Hossenfelder is fine but tries to educate way outside her realm. Her cryptocurrency episode made me lose all respect for her.

No shit. I’m at the Dr asking for PT rx and they don’t fight me one iota. I just motion at my shoulders. “They are behind me.”

Someone got told their topic wasn’t original enough and took that as a challenge.

You mean like the residential mental hospital system in the US used to do before Regan destroyed it?

It had problems, like any institution, but overall it was providing EXACTLY what you are suggesting.

1.5 million in direct unemployment, but consider the knock on unemployment for all the services those workers won’t need. Coffee shops, dry cleaners, parking lots, Uber/Lift drivers, childcare, etc. Employed people pay for services while employed that are directly tied to that employment and those businesses will also layoff their workers when these jobs disappear

I agree, it’s better is some states than others -right now-. But any state you move to has the chance that it will elect a GOP governor and legislature and become the next bad place. I don’t see a single state in the nation that is so blue that it is guaranteed to stay that way for the foreseeable future. Unlike abortion, no state has trans-rights in their constitution.

That is literally the job of the Associated Press. They republish press-releases across publications. At this point, most press releases are written by AI at least in part, so I’m not sure a further summary would be helpful.

This is the US supreme Court so there’s nowhere for us to go. No country on Earth takes refugees from the US. That’s what was so cool about the US once upon a time in history, it was the one place you could go, that provided an option if your birth country was hostile.

Now that the US is hostile to its own people, there’s no country to go to.

I use it to outline and layout big documents and reports. I give it a list of tasks I did and it writes the long-form text in the approved style. I use it anytime I need to translate my thoughts or process into corporate jargon. And occasionally my bosses ask me for a report on something totally unrelated to what we are doing and I’ll ask GPT to do the first pass on the topic and then come I’ll back and re-write it iteratively as I figure out what part of the topic the boss really cares about.

Bullshit. Our best recourse as parents is to talk to our children every day to ensure their life has people who will listen and understand them as a constant presence, instead of random strangers on the Internet. Just exposure to this shit isn’t the toxic part. It’s the constant exposure without context and support of caring adults to help kids contextualize the information. Just like sex, alcohol, and every other complex “adult” thing.

This would not be effective for student loan debt because it’s still non-dischargable, unlike consumer debt.

I’m 2001 I was concerned about how long “Never Forget” was going to last and it is definitely dead now.

The lawsuit was about the fact the school knew for months about the problem and did nothing to address it. If they plausibly couldn’t know, it wouldn’t have been their fault but this was reported to the admin repeatedly and they did nothing.

https://youtu.be/l7tN9v3SOYg?si=Ohk76kQ3kqLCo2X0

One of them was just found to have published comments in their college newspaper insisting that rape was only a crime if the woman was actively resisting. This is a dangerous move away from the current legal consent standard.They will re-define rape out of existence.

There’s always churn and turnover, I’ve been part of communities that lost up to 3 of the top 5 sites for something etc. and the community bounces back in a couple of months. Streaming sites aren’t horrifically difficult to set up so they will often reappear shortly with similar interface.

It sounds reasonable because at the core it’s a mental healthcare system, something this country threw away without a backup plan decades ago.

I was gonna say this was some high-quality bullshit but after this year I just assume RFK Jr. was involved somehow.

Unfortunately it’s gonna be the mailroom intern who followed directions from someone else to open all “that other mail”, not the person who made the decision.

That would be the job the Congress’s Government Accountability Office. Having 2 totally seperate and independent orgs in charge of government efficiency is peak Trump logic.