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brb going to learn how to build dual-use technology at a school that China delegated their immigration policy to, then take an entry-level job from one of their citizens a 15% wage discount for the employer
If you were deliberately trying to nuke the domestic talent pipeline for national security critical industries you could hardly do worse than the STEM OPT program
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Services inflation is going to absolutely rip as boomers retire. You really don’t need to charge that much when your housing costs are $1200 and you’re about to get social security. Wouldn’t be surprised to be paying 3x to the auto mechanic or cobbler in 5-10 years
But there’s another crazy number in this chart:
What’s up with Boomers?
Less than $100K/year? Seriously?
Must be nice to be disconnected from reality.
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There’s always a lot of pro-Catholic snark on megachurches, but wowing people with labor-intensive marvels like this is closer conceptually to the frescos and statues of Catholic churches than to the traditionally austere Protestant ones
This is Prestonwood Baptist Church in Dallas and their presentation of "Little Drummer Boy."
This is insane. Not like good insane. Like someone had an acid trip insane.
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The limiting reagent is giving a shit. There aren't that many people who care enough to do these things, didn't care enough to learn what they needed to do them before, yet LLMs bring the learning curve into the care zone
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There's still a decent chance this whole thing gets vetoed by something like the California Lizard Protection Board or the Grass Conservation District #16 that everybody forgot existed
1/ 🇺🇸 Today, @CAForever submitted detailed plans for the next great American city, an hour north of Silicon Valley, including: Solano Foundry, America’s largest manufacturing park, Solano Shipyard, our largest shipyard, and walkable neighborhoods for 400,000 Californians.
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That @AvrilLavigne song was such a psyop, implying "preppy clothes" that your dad and grandfather may very well have worn was "faking", but the recently invented hot topic attire - which was to some extent a marketing collab with her music genre - showed the real self
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Models with a pre-Nov 24 knowledge cutoff are basically Rip van Winkle, including GPT-5, which thought OBBB was a joke when asked a tax question, even after being corrected. Maybe the world really has changed
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Every “transit incident” I’m personally aware of happened to a woman… even the scrawniest transit fan guy is far, far less likely to be harassed on transit then a typical woman.
either lock up the sickos and throw away the key or lose democratic support for transit. I guess there is a third option, but even Saudi Arabia lets women travel by themselves now
What are the odds that a guy pulling out his dick on the Disney monorail will be detained then banned from that service permanently? Pretty high, right?
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Why you’re not allowed to use laptops during takeoff and landing, when most airplane crashes occur:
If the plane crashes, whatever you’re holding will go flying and hit people, and the laptop is heavier. Then it will land on the floor, and unless the laptop lands perfectly flat with the lid closed it will be an obstacle / trip hazard for evacuation.
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Large parts of radiology were already being automated pre-VLMs. The result is classic Jevons: more scans and more types of scans.
Many MDs are on a career track for research, hospital admin, or practice ownership, not diagnosing sniffles in primary care which, again, was being taken over by mid-levels long before LLMs came around
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Most mundane consumer goods in Korea - mugs, clothes, nail clippers, etc - are made there. Why would the US import these products from China when our ally makes them?
High quality too: got a disposable container once that'd sell in the US for 2x the food and container combined
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While most fake reviews are likely originated by gray hat marketing firms that they hire, I’ve seen enough sets of reviews effusively calling out certain employees that I think the employees themselves are ordering fake reviews to get bonuses
From the perspective of a third party supplier what you do is:
Bid at contracts of high quality brands with an excellent sales team
Bid the absolutely lowest price while giving big promises
Do a good job for the first few months then slowly start cutting costs and quality to the lowest possible while still legally adhering to your contract
You do this by hiring the cheapest people possible, running them to the ground, causing high churn of staff and both customers and the workers getting a terrible experience
The beneficiaries here are the owners of the businesses that get higher profit margins short term
Long term this destroys brands because you stop perceiving them as high quality
Or does it...
Because one interesting addition to this is the giant industry of fake reviews that has spun up where every place now is easily able to buy a 4.5/5 on Google Maps etc
So even if quality is guaranteed to go to shit, customers will complain but they'll get drowned out by fake positive reviews and it won't affect the brand
That's why many of us have this sneaking suspicion that there's been collective enshittification post-COVID but none of us can conclusively prove it
This is what's happening I think
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This cafe gave me a little cup for my teabag so I didn’t have to drink bitter tea or soak a napkin with a wet teabag. And I didn’t even have to “answer a few questions” on an iPad! The US really feels like a scam sometimes.
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In history class, I was always confused why merchants were considered to have lower status
Watching people writing melodramatic essays squealing about how the $42 T-shirt they're dropshipping from China is now going to cost them $12 instead of $5, I finally understand it now.
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Without Prop 13 and NIMBYism, the population replacement of California would be far less eerie. As it stands, it appears that a neutron bomb went off in 1978
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The Golden Age of Web Design
– 2Advanced Studios v2 in 2001
– Design Insites in 2001
– Immigrant Records in 2002
– Raden Media in 2001
#WebDesignHistory
ALT 2Advanced Studios v2 website in 2001
ALT Design Insites website in 2001
ALT Immigrant Records website in 2002
ALT Raden Media website in 2001
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