Same but also Star Wars

Many (most?) of our peer nations do routinely pay ransoms or otherwise negotiate to have their citizens released, though, and for that matter so do we occasionally when it suits us. “We don’t negotiate with terrorists” is rhetoric

tbf I grew up in Montgomery County (PA) and my experience was that even among people you might expect to have the accent, many don’t

I have recorded literally dozens of complicated multitrack songs using Reaper over many years, and if you ask me to do anything more complicated than record or apply fx I’m going to have to look it up

You simply use it the same way you do on Windows (learn every single thing over from scratch any time you want to use it)

come you masters of tech
you that build all the clouds
you that build the ML
you that build the AI
you that hide behind gates
in an atherton manse
i suppose you all know
this might be your last chance

I will specifically push back on one thing: much as I think Schumer sucks and needs to go, the modal poster’s mental model of what any Dem Senate Minority Leader can or could do does not strike me as realistic

Sure, but I live in suburban DC. It’s always packed, and we do have gun ranges and stuff here, but this isn’t a peak gun-humper area either

He’s everywhere!

We just ratified a union contract at my employer, and I have this sinking feeling that when it gets to the board they’re going to balk at some of the provisions because of increasing health expenses since the negotiation

Costco had a “3 pistol range backpack” last week, and, just… is that a thing that enough people need for Costco to stock it?

They can’t even keep one of their craziest and formerly most diehard soldiers (mtg) onside right now

How on earth could something as complicated and artificial as IQ not require hundreds, thousands of SNPs to even make a dent? (And that’s assuming you think the intelligence-measuring exercise is worth anything in the first place, which, aside from diagnosing disability, it mostly isn’t)

To say nothing of epigenetics and transcriptomes and so on

There are many diseases that we know are strongly heritable but can’t figure out why genetically, and others that we used to think were caused by 1 SNP that can really be caused by several, sometimes with very different presentations

(As an example of the latter, Google adult onset CF. Wild)