Is the era of body positivity over? Some experts worry about a return of ‘thinness’ as the norm.
I hope so. “Thinness” should be the norm. And we should give people the tools and the environment to realistically achieve that.
Anything else is allowing great harm.
I’m lucky because I cannot tell the difference between the $500 mattresses and the $7,000 ones, nor can I discern any meaningful sonic distinction between the $1,000 speakers and the $10,000 ones.
That has saved me untold amounts of currency.
It turns out launching into an explanation of how the Canadian residential school mass graves are fake news is not the best way to set a nice vibe at a holiday party.
— Wally Nowinski (@Nowooski) December 29, 2024
Someone just as fun of parties as I am! There are a few of us. They call me the “death of the party” for a reason.
Same. Personal experience shows me this is the case. During the dotcom boom of the late 1990s and early 2000s I told my friend this directly: “If you keep doing this, you will piss away all your money. You will go bankrupt and lose everything.” I did not mince words. I put it that bluntly.
A few months later, he was way overextended on margin as the NASDAQ crashed 60%. His broker did the expected margin call and in addition to losing his principal, he owed Datek tens of thousands that he did not have. He squandered everything he had and more chasing a few lousy bucks. He couldn’t even make rent. If he’d listened to me he would’ve been up well more than a hundred thousand dollars (around $200K in 2024 greenbacks).
Listening to my advice was the easy and obvious thing to do as it was clear the market was unsustainable and that being so far out on margin was dangerous. But it didn’t matter.
It looks like the future of Europe is to be a stagnant backwater where the standard of living slowly declines. It’s likely to be overrun both by Russia and by mobs of economic migrants with Enlightenment-hostile values and cultures.
My guess is that the region will deteriorate for 200-300 years and then as those mobs aforementioned and their terrible cultures cool out, it’ll flourish once again — after some brutal wars and genocides.
Good times, good times.
Bird flu might be coming. So won't somebody please think of… the gain-of-function researchers?!
I'm baffled by how often big newspapers advocate for actively bad stuff, even when it won't get many clicks. It takes hard work to be so consistently wrong; how/why do they do it? pic.twitter.com/zfyPOkzCwI
— Richard Ngo (@RichardMCNgo) December 24, 2024
Especiallly since it was those poor, besiegned GoF researchers who almost certainly caused Covid. Insanity.
Atrocious piloting leading to mass death here most likely. Bird strike, but the plane was not incapacitated. There was what appeared to be a single engine failure. The pilot seems to have panicked and made a series of terrible and fatal decisions. Flaps weren’t lowered. Speed brake was not deployed. Didn’t attempt a gravity drop of the landing gear. That airport has a short-ish runway (2,800 meters) and even with all that, he still would’ve been ok if the runway had been longer.
My personal guess is that the pilot turned off the wrong engine (the working one) while attempting to land, in addition to all those other probable fuck-ups. It’s also likely the pilot didn’t realize the landing gear was not extended in what was obviously a panic situation they were unable to deal with.
The investigation will reveal more, but that seems like 100% pilot error to me. A bird strike with a single engine failure simply cannot cause all those problems with the triply-redundant systems on that aircraft. It is just not possible.
Same, same. Or I’m being attacked by the werewolves again. Or I’m launching nukes on aliens from the space station.
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This is already happening. One of my team members did his year-end self-review. I read it (am his manager) and it seemed like it sounded AI-ish. I asked him if he’d used AI to create it and he said he hadn’t, though I know he uses ChatGPT for other things. He’s honest and I believe him that he didn’t use AI for this particular item. But the review is written in that style, likely because he has been using AI for other mundane tasks so it has lodged in his brain. I’ve also seen the same in emails from other people that I’m pretty sure were not actually AI-generated.
I do not like this.
