icastorm

Aren't there some physics differences, especially with the parameterizations?

I see now yeah, that's very strange! It almost tried to make it fit in stylistically

As funny as the presidents are, that's just a page from a social studies textbook that it modified slightly, right? Wonder if they had permission to use that, not that it matters to the government at this point.

I think Democrats should offer voters a broadly defined anti-fraud platform. Yes, obviously, start with Trump’s influence peddling, but don’t stop there. Online fraud is massive, almost every phone call you get is a scam, and the solution has to be federal or it just won’t work.

Let’s be very clear they’re pushing the idea Black people can’t govern themselves.

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

don't accept their malthusian framing. overpopulation has turned out to be a bit of a nothingburger scare as improved food production technology and the fact that birth rates decline with access to reproductive healthcare means there's no need for mass death to fight climate change.

Ah yes, the one singular purpose of the Chinese military

Have fun with it, genuinely. You should be proud of the work, and you should have a good time getting others as excited about it as you are.

Historic black-and-white photo of a woman launching a weather balloon, featured in NOAA's "NOAAstalgia: Picturing Our Past" series.

🧵 Introducing a new series, NOAAstalgia: Picturing Our Past. Every other week, The NOAA Heritage Program will be sharing photos from NOAA's history.

In this week's photo, a young woman launches a pilot weather balloon.

Trump himself admits that this is true how could you possibly disagree

the USA built a system of higher education so good that smart/rich people from across the world came here, spending billions to learn here, subsidizing education for Americans while spending money to live in our cities and towns. our government arbitrarily decided we should stop doing that

It's that, and as others point out it's also to cripple university incomes. They'll have to charge domestic students a lot more to make up for it, which also pushes even more non-white people out of the college track. Win win win.

My theory is that there really was a (fixable) security risk, but rather than doing anything constructive or proactive at all they did nothing until the deadline passed out of sheer incompetence, and even then rather than do anything about it they just decided to turn the machine off.

Stephen Miller’s grotesque zeal comes from the fact he is not motivated by policy but a twisted hate for the entire liberal order and the racial tolerance it has forced him to endure. We need Democrats with a similar zealous hatred for fascist scum like Miller

Every utterance or misstep by Biden was treated as more evidence for his unfitness and senility by the same media that is now ignoring the evidence right in front of their face for why Trump fired the BLS commissioner (instead they're stenographing "Trump says" headlines and stories)

everything you as a democrat hate about what trump is doing has been means tested on trans people. everything. the democracy you want to save, we were the test case for ending it.

and it started with making you angry about trans people in sports.

Trump got 49% of the vote and won tiny legislative minorities and the response of virtually every single elite law firm, elite university, huge company, and major journalistic outlet has been to surrender to him and start caving to his deranged demands to give him money and personal favors

something so telling about yarvin's character that he's willing to perform grotesque racism but is too chickenshit to spell out the n-word

Why is polymarket even tweeting that out?

This is absolutely not the median view, even in spaces that have been openly critical of Israel for a long time.

"If we wanted to we could simply nuke the city within our borders" is "talking about the numbers", apparently.

To be clear I'm not defending AI or it's mistakes here, I have never used AI chatbots for anything and I plan on keeping it that way as much as possible. I just think that saying they can't parse (might be a better word for what they do) new information isn't completely true.

At their core, yes, but Grok and other AI chatbots absolutely have the ability to "read" websites and new information, and auxiliary programs attempt to add that information to the context of the conversation you're having with it. It doesn't work very well, obviously, but it is in there.

This isn't quite true, it was reading the website because it "knew" that there were ongoing tsunami warnings for other places. It was just reading the website incorrectly.

Sorry, you'll get gray "wood" laminate and you'll like it

Sure, there are always edge cases and the world is complex, but 1-2 percent vacancy doesn't represent a large issue with vacancy, even if a few specific buildings happen to be empty for any reason. Those buildings filling up wouldn't come close to making a dent in the problem.

The (few) empty buildings in NYC are the result of regulatory boondoggles, not gentrification.

the high point of my being denounced as a neoliberal shill on tiktok is when i insisted that gentrification is downstream of housing supply constraints, and isn’t a quality inherently possessed by people you don’t like