nocoolnametom

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by nocoolnametom 1mo ago
You hit on the head something that I've been trying to put into words for a while now: it seems that the benefit of technology to increase learning appears to be a bell-shaped graph where for each combination of subject matter there is
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by nocoolnametom 1mo ago
For many years I often wondered why wealthy American capitalists (except for the ones in insurance, obviously) didn't actively promote socialized medicine that would free their companies from having to provide health insurance to their
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by nocoolnametom 2mo ago
This is what REALLY pains me about this discussion: I am 100% about personal digital freedom, but I am also 100% opposed to promoting political violence and promoting theft and grift using generative AI. If C2PA is going to work towards on
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by nocoolnametom 7mo ago
One way to possibly get the cameras taken down: insist on requesting the data as it's public data and should be publicly accessible. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/wa-cit...
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by nocoolnametom 7mo ago
Perhaps, but the entire ecosystem of associated buzzwords/ideas is pretty popular in our culture today: "job creator" C-suite executives magically "create" jobs and/or raise pay because their budget for taxes g
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by nocoolnametom 11mo ago
The fact that it is private equity that is going to evaporate when the bubble bursts is the only silver lining I can see. However, my natual cynicism makes me bet they'll spend whatever they've got left over on their pet politici
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by nocoolnametom 1y ago
You've got three tools, mutes, blocks, and lists. Yeah, there's no centralized algorithm that does it for you, it'll take a couple days of actual effort, but it's extremely easy to prune your main feed into looking how
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by nocoolnametom 1y ago
Indeed, source very much still matters. "It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." "Qui bono," who benefits, is a great question to ask about the orga
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by nocoolnametom 1y ago
s/Democrat nominee/Democratic nominee/g or s/Democrat nominee/nominee for the Democrats/g "Democrat" is a long-used general US political slang to refer to an individual member of the Democratic Party
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by nocoolnametom 1y ago
And it'll be pretty easy to keep track of how many crimes they _do_ discover, because the first one will be trumpeted loudly everywhere, and then after that they'll use the entire list of people as though it's a partial examp
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by nocoolnametom 2y ago
Yes, but each time diluting the power of the justices individually. Right now if you have one wacko justice who decides on the basis of political ideology instead of some of the established legal theories they have 11% of a say in things.
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by nocoolnametom 3y ago
The problem comes with "Extend." "We've got this new awesome feature, and we asked nicely if it could be put into the ActivityPub docs but they turned us down/didn't act fast enough. So we're proud to ann
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by nocoolnametom 3y ago
I know, right? It's like, I don't even want to HEAR about your ideas on how to fix a broken system unless you've taken the personal responsibility to try and reorient your personal life to adhere to your proposed ideas while
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by nocoolnametom 3y ago
> "Even if you have whistleblowers come forward, they're ignored." Do you have any sources for this? I'm rather disbelieving of it, but would love to be proven wrong. I can't imagine that _some_ major news outl
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by nocoolnametom 3y ago
That which was asserted without evidence could correctly be dismissed without evidence. AT THE TIME the anti-vax crowd was basing their positions entirely upon anecdote, rumor, and often badly misread prepublication research and stats. Th
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by nocoolnametom 3y ago
When you say superdeterminism are you referring to something like Pilot Wave theory, where what appear to our measurements as probabilistic yet random interactions are merely expressions of a more complex yet non-random underlying system th
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by nocoolnametom 3y ago
Speaking for the US, but as long as Monsanto and Tyson make money selling the food their farms grow in the cities I'm not worried about a John Galt-style "strike" of agriculture. Doesn't make the existing system fair or
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by nocoolnametom 3y ago
Prevented from flying anywhere outside of Russia during a layover != defected. He's not there by choice as long as the choice is: stay in Russia and use political optics to safely criticize Putin's regime, or leave Russia and rot
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by nocoolnametom 3y ago
Also, the SLC branch of the LDS movement hasn't performed polygamist marriages (for the living) since 1904[1], but they never annulled existing marriages from before then, so it's still less than a century since the prohibition ag
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by nocoolnametom 3y ago
It's not just a funny joke that attempting to define LDS doctrine is akin to trying to nail Jell-O to the wall. For almost every doctrinal position there are either other doctrinal positions or historical events that go against it (or
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by nocoolnametom 3y ago
> Citing two prominent Mormon apologist foundations Um, I think you're confusing MormonThink and MormonR for "FAIR" or the "BoM Foundation". They're two "middle-way" sources that try to balance th
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by nocoolnametom 3y ago
There's a restaurant in the Salt Lake city airport, White Horse Spirits and Kitchen, that features a large logo on their wall written in Deseret. Though, as you pointed out, it's technically a phonetic alphabet so the restaurant&
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by nocoolnametom 3y ago
It comes from a letter written by Thomas Halman or Holman, Jr, one of the guards, to a George Weston on 30 July 1844 (about a month later). The letter is in the Special Collections of the Newberry Library in Chicago. I have been unable to
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by nocoolnametom 3y ago
That "massively deep philosophy/corpus" doesn't help things, though. With nearly 200 years of a leadership that teaches that whatever is spoken by God's servants (the highest church leadership) is to be equated as
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by nocoolnametom 3y ago
I'm guessing you've gotten some downvotes for this probably because this is recognized as a pretty bizarre belief, and one most modern Mormons do not follow or aren't even aware of. Since Mormonism almost never repudiates th
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by nocoolnametom 3y ago
The caffeine thing is a long-standing internal debate that arises from: 1. Unclear doctrinal specifics 2. An orthopraxic rather than an orthodoxic culture The first item is that the only doctrine possibly relating to caffeine is a single ve
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by nocoolnametom 3y ago
Cool, it's a false attribution or at the very least a very mangled quote. The fact that the popular version of the quote has staying power isn't because of the authorship, it's because people recognize the truth in what the
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by nocoolnametom 3y ago
"Unionized truckers earn less than owner-operator truckers." I'd be very interested in how this is spun as by all measurements unionized truckers overwhelmingly have a much higher hourly wage than contractors. Are you talki
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by nocoolnametom 3y ago
You do know that those "executives" are almost always your coworkers, right? There are extremely few "labor union executives" because there are extremely few unions that have grown so large that they require managerial
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by nocoolnametom 3y ago
I think that's because in those countries a loss of employment doesn't have the potential to cause gigantic disruptions to life through the loss of health insurance and often housing. There are much more robust systems in place t

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