Former musician, former writer, former entrepreneur, former corporate sellout, presently exhausted. Founder, Chowhound
Joined January 2009
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Introducing my app: EAT EVERYWHERE, your personal eating assistant. Crazy useful! For iOs and Android. eateverywhere.cc
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Early Nathan Fielder. He got to interview his boss on the air and made it as awkward as possible.
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It’s really an A+ troll by Zelenskyy to take out half of Russia’s bot farm, weeks before the US midterm elections.
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Mi momento favorito de la cumbre de la ONU: el presidente de Haití bebiendo directamente de la jarra. 🤣😭
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I’ve been wondering about this. I’m in the US and so I suffer from typical amerimyopia, but — what’s the vibe in other countries? are many Europeans, for example, treating the capabilities gap as an urgent and pressing problem, or is it more of a shrug?
Looks like the Vulcan's having Amok Time again. Never pretty to see.
People are what they appear to be. Beyond that, unless they can cite specific ACTG sequences for their cell or mitochondrial DNA that somehow defy appearances, it’s all in their mind.
I’ve met so many people who look extremely European in every way and tell me they’re Jewish. Well, maybe there are a few OG “Jewish ACTG” sequences in there somewhere, but clearly not many!
Where is the list of these ACTG sequences? 🤷♂️
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He was not "outlandish" in "Rocky Horror". He was the perfect amount of landish.
Tim Curry, Outlandish Star of 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show,' Dies at 80 hollywoodreporter.com/movies…
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People just genuinely cannot fathom that those who work in AI are trying to be honest and candid about what the risks seem to be. I think it’s true that we undersell the benefits and are ~bad at marketing, but the notion that risk discourse is a branding tactic is simply wrong.
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Trump: “You don’t pay the tariffs.”
Also Trump: “I’m suspending tariffs on beef so you can have cheaper prices.”
MAGA is so fucking stupid.
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This is an absolutely terrible idea.
US support for the dissolution of Canada will make it an enemy - not just the alienated former ally it is now, but an enemy.
No country can stand by while its neighbor undermines its sovereignty
Trump always finds a way to make things worse
🚨 WOW! Support is ramping up among Alberta citizens to SECEDE from Canada, with the first vote taking place Oct. 19
The province is right-wing and Albertans are FED UP with not having sovereignty, sufficient rights, and feel like BILLIONS are being taken away from them 💯
Treasury Sec. SCOTT BESSENT has voiced support for Albertans taking the step to secede.
If the Oct. 19 passes, another vote would be required to make it final. After that, any notion of joining the United States would require a separate process
SECEDE AND JOIN THE USA 🔥
We'd gain a red state, 2 GOP senators, beautiful land and natural resources.
And Alberta would likely gain even more in return.
"Massive oil and gas reserves. They provide high employment, high incomes and a lot of money to Canada's federal budget."
"We're looking at just about over a $30 billion outflow of economic activity from Alberta to confederation for which we don't get anything back!"
"Albertans aren't exercising their sovereignty and it's costing them billions of dollars."
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I once ran Russia's largest oil company. Here is what Ukraine's strikes are really doing to oil refineries — and why the damage may soon become irreparable.
(🧵Read on and follow for more)
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Интересное исследование: чувак собрал в кучу данные по возрастам юзеров и по оценкам, которые они выставляли на MovieLens фильмам, выпущенным в разные года. Получилось, что для любых возрастов "лучшие фильмы" в среднем всегда как будто бы выходили за 5-10 лет до рождения оценивающих.
Правда, тут скорее всего большой selection bias: когда новые фильмы выходят, то мы нередко всё подряд смотрим, — а если уж садимся смотреть старое кино, то там в основном какая-нибудь годная классика, а не забывшийся со временем ширпотреб.
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The Atlantic reports that U.S. manufacturers are concerned that Ukrainians could figure out how to improve the Patriot system and then mass-produce it at a fraction of the cost of existing U.S. production lines.
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The point is to diminish trust in the electoral system in order to make way for laws and crackdowns that suppress turnout, especially in key places, and to target free speech and assembly in the name of election "security".
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Very cool, entertaining and with high production values: if I were @Nigel_Farage, I’d consider dipping into that £5 million to try to get out a video that can compare to it.
