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Early weekday mornings in New York, you’ll often see parents walking their children to school. These are usually kids from kindergarten through about sixth grade—by seventh grade, most get there on their own. One of my small joys is noticing how much the kids look like miniature versions of their parents: the same mannerisms, the same features, even the same general style of dress. Once you start noticing it, it’s endlessly amusing.
Oh look! Another one, but smaller.
It reminds me of how some of the most successful protests against anti-houseless policies in cities have been simply showing up and bringing food.
It's VERY difficult to criticize and avoids all "debates" by just addressing the problem no matter how small the scale might feel.
How can each of us do things that skip the bickering and go right to the problem?
Famous? Moderately but not obscenely rich? Wish you could "do something"?
Can we get even more more famous (well liked) people on boats breaking the aid blockade? This is something a famous person can do with their fame that really works well.
If you all take your yachts in a pod together you'll be safer. Taylor? Bey? Anybody?
I would totally crew I'm not famous but I'm good at sailing. (but I ain't thinking about it without some serious name power for cover)
Copycat this. Do it more.
OK but what about this BS. Everyone. Even rich people, arguably rich people and business owner MORE needs to know where the hurricane will be. If you don't have staff an launch weather balloons often enough you can't know.
Do we really have to let the house get blown down to learn?
I guess they really think things won't get worse.
I don't see many ads, but the few I do see are all for useless titanium things with an Apple design aesthetic. I made a post about how much it annoyed me.
Attached: 1 image It's nice to reconnect with old school friends but if Facebook shows me one more titanium minimalist object of dubious utility with a name a like "Frok : titanium cutlery disrupting the common fork" or whatever I may just bounce out of sheer annoyance at the targeted ads. It's like being trapped in one of those old "future tech" videos from vsauce from the early oughts. I guess they have me tagged as some kind of "early adopter, huge nerd, will buy any crap" person.
Sauropods.win (sauropods.win)
Normally they'd have some little $300 tax cut for working class people and act like it's the most wonderful thing in the world as they gut the budget.
They couldn't even be bothered. I guess the set of working class people who have voted for them don't care? Or they are so deep in misinformation there is no one who can tell them this is what will happen?
Not even Elon, for all his criticism is talking about THIS. It's regressive. Bad for the economy. Bad.
If you make less than 51k the "Big Beautiful Bill" will make your after tax income decrease.
Meanwhile the the most wealthy get the biggest tax cuts.
I don't understand how this isn't obviously unpopular. It doesn't even have a token tax cut for working class people to act as a fig leaf for the massive spending on tax breaks for the richest people in the country. That's normally how Republicans do tax cuts.
That is *before* you discuss what it does to medicaid.
Where do they get those boots? I love them.
So rude.
Made with wheat flour and slick like a plastic bag. *shudder*
I wonder what it's like to watch your mouth eating something like... way over there.
mmm geometry
The kids are addicted to google colab and replit and such. Drives me nuts. And I don't get much help from other faculty teaching them WHY this isn't ideal.
We can't just ignore the slim upsides of this tech we need to build these things ourselves I suppose.
I taught a student how to run python locally and not use any cloud machine today and I'm happy.
Gonna send $20 to whoever made Thonny I would also hug them if I could find them.
You could make a killer spellchecker with the edit history data. You know if we lived in a parallel universe where LLMs were used to do useful good things.
I really thought that post editing here would be way more disruptive than it has been. I expected non-stop nonsense.
I can't even think of a single time someone had to drag out the "edit history" to get one over in an argument. Probably because there is only like one real argument I see a week. Which I also thought would mean things were boring but they aren't?
Networks are people.
Well I'm excited.
@alexwild One of the top ants ever IMO