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Uhhh… It didn’t help him as much as it should have, but my understanding from watching a video about this yesterday is that he already got paid back for the time after he was fired because of the union. So, it did help him some.

The article isn’t loading for me, but if the headline is accurate, there is no way to logically cast this in a positive light because you’re arbitrarily playing with people’s lives to match a number that happens to be a round number in base 10.

I think we all know that there aren’t going to be exactly 250 people who deserve pardons. So either they are pardoning too many people and letting criminals go free without completing their sentences, or there are more than 250 people who deserve pardons. Imagine being the 251st person. “Sorry, but Trump wanted exactly 250, so you don’t get a pardon.”

That’s my thought. There’s nothing more offensive about ranch than using cream cheese.

I used to live in Japan, and from what I could see, Japanese people aren’t fundamentally opposed to the concept of sushi with weird ingredients. They simply just don’t think it’s normal sushi.

Eel sushi already has a Japanese BBQ sauce on it.

trains rule

All I know is that the tunnel snakes rule. I don’t know whether a train is technically a tunnel snake or not.

Why would people go to the Bermuda Triangle if they just disappear there?

That delusion is so common that I suspect it must have a name, but I don’t know what it is.

But the better a solution appears, the more a person who sees the solution believes it to be obvious, and therefore also believes that, had they tried to solve the problem, they’d have come up with this “obvious” solution straight away with no effort.

Meanwhile, the person who actually solved the problem could only come up with the perfect simple solution after a lifetime of study in the area to the point that you’d call them an expert or master, and after agonizing for a long time over this particular problem.

If I ever seem smart and knowledgeable, it is only because of what I am being compared against.

Musk is a migrant himself. He’s not anti-migrant. He’s just simply a racist.

I don’t like the idea of people seeing me doing something like that and then judging me, so nobody will ever see me online. I only let my social apps show me as online when I want people to be able to see I’m online. By default, I either leave them off or have them set my status to invisible.

Donald Trump thinks of time in terms of Taco Tuesdays.

yes

My printer doesn’t use ink cartridges, but it came with more ink than it needed to completely fill it up. I got it from Costco.

I looked at his wikipedia the other day and was surprised to see that he had something like 5 singles that went far up the charts. I hadn’t heard of any of them, of course, but I don’t know that his being a 1 hit wonder is necessarily related to him being a piece of shit who is trying to end American democracy by supporting Trump.

Also, I wonder what this meme originally was. That guy on the right sort of looks like Obama.

I definitely know a person or two who use Linux because they are afraid of Windows. But I know more people who are afraid of Windows, yet use Windows anyways.

Five leading scientists were ousted from the annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) in New Orleans on Friday. Their crime: handing out copies of an editorial, published in the journal Diabetes Care on April 29, sharply criticizing the Trump administration’s ongoing attacks on scientific research.

The ADA confirmed to MedPage Today that five registered scientists had been removed from the meeting, claiming the scientists had violated the organization’s code of conduct for conferences. “These attendees were escorted out by our onsite event security because they demonstrated behavior not consistent with this code of conduct,” the ADA media team said in a statement. “They were respectfully given the opportunity to cease this behavior and chose not to which is why they were escorted out.”

“All attendees will conduct themselves in a professional and respectful manner, free from any form of discrimination, harassment, or intimidation,” the code of conduct states. “Inappropriate conduct, including but not limited to harassment; threatening or unwelcome physical or verbal actions; or disorderly or disruptive conduct such as protesting, will not be tolerated.”

Sounds like they are interpreting the rules in an unnatural way and saying that handing out articles is “protesting” simply because they are political. Are the event organizers “obeying in advance”? That is difficult to believe, since it is not a huge event.

As it sounds like these people continued to hand out the articles after being asked to stop, I suspect it is more likely that the organizers are simply MAGA, and we know that MAGA will do anything and break any rules themselves to silence dissent.

Which part of that clip gives some room for flexibility? From my watching of the clip, he just says this is an old religious problem that we are now examining from the viewpoint of science, and that the apparent room for flexibility in quantum probabilities don’t offer anything like actual free will. And he essentially concludes by saying that despite there being no evidence of any shred of anything like free will, that we still need to search for and strive for it.

Hey guys! I found the giant asshole who is behind both Elon Musk and Donald Trump!

A few days ago, I did something that I thought would 100% keep me from sleeping. It wasn’t cringey this time, just a big mistake that I should have known better than to make.

But I had a plan and I carried it out. During that day, every time I thought about the mistake, I just tried to let it go, similar to what I practiced in mindfulness meditation. But I was having a problem doing that while just doing my normal thing, so I tried listening to an audiobook. I thought that would engage my mind enough so that I couldn’t make such a strong memory of my mistake, and it all seemed to work.

Anyways, for most people who don’t have serious trauma, I think this is a problem you can work at and improve your sleep.

Realistically, a platform where you can delete your own questions so that they disappear for everyone isn’t the best platform for technical support communities. But a platform where you can’t delete your own posts is not the best platform for for a lot of other things, like privacy.

Two use cases without overlap seems like a good argument that there should be two different platforms.