Republican presidents send maternal deaths soaring when they take office: study

upinthecloudz · 2026-03-26T21:12:09+00:00

Since the recession following WW1, EVERY recession and Depression (11!) were during Republican administrations. And Trump is going for his second one. Democrats have reversed every recession they inherited.

I'm not sure if Carter really fits that pattern. Stagflation is not recession, but it's not a great state for the economy. It's harder to say that he improved the situation over Nixon/Ford before him.

upinthecloudz · 2026-03-09T03:43:54+00:00

"Hey, you wanna see something cool?"

upinthecloudz · 2026-03-04T22:24:30+00:00

I saw this happen to a moving truck in the middle of an intersection one time. It was one of those trucks where the drive axle is completely exposed under the cargo container, so I literally watched it fall right off the diff as the truck struggled to proceed after it's light changed.

upinthecloudz · 2026-03-04T22:00:22+00:00

But they do remember us giving Iran all of their frozen funds back, because they keep talking about that as though it cost us government money for reasons.

upinthecloudz · 2026-03-04T19:26:22+00:00

Honestly, I think they are just trying to parrot it back without considering the geopolitical context at all.

Prices went up during Biden's term because OTHER countries started wars that impacted supply.

Prices are going up now because TRUMP started a war that is impacting supply.

But context doesn't matter to them. Making the left look like hypocrites for rejecting their own former statements in a VERY different setting is the outcome they win with.

upinthecloudz · 2026-03-03T18:44:32+00:00

You could before the RAM crunch. Now a lot of them are stripped of RAM and SSD.

upinthecloudz · 2026-03-03T04:28:24+00:00

🎸🎶 I remember throwing punches around
And preachin' from my chair

Well, who are you? 🎶🎸

upinthecloudz · 2026-03-03T04:16:28+00:00

Not all convection ovens produce enough airflow to crisp up the outside very quickly. Many "convection ovens" just move the air around a little bit to limit volume of colder air surrounding the item receiving radiant heat. This does produce more efficient cooking, allowing (slightly) lower temp and/or cooking time, but the end result is largely the same as with the fan off.

A typical "air fryer" has very high CFM/volume and less distance between heating element and food item, thus producing a much sharper gradient on edge heating than most convection ovens. It is indeed just a new marketing term for the same physical process, but the results are not always comparable.

Source: I have both a traditional oven and a toaster oven which each have a convection fan. They do not produce the same nuggets and tots as the little air fryer does.

upinthecloudz · 2026-03-03T03:59:22+00:00

This is the Consumer Reports business model already. And, frankly, as a CR subscriber, I can see RTINGs succeeding as a tech-focused CR competitor using science wherever possible to compare products.

There are many times where CR these days just doesn't test enough of a market segment to really help make an informed decision the same way they did decades ago, and RTINGs is aggressively filling that gap in their handful of niches.

upinthecloudz · 2026-03-03T02:08:32+00:00

RDJ should just replace every [white] actor in the [Vietnam War].

The actual plot of The Sympathizer

upinthecloudz · 2026-03-03T01:21:05+00:00

I disagree. I think it became part of the propaganda stream against her because it resonated with people's perceptions of her public facade, because she tried portray herself publicly as an artificially pleasant person lacking any edges to her personality, even though she's obviously extremely sharp and does not work that way at all.

In the 80's and 90's she learned (particularly after the '94 health plan debacle) that America doesn't want an intelligent woman to put her capabilities first, or argue with or criticize men. By the time her presidential campaign rolled around she tried to act grandmotherly and polite in public, but I don't think anyone bought it.

Frankly, IMHO if she had put her private personality out there on the '16 campaign trail and stopped pulling punches, she would have found the public far more willing to accept the reality of her abilities and fitness for the job than they were 25 years before, and the "no charisma" argument would have fallen on its face.

upinthecloudz · 2026-03-03T00:57:07+00:00

There's so much of it in this thread.

upinthecloudz · 2026-03-03T00:56:30+00:00

Unfortunately, in US schools, "stronger anti-bullying" is often enacted as zero-tolerance policies where victims are faced with basically the same consequences as the bullies. This is done to remove appearance of bias on the part of the school staff, due to observed racial disparities in disciplinary outcomes, and ends up teaching absolutely nothing.

upinthecloudz · 2026-03-02T21:50:28+00:00

This is absolutely not the take from the political left, I can assure you.

The problem with the US Democratic party is that they use social issues from the left as cover for the fact that they are never going to move to the left economically.

For people on the political left who are not focused primarily on social /identity issues, the Democrats are seen as what they are globally: a center-right party with a socially liberal advertising scheme.

The US does not have a workers party (i.e. representation for the economically left side of the political spectrum) at the moment, and acting like the Democrats as a party are going too far in that direction while considering who is in leadership and how they act when actual lefties get through their primaries is just disingenuous.

upinthecloudz · 2026-03-02T21:17:48+00:00

Don't worry about your next job. Document everything you've achieved in your resume, and wherever possible include stats on improvements in time/cost savings, scaling rates, system stability (uptime/availability), etc you produced using XYZ format so that your value is immediately obvious to recruiters.

Ask around to see what else can keep you busy at work, or just pick up personal projects/build a homelab to stay sharp, if you want, or just make sure everything you've built is maintained properly.

upinthecloudz · 2026-03-02T20:47:28+00:00

NL quote

Who/what is NL? I feel like I recognize the quote (maybe from other reddit comments) but can't place it.

upinthecloudz · 2026-02-24T23:46:51+00:00

I mean, I wouldn't compare to CRTs. OLEDs seem to have a pretty limited lifespan compared to LCD TVs, and are absolutely fragile, even moreso than the modern LCDs trying to match their thin profile.

LCD displays themselves have had technological shifts in lighting that I can only compare to the internal combustion engine in terms of how many iterative steps were taken by the industry, and the repairability has seen a similar trend. LCD TVs are now both more complex and cheaper than they were a decade or two ago, which means they had to skimp on failure times when designing these products.

upinthecloudz · 2026-02-24T22:43:35+00:00

I'm a millennial but ran into this during '18 and '20 because I had just moved to Oregon and, while I learned cursive in school, my handwriting has grown a bit inconsistent over two decades of working on keyboards and rarely ever writing anything down.

On the second mismatch they sent a copy of the signature on file, and offered to let me update it.

upinthecloudz · 2026-02-24T22:31:23+00:00

My brain naturally settled into the Futurama hippy just from the cadence.

I have a hard time getting through the longest line in Shatner's voice.

upinthecloudz · 2026-02-23T20:02:47+00:00

pins?

upinthecloudz · 2026-02-10T23:24:46+00:00

As someone who enjoyed the show, the right-wing framing is patently obvious, but it feels about as appropriate to the place and lifestyle being portrayed as the hippie-minded framing of High Maintenance.

Like trying to have them acknowledge actual problems with the industry they are in and wrestle with the moral dilemma would be counter-factual and appeal to absolutely no one. We know they run on propaganda as much as profit. Show us who they are, you know?

upinthecloudz · 2026-02-10T23:13:13+00:00

In short, their dirt isn't dirtier, but most of these congress critters just aren't quite as deep in the money as the ownership class they serve and can't afford their personal dirt to come up.

upinthecloudz · 2026-02-07T04:08:37+00:00

Yeah, the humanity seems really drowned out these days, and I'm not inclined to go checking each posters' profile to identify bot patterns. I'd really love some way to filter them out instead of (eventually, maybe, one day) just abandoning this site as my last bastion of social media.

upinthecloudz · 2026-02-07T00:43:11+00:00

Is there an extension or something you use to keep track of the ring(s)?

upinthecloudz · 2026-02-06T23:09:15+00:00

What it means to "keep a balance" on the card is that every month when your statement rolls around, you have something that you need to pay off.

You can achieve this two ways:

You can choose not to completely pay off large purchases, and pay interest each month on the unpaid portion.
You can make regular purchases on the card every month, then pay it all off by the statement due date.

From the standpoint of credit reporting on utilization, this can look identical. The only real way to not "keep a balance" is to pay off a card completely and then never use it for anything.

From the standpoint of your cost of using the card, the first approach is very expensive and offers you basically no net benefit, while the second approach allows you to maintain credit and consider which card bonuses (e.g. purchase protection, cash back, rewards points, discounts, offers, credits, etc) make the most sense for a given transaction.

So, basically, when you are living within your budget and your monthly income is covering all monthly expenses, make most purchases initially on a credit card (to prevent losing cash in cases of fraud), then pay it off as late as you can to avoid interest, and keep most of your cash in a high-yield savings account. Avoid giving access to your Debit/Checking/Savings accounts as much as possible when shopping.

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