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Rand Paul floats Elon Musk for House Speaker

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  • Succession would just pass over him.

    • Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old?

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  • The answer is probably "yes"

    1. Food is probably worse.
    2. Your taste buds might have changed.
    3. Your gut bacteria might be different.

    I have a couple reasons for believing each.

    1. Nutrient concentration in food has decreased over time (Veritasium talked about a fascinating explanation for this) and the desire to find low cost alternatives like HFCS over cane sugar changes the taste of food.
    2. "Children prefer higher levels of sweet and are more sensitive to bitter tastes until adolescence."
    3. Your gut microbiome literally changes over time.

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  • Smallville very directly addressed this in an episode where Clark Kent's mom got mad at him for hiding an undocumented immigrant on their farm. He had to remind her his own paperwork was also less than legitimate.

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  • None of this makes sense anymore. How could people possibly be shocked this time? It happened before under less favorable circumstances.

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  • He probably didn't. He was polling very well. Very well. Better than his last two elections for a long time. People pretended he couldn't win and I admittedly didn't think they'd do that since that's exactly what happened in 2016.

    Simply assuming the election was stolen will be a mistake because that mindset will help Republicans win their next election. The voters wanted an irreparably changed supreme court and Trump functionally immune from prosecution and that's what the voters got.

    • Pelosi blames Harris' loss on Biden's late exit and no open Democratic primary

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  • You're right, but I think it was a combo.

    October 7th spilled a bunch of gasoline on the ground. (Almost immediately after that day his polling trailed Trump's.)

    His debate performance dropped a lit cigarette.

    In my opinion, you really needed both of those things for him to drop out. A physically struggling Biden that's polling at 60% would've stayed in the race. A Biden with an excellent debate performance that was polling at 45% would've stayed in the race.

    EDIT: typo

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  • They're not done counting. There's a decent chance he has more votes this time.

    • Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Putin for two years, says report

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    • ‘They will vote against Harris’: Arab Americans in Michigan desert Democrats over Gaza

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  • Based on the article, that's very clearly what they want.

    EDIT: anyone who's downvoting me should try explaining why the Democratic mayor of a Muslim majority town that hates pride flags is endorsing Trump. Some people clearly don't mind if Trump wins.

    • Abandon Harris endorses Green Party's Jill Stein

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  • This doesn't make sense. How could the "Abandon Harris" movement start late last year when Harris wasn't even the candidate?

    • Iran Revolutionary Guard general died in Israeli strike that killed Hezbollah leader, reports say

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  • I know it's not the point, but it's weird to call things "9/11 scale attacks" when you consider how many buildings were leveled in Gaza.

    • Iran Revolutionary Guard general died in Israeli strike that killed Hezbollah leader, reports say

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  • Your analogy requires a powerful faction of people in Poland directly shooting rockets at Russian-occupied Ukraine. Still a significant event, but this descent continually shows the problem with analogies.

    • Are modern LLMs closer to AGI or next word predictor? Where do they fall in this graph with 10 on x-axis being human intelligence.

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  • They are programmatically token predictors. It will never be "closer" to intelligence for that very reason. The broader question should be, "can a token predictor simulate intelligence?"

    • What are your favorite examples of 'media within media' (e.g., shows, stories, or movies inside of other shows or books)?

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  • Fillory and Further by Christopher Plover

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    The Magicians by Lev Grossman

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  • what's easier? Convincing everyone you know to download signal or whatsapp or matrix or whatever or having that built into the text app [convincing everyone to buy the same phone].

    FTFY

    When presented this way, the choice is very different.

    • taylor doesn't need anyones help

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    • Israel critic, ‘Squad’ member Ilhan Omar wins Minnesota Democratic primary

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  • Yeah, that pretty much aligns with what I thought. A comment downvoted to -122.

    • Israel critic, ‘Squad’ member Ilhan Omar wins Minnesota Democratic primary

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  • First part is true, but irrelevant since it's a blue district like I tried to explain to the other dude. When I say blue, I mean she more than doubled her next closest opponent (the Republican candidate)'s votes. It would be a waste of AIPAC's money from their perspective.

    Second part sounds like fan fiction because the users on Lemmy I've interacted with don't sound like people who want to see a solidly blue district turn red.

    • Israel critic, ‘Squad’ member Ilhan Omar wins Minnesota Democratic primary

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  • That's a primary. Different places have primaries at different times.

    • Israel critic, ‘Squad’ member Ilhan Omar wins Minnesota Democratic primary

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  • Yeah it does, because in the general election, she'll be the only Democrat. That's the purpose of the primary.