Seconding this. I’ve been using a MX Master 3S for a little more than a year, and it’s great. Incredibly solid build quality, long battery life, and the best scroll wheel I’ve ever used. It’s magnetic, so the wheel’s individual ‘clicks’ as you scroll are incredibly satisfying, but you can also turn them off so it’s just a smooth scroll. And since it’s magnetic, you can flick it once and it just keeps scrolling and scrolling and scrolling. Surprisingly useful for very long websites and for interacting with applications that heavily rely on the wheel for zooming. I initially scoffed at the price, but it’s one of those examples where the quality is worth it.
Summer Lee is awesome. She asks great questions in committee, doesn’t pull any punches, and communicates like an actual human being. I’m a Jew, and I’m begging anyone in her district to please vote for her. Don’t let the Pro-Israel lobby make your electoral decisions.
Totally agree. All this mind-bogglingly malicious treatment of prisoners makes even the lightest sentence a possible death-sentence. Prisoners are human beings, and deserve to be treated as such.
I keep coming back to Dostoevsky’s line:
“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”
I don’t like doing it, and I would be thrilled to throw my money at a single service that allows me to stream anything I want at high bitrate 4K. I’d actually be willing to pay a pretty high premium for that. Money is not the issue, it’s the quality of service. I genuinely wish there was a way to pay for a service that benefitted the film industry while providing a quality service to me. Until that’s the case, I’ll continue sailing on a ship that gives me the highest-possible quality content.
Some of us just have a shitty memory, it’s not always about living in an alternate reality. I owned up to my mistake, because that’s what people in this reality should do when they’re wrong.
Yeah my bad, I went back to the media coverage, and you’re right. There were all these internal leaks and rumors about a pledge some staffers wanted him to make about only serving one term, but he never actually made a commitment.
I don’t think Harris is the problem. I agree she’s a meh politician and a terrible communicator, but she’s done an acceptable job as VP, especially all the tie-breaking she had to do in the Senate early on. The VP is not some grand romantic office, it’s a backstop, and while I disagree with a lot of her ideas, I’m sure she’d do a fine/acceptable job if she had to take over. No one knows what kind of leader they’re going to be until they actually have to lead.
Biden should have kept his promise to be a one-term transition president, but since that’s obviously off the table let’s just do our best to win this election with the candidates we have, as uninspiring as they may be. We’re gonna have to fight hard for this one, and I think it’s too late to make such a significant change to the incumbent ticket.
My bad, I thought we weren’t being sarcastic. Not casual support then, but outright support for eugenics. That’s worse.
No one person or group gets to decide who procreates and who doesn’t. Racial purity is not a real thing, and intelligence is not an inherited trait. So there are no societal benefits of eugenics. All it does is breed hatred and exclusion. And the slippery slope has no end.
I don’t disagree with you about Steven Seagal movies though…
I believe the death penalty is morally wrong in any and all circumstances. But if the state botches their murder attempt, they shouldn’t get a second try.
Disinformation, which comes from self-serving and agenda-driven swaths of the world's population (meaning people, not AI), will be amplified by AI-powered tools. The tools themselves are not necessarily the problem (though of course they sometimes are), but if the datasets they steal (sorry, use) to train their models are filled with dis and misinformation, then obviously their outputs will be filled with the same. We should tackle the inputs first, and then the outputs will be less likely to misinform.
In order for the inputs to be better, we need a quality free press and faith in our public institutions. So most of the world is not in great shape when it comes to those…
We also need to be able to easily see inside the workings of the AI models so we can pinpoint exactly how the misinformation is being generated, so we can take steps to fix it. I understand this is currently a pretty challenging technical issue, but frankly I don’t think AI tools should ever be made public until they are fully transparent about their sourcing.
Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. Getting rid of your most talented interviewer right before the most important and scariest election in American history was such an amazingly shortsighted and asinine decision. And don’t tell me this had nothing to do with Gaza…
He is never afraid to express his personal morality on air, which is pretty rare. He believes combative journalism is integral to a functional democracy, regularly saying “journalists should be biased, biased towards democracy.” He’s often the only voice of reason amid a toxic cloud of both-sidesy bullshit. There are not two sides to every issue, sometimes there’s just the truth. And he’s not afraid to say it.
MSNBC didn’t deserve him. I hope he has a stack of amazing job offers, I’ve come to rely on his voice.
Not quite, and the specifics can matter a lot in cases like this. The way it was explained to me that made the most sense, was to imagine if there were two types of plagiarism: felony and misdemeanor. Felony plagiarism is taking someone else’s idea and claiming it as your own, or directly quoting an original idea without putting it in quotes, and pretending it was your idea all along. Misdemeanor plagiarism is not properly citing someone else’s idea, or simply misattributing a quote or well-established concept. Not that hard to do to be honest, and while the latter is careless and shouldn’t ever happen, Gay was accused of what would be a misdemeanor plagiarism. She didn’t steal anyone’s ideas, she just did a bad job at attribution. The distinction matters, though what she did still isn’t good, to be fair.
I don’t know why you’re getting such combative and inaccurate answers, but this is an excellent question! It’s called backfilling, and it’s an extremely common practice at archaeological digs all over the world for a number of reasons.
You can’t beat the natural processes of the earth for preserving much of what is found. It must have done a good-enough job up to the point of excavation, otherwise we wouldn’t have found whatever it is we found. So it is usually more efficient, cost-effective, and functional to backfill an area that you know you’ll need to come back to later.
Excavation is inherently destructive, you can’t “repeat” the process like you can with hard science experiments, so archaeologists are encouraged and often required to preserve (meaning not dig) areas of a site for future research when we know our technologies will be improved. And if you can’t dig a whole feature properly in one season, backfilling it to preserve your progress until the next dig season is incredibly common practice.
The natural processes of sedimentation do a much better job at preserving something that has already been exposed to the elements than most of our modern techniques. So if there is an important find, it’s often easier to backfill it with clean sediment to ensure it’s still well-preserved when the researchers are ready to properly study it. Often a layer of geo-frabric is laid down under the backfilled material to mark where the area of interest starts, and so that you know you can dig quickly without worrying until you reach the fabric.
It’s harder for looters to know where to look for “treasure” when a site has been backfilled between seasons. It’s often one of the only security measures in place at sites that are under excavation year after year.
There are many other reasons for why backfilling is a pretty standard procedure at archaeological sites. I don’t know specifically if backfilling is common at Pompeii, but I’d imagine they must do it every so often. Pompeii is one of the most famous tourist sites in the world though, so it’s probably not the most representative example.
Regardless, your instinct is right, backfilling is incredibly common, and often the best way to preserve a site for the future. Don’t let the haters get you down!
Why don’t we talk about the nearly 28,000 dead Palestinians? We can’t rebuild them for any amount of money, they’re dead.