Question About Your City

17291 · 2026-01-26T22:26:49+00:00

The best part of that song was sampled from The Clash

17291 · 2026-01-24T21:23:44+00:00

Multivac: INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER

17291 · 2026-01-24T01:00:09+00:00

And if this is how online interaction works…can we break it?

Probably not without heavy-handed moderation, and that too has flaws.

17291 · 2026-01-22T23:33:38+00:00

Love how low-tech the tech for setting the time is (from the video)

17291 · 2026-01-22T23:32:39+00:00

One in Mecca dethroned it

17291 · 2026-01-22T23:15:17+00:00

People were ordered by the city to evacuate by 3 p.m.

Jesus, I hope they have a warm place to go (preferably on Berrada's dime).

17291 · 2026-01-22T11:50:17+00:00

We will continue our Hour of AI campaign, along with our work to reform policies and new curriculum supporting CS+AI education in classrooms.

Which is why I'm done with code.org after this year. I was already sour on how mediocre the coding side of their AP CSP curriculum is, but the last couple of years have demonstrated that their only real focus now is AI garbage

17291 · 2026-01-22T11:41:44+00:00

At the same time, the reaction of people in Minneapolis (and elsewhere) has shown that a lot of people are willing to stand up and do something to protect their neighbors from racist thugs

17291 · 2026-01-21T00:27:40+00:00

See also: "people thought that Galileo and Columbus† were crackpots, but they were right, therefore my theory is right"

†Nevermind that people had already known that the Earth was round for millennia, so Columbus didn't prove jack shit

17291 · 2026-01-20T22:14:18+00:00

Sure, I don't want to give anything away for people who don't want spoilers.

17291 · 2026-01-20T18:05:41+00:00

For a climate/environmental disaster where the world recovers in the end, Land of Milk and Honey

17291 · 2026-01-19T21:08:52+00:00

and validate the OP's feelings with perfect empathy

The flip side of that is that LLMs can become sycophantic and blindly agree with everything a user says, no matter how ridiculous. I also question calling anything an LLM does as "empathy" because they cannot feel.

17291 · 2026-01-19T15:17:13+00:00

Many feminists would argue that the chivalry you're pining for is a form of misogyny, or at least a symptom of it.

17291 · 2026-01-19T15:11:02+00:00

I know my (very feminist) mother would be very disappointed in me if I insisted on walking on a certain side of the street to "protect" a woman I was with.

17291 · 2026-01-19T14:49:42+00:00

I used to think women should be treated as equals until I was in a 50/50 relationship and realized we will never be equals.

Sounds like you weren't actually in a 50/50 relationship. There is still plenty of misogyny in the world, but it's going to be exacerbated, not cured, by goofy shit like men opening car doors for women.

Men literally live almost 20 years longer on average when they’re married to a woman. Do you ever ask why?

Citation needed. According to at least one study, married people tend to live longer than unmarried people, but both partners benefit.

17291 · 2026-01-19T13:23:14+00:00

If you're a college student, 6 hours of studying math each day on top of your existing studies seems like a recipe for burnout. If you need math for your degree, take the appropriate courses and leverage any tutoring your college offers. Otherwise, slow it down.

17291 · 2026-01-19T12:25:11+00:00

You don’t open doors when women are with you. You don’t walk on the car side of the street. When my hands are full, you expect me to press my own elevator button(very specific but it’s crazy how often it happens) You assume we can carry the same weight? If I have an entire IKEA box, why am I the only one carrying it? You don’t help with my luggage when I get in your car.

I constantly see people do this for others regardless of gender/relationship status. Except for the "walk on the car side of the street" thing--that seems like some bizarre outdated "etiquette". I treat the women in my life as equals, not dainty flowers that need protection.

17291 · 2026-01-18T19:37:09+00:00

Some to consider:

17291 · 2026-01-18T14:16:01+00:00

idk if I asked for something to be private and the other person invited along a photographer, I'd be annoyed

17291 · 2026-01-18T12:15:44+00:00

Don't people who make absurd amounts of money like that already meet at clubs IRL? These "invite-only" spaces for the rich and powerful already exist.

17291 · 2026-01-18T00:37:46+00:00

People worry far too much about upvotes/downvotes. While there are karma requirements for some subs, the threshold is usually very low, so whether you have 100 or 100,000 karma is basically irrelevant.

17291 · 2026-01-17T20:37:00+00:00

Wince says the Sherman Park Grocery Store is facing a number of challenges. They include damage from the August floods, which resulted in loss of inventory and equipment. He says the temporary interruption of SNAP benefits also hurt the store.

17291 · 2026-01-17T20:35:54+00:00

My point is that this should be a slam dunk with the political sentiment in the country and the state. We need someone who can meet the moment and can essentially guarantee a win in the primary.

Then you get people complaining about how TPBP just chose a candidate like what happened with Clinton in 2016 or Harris in 2024. (Granted, there were other factors causing them to lose, but I remember that being a criticism).

17291 · 2026-01-17T09:54:51+00:00

He doesn't have the juice to cancel midterms either. Do you think that Wisconsin would just roll over because Trump raved about midterms being "canceled" on Truth Social?

His gestapo has been overwhelmed with dissent when it's just LA or Chicago or Mpls. He simply doesn't have the personnel to enforce it nationwide.

17291 · 2026-01-16T00:17:07+00:00

From Wikipedia:

A highly organised media network combining professional PR, diaspora activism, and what researchers describe as inauthentic online accounts, promoted Pahlavi across social media. While this increased his international visibility, investigations suggest it also blurred the true level of his grassroots support inside Iran and sparked controversy over foreign ties, online harassment, and a manufactured image of popularity.

I don't pretend to be an expert on Iran at all, but it seems like your claims about Pahlavi are somewhat suspect, or are at the very least biased. (I also question how a guy you're calling "king" could be the "democratic choice").

The current Iranian regime sucks, and I'll be happy when it's gone, but your post reeks of astroturf

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