[-] RainfallSonata@lemmy.world 54 points 1 month ago
[-] RainfallSonata@lemmy.world 51 points 4 months ago

the core inflation rate... excludes food and energy costs—economic indicators that affect Americans’ daily lives.

This right tf HERE.

[-] RainfallSonata@lemmy.world 59 points 6 months ago

Fantastic. I ate that almost exclusively for years because I thought it was the healthier option.

[-] RainfallSonata@lemmy.world 44 points 6 months ago

I tell them I'm accepting offers of $2,000,000+. My home is worth about $100,000.

[-] RainfallSonata@lemmy.world 48 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Saying you're looking for a critical alternative sounds strange to this American. Here, that book is the critical alternative. It's the counterpoint to all the toxic conservative propaganda we're spoonfed daily. Propaganda that tells us that straight, white, Christian, American men are not only the saviors of democracy, but also the Universe, that God, guns, and money will save us all. That book tells the stories we're taught to deny. If it doesn't convince you, it's because it goes against everything America wants you to believe. If you're just looking to be mad, turn on Fox News. They'll tell you plenty of things that are "wrong" with America.

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[-] RainfallSonata@lemmy.world 68 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I didn't realize they originated with verifying nsfw content. I'd only ever seen them in otherwise text-based contexts. It seemed to me the person in the photo didn't necessarily represent the account owner just because they were holding up a piece of paper showing the username. But if you're matching the verification against other photos, that makes more sense.

[-] RainfallSonata@lemmy.world 51 points 7 months ago

This is a "feature" that was only ever available in India. It still sucks, but that's a pretty rage-baity headline.

[-] RainfallSonata@lemmy.world 57 points 7 months ago

My Boomer parents had one of those "I'm spending my kids' inheritance" bumper stickers on one of their RVs and it was no joke. New RVs every couple of years, driving around the country part of each summer, new boats every couple of years, two timeshares, one in Branson, one on the gulf coast FL, two houses, one in the Adirondacks, one outside Orlando, flying back and forth twice a year, a new gold wing every couple of years. They don't believe they're rich.

My father worked his whole life as a telephone lineman, retired at 55. My mother worked swing shift in processing at Kodak. Neither started wealthy. My dad had to purchase my grandfather's farmhouse. My mother didn't inherit anything. And they didn't think one second about passing anything down.

Placing the blame on medical costs for the generation as a whole is letting them off the hook, again. Boomers are too selfish to pass anything down anyway.

[-] RainfallSonata@lemmy.world 44 points 7 months ago

Although DeWave only achieved just over 40 percent accuracy based on one of two sets of metrics in experiments conducted by Lin and colleagues, this is a 3 percent improvement on the prior standard for thought translation from EEG recordings.

The Australian researchers who developed the technology, called DeWave, tested the process using data from more than two dozen subjects. Participants read silently while wearing a cap that recorded their brain waves via electroencephalogram (EEG) and decoded them into text.

Yep.

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[-] RainfallSonata@lemmy.world 57 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Sushi. I just toss all the ingredients in a bowl and be done with it, instead of bothering to roll.

[-] RainfallSonata@lemmy.world 60 points 7 months ago

Can they take away his medical license (I guess Im assuming he has one. It's Florida, though, so who knows.)? Cause unless he's got scientific evidence to back his claims, they should limit his ability to practice.

[-] RainfallSonata@lemmy.world 66 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

"My brother killed himself after self-medicating with alcohol for a decade in order to cope with horrific systemic social ills. So instead of fixing those, we need to make it harder to self-medicate. He probably would have just killed himself sooner. But at least he wouldn't have been a drunk for 10 years!"

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