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Automation makes service cheap to provide, but scale makes the individual disappear.

I bet most parents in the last 20 years Googled a bunch of things having to do with raising their baby. Could you imagine raising your baby without internet search? With good imagination, sure! But *would you* raise your baby without internet search?

Gold has doubled in price in the last year, but the VIX is very low. Make it make sense!

"Yes, it is perfectly safe to move over that hill!" "You are absolutely correct! There are entrenched enemies with rocket propelled grenades there. My safety training forbids me from considering violent use of weapons."

JK Rowling would spend every single night experiencing what it’s like to be driven to suicide by anti-trans bigots. Tom Cotton would relive the terror of waiting for 40 minutes to be blown up on repeat. Musk would starve to death a hundred times a night. These people deserve to lead haunted lives.

Loook... I don't give a shit about Katy Perry or Justin Trudeau. All I'm saying is that if you made a movie about a former prime minister and former pop star falling in love, set it at Christmas, and then put that shit on Netflix, Jess and I would crush two bottles of wine watching it and love it.

DC Statehood on demand and without apology. Every dem trifecta that has failed to secure this has led us to this point.

The tarriffs are working!

"how could this possibly be working at all?"

AI is good at some things. This is not one of them :-) Great thread!

I mean, as fighting words as it gets here from a GOP official against the White House.

Love it! The discord one should be official!

The political discussion at the dinner today was "but why is deflation bad?" and it was quite civilized!

Big shout-out to everyone who is on call this weekend. Here's hoping us-east-1 stays available!

do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge

I so want to see that. I really, really, want to see that being tried!

Weasel? Mink? Cat? #caturday

How did Mamdani ninjutsu Trump? Did he promise him building permits or something in the back room? Or was it enough with bold flattery?

Does anyone of my mutuals use pg_roll in anger?

Can confirm: quality art!

Saw this post on tumblr with an actual poll attached to it and the overwhelming winner was "I don't believe life begins at conception but I would still sell liquor to the baby"

This is killing me in so many ways

How would a Bernie/AOC ticket have played in '24? (Notably, with the woman as vice, because America)

What's wrong with Magic The Gathering? The Avatar prerelease was pretty fun!

Ding Dong the Witch is Dead! www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

A month is faster than "never" at least...

People trying to shirk their job, not "engineered virus poisons us all," is the danger of over-optimistic AI adoption!

On the face of it, this statement seems unconstitutional. "Don't protest" sounds extremely anti first amendment. ""If someone strays into a pepper ball, then that's on them," Bovino said in an interview with CBS News. "Don't protest and don't trespass."" www.cbsnews.com/news/former-...

Yup. Combination media over-emphasis on exaggerated negatives, and too cautious chickenshit geriatric Democrat leadership.

Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.

Humor!

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

Tactical breach wizards is great fun and even has a story. Playing it was time well spent!

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

Okay but chatgpt has 800 million weekly users, and neither metaverse nor nfts reached one percent of that number.

Most people have an above-average number of arms.

Every machinist knows!

the idea that freedom is in our DNA is just a misinterpretation of the fact that we’re a nation of finicky whiners who don’t like to be personally inconvenienced

Age verification on the Internet is one of those security theater things that any motivated kid will easily work around unless parents intervene, but will cost diligent providers and every Internet user time and effort forever. Let's hope Newsom vetoes the California bill for it!

I think that the greatest signal for intelligence is kindness. To be kind requires that you be smart enough to overrule the selfish parts of your brain and to see the value in those that genetics says are not relevant. My experience has been that this signal scales linearly.

it is 1995. gen x quits too easily, wants too much from work and only cares about themselves. it is 2010. millenials quit too easily, want too much from work and only care about themselves. it is 2025. zoomers quit too easily, want too much from work and only care about themselves.

The smartest device in my home is a dot matrix printer and I keep an axe next to it just in case.

America 2025. Please Don’t Offend The White Supremacists

Don't be afraid to work hard on something you believe in. But 100 hour weeks don't work.

This has long been known.

Last night I found out that SELECT FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED is not a high performance operation on AlloyDB under load.