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that sounds like the script of a parks & recreation episode:
Roberts donned a dress, a grey wig, full make-up, and a name-tag thoughtfully identifying him as “Cranston Senior Home Resident”—amounting to a middle-aged man looking extremely uncomfortable in drag
Bolsters the candidates’ self-confidence. Some candidates knew about the paid crowds and other times we have been hired by outside organizations. In both cases, seeing more supporters gave them the confidence to up their game on stage.
Scientists have discovered a powerful new strain of fact-resistant humans who are threatening the ability of Earth to sustain life. The research identifies a virulent strain of humans who are virtually immune to any form of verifiable knowledge
When the country isn’t issuing condemnations of purged elites, complaining about forbidden ski lifts, or threatening World War III, it’s getting caught Photoshopping military exercises in an attempt to inflate its hovercraft arsenal. The mixture of genuine threat and laughable incompetence shapes our perceptions, and opens the door for greater lies and claims to take hold in our imaginations. It creates ideal conditions for rumors that paint the country in a negative and often mocking light.
wat. this shit freaked me out when i was 14. what’s going on?
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Also, in related news, FOMO now more acute.
But I do think there is something different, possibly something portentous, going on with AutoAwesome “Smile!”: a difference in quality and kind. What is a more fundamental externalized symbol of a subtle, human feeling than a smile? The AIs in the cloud helped me out, gave me a better memory to store and share, a digestion of reality into the memory I wish had been captured. But I’m reasonably sure that if this were a photo of Obama and Putin, smiling it up together, big, simultaneously happy buddies, at a Ukraine summit press conference. Then, I think algorithms automatically creating such symbolic moments would be a concern.
dumb, and creating an opening for various taxi commissions to justify bans.
Uber is arming teams of independent contractors with burner phones and credit cards as part of its sophisticated effort to undermine Lyft and other competitors.
how to make your own high fructose corn syrup. as you know, it’s good for you!
those direct generation customers are freeriders on the system. They are not paying for the infrastructure they are using
one of my 2014 predictions is that a utility will go bankrupt due to solar being cheaper than coal distributed energy production will make our civilization far more resilient, but the transition causes strife like “who pays for the grid”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut1_PosSLtk
aww, so cute, damage control mode:
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sure, whatever you say.
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