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Wrong Theory posted:NYC isn't getting any bigger and what happens when the next super storm wipes it off the map? Wrong Theory posted:Maybe we should try spreading the work and thus housing around? I don't know how to do that other than incentivizing it with tax breaks or something.
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While we’re on the topic of naked socialism, it’s such a shame that there isn’t a pipeline for people trained on nuclear subs to build and operate nationalized nuclear power plants across the country. Jobs program, lower power costs, and climate change mitigation all wrapped up in one painfully obvious policy.
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# ? Jan 25, 2024 02:25 |
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That Works posted:Afaik there was the rollout for a 1 time 10k forgiveness which was shot down, did Biden have something on loan forgiveness beyond that and the pause on repayments? Partially for people qualified for income-based repayment plan -- as posted earlier: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing...s-of-borrowers/ (It's especially impactful if you consider the forgiveness aspects of the plan).
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# ? Jan 25, 2024 02:28 |
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In today's edition of VOTERS! https://twitter.com/mikememoli/status/1750330936405709083?t=tZ0KvDUGIS_SpFhPGHmlxQ&s=19 And The Future Of The Democratic Party RFKJR got 435
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For a beautiful second, I forgot about rfk jr's existence and thought a key-smash managed to somehow acquire triple digit votes.
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pseudosavior posted:For a beautiful second, I forgot about rfk jr's existence and thought a key-smash managed to somehow acquire triple digit votes. Don't blame me, I voted for asdfgh.
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facialimpediment posted:And The Future Of The Democratic Party RFKJR got 435 One from every Representative. That’s all he needs.
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# ? Jan 25, 2024 03:03 |
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pantslesswithwolves posted:UBI really is something we need to consider because AI is going to go after traditional office type jobs the way automation went after manufacturing. Most likely all the jobs that get taken over by AI will end up returning a few months later as jobs correcting AI mistakes. And nothing will be learned by anyone.
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# ? Jan 25, 2024 03:12 |
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Cugel the Clever posted:Forum bogeyman Matt Yglesias wrote strongly in favor of this in his last book. While I do agree in principle, I'm more skeptical of the political feasibility of the intervention in practice. There's just so much that would have to go into creating the incentives for business and skilled workers to shift and a lot of the left might take understandable issue with these handouts, even if the ostensible end goal is lift up a broader set of Americans by rebalancing our engines of economic opportunity. we could just go full soviet union and say "this is the town that produces X. you wanna work in X you gotta live here. also you may not get a choice, we may just decide you work in X and ship you off somewhere" sucks for you if you live in the town that exclusively produces the entire national supply of chemical weapons
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# ? Jan 25, 2024 04:14 |
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OddObserver posted:Ideally you would want lots of both public and private housing (edit: UK was doing well when it had both, while Soviet Union could never keep up with public construction only even though it's one of the areas where they actually put in an effort).... but public housing costs $$$. Whether getting support for that or for breaking down the broken system where we artificially limit supply to enrich existing home owners would be easier is a subject for debate. The UK still has public housing and does a decent job of keeping it refurbished. The problem here is that restrictive planning practices make it impossible to build anything, public or private.
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# ? Jan 25, 2024 08:37 |
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pantslesswithwolves posted:UBI really is something we need to consider because AI is going to go after traditional office type jobs the way automation went after manufacturing. Thankfully the Plagiarism machines won't be taking over jobs in any significant numbers for decades, they will however be used as tool to augment jobs. I know in the VFX industry they are using AI to help clean up artifacts and automate some of the more tedious work.
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# ? Jan 25, 2024 09:19 |
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The Seattle Times and others are covering this as a whistleblower, originally posted in the comments section of Leeham News. News comments sections: finally good for something?quote:throwawayboeingN704AL tl;dr: Bolts are removed so that Boeing contractor (and former division) Spirit can fix a fuckup. Removal of bolts is never documented. Bolts are never reinstalled. In Boeing production speak, this is a “process failure”. For an A&P mechanic at an airline, this would be called “federal crime”. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 09:42 on Jan 25, 2024 |
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Qtotonibudinibudet posted:we could just go full soviet union and say "this is the town that produces X. you wanna work in X you gotta live here. also you may not get a choice, we may just decide you work in X and ship you off somewhere" excluding the chemical weapons thing, on paper having a town in each state that produces specific goods/materials that modern society needs isn't a bad idea, the execution of that idea would probably be done in the most horrendously evil way though Platystemon posted:The Seattle Times and others are covering this as a whistleblower, originally posted in the comments section of Leeham News. News comments sections: finally good for something? drat, if that is true the FAA is going to have a field day tearing Boeing and Spirit apart Tythas fucked around with this message at 09:41 on Jan 25, 2024 |
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Tythas posted:excluding the chemical weapons thing, on paper having a town in each state that produces specific goods/materials that modern society needs isn't a bad idea, the execution of that idea would probably be done in the most horrendously evil way though "Well ya see we can't redevelop that blighted district of shuttered post-war factories and take on the burden of cleaning up the super fund sites. The only economical option was to eminent domain and pave over these low priced <predominantly minority> neighborhoods. I now declare that Widget Town is open for business."
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Platystemon posted:The Seattle Times and others are covering this as a whistleblower, originally posted in the comments section of Leeham News. News comments sections: finally good for something? Good lord
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This is the real insanity:quote:As a result, this check job that should find minimal defects has in the past 365 calendar days recorded 392 nonconforming findings on 737 mid fuselage door installations (so both actual doors for the high density configs, and plugs like the one that blew out). If that defect discovery rate was 1 a month it would warrant a thorough internal Boeing investigation to find out who's loving up. Over one a *day* is a sign that their industrial processes have completely broken down. With those sorts of numbers it's absolutely unsurprising that elements on both the sub and prime side are engaged in "process failure" activities.
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# ? Jan 25, 2024 12:39 |
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Terrifying Effigies posted:This is the real insanity: It doesn't matter and they know it. They're in the same situation GM was a few years ago, they can gently caress up all they want and the government will trip over itself to bail them out.
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# ? Jan 25, 2024 14:21 |
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Midjack posted:It doesn't matter and they know it. They're in the same situation GM was a few years ago, they can gently caress up all they want and the government will trip over itself to bail them out. Number go up? Number go up! If they have to make a few payments for planeloads of dead people then whatever, it's not people they care about and the numbers show which is more profitable.
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Terrifying Effigies posted:This is the real insanity: That defect rate is ONLY on the mid fuselage door installation. I bet if you added up the other show stopping defects there wouldn’t be a big enough
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Naramyth posted:That defect rate is ONLY on the mid fuselage door installation. All Boeing executive offices should be installed on 737 and they and their family should be forced to fly on them around the clock until this stuff is fixed.
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https://twitter.com/RollingStone/status/1750231508525236286 "No admittance without 3 X minimum beyond this point"'
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CBJSprague24 posted:https://twitter.com/RollingStone/status/1750231508525236286 trump trying to keep his lackeys loyal by getting them addicted to drugs
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CBJSprague24 posted:https://twitter.com/RollingStone/status/1750231508525236286 This was reported on multiple times throughout the administration (including articles specifically about Ronny Jackson) and never went anywhere.
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https://twitter.com/seungminkim/status/1750512701237797103?t=XRxVW_roeK1OExXGvAvFsQ&s=19 Here's why strong FY24Q1 numbers are bad news for Joe Biden -a POLITICO article, probably
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Tiny Timbs posted:This was reported on multiple times throughout the administration (including articles specifically about Ronny Jackson) and never went anywhere. Weren’t there reports of this during the Obama admin too? I might be mixing up the timing. I specifically remember the story about the White House physician offering everyone downers at the beginning of and uppers at the end of AF1 flights.
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/seungminkim/status/1750512701237797103?t=XRxVW_roeK1OExXGvAvFsQ&s=19 Note the "continued resilience" in the original tweet, too.
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CBJSprague24 posted:https://twitter.com/RollingStone/status/1750231508525236286 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK7kjl_gHds&t=27s
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https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/superme-court-alabama-proceed-nitrogen-gas-execution-1234953782/quote:The Supreme Court has ruled that Alabama can move forward with plans to execute a death row inmate using nitrogen gas — a method of execution by asphyxiation that has never been used in the United States. Bolding mine. I'd likely lose my job if we used N2 gas to euthanize lab animals in our research. This is disgusting.
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That Works posted:https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/superme-court-alabama-proceed-nitrogen-gas-execution-1234953782/
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I'm pretty sure that's how the homebrew euthanasia folks are doing it.
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hobbesmaster posted:Weren’t there reports of this during the Obama admin too? I might be mixing up the timing. I specifically remember the story about the White House physician offering everyone downers at the beginning of and uppers at the end of AF1 flights. there was Colin Powell saying that all the frequent travel staff are on Ambien: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/welcome-to-the-united-states-of-ambien-168147/ that kinda does make sense if you're flying jet lag distances all the time and are expected to be ready to go as soon as you arrive. whether you'd hit frequent enough usage for dependency doing that is vov as to whether there was any walrus activity on the flights, well, nobody's talking
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Wasabi the J posted:I'm pretty sure that's how the homebrew euthanasia folks are doing it. Isn’t the anxiety and pain from asphyxiation caused by the buildup from carbon dioxide in the bloodstream, not the lack of oxygen itself? I’m not in favor of the death penalty at all but I think I’d pick slowly passing out without pain over being a human guinea pig for whatever drug cocktail isn’t yet banned for sale by pharmaceutical companies.
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hobbesmaster posted:Weren’t there reports of this during the Obama admin too? I might be mixing up the timing. I specifically remember the story about the White House physician offering everyone downers at the beginning of and uppers at the end of AF1 flights. Yeah I suspect that's a big part of why this gets the "Huh.. anyway," treatment.
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Just get a really large fast pneumatic press.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:Isn’t the anxiety and pain from asphyxiation caused by the buildup from carbon dioxide in the bloodstream, not the lack of oxygen itself? Uh yeah I'm confused, N2 asphyxiation is "I feel sleepy" and then you're dead. Not that I trust state executioners not to figure out how to screw it up.
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Crab Dad posted:All Boeing executive offices should be installed on 737 and they and their family should be forced to fly on them around the clock until this stuff is fixed. They'll just give themselves hazard pay at rates far exceeding normal hazard pay
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https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1750568690804830703?t=ThIKxovSRY-WmRgGhItaHQ&s=19 The jokes would write themselves if it wasn't for the circumstances. But looks like she signed an NDA for $3M, then ol' Vinnie Mac decided to stop paying after $1M and the board started asking questions. Said board mostly stopped after they got to "WHAT THE FU-" and never added the CK? because the company was being sold for bajillionty dollars.
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That Works posted:https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/superme-court-alabama-proceed-nitrogen-gas-execution-1234953782/ What is it about being monstrous pieces of poo poo that conservatives find so appealing? With every passing day I find the amount of disgust and contempt I have for the hick infested wastelands of Red America just keeps getting greater and greater. I struggle to see how we're all part of the same country. I have virtually nothing in common with them.
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Mustang posted:What is it about being monstrous pieces of poo poo that conservatives find so appealing? Maybe you should take a break from reading the news?
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Wouldn't help, it's not like I'll be blissfully unaware that Red states will continue to tighten the screws on anyone and everyone that isn't a straight white christian conservative.
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