Third Thoughts

Per Reuters: Disney investing $1 billion in OpenAI and allowing Sora to use Marvel, Star Wars, Pixar characters. Target start date early 2026.

It begins...

Eggnog is so good. That's it, that's the post.

Been wondering something similar, except for semi-realistic climate change and people basically abandoning the tropics, dealing with oceanic anoxia, etc.

Looking at CA special election results and Darrell Issa must be shitting his pants. Blue wave incoming baby.

The rare instance where I am pro-criminalization. Willful child neglect is abuse, and abusers have to face consequences. Its the only way to stop them from making excuses.

And yes, we need to stop the grifters too. There are exceptions to the first amendment, sorry.

Hells to the yeah

But I thought the only point of military was make thing go boom. Cheap way make things boom is better yes?

And THIS is why not all books need to be shelved in YA, people!

This falls new hit isekai

The more I look at this monstrosity, the worse it gets. Its the girt that keeps on taking (limbs, spare digits, probosci, tentacles, your soul...)

Oh god the more I look the worse it gets

r/DIWhy

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How many Christmas songs can Bahrbara have?

I make one comment about manufacturing and now Ed is looking at buying 3kW lasers

Also me: Christ I need a planer.

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Some of us joint with a square and a cheap Japanese plane the way Tom intended.

Meanwhile, you:

This is a legitimately interesting take, and shifts the problems with prequel Anakin from acting to scripting... which, given the scripting is what is more in control of LucasFilms, makes a lot of sense.

A big part of the problemnwas the jarring shift from baby anakin to the older depressed teen.

OK but Cinemark having a P/E of 34 is wild.

In theory, if they were focused on their actual job re: *customs* enforcement, sniffing dogs make sense.

In practice right now, yeah its mostly the slave catching thing.

The shift in these is from very to somewhat important. Given the COVID shock thats not surprising.

Devil is in the details on this one. If you look at the results, the shift is from "very" to "somewhat" important. And much of this is responding to the COVID shock.

For patriotism and religion, "somewhat" is better than "very." Remains to be seen how connected those are to community post-COVID.

Even on the Cambridge bike-walk paths its 50/50 they use the bell

A little dependent on the exact kind of sidewalk, but assuming major metro, I probably agree.

That said, the momentum calculations are somewhat favorable to the "its ok to shift risk" argument, just given the sheer mass of cars. But I think it also confuses traffic more, which wins the tie.

It turns out that the number of asshole cyclists is normally distributed. So you will find examples of both.

Hence: dedicated infrastructure and also enforcing rules vis-a-vis being a vehicle.

*majority = majority of those in the group chat

And even more than that, a lot of people will just take cues from vocal high-status people in the chat. Just like they do with people on boards, fundraising committees, etc.

People with vast amounts of money have a far easier time influencing those who want that money (and status) than the other way around.

And group chats are a great way to police majority and moderator norms, but a terrible way to change majority views.

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democratic leaders need to make a huge deal about the antivaxx insanity coming from RFK Jr.

like, in addition to being fucking insane, immoral, and dangerous, antivaxx is significantly less popular than even the most unpopular dem policies. we need to ceaselessly hammer them for it

You know they will!

So if the take is just "Public pensions should be 60/40 or 70/30 balanced funds instead of T-bills" why not just make that the take? Like, that's way harder to interpret as "actually its OK to threaten cuts to USPS to make them balance a budget." The context of the public discussion matters.