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  Charlie Stross 688: Crazy thing, wegovy-etc ought be a good thing. For everyone. Especially in reducing chronic, life long complications for patients. Lowered treatment costs for insurance companies and/or governments. Lessened illness, a socially positive thing. Win-win-win. Annual sales of...
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  here's another larger-than-life piece of mind boggling shit most authors would ever dream up: "In September, Novo Nordisk overtook the luxury-goods retailer LVMH to become Europe’s most valuable company. Its market capitalization—an estimated $450 billion as of Friday—was higher than...
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  whitroth 656: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair "The submission was an experiment to test journal's intellectual rigor, specifically to investigate whether ... [would] publish an article liberally salted with nonsense if (a) it sounded good and (b) it flattered editors' ideological preconceptions."...
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  https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/24/trump-religion-immigration/ or https://archive.li/1u91c look at the bar chart labeled "Religious affiliation in the US" compare 'n contrast Under-30 versus 65-up... and you'll see what terrifies so-called moral traditionalists and the leadership of old guard GOP... in a single generation those...
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  =+=+=+=+= Tim McDermott 411: actually the dispersal of sourcing for components was a major motivator for: (a) EDI (which later gave rise to XML) as well as (b) CAD/CAM standards and (c) dire need for effective project management in the...
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  REMINDER: always cut the red wire before the green wire and never (never! ever!) mess with the green one this safety tip courtesy of every overwrought mis-written Hollywood movie with a ticking bomb in it ==== in answer to "whats...
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  Charlie Stross 329: what happens when the Laundry (or its successor, DEAT) run into an actual loving deity? dare I suggest? horror #1: please consider "With Folded Hands" as something that still gives a shiver, just about the SECOND WORST...
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  Robert Prior 328: FYI: author listed under various spellings... Naoíse Mac Sweeney Naose Sweeney Naose Mac Sweeney Naose Macsweeney...
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  Bobh 326: since good help is hard to find, gods do something clever in convincing any so naive as believe their lies about what really happens in the afterlife... ...gods don't so much eat souls as exploit 'em for automation......
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  so... here's a bit of sociopolitical WTF... Florida is viewed as being the part of the USA where old folk go to die ("Grim Reaper's waiting room") and where anyone under age of 70 has to have an IQ under...
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  settle down class... for your term papers in Eco 101 (Naive Intro to Economics) as well as Pysch 203 (Abnormalities and Sociopaths) and Computer Science 319 (New Platforms and Old Greed) we're letting you write once for all three courses...
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  whitroth 286: not so much efficiency as utilizing a waste product as basis for full employment wherein semi-skilled, poorly educated locals in places with cheap land, cheap water, cheap electricity and government subsidies and politicians anxious to boast about full...
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  =+=+=+=+= dpb 224: I predict that Braverman will be PM before summer. only if she isn't drafted as T(he)Rump's vice president on the Rotting Republican ticket... their motto ==> "Fast! Back To The Past!" (which barely beat out "Onward To...
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  Heteromeles 210: it is an open-ended problem, what's been piled up under highways in urban centers but also along the land strips nearest to highways... not just lowest rent apartments and cheaply built housing and shoddy office parks (class 'D',...
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  Heteromeles 210: it is an open-ended problem, what's been piled up under highways in urban centers but also along the land strips nearest to highways... not just lowest rent apartments and cheaply built housing and shoddy office parks (class 'D',...
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  Torment Nexus -- new entries US government shutdown due to #BSGC Republicans eager to burn it all down; performative craziness getting ever more frequent; https://lite.cnn.com/2023/11/13/politics/government-shutdown-latest-johnson/index.html tuberculosis outbreak in children day care center; this is bleak, especially given ever increasing numbers...
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  https://lite.cnn.com/2023/11/13/opinions/trumps-mental-gaffes-obeidallah/index.html The Beatles, like all bands, has their 'greatest hits'. Whereas T(he)Rump has his most public misses. At the rate he's dissolving the sad possibility if he's elected in NOV 2024, by the time he takes office in JAN 2025...
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  Eric 137: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/martin_luther_151410 not exactly originating tome with page number but that's where I found it a couple years ago......
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  there's plenty of crazy (and bigotry and viciousness) to go around... and here's an example of one of those people who encouraged it... five hundred years old and still it sends the chills of dread down my spine... “Faith must...
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  =+=+=+= Cathexis Rex 112: please define "grindstated" (or a link) ditto: sigma male; psychohistoricized future; regrettably I've become all too familiar with: philosophically hollow; optimization obsessed; Gordon Gecko as role model; future-fetishizing; =+=+=+= Paul 104: One of the funnier things...
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  REMINDER: 20: Despite its proven stress-relieving effect, I will not indulge in maniacal laughter. When so occupied, it's too easy to miss unexpected developments that a more attentive individual could adjust to accordingly. From "The Infamous List of Things I'll...
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  ====== “Perception is more important than reality. If someone perceives something to be true, it is more important than if it is in fact true.” --“The Trump Card: Playing to Win in Work and Life, Ivanka Trump ====== There's more...
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  REMINDER: "evolution" is never about eagerly advancing towards a shining destination upon a high hill, it is reluctantly moving away from a miserable mess down in the muck 'n mire ====== All this chatter about lofty ambitions and galaxy-spanning plans...
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  it's going to take me a couple of re-reads to grasp every point raised in CS's presentation... I'm not sure what it was I had been reading... so try again tomorrow... what caught my OCD-infested-eye and triggered my tech writer...
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  ====== timrowledge 1770: did you mean to type: "Hmm, the only pithy thing I know about gold is that if it ain’t fixed, don’t broker it." ====== Moz 1771: worst yet, there's a brutal, bleak estimate that 2/3s of all...
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  and now for something incompletely different... it was made into a movie... which after sinking in seventy mega-bucks(!) the 'suits' decided to archive it rather than distribute it... https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1990/02/26/coyote-v-acme https://archive.ph/iTh9c...
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  ====== Heteromeles 1752: no, you're thinking of the informal professional courtesy between sharks in midst feeding frenzy of hapless victims of a sinking cruise ship and corporate lawyers fending off anti-trust investigations such as detailed in "How Google's trial secrecy...
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  ====== Robert Prior 1725: I for one welcome any way out of this horror that does not lead into yet another shitstorm... so... what have you got for a finalized resolution that nobody else has come up with thus far?...
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  ====== Heteromeles 1707: if you or anyone one you know has a way for this to end short of another of another war in six months... really end... please speak up... so far, no such thing as an exit strategy...
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  Mr. Tim 1693: ...and every time you pressed =ENTER= the lights would dim as seventeen kilowatts were drawn down to commit a sector write onto a drum-sized magnetic core (hand carved 'n sanded platters spun up by oxen treading clockwise)...