I thought he ran on lowering prices. Who would even say this?!

Interesting crossovers like Charlie Brown and Lego

Found this book, on the American Psychological Association site. I haven’t read it, but I was poking around at mental health things and found it to share.

That’s amazing! Plus, it’s what plants crave! Glad to hear something simple like that was able to get things started. Hope it continues to get better for you.

I’m not sure about this myself. I too suffer anxiety. I use medical marijuana, which helps. I think depression is the bigger factor for me. The breathing techniques can help in the moment. Just big deep breathes if nothing else. It may only help momentarily; I don’t know what else lasts longer. Good luck to you!

The change saw Game Pass Ultimate jump 50%, rising from $19.99 to $29.99 per month. PC Game Pass also increased from $11.99 to $16.49, marking nearly a 40% hike.

That’s what I’m thinking. Where is he getting this number?

Holtzman describes himself as “a philosopher and data scientist who writes about quantitative propaganda and scientistic rhetoric,” and he often does so at his science & Power newsletter. His peer-reviewed work has been published in places like the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The American Journal of Bioethics. He had also heard the oft-repeated suggestion that the data center protest movement was led by wealthy, NIMBY folks, so he set out to investigate. He analyzed a dataset of current and proposed data center projects alongside US census data1 and has graciously offered to share the results in an exclusive here. He came to at least three stark conclusions:

1. The poorest neighborhoods resisted data centers at nearly five times the rate of the wealthiest (19.0% vs. 3.8%)

2. Recently proposed data centers that faced pushback were canceled or suspended at more than five times the rate of data centers that didn’t (28.2% vs. 5.2%).

3. Cancellation rates are highest in lower-income areas, a fact fully explained by their higher rates of pushback.

Yeah it just had me thinking. Thank you.

Reading that China is quite advanced in AI also, and if these things are related, how are they handling things like data centers over there? Or are they not related?

I’m seeing a lot of it in the comments!

They look fantastic!

Sounds like them trying to figure out what to call people from San Diego in the movie Anchorman.

Ahh. Thank you for explaining.

Is that something like uBlacklist? I was just put onto that extension (Firefox).

This is a great point. Thanks for stating it. I am often too easily roped into these kinds of arguments. Logical ones are so much better.

No one you just mentioned is providing any service to me whatsoever. That’s not a 1:1 example. Also, these places have removed traditional ways of doing business with them, in some locations. So, how do you get around that without limiting yourself or simply denying yourself? I’m speaking practically.

I’m not happy about the privacy issues. I’m just not sure I’d let them win over my other needs/wants.

Damage? Where’s the damage? I’m just not sure that giving up practical conviences for whatever this reads like to you and has you worried about is worth it. You’d use no apps ever. And you’d have to consistently be going with less as the technology moves on and you boycott it all. They are literally not staffing these places the way they used to.

Thanks, Chuck 😉

A right? Don’t know. But he certainly has the capacity and drive to be the worst president ever. Fulfilling that bigly. Showed me just how many shit Americans there are, in my friend group, in my family, and just generally surrounding me at all times.