Sounds like he's getting it mixed up with the 1977 flu pandemic? Which doesn't really make it better, but it's a slightly different problem for him to be confusing those things

"Ashokan Farewell" plays over plates and plates littered with pizza crusts after a birthday party

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It feels like it might have some analogy with people who freak out about rare cases of vaccine injury, buy don't care about excess deaths due to non-vaccination. The active harm (real or perceived) is always worse than the passive harm, regardless of difference in the magnitude

Datacenter companies need to pay in a real way for increased electricity generating capacity, otherwise these monstrosities need to be rejected outright

Plus, if you play everyone in the conference, it's much harder to argue you were unfairly left out of the postseason when you don't win the conference. The SEC having wildly unbalanced schedules this year kind of sucked for everyone

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity". She's done plenty of malicious things, but this more likely falls in the stupidity bucket

I'd encourage educators to work from the standpoint that AI was, from the off, intended as an assault on their institutions. The Venn diagram between AI evangelists and people who want to replace democracy with techno-feudalism is a circle.

Not discounting an anti-trans element, because Hegseth, but I would suspect this is more directly motivated by the increased participation of girls in Scouting/ piloting co-ed troops

Completely random, but a small company in Minnesota has started selling Kernza flour! perennial-pantry.com/collections/...

Please no

As an alumnus and fan of multiple Land Grant schools, this made my heart very happy

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Gotcha, thanks for the explanation! It seems like the GOP is willing to accept any amount of suffering for regular people to avoid this, so I guess I don't know if there's any other way this was likely to go.

Genuinely trying to understand - what is the outcome Indivisible would accept, if Republicans won't put ACA subsidy extensions on the CR?

Genuinely trying to understand - as the minority party, once the GOP showed they would allow any amount of suffering rather than negotiate, was there any other realistic endgame?

Once the GOP showed they were happy to starve people in order to not need to compromise, I'm not sure what other endgame was possible. Dems are in the minority, the used the lever they could, and saw that the GOP didn't care who got hurt.