Yeah I hate Sunday evenings. I’m acutely aware I have to wake up super early the next day, and yet I still have energy from sleeping in an extra hour and just want to hang out. That means I almost always end up going to bed later than I plan, making Mondays suck more than they need to.
People who don’t vote don’t get to complain if things don’t go their way. I mean they can, but it’s pretty silly. It’s like writing a review for a restaurant that your friends have eaten at, but that you haven’t. No one should take that review seriously.
I think voting should be mandatory for people who have registered to vote. I don’t think anyone should be required to register, but if you are registered you should have to vote or be fined, imo.
Yeah I feel you. It’s one of the few excellent apps that I’ve never felt the need to upgrade. I don’t think I need any of the extra features. I wish there were a lifetime option or something a little less expensive than their yearly. I might just subscribe for a few months to show my support for the devs, because it’s such a solid app. But their prices do seem really high.
Yeah, just search for 404 media with whatever app you use for podcasts. I don’t use Spotify or Apple and it came up straight away for me in PocketCasts.
404 Media knocking it out of the park as usual. This is one of those independent outlets which has been doing consistently awesome journalism. I especially like it when they get targeted for their work, because they are never afraid to call out the hypocrisy or bullshit, they thrive on it.
The silver lining here is that Facebook was already increasingly a waste of our time. The only reason we’re able to share our stories via our official Facebook page is that we’ve fully automated that process, because it is not actually worth our time to post our stories there organically. Since before we started 404 Media, we knew there was very little chance that Facebook would help us reach people, grow our audience, and make the case that people should support our journalism, so in a way we lost nothing because there’s nothing to lose. On the other hand, that perspective is based on us having already accepted Facebook’s rejection of our journalism years ago.
Well, they’re wrong. Regarding Israel, their combination of action when none was warranted and inaction when it was the morally imperative bare minimum, is responsible for large scale targeted atrocities against people just like you and me. Anything short of complete condemnation, a total cutoff of military support, and harsh diplomatic consequences is inexcusable and will doom us to the wrong side of history. I say this as a Jew whose family is much smaller than it should be because of a similar disregard for human life. This has got to stop, and Blinken and Biden had a chance. They chose not to take it.
Take a moment and imagine yourself in this situation. It’s an absolutely terrifying nightmare. Yet another reason to be disgusted by Israel’s amoral behavior.
After the attack, the soldiers turned Arian’s apartment into a military base. They brought in her neighbours, separated the men from the women, and interrogated them. Some of the men, including Arian’s husband, were detained. "I was still lying on the bathroom floor, unable to move my injured leg and frozen with shock and fear.”
Before they left, at around 2:30am the soldiers warned them to not tell anyone what had happened.
This is an unambiguously good thing. It’s an embarrassment that we need to make rules like this at all, no one should pay a dime outside their taxes for medical care to begin with, let alone risk homelessness for receiving that care.
But this is exactly the kind of rule the Supreme Court loves to manufacture a justification for overturning. Some poor people might actually get a little relief from predatory amoral business practices? We can’t have that…
Not a divorcee myself, but one of my close friends got divorced a few years ago, and when she told me, without thinking I said, “Congratulations! That must be a huge relief.” She was so thrilled by my response, and said I was the only friend who congratulated her, everyone else acted all sad and consoling. It was a difficult decision she made, so she felt like it should be celebrated.
That’s been my response ever since, though gently of course, and only if I know the person well enough.
“All set, I’ve booked you a business class seat on a flight to Dubai, via Hawaii. Your MasterCard has been charged $14,572. Your flight leaves in 48 minutes, enjoy your trip!”
Hydrogen tech has been around for decades, and it seems to always have had these same issues at varying degrees. To me it seems like a technology that in theory sounds great, but the moment you start trying to implement anything practical at scale, it all breaks down and becomes cost prohibitive. Solar initially had similar issues, but we’ve made significant progress there, when it seems like hydrogen has stagnated over the same time period. We should continue to research it, but I think our energy could be better spent by developing non-volatile battery technologies and making solar even more efficient and compact. I’d love to be wrong though.
For fucks sake, what a willfully blind genocide apologist.
“There have been times when actions that Israel has taken have, yes, made it more difficult. But there’s been a rationale for those actions, even if they’ve sometimes made getting to a conclusion more difficult.”
There’s been a rationale?! Seriously? There hasn’t been a real rationale other than terror and ethnic cleansing for a long time. Blinken continuing to try to justify Israel’s atrocities makes me sick.
I'm sure you know, but you're probably going to get a lot of grief for this. I'm deeply suspicious of any new AI tool, especially one that tries to get in between me and my news (looking at you Feedly), and I'm sure I'm not the only one. So if you're not already, I'd prepare yourself for a lot of strong emotions, and probably not in a good way.
If you wanted to get ahead of that kind of thing, you might want to explain what kinds of safeties you're building into it. For example, on your roadmap you say want it to "Generate argument of for and against perspective then summarise the result of the 2 arguments." This kind of thing in particular is quite risky. Any time you try to introduce value statements into an LLM summary, you're in the danger zone. Even if you're just trying to summarize the actual perspective of the piece, you're basically just begging the LLM to hallucinate. But asking it to summarize hypothetical opposing arguments is just asking for trouble.
I could go on, but I don't want to start a pile on. I appreciate when folks try to build cool stuff, you've just waded into some choppy waters...
Will do, I’m curious about it now. Tbh I’ve never found Stallone particularly compelling, but the more I think about it, the more I’m sure I only saw bits and pieces when I was young. Deserves a full watch.
Yeah that struck me, it’s literally the first time I’ve ever heard someone referred to as a “Rambo-type.”
I maybe saw parts of the first Rambo 30 years ago, but I honestly can’t remember. This reference means very little to me other than “jacked mumbling idiot with a big machine gun.”
Makes sense when you unapologetically commit genocide, deny it at every turn, while endangering entire populations of Palestinians and Jews all over the world in the process.
I was taught to do that, and I hope everyone does it, even if they think they’re the only car on the road. I’m a very safe but confident and decisive driver, and the number of times I’ve looked over my shoulder and been surprised by what I found is high enough that I will continue to always do it, even if it feels silly. It’s just not worth the risk.
Thanks! That’s good advice. Even in easier games I always have to stop and remind myself to chill and figure out the pattern. And whenever I do, it’s much more manageable and ultimately more fun.
Finally grabbed a copy of Sekiro, and though I’ve never been much of a fan of uncompromisingly punishing games, I’m optimistic that this will be the one that gets me there.
Haven’t started it yet, so it’s possible, if not likely that it’s going to kick my ass.
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Yeah I hate Sunday evenings. I’m acutely aware I have to wake up super early the next day, and yet I still have energy from sleeping in an extra hour and just want to hang out. That means I almost always end up going to bed later than I plan, making Mondays suck more than they need to.