2024-10-08
really old leftovers, Milton roars, Blackhawk propwash, objectivity is a good idea, Musk buying voters, FAA bias, polls are wrong, many hate Trump, Bout 2: Houthi boogaloo, China retains teachers
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Betrayed By Culture - by Robin Hanson - Overcoming Bias
In turns out that, since I’ve learned about cultural drift, I do in fact see my culture as broken. But for some reason I can’t or won’t look away. And I struggle to express to you just how very betrayed and adrift I feel as a result. I’ve lost my trust in something that I’ve implicitly and deeply loved and trusted. I will stay loyal to my loved ones, but I can’t stay loyal to my culture, including its norms and status markers. I have long enjoyed questioning conventional wisdom. But I’ve almost always done that locally, by questioning each claim while assuming I can still rely on most other conventional wisdom. Yet the more “load-bearing” is a claim, or the larger the set of claims one tries to question at once, the fewer other claims one can rely on. At some point one risks being “lost at sea”, without anchors to support effective questioning.
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Researchers Find Cannibalized Victim of 19th-Century Arctic Voyage (Archive)
Now, with the help of a sophisticated DNA-matching method, researchers have identified the remains of Captain James Fitzjames, the expedition’s third-highest-ranking officer, who died sometime in 1848 as he and other crew members tried to escape the ice. Fitzjames is the second person to be identified from the expedition. And he is the first member of the crew definitively known to have been the victim of cannibalism.
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Alexa knows Milton will be a Cat5 and how much damage it will cause
NC/TN Floods / Helene
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Asheville is in crisis right now. They're without drinking water, faucets run dry, and it's difficult to flush toilets. As of yesterday, the hospital has water (via tanker trucks), but 80% of the public water system is still without running water. Things are really bad. Lots of infrastructure has been washed away. Even when water is back, there has been tremendous damage done that will take a long time to recover from and rebuild. Here's the only national news story my friend from Asheville had seen which covered the water situation specifically. It's hard for me to understand why this is not covered more broadly. And my heart aches for those in and around the Asheville area.
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FEMA Helicopters Are Blocking Greenville South Carolina Airport
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Why did an unmarked Blackhawk rotor wash a supply drop off in western North Carolina
When confronting the Senior Officer in charge, we were basically told “oops, our bad, and see ya”. I asked for names and was told to kick rocks. All I had was a tail number from the aircraft. Thankfully, my father whom is retired military, knew who to call immediately. Within 30 minutes the National Guard and the FAA had contacted me. And a public affairs officer stopped by our site later to apologize and give me the information to file a complaint and claim. So for all of you out there still spreading misinformation about the lack of military response, unfortunately for us… they are here.
Horseshit
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HVAC repair companies are breaking units when called for repairs.
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If you have a daughter, sister, mother or wife
ask yourself how you will explain your choice to your daughter when she gets older. To the women out there... Your husbands will have no idea who you vote for.
- Men must explain, women will never need to...
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Forget Superconductors: Electrons Living on the Edge Could Unlock Perfect Power
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Why 'Feeling Right' is Dangerous - by Sidwyn Koh
Reasoning objectively isn’t just a nice-to-have skill; it’s a game-changer. You’ll be known as someone who cuts through the noise and leads with clarity. And the best part? The benefits of objective reasoning extend beyond the workplace. Start applying it to personal decisions and watch how it improves your relationships.
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Thirty Years After the Genocide in Rwanda, Is Forgiveness Possible?
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Possible housing crisis solution? New kind of public housing for all incomes
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I immersed myself in furry culture. You don't understand them
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Mega Millions tickets will climb to $5, but officials promise better odds
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
Musk
Electric / Self Driving cars
Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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'Modded Hardware' Defendant Denies Nintendo's Copyright Claims in Court
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application includes security measures to protect USG interests - not for your personal benefit
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Teen achieves first NES Tetris "rebirth," proves endless play is possible
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Fintech OpenBB aims to be more than an open source Bloomberg Terminal
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Once again, paranoid conspiracy proves out: Smart TVs are like "a digital Trojan Horse" in people's homes
TechSuck / Geek Bait
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
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Spacecraft launches towards asteroid knocked off course by NASA
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FAA and the Biden administration proves it is out to destroy SpaceX
the contrast with the FAA’s treatment of SpaceX is quite striking. If the FAA applied the absurd standard it has been using against SpaceX, it would claim that this Vulcan launch threatened public safety because the incident occurred 38 seconds after launch and was thus relatively close to Florida, where an out of control rocket could potentially threaten public safety. Such a threat of course really doesn’t exist, as the FAA correctly concluded, because the rocket has a self-destruct system to prevent it from crashing in habitable areas.
Yet the agency failed to use this logic with SpaceX. Instead the FAA decided anything SpaceX launches that doesn’t work perfectly poses a serious public safety threat, no matter where or how it happens, and thus has repeatedly grounded SpaceX launches. A first stage, flown already 23 times, falls over after soft-landing successfully on its drone ship in the middle of the Atlantic, and somehow this justified the FAA grounding SpaceX due to the threat to public safety. A second stage, after successfully placing two astronauts into orbit, misfires during its de-orbit burn but still lands in the middle of the ocean, far from any habitable regions, and somehow this justified the FAA grounding SpaceX due to the threat to public safety.
Crypto con games
Economicon / Business / Finance
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USPS Increases Postage Prices Ahead of Holiday Shopping Season
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Dropbox Co-Founder Claims JPMorgan Advisor Cost Him over $225M
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Global semiconductor sales up 20.6% to record $53.1B as trade wars rage on
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Retail Investor Had Too Much Tesla - Bloomberg
The point of day-trading the Tesla options was to get you hundreds of millions of dollars, but now you have hundreds of millions of dollars, and you don’t need to day-trade the Tesla options anymore! Oh, what, you want to? You love day-trading Tesla options? Fine fine fine, go ahead, take ten million dollars and use it to day-trade Tesla options, and if you parlay that into hundreds of millions more dollars then that’s gravy. But you are too rich to have 100% of your net worth in Tesla options. The roulette wheel landed on your number 30 times in a row, you gotta stop!
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Samsung Electronics says it is not interested in spinning off foundry business
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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How One Polling Decision Is Leading to Two Distinct Stories of the Election - The New York Times
Over the last month, one methodological decision seems to have produced two parallel universes of political polling. In one universe, Kamala Harris leads only narrowly in the national popular vote against Donald J. Trump, even as she holds a discernible edge in the Northern battlegrounds. The numbers look surprisingly similar to the 2022 midterm election. In the other, Ms. Harris has a clear lead in the national vote, but the battlegrounds are very tight. It’s essentially a repeat of the 2020 election. This divide is almost entirely explained by whether a pollster uses “weighting on recalled vote,” which means trying to account for how voters say they voted in the last election.
Trump / Right / Jan6
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He’s accusing his political opponents of trying to kill him. He’s telling his voters that those of us who oppose him politically are trying to kill him. He’s using the assassination attempt to incite his voters to violence.
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The left is mad and outraged that Elon Musk is supporting Trump.
But they are completely silent about George Soros buying 200 radio stations and Google supporting the Democrats...
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A single black guy saved the day.
We were one right turn away from a mob entering the Senate chambers on January 6, murdering half the legislative branch, stopping the transfer of power, and ending our democracy.
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The 'Crypto Punks' Behind Trump's Murky New Business Venture
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Trump’s Rambling Speeches Reinforce Question of Age - The New York Times
With the passage of time, the 78-year-old former president’s speeches have grown darker, harsher, longer, angrier, less focused, more profane and increasingly fixated on the past, according to a review of his public appearances over the years.
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Trump pledges to rename Army base after Confederate general - POLITICO
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Meyn was questioned by the FBI and recalls that he got into a ridiculous debate with an agent who insisted Trump had not been shot. “Yes, he was,” said Meyn. “He turned his head and the bullet clipped the very top of his right ear. I saw some blood and tissue squirt out into the ether.” The agent told him, “Stop. President Trump wasn’t hit … You don’t understand that that podium is armored. When the Secret Service tackled President Trump [to protect him after the shots], he hit his head on the podium.” According to Meyn, “I said, ‘The problem is I saw it. I have a photographic memory. This is what I saw, and I have it on video.’” He says he heard another agent in the background say, “Oh, Jesus Christ.”
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Supreme Court won't hear case on secret warrant for Trump's Twitter data
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
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He just sold $10M arms to the Houthis
Remember when Biden-Harris freed the Merchant of Death (Viktor Bout) for the America-hating WNBA player, Griner?
Viktor Bout, the Russian arms dealer known as the “Merchant of Death,” walked out of a U.S. jail almost two years ago in a trade with Moscow for U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner. Now he is back in business, trying to broker the sale of small arms to Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militants.
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China hacked Verizon, AT&T and Lumen using the FBI's backdoor
World
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Customers face heating problems if meters not replaced
Around 175,000 Scottish energy customers face major problems with their home heating systems if they do not have their meters upgraded in the coming months. The Radio Teleswitching Service (RTS) controls energy tariffs for hundreds of thousands of homes, sending signals to store energy via the BBC's longwave transmitter. The signal is due to be turned off for good next June but hundreds of thousands of homes have still to be converted to updated systems. If this does not happen, customers could lose control of heating and hot water, leaving the systems either permanently on or off.
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Parents know they are not alone UK pact to withhold phones until 14 gathers pace
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Ship in dire need of repairs refused port for blast risk: 'Floating megabomb'
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Tipping culture is annoying and unfair – and now it's coming to Paris
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A mayor in Mexico has been killed less than 1 week after taking office : NPR
The mayor of a state capital in southern Mexico has been killed just one week after he took office, officials said Sunday. Alejandro Arcos was sworn in last Monday as mayor of Chilpancingo, a city so violent that a drug gang openly staged a demonstration, hijacked a government armored car and took police hostage in 2023 to win the release of arrested suspects. Chilpancingo is the capital of Guerrero state, where Acapulco is located.
- Decapitated and his head left on display atop a car..
Israel
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One year later, those glimmers of hope have been shredded
In the days after the Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel and the resulting military assault on Gaza, some dared hope the carnage could, in some way, become a catalyst for peace.
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Very graphic images in thread Remembering Oct 7
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Israelis mark a year since Hamas' Oct. 7 terror attack, hostages still in Gaza
Russia Bad / Ukraine War
China
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China demands schoolteachers hand in their passports
Chinese authorities are demanding that a growing number of schoolteachers and other public sector employees hand in their passports as President Xi Jinping tightens his grip on society. The passport collection drive, carried out under what is known as “personal travel abroad management”, allows local government officials to control and monitor who can travel abroad, how often and to where. It comes as Xi steps up state involvement in everyday life and clamps down on official corruption. China’s powerful state security apparatus has also intensified its campaign against foreign espionage.