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IMHO TNR and Calibri are both shite, but I can see why one would want to go back to a decades old standerd.
As for calling Calibri "woke" - is this Rubio guy on crack?
The top priority of the administration was of course feeding USAID "into a wood chipper".
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Once they "finished the job" it was time to paean the worlds dictators while systematically and illegally dismantling every lever of US influence they could get their hands on.
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Then they came for "hope" itself.
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Finally they came for the fonts and there were no typesetters left to speak for the fonts.
Nuclear Fission isn't cost effective
The key part is pricing in the eco-balance of electricity and all other forms of energy and processed goods before doing anything else, like rebuilding fission. Until you do that, ecological damage will always be an unpriced externality and the market price will never reflect the real damage done and your math on fission will always come up short. Example: Meat and Smartphones would be roughly 4x in cost of what they cost today if the eco-balance were priced in correctly. And that's all we would need to do to fix our environmental problems in record speed.
If lawmakers were serious and believed in the provisions they must have had a good idea in advance what reaction to expect from industry so why have they folded so easily?
I sometimes get the distinct impression lawmakers don't even care and just dangle the threat of promulgating good reasonable provisions just to rake in corrupt political contributions.
Social media has become a toxic dump. If you wouldn't allow children to play in waste effluent from a 1960s nuclear power plant, then you shouldn't allow them to play in the social media that's out there. Because, frankly, of the two, plutonium is safer.
I do, however, contend that this is a perfectly fixable problem. There is no reason why social media couldn't be safe. USENET was never this bad. Hell, Slashdot at its worst was never as bad as Facebook at its best. And Kuro5hin was miles better than X. Had a better name, too. The reason it's bad is that politicians get a lot of kickbacks from the companies and the advertisers, plus a lot of free exposure to millions. Politicians would do ANYTHING for publicity.
I would therefore contend that Australia is fixing the wrong problem. Brain-damaging material on Facebook doesn't magically become less brain-damaging because kids have to work harder to get brain damage. Nor are adults mystically immune. If you took the planet's IQ today and compared it to what it was in the early 1990s, I'm convinced the global average would have dropped 30 points. Australia is, however, at least acknowledging that a problem exists. They just haven't identified the right one. I'll give them participation points. The rest of the globe, not so much.
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Typical "but it works for me, and everyone else is a fool. Ãoe reply.
I am a systems biologist regularly handles tons of genetic, spectroscopic and clinical data. I often want to use a spreadsheet to look at data structure, even it is only to write extraction and curation scripts
Excel is dumpster with a hole rusted through the bottom leaving a trail of garbage everywhere it goes.
"A programmatic scan of leading genomics journals reveals that approximately one-fifth of papers with supplementary Excel gene lists contain erroneous gene name conversions."
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That was me, too. Excel was absolutely essential to my productivity as a data-slinger, managing real-word data into and back out of largish SQL databases. The ability to just refresh a pivot table from SQL was an automatic one-click updated report, with no code.
I could do a whole bunch of massaging of data from plain text files, notes, cut-and-paste from other applications - or I could do several Excel formulas and maybe a short macro, and process tens of thousands of records into the big database.
It was about far more than "modelling" it was a swiss army knife of data massaging, reformatting, and above all, data-cleaning.
Whenever I get data in excel I cringe. The data will almost always be mangled requiring me to go back to the source and ask them to change their workflow.
Just before Thanksgiving I received a spreadsheet full of serial numbers. The serial numbers with letters in them were fine. The serial numbers that were all numeric all ended with a 0 due to irreversible loss of precision.
Decades ago I loved seeing all the shit people would come up with in excel, access and oracle forms. It let people who do not get paid to do this shit get useful value. Everyone else... professionals who should know better than to use excel is an another story entirely.
US college is a joke, especially to young men. Raw deals left, right and center. You're more likely to get your life ruined by a guilty-until-proven-innocent sexual harassment accusation than finding a mate "for life" that isn't saddled with obscene amounts of debt like you are, ready to bail out once you've paid through the nose for both of you.
US colleges now trying to be "places of connection" for young men has to be the biggest joke of todays age of misandry and man-bashing.
If I were a young man in the US, college would be the very last place I'd be looking for connection these days. And for just about everything else - highly specialized degrees in engineering, CompSci, physics, chemistry and such aside - I'd steer just as clear from US colleges. As a regular young guy without huge amounts of money to burn you're way better off learning and working a trade than going to college these days.
Laughably overpriced US colleges are going the way of the Dodo, and they're feeling it. That's what this recent change of mind is all about, nothing more.
... and that somebody as omnipresent as an LLM-bot would influence those way more effectively than a regular human should be of no big surprise.
russia has already reached the point where attrition cascades. even the nyt admits this.
Russian attrition is indeed spiraling.
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at this point only a few countries in europe (actually just 3-4 that count: uk, france, germany and maybe poland) and a minority of ukranians (20% according to last gallup poll) want to continue the war, hoping to rescue the situation in the long run.
With the exception of Putler very few wanted the war to start much less continue. Don't mistake wanting war to end for any Ukrainian willingness to acquiesce to absurd demands of Putler et el.
1. ukraine:
- fight to the last man (which will be soon) while being supported by
This is nonsensical. Both sides are capable of suffering their respective rates of attrition forever. This war like nearly every war will not be settled by running out of men. It will be settled by running out of will.
- steal russian assets to support ukraine for 2 more years, see from there. if they succeed, the money will last 6 months, it will wreck their financial industry for good (one of its few industries still standing) and when the trial comes they will have to pay the money back plus reparations.
Forfeiture of Russian assets is something that should have been done years ago as a down payment for harms Russia has already inflicted on Ukraine. This is no different than any corporation or person having their assets forfeited to cover damages they caused.
- rebuild their military, specially germany, for an eventual direct confrontation years down the line, 2030 is thrown around as a target. the problem with this plan is lacking industrial capacity, no access to cheap energy, no money, stagnation or growth of less than 0.5% in the best case and the fact that russia will keep doing the same with industrial capacity at full steam, unlimited energy, growing about 4% and about 4 years headstart.
You are delusional. The Russian military industry is shrinking because the country is going broke. The Russian central bank selling off gold reserves is like a spider eating its own web.
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now, the thing is that russia can win this conflict, and is actually doing so, but not the greater war. even if they get to the dnieper and odessa, as long as these european elites refuse to back off, and they don't seem inclined to do so, western ukraine will be a festering wound, even if totally depaupered. the conflict will freeze and will eventually erupt again. this is not a good situation for russia, which is why
Nobody can win jack shit. This war is exclusively grinding attrition for as far as the eye can see with Russia suffering the vast majority of all losses.
they want to negotiate, and their stance on this hasn't changed much since 2022, which is what they have been warning about since 2008. it would be the best for everyone, frankly.
You contradict yourself. Russia has shown zero interest in negotiation having maintained the same set of unacceptable maximalist demands throughout.
Just what US for-profit college needs. Great.
... complete retard in that way.
Disclaimer: German here.
German carmakers today are precisely at where US car-makers where in the mid to late 60ies: aloof, disconnected and arrogant, relying to much on brand-recognition to pull off non-sense like planned obsolescence or subscriptions for your heated seats.
Thank you for pointing out these "minor details" of this "nuclear-fission-including-all-of-its-problems on steoroids".
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