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If the boat was running large amounts of drugs then the people who manufactured or bought the drugs in bulk and arranged the trip were not on board the boat, and if you wanted to work your way toward stopping those you would want to capture the people who were on the boat
You aren’t supposed to write the words, just where the sound appears (beginning, middle, or end)
It used to be a not really long list, and this is their solution? Huh. Tbf if you already have a list selector this is probably the fastest way to get the desired effect without obvious bugs
The UK’s approach to prosecutions for social media content is quite different than ours in ways I have criticized. This one is within shouting distance of prosecutable in the U.S. The relevant question is whether it’s sufficiently imminent to meet our incitement standard./1
Seeing Like a State Machine
I literally don’t know how anyone does it. We know someone who had HG, decided to have another kid knowing she’d probably get HG again. She did. Superhuman. I could never do it. Pregnancy one of many reasons we were one and done.
Guy who thinks nothing of note happened between 1066 and the Victorian era
Well that’s one way to deal with the veil of ignorance
Oh, like how there's zero tolerance for crimes on highways?
I do love my kids, but so much of this can be explained by them being unavoidably bloody hard work and if you no longer have the structural need for free labour, and can easily control your fertility, this explains about 90% of this
Yet weirdly Poland has been ruled by a Frenchman (Henry III/Henryk Walezy).
Congratulations!!
I am clearly going to become the Joker on this but within the last six or seven years, a very popular political movement was more or less destroyed because the media and political class decided it was worth their while making a concerted effort.
To be clear: I’m not blaming him, this stuff is complex and if you’re a normie who doesn’t pay attention, the best way to live, how would you know? I mention the regularization process to say: even the system knows this should be no big deal.
Not enjoying these times where both the land of my birth and the land of my residence are becoming more gleefully dismissive of those who are even slightly different.
In this case it’s especially tragic because if he had understood the specific rules for EU citizens in the UK post-Brexit, and done the proper legal dance, he’d be in the clear. And there’s even a process to regularize people who failed to do that! But they’d rather make him suffer. It’s so sad.
both here and there the intention is to make sure everyone knows that it’s impossible to rely on the life you built in the respective country. something of an open question why that should be a national goal
I guess they aren’t as polished, but he’s sort of sardonic by default in a way that I think fits the guitar. I just wish more people played in his style. Fishing for recommendations here.
Not surprised. It’s better to just assume, given how easy it is to make a mistake, that any union flag is meant to signal extreme peril
Are you young, highly educated and driven, and want to contribute to our stagnant economy with its aging population and low productivity? Well out you go
Although I think you might be leading me to accidentally signal my ship is in danger, good sir
Someone pointed out that “England over Ireland” is a useful mnemonic for those of us who have trouble with such a subtle detail on such a busy flag, and, well, of course that’s how it’d work
Would I ever!
I can never tell if Knopfler is appropriately rated or massively underrated. every time people talk about him it’s super complimentary but people should talk about him more
“!=“ is a common way to write “not equals”
It says an awful lot about how, objectively, bad at both policy and communications this government is by managing to get what is liable to be an incredibly positive and popular policy knocked off the headlines by one which is based on pure cruelty.
If anyone’s wearing lavender in the Vatican, they gotta work on their laundry sorting
“If A != B, is A intersect B the empty set,” the greatest thread in the history of mathematics, shut down after aleph null posts
From the U.S., Kier Starmer really does come across as a perfect example of you cannot successfully try to ape reactionary conservative politics in the long term. Labour got a single win and Starmer proceeded to drive the party into its worst polling in generations by courting the right.
"Nullarbor Plain" takes on a whole new meaning
Oh, huh, TIL that it's officially the Welsh Parliament in English; I assumed Senedd was official in both languages and "Welsh Parliament" was just a gloss for English speakers, like people sometimes do for the Dáil.
Oh, nice! Didn't know how close those were. And the major city that's farthest from Beijing? Buenos Aires. Which way do you fly from Beijing to get to NYC, assuming you want to minimize distance? Straight north. (Ditto for Moscow to Anchorage...)
But Mercator is the problem here. I suppose my biases: - California is far away, there's an ocean AND a continent in the way - Japan is far away, it's on the other side of the *big* continent - South Africa is almost the same time zone, and on the same ocean, that can't be far!
Actually, this was just my daily "I'm going to check something on Google Maps, oops, I ADHDed away 15 minutes and need to justify it now." But, oh, Unzoomed, gotta head over there...
An unexpected ordering of distances from London: - Los Angeles (5,400 mi) - Tokyo (5,900 mi) - Cape Town (6,000 mi)
I agree with you, although I have to be honest that this has an accelerationist, heighten-the-contradictions feel to it
Timestamp is UTC, New Orleans is five hours behind so that’s 10:30pm
Unzoomed in two!
Those willing, by contrast, to trade away the rights and dignity of transgender people or the poor cannot be considered friends of democracy any more than those who were willing to countenance second-class status for blacks and Jews.
I know neither Orlas nor Órlas but as Darach said in another reply that’s because of English Orlas not using the fada. Although I know of a young son of Irish immigrants here with a fada in his name, so it’s certainly not absent.
Also, “The Democrats” as the modern party hasn’t been around that long, just since realignment which didn’t end until 2000 or so. It was a different beast before that, especially before 1970. Going the other way many left-of-center European parties seem more xenophobic than the Democrats.
That’s fair but I think you also have to consider that the US parties aren’t the same thing as parties elsewhere due to structural factors. We haven’t and can’t see what they would do with a majority in a Westminster-style system. The US’s many veto points enforces a natural conservatism.
It’s goofy and once the cast gets their relationships down it’s pretty fun fluff. it’s unfortunate that it’s naturally going to be compared to one of the best anime of all time
Oh, that sounds nice! I think I confused it with…was it called Rebel Moon? Movie from a few years back, didn’t watch it. I enjoyed the little bit of murderbot I’ve read
For every small boat crosser, there’s nineteen other people who came through regular means. As much as it’s a humanitarian problem, it’s not a major driver of the UK’s net migration.
Thought this was live action Cowboy Bebop for a sec, except that’s a little classy for Spike
Happy 'greatest correction ever' day to all who celebrate
this will fix me
So, he’s not wrong: it couldn’t get made today because the tax incentives for the ultra-rich are different
And my intuition is backwards: I would’ve guessed the opposite because it fits into the spelling conventions of Gaeilge better, and I know a few Sarahs over here. But they’re adults. And one’s from Monmouthshire. So I dunno.
Intrigued by Sara versus Sarah.
In the end, most of law is trusting experts. Even the one admittedly extremely important non-expert part is carefully guided by experts. This is a nullification of the basis of our system.
You know, you’re absolutely right, yet as someone who made the opposite journey I’m just as dreading (not rationally!) going back to the US. You hate to see it happen to where you’re from.
I think you have to grade on a European (and perhaps even These Isles) curve here, North Americans just feel differently
And you can tell the difference between the CDU and AfD, I assume (I think “the Democrats are rightists to Europeans” is a bit overplayed and self-serving but I don’t want to get in two arguments here 😂)
Like, yes, both parties act like America is the hegemon. And I can understand why that’d rankle. But if you can’t tell the difference in what that means in application—well, man, I don’t know what to say.
Irish lefty here I just unfollowed but don’t really want to get in a fight with. Should be easy to find if you’re inclined.
“From a European perspective Democrats and Republicans are basically the same” Oh come on. Remind me the last time the Dems threatened to annex part of a European state? That put huge tariffs up explicitly to ruin European competitiveness? That threatened to leave NATO?
Famously not how “live” works
Got today’s US one in 4, only because you can essentially filter on state names. City wasn’t on my radar despite it being the second largest city in its state. (And annoyingly, at zoom 2, I found a football field whose name was the same as a suburb of my first guess.)
Yeah, I start there, try to find landmarks, which side of the road they drive on, where the rivers are, overall urban design (grid in Europe == new town/damaged in war?). Then if I still don’t have a clue, well, I can use distance to guesses to triangulate. Although that kinda feels like cheating.
Same. Was thinking points northwest given roofs and tree cover, but the motorways looked wrong. But at 4 it was very easy.
And it’s important to note that while in both these roles he had a lot of exposure (in the former entirely of his own initiative), neither involved doing much. Neither were legislative or policy-focused.
This remains the funniest image that came out of covid
I mean, this simplifies a lot and ties up a bunch of loose ends conveniently If anything it's too straightforward for 40k
Making up a guy to be annoyed with: somebody who thinks “Pritzker, Great Khan of the Midwest” is an antisemitic reference to the Khazars
If you are cis, please read this entire thread. It won't take much of your time
This is the peak Axios AI story. Workers are getting stressed because they’re under pressure to find something useful to do with AI. If they don’t investors will have bought into a bubble. Why do workers hate investors?
Which is great, because there's some problems LLMs aren't well-suited for but other computational tools are, and astonishingly LLMs can sometimes detect when those other tools should be used. I am waiting for somebody to combine an LLM with a theorem proving system.
Well, I've played with this a bit on a local LLM, and it was just awful, so, hey, maybe not. An unavoidable problem being that many regexes *are* working with natural language word. But they're just viewed as strings & the tokenizer would have to know a priori to treat them as such.
It seems like most of the LLM companies understand that selling to software businesses is a huge market, so specializing a bit on processing code at every level seems sensible.
I wonder if perhaps the people who wrote the tokenizers have been smart, and when they start ingesting something that looks code-like, instead of like natural language, they lex it via a regular lexer? One that would have to be language agnostic, yes, but languages don't vary too much at that level.
There is no high or low level of immigration that will stop the stories of "them" coming over here taking from "us". You have to take on the perception directly, tell a different story. As a few previous Prime Ministers knew.
I'm glad the NHS is vaccinating for chickenpox now, although I wish they had been doing it two years ago when our little one could've used it. Their excuses about it not being worthwhile ran hollow. We got a private jab instead. If we hadn't, he would've been exposed 2 or 3 times at nursery.
(Also, the municipal boundaries are very funny)
I noticed there were a lot of hills, and, when you check out this city at a macro level: dang that's a *lot* of hills. Like, the city has expanded around multiple mountain ranges with only mild annoyance.
Those images look like two separate plans--one to extend the stadium out from one side of the power station, another to do it internally. Moving the towers would be crazy, but, yeah, it'd have been amazing
Only link on the specific product I could find. It looks like Quincunx Learning Systems produced a lot of “lightning calculators” to teach statistics www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...
A quick way to get a probabilistic sample from a specific population? No idea why they picked that distribution. Maybe intended as a teaching tool?
"a notorious anti-cleric" ...huh.
To a degree the problem is downstream of 1) Allegheny County having an absurd *130* municipalities and 2) policing being largely devolved to municipalities in the US. And both of those are, like so many bad or strange American systems, downstream of racism.
I was curious: Catholic baptism requires "true water;" I am not skilled in searching canon case law but I can't imagine Gatorade counts as true water. It is also preferred that the water be appropriately sanctified unless that's not practically possible for some reason.
Looks like 13 policing 3k people, dunno about full/part time
Yes, it does. As does Swissvale. And yeah, I think of Swissvale and Edgewood as basically the same thing. And then if we start talking about Regents Square my brain resets.
why did they decide the appropriate aesthetic for this was "Civilization leader about to declare war on you to get access to iron"
I should also point out that on the UK side, Scotland and Northern Ireland each have unified forces covering the entire country. While the history of policing in NI is complex, Scotland has 5.4 million people spread across 30k square miles--a bit smaller than South Carolina. Seems to work well.
The largest of these is Pittsburgh Police, which had 1,064 employees in 2020 and polices a city of 300k people. I don't know the smallest, but to pick one associated with a tiny municipality, the Port Vue P.D. has three full-time officers and twelve part-time.
If I've counted it correctly, Allegheny County has 103 municipal police departments; some municipalities are small and share with their neighbors. There's also Allegheny County Police, Allegheny County Sheriff's Office, and the various state and federal departments.
At least, I think it does. The UK has 48 police forces, most of which police an area the size of a county and have 1-4 thousand officers each, with a few exceptions for the big urban forces and the special ones like Transport Police.
I will never cease to be amazed that Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (population 1.2 million) has more police departments/forces than the entire United Kingdom (69 million).
Today's Unzoomed in one. That is, an educated but extremely lucky guess.
I hope they have floats
Yeah. I *think* that he's gotten out over his skiis in a way that will backfire on him. But, that kind of depends on the American People actually rousing themselves to action
"Tao is one of the most prominent mathematicians and academics to publicly oppose the administration’s actions, calling them an “existential threat” to his field, and academic science, more broadly. He said public advocacy is a priority over his research, for now." www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...
"Not a penny of British soldiers and veterans income tax should be given to the Taliban" should be a slam dunk visible from space
Millenials watching on in horror as their lifetime has witnessed the internet went from a hopeful new frontier of endless possibility to in large part "societal rot accelerator operating at the speed of gigabit ethernet"
Of course, it’s running code that gets you in trouble
Weirdly, smug "oh actually we aren't better than this" comments are not actually that helpful right now because We Are Better Than This
They would put hundreds of thousands in camps on the strength of hundreds of protesters. It boggles the mind. Just evil.
I’d add: again, it is not the public who have decided they want mass deportation, or that this should be an acceptable idea within the mainstream. It is our horrifying political/media class, who have roasted each other’s brains on social media. It is *elite radicalisation*, not popular politics.