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From what I can recall his Spanish sounded like what the Nasonex bee would sound like speaking Spanish.

What if the fast, efficient movement of people enabled more economic value to be created than the amount of money put into it, and in the aggregate would be a net positive economically?

depending on how cheap you want to go you can always get a used/refurbished Chromebook Plus model (they have 8GB of RAM and 128gb+ of storage and a Ryzen3/Intel i3, so not terrible) for $200 or less, and then dual-boot into a Linux distro or just flash the BIOS entirely. Took me maybe an hour to get Lubuntu installed on an old Chromebook 4 (the old 4gb RAM/32 GB models) and it runs great given it’s only got 2 cores. Great battery life but YMMV. There’s a script that automates the BIOS flashing, and there’s a pretty good walkthrough/explanation about getting it going on various models here: https://docs.mrchromebox.tech/

I first got on it because Windows Vista ran like an absolute pig after a few years and I got tired of it - downloaded Ubuntu and I was off to the races with it. After that laptop I built my first PC which I’m proud to say has never so much as had a windows USB stick inserted into it.

Tbh I find it requires much less tinkering now - I ended up putting Fedora Atomic Cosmic on a Chromebook this weekend (first time w/ jailbreaking a Chromebook, and w/Fedora) and it took all of an hour to get it done - the only command-line stuff I needed to do was because Fedora Atomic is immutable so adding non-flatpak apps is a slightly more involved process. Beyond that OS setup/software installation was entirely via GUI and straightforward.

I checked out the wikipedia on air embolisms and you’d need a Dr. Jack Kevorkian style setup to do it correctly, your blood can absorb gas so you’d need 3-5 100ml syringes injected once per second for five seconds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_embolism

The lethal dose for humans is considered theoretically between 3 and 5 ml per kg. It is estimated that 300-500 ml of gas introduced at a rate of 100 ml per sec would prove fatal.[13]

It doesn’t seem all that great for that with its specs anyways - 8GB VRAM, 16GB RAM doesn’t sound terribly appealing unless it’s well under 1k for that when you’re probably getting less VRAM per dollar than buying a Mac Studio at like 4k (96GB)

Are you talking about the Jorge Ramos stuff/him saying “Israel has a right to exist”?

I do count those as flaws, btw.

I think saying “Oh I don’t really think about Diaz-Canel or Maduro, I’m focusing on New York and I recognize that the Cuban and Venezuelan states are repressive” is a pretty weak condemnation when you can call almost all states repressive, because all states (in the case of Cuba and Venezuela, justifiably) need to repress their internal enemies, many of whom leave that state (and many gusanos landed in New York,I’m sure) It doesn’t really serve his point in the interview to acknowledge that but he’s towing the line with his pinky at that point.

Sliding on Israel sucks but saying “I support the right of Israel to exist, with qualifications, and not as it exists now” is absolutely not what the Zionists want.

But ultimately the guy’s running for mayor and he doesn’t actually need totally good foreign policy positions because he’s got constituents to win over and his power extends to the borders of NYC.

Basically I think it’s good for the guy to have broad appeal and a socialist agenda in NYC. We’ll see how he does but at the same time I think that he has a better chance to legitimize socialism as a political force because he can deliver on his policies, rather than getting subsumed into national politics by the nature of the system like AOC was.

Cautiously optimistic because Zohran, for all his faults (Jessica Tisch, etc) has been basically training on keeping on message and swerving bad-faith questions the entire campaign and Trump is totally incoherent and just says stuff… like as far as the list of people most likely to come off looking good from talking to Trump, it’s probably him and few others.

Edit: Non-zero chance they just talk musicals. Trump admin is about as cultured as the inside of an autoclave (he’s probably just aching to talk about them) and Mamdani probably saw at least a few growing up in NYC.

Definitely useful, but it really depends- IME I used it on job applications for stuff I was only tangentially interested in and personally focused on the stuff that I gave a ahit about - so it can help you with just putting out a volume of applications - I also like the approach of feeding them your resume bullet points and the job description and prompting it to generate an optimized resume based on the job description and also putting together a cover letter based on it too.

If you’re not carrying it regularly, frame mounted optics rails/ weights? I know you mentioned iron sights are fine but it may help the zeroing problem (b/c it isn’t getting hammered back-and-forth). Idk, definitely not a carry pistol thing but if your use case is at home/at the range then how it prints don’t matter. Only real use case I could think of.

That’s intentional though - the photographer wanted to create an image that looks like a painting. It’s very close to the style of James McNeil Whistler’s “Nocturne” paintings.

Yeah it’s got its own wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flatiron_(photograph)

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Lol that’s so fucking stupid. Yeah put the batteries right where people shoot, lithium packs are totally cool with getting crushed/punctured.

IIRC he’s an Australian Cattle Dog so his grandpa probably drank beer from a prosthetic paw or something

I think this is to put the squeeze on netflix/Amazon - foreign series

It’s all to make it more appealing to investors - “we’re lean and hungry, look at all these nerds putting in long hours for our B2B SaaS” and the end product doesn’t really matter as long as it convinces a private equity guy to value the company at $10b because it’s the first step in dominating the data warehousing space and they don’t really care how it gets done.

It’s creating a situation where someone could continue to lie and have sex under false pretenses (which would be SA), but I wouldn’t equate it to that itself.

Scummy to do but I’d guess it’d be about as successful as someone who just messages everyone they match with, keeps the conversation general and asks to meet up relatively promptly, because that’s what this bot is most likely doing.

Also on the flip side of being decieved by this it may just mean there are a few people curious about the kind of person who would try to automate dating or who want to have sex enough that they don’t care if they like their date on a personal level.

I looked at an article of his from 2019 (so no chatGPT) and it’s pretty bad; this guy seems to really love commas: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimosman/2019/05/08/unicorn-myth-uber-wework-dotcom-bubble/

Though it really looks like he just fed a bunch of his articles to ChatGPT and is slowly making it less and less coherent because he’s just copy/pasting all his articles from the same chat. Also I think b/c he’s a contributor he wouldn’t have an editor since he’s a not a staff writer?

IDK Forbes was a massive slop mill that anyone with a pulse could send in articles to for a good while, he probably was able to stick around b/c of the business focus.

Hi, I’m from Draw Lines Around Docs, do you have a moment to talk about forming a small, autonomous enclave of medical professionals in the state currently known as Rhode Island?