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Biden team circulates poll showing no change in race after bad debate
  • I mean when you've got an existential election and the options are a barely functional geezer who will just do whatever his staff suggest and stupid Hitler your choice is going to be a forgone conclusion. It's not a choice between two shitty candidates, it's a choice between one shitty candidate and literal fascism. You either want fascism or you don't. All these "undecided" voters are either hilariously ignorant, closet fascists, or both.

  • Pornhub to leave five more states over age-verification laws
  • I know this is a joke, but that would require them to put actual effort into their shit ass slow ui that's had the same stupid bugs for the past 15 years and still doesn't have a search function that gives you what you fucking searched for.

  • How convenient!
  • I'd just like to say this is categorically false advertising if there isn't an actual hat inside. If they included extra foil for the hat the amount listed on the box would be incorrect. If they didn't include extra foil, or the label said the correct amount of foil, then there's no free hat. Those are completely mutually exclusive cases, so if there's no hat, easy false advertising lawsuit. You deserve the free hat they said you were getting.

  • hulk smash
  • You actually get payed to get a phd. Not a lot, and in fact most phd programs likely don't pay you enough to live, but you shouldn't be paying the university. Any phd program that requires you to pay is a scam.

  • Anon goes to the gym
  • I find the militaries obsession with push ups kind of baffling. It's a fine exercise, but you quickly run into diminishing returns just doing loads of push ups. There's no progressive overload, so eventually doing more just becomes fatiguing rather than productive for muscle growth or strength gain. They must know that at this point, so why would they still make people do so many push ups?

  • US drug shortages reach record high with 323 meds now in short supply
  • Reading between the lines here, someone is fucking with the market on purpose. Drop the prices so low the competition goes out of business trying to keep up, then jack up the prices to make it all back multiple times over. Businesses don't drop the price of products for no reason.

  • Doomscrolling rule
  • To me the ring feels more like heroine or cocaine or something, you know one of the drugs that just make people feel good. The hobbits had no real ambition for more than a good life, and they pretty much all already had that, so when Bilbo or Frodo used the ring it was like "heh, nice" and then they went back to their great life with no desire to use it again. Of course they're basically microdosing while they carry it so they eventually start to incur the cost. Frodo only really starts to get corrupted after months of grueling travel and suffering, and losing hope of ever returning to his life in the Shire. Everyone else has all these obligations and ambitions that weigh on them, and much like regular people they've given up varying degrees of their happiness to further those goals, so the ring would feel like getting back everything they've sacrificed and being happy again, or for the first time for some. The metaphor is a bit of a stretch, but I think it fits broadly with these magical artifacts that corrupt people. Just like cocaine, heroin, meth, morphine, or whatever, they give people a feeling that they can't just get over. It's biology, they hijack the reward system so we have no choice but to push the feel good button unless we can overcome the urge through willpower or getting whatever feeling the drug or magical artifact is replacing naturally. Some people only get so corrupted but some just keep going, chasing the dragon and replacing more and more of their life with the fake feelings of the drug or magical item.

  • After Astra loses 99 percent of its value, founders take rocket firm private
  • They didn't have zero experience. There were two full rocket designs that were built and flown before rocket 3, hence why it was called rocket 3. It also achieved orbit successfully two times, which only a limited number of companies have ever achieved.

  • After Astra loses 99 percent of its value, founders take rocket firm private
  • The first offer wasn't rejected, they didn't have the money on hand at the time. Between the first offer and the second they got investor funding together and the cash on hand dwindled, so the second offer was with cash to cover the offer and some to cover running the business between acceptance and closing. After the second offer the board released a statement saying it's this or liquidate the company, so they went with this because it's the best outcome for everyone with the current state of things.

  • Gemini WONT SHOW C++ To Underage Kids "ITS NOT SAFE"
  • Memory unsafe languages will always have value in applications where speed and performance mean anything. Embedded programming and video games are the obvious examples, but pretty much any application taken far enough will eventually demand the performance benefits of memory unsafe languages. Some even require writing assembly directly. Contrary to common dogma, the compiler isn't always best.

  • Make Dolly Proud, Y'all
  • Never meet your heros. Stephen Hawking went to Epsteins island, apparently. People are complex and multifaceted, and most have darkness inside them that their public image obscures.

  • One of capitalisms biggest tragedies
  • Wow I've never thought of it that way. That makes so much sense. This kind of implies all subscription based services will inevitably devolve into paying more for less in a race to the bottom until the whole thing collapses. Which is interesting because I remember hearing about an economics paper that showed that the most profitable business model is bundled subscriptions. It's kind of amazing someone can say that with a straight face looking at what has happened to cable TV.

  • We Finally Know How Ancient Roman Concrete Was Able to Last Thousands of Years
  • I'm guessing they do, but it does also reduce the life of the concrete. Modern concrete structures would be impossible without rebar, so that makes it a good trade, but it doesn't change the fact that it's a trade.

  • That sure is a lot of guns you got there. lolol
  • Maybe you're missing the context. The last time a group of states tried to leave we had a war about it. The confederates lost, are generally considered to have been in the wrong, and basically cemented the precedent that if any state tries it again they'll get the same result. Everyone pretty much assumes that if Texas really did try to leave it would result in armed conflict, with the scale likely determining if we call it a civil war or not. This is more making fun of the laughable claim that Texas could win in such a scenario, since the US military is better funded than the next 4 or 5 best funded militaries combines. It is generally assumed that the federal government wouldn't fight for Texas for the aforementioned historical reasons. Also there's not 72 million people in Texas, there's around 30 million, and many of those 72 million gun owners wouldn't fight for Texas. I'd hazard to say most.

  • When you're falling down a wikipedia black hole and you find a syndrome in monkeys that describes your life.

    Klüver–Bucy syndrome may present with compulsive eating, hypersexuality, insertion of inappropriate objects in the mouth (hyperorality), visual agnosia, and docility

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    Do other people ever have the experience of simulating yourself doing something in your head, and then doing it in real life exactly how you imagined it?

    I'm thinking about sports as an example. I used to do fencing, and sometimes we would learn a new technique or I would imagine one to do, and I would imagine myself doing it, then it was almost like autopilot where my body would do it just how I imagined, like it was easy. It didn't happen very often but when it did it felt really cool.

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