the developed world, bikes are more luxury things

I’m not sure where this notion comes from? I wasn’t rich as a child, but I had a bicycle, and I grew up in rural Appalachia.

That one jumped out at me, too, but I was thinking the Apple IIc.

Now there’s a term I’ve never heard before. I’m somewhat afraid to look it up, but here I go…

All the time.

This a really strong, and very good breakdown of the problems with the prequels. They essentially take the complex, developed characters of Frank Herbert and turn them into into trite caricatures of themselves.

This is one of the many reasons I do not miss working for a bookstore. A large percentage (but not the majority) of our customers were either grifters or thieves.

Internet Explorer is the browser, Explorer is the file manager. Not that Microsoft has made it confusing </s>

I enjoyed your take. I didn’t agree with every point you made, but I was sympathetic enough to appreciate them.

I agree, and this plot point unsuspends my disbelief more than any others.

- Apple will release a display-less fitness tracker based on the Apple Watch.

Good luck with the mirtazapine taper, and I mean that with all sincerity. I recently finished mine, and it’s been fascinating to watch the weight drop along with it. I’m glad that mirtazapine helps some people, but for me it was a poison that shocked my central nervous system with brutal discontinuation symptoms.

As someone who despises internal combustion engines I would love to get a battery-electric vehicle, but the delta between what I owe on the car (zero, fortunately)--and what I'd need to spend--would pay for gasoline for decades. I imagine other people feel similarly. Tax incentives help, but are a virtual drop in the gas tank. Still, should I need to replace my car, the only viable option for me is a BEV.

I’ve used and liked Genius Scan for a long time. Roughly six or seven years.

Perfect summarization, in my opinion.

Indeed. I cringe each time I see the phrase.

A: How long have you been doing this?

B: How old are you?

Not that you have to answer these questions in public, they’re just illustrative of at least two factors that may affect your experience.

I’ve found that when it comes to their cars, people seem to get offended very easily (at least in my part of the U.S.). Case in point: I suggested physical traffic-calming solutions for my neighborhood in order to combat excessive speeding, and a community member said, “We don’t live in communist China.”

It makes me think of “How Doctors Die”:

https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2013/03/how-doctors-die/

I have to agree with the author’s experience with Metafilter.

And, arguably, data cleaning is the most overlooked part.

Please define “survival”.

Couldn’t agree more, though I saw it 20 years too late.

Forgive my ignorance, but would an ipad pro with lidar have sufficient technology to produce a readable facsimile?

You’re confusing a library with a bookstore. Libraries are repositories of information that one can browse.

I see The Room series of games multiple times.