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  • Hey WTF profs, is it this bad?

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    Is our children learning yet?-- GWB
  • RIP Gene Shalit

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  • Beyond Red and Blue

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  • Old Reciepts ...

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    wtgW
  • UN-NATO

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  • A prankster on the National Mall

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    It’s clearly the work of those same aliens responsible for crop circles.
  • Ken Salazar has a book coming out

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  • Socioeconomic factors and children's brains

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  • German court finds Google liable for falsehoods in Google AI overviews

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    I just did a Google's AI search about relations between country x and country y. I thought I was reading Cold War propaganda. It was wild.
  • Another home question (rugs)

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    Oh, it just occurred to me that maximum annual contribution and market volatility are not related to each other. Duh. I had to leave the USAA page alone and do something else. It's almost sunset. It's finally cooled off again. I might return to it tonight. I might wait until tomorrow.
  • Hobbies

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    @Mark Place "WOW" emoji here.
  • Road Grading

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    My grandfather kept one for upkeep on the farm ditches. He called them by an older name, "motor patrol". He would stand and watch it work. He would stop it and tell the driver what he wanted more frequently than was necessary I am sure. The water drainage district did more of that work in later years. No doubt my grandfather told them how to do it.
  • Happy 80th, Donald

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    @AdagioM said: Ewww. But well played. Exactly that. Thanks
  • Some thoughts from Elliott Abrams

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  • 60 Minutes

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    The Oracle founder bought CBS, the largest private donor to the IDF in history. I already knew of him because he bought an entire Hawaiian island. He bought one of the neighbor islands. CBS is not news. And the attack on 60 Minutes was predictable.
  • Bugs and black mold

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  • 2-8A Rutland Gate

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  • Martha Gellhorn's D-Day reporting

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  • Scary devices

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    @RealPlayer said: Bernard — and eventually you’ll have to subscribe to continue receiving updates for $99/year. And it takes great quality video of you and sends it to who know where without any question about a warrant. What's not to like?!
  • Totally insane uber prices last night

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    @Steve-Miller said: I wonder how much of that surge pricing goes to the drivers. Google’s AI says Uber calculates the customer fare and the driver’s pay separately — one algorithm to find the maximum for what customers are willing to pa for a ride, another separate algorithm to find the minimum for what drivers are willing to accept to provide a ride. I don’t think anyone is surprised by this. Uber also invests a lot in autonomous driving technology, so all this will become moot anyway when the customers develop enough trust in cars that drive themselves.