Notices by myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)

When people are having a complex conversation and someone uses a big fancy word.
And then someone else asks: "What does that mean?"
And then the person just tells them simply and with no strings and the conversation keeps rolling.

For some reason that's the warmest most wonderful safe feeling. When that happens I know I'm in a good place.

In my sci-fi story there is a massive data center and I thought about making it "10km wide" but then scaled it back a bit because that seemed absurd. (A 4km data center full of ants is still very exciting.)

This is the data center Zuckerberg wants to build.

I worry that when these guys become CEO and stop working building things and writing code they can fall for some of their own hype.

What (if anything) do you think a data center of this size could do that current centers cannot?

The anti-math president.
He hates numbers.

Our president just fired head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because the most recent jobs numbers didn't match his feelings about how good the economy is. He did not explain WHY he thought the report was incorrect. Naturally many people now say we won't be able to trust future reports.

To me, faking such numbers seems difficult.

Dr. Reich, @rbreich as a former Secretary of Labor and guy who knows about The Economy can you tells us what might be tell-tale signs of a "Fake Jobs Report" ?

she is so done with me. I'm filling the bowl again. #PicaTheCat

Breaking News: Contrary to expectations of an "empty bowl" the Food Bowl Report shows a bowl "mostly full" and "there is lots of cat food left"

Pica has issued a statement condemning the report. "We all know the bowl is empty. I have never been fed. Not even once!" she protested even as additional evidence surfaced of her getting "several" treats before breakfast.

"This talk of full bowls and treats serves only to undermine the bowl being filled again & the cat getting more attention."

@cwebber

She's a big one.

The problem with adding a tranquilizer to an opioid, beyond the obvious danger of dishonest "labeling" is one of dosing.

An opioid addict may have a very large tolerance and take a very large dose and thus also take a very large dose of tranquilizers they have no tolerance for. Then the tranquilizers kill them.

See? That's how it works. Why can't the news just explain it?

Reporting on drugs is often unhelpful and sensationalized. The focus is often on strange new names.

What's really happening is drug dealers are trying to save money by cutting opioids (heroin) with a tranquilizer (Medetomidine) This can kill people in several ways. Aparently there have been some deaths in Pittsburgh due to this.

Naturally someone addicted to drugs has no recourse if their dealer is dishonest in this way.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/new-drug-called-flysky-is-spreading-throughout-the-pittsburgh-area-authorities-say/ar-AA1JwU0k

"My understanding is that medetomidine is a drug that is not affected by Narcan. So if you overdose on medetomidine, Narcan is not going to save you," Aubele said.

Yes obviously. It's a tranquilizer not an opioid. It's used on animals. Better reporting would make this more clear.

Instead this article makes it sound like this is some kind of "super narcan- immune opioid" not great because it might make desperate people try to seek it out.

:/

Just tell people how the drugs work. Be honest.

I don't think this is about porn.

That is just the cover story for this attempt to shut down sites that are used by young people for a whole host of "content violations"

These are the same people who think "China" is manipulating twitter to make the youth left wing.

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Does anyone know if there are lobbying groups or any actors pushing this? Who are they?

No one likes it but we all just assume some faceless prudes did this... but they are innocent this time.

Who is excited and happy about these useless new rules?

I was reading about the "new wave of child protection laws" and suddenly the reason this issue has been nagging at me came into sharp focus.

The religious right? The people who normally get worked up about online safety are NOT the ones pushing for these laws.

And isn't that odd?

Why are we seeing a near global wave of "online safety" laws, but nobody is lobbying for it?

Or rather? Why don't I know who is lobbying for this? Why are they invisible?

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Some things to note:

*Virginia Giuffre took her own life.
*Virginia Giuffre spoke out about what Epstein did.
*When a reporter mentioned her name Trump pretended he didn't know who she was.

I am probably biased but I'm floored by the callous way he talks about one of Epstein's *known* victims. And I'm alarmed he mentioned that this happened more than once: Epstein "stealing" "his" staff.

https://flipboard.social/@NewsDesk/114938907674162429

I'm starting to wonder if he understands what the crime even was. Guys like this think that old rich men taking advantage of teens is "just how the world works."

If his "I don't know" response to that name is real then maybe this is the case.

But more likely he's trying to avoid talking about it.

If an upstanding man (who employees teens at a spa?) knew that one of his workers was poached by a sex trafficker IDK I think you'd remember that.

And even if it is "just how the world works" it is NOT how it should work.

A 16 year old kid working for the summer should be able to trust that they will be treated reasonably and be safe.

Who were the other "stolen" girls of mar-a-lago?

You know that quote where Trump says "Jeffrey Epstein is a terrific guy. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side." ?

That was 2002 two years after all of these teens were "stolen" from his spa.

So at the absolute minimum he knew exactly what was going on. As we all do. And he didn't care, in fact he says both he and Epstein like beautiful women.

I don't want anyone to construct some story about "he was trying to stop him" no Trump was mad he couldn't be more LIKE him.

Unless, of course, they are a parasitoid of some other kind of "patch kid" who is the initial gall-maker. It can be hard to tell the difference when only looking at the emerging offspring.

I was trying to understand how the mere possibility of free busses in NYC was a national issue in some places. I thought NYC was terrible and on fire. Let us suffer.