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Oh hell ^^^ that is my husband right there.

Exact times are for work. For fun, oh six-ish/seven-ish. We're going to hang around and chat before anyone eats anyway.

C in CT. I get really annoyed if someone comes early, before I am done cleaning up the preparation mess or cleaning up myself.

You see, it was too early to use the "human shield" argument.

Yes, together with the <shrug> "more people will die"

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Vintage Sesame Street I Get Mad goat YouTube video by guehla

A lesson I learned too well, I think.
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It is with great excitement to announce that the below map is outdated and Connecticut has a Plug In solar proposal this year!!!!

Section 5 of Bill 5340 - Overwhelming support for this bill and concept in the public hearing that was held yesterday❤️☀️🔌

This is good news, and also it's evidence that pressure works. Unions, NH residents, and Yalies have been pushing for this for a decade.

Well that would be interesting to know. I don't have the answer, but there is some comparison to be made there to the (probably disproven, but compelling as metaphor) idea that Arctic people have many subtly different words for types of snow!

a united states park police car is parked on the tarmac ALT: a united states park police car is parked on the tarmac

If the nihilist regime openly doesn't particularly mind that people will die bc of war, then it becomes clear they really don't mind folks will die of measles or covid, in concentration camps, of gun violence, ICE or police violence, of environmental pollution, climate change, (un)natural disasters.

As I get older I'm coming to increasingly radical views like "you have to do things to get good at them" and "you have to think about problems to solve them"

I assume you are already on to this Russian/Soviet concept of vranyo? A lie that is blatant but told by someone with power, so everyone just accepts it (implied: because they have no choice).

Operation Epstein Fury

My Target story: I made an account to buy a used cell phone. Remembered the boycott and returned it to the store (got one from B.Buy). Tried to delete that Target account: You can't! Wasted hours! Had to call my state Atty Gen to get it deleted. Bye Target, don't let the door hit you on the way out.

His middle name is A.I.?

I spent some time as a bartender and waitress. This is exactly right.

Can you maybe allow a little time to organize? It's only been five days, and spring break starts tomorrow. Give it a few weeks.

Both parents were school teachers, and here am I: a dissolute woke academic.
The American dream.

A long paragraph of Tr*mp rambling and ranting about weapons.

There is actually nothing I need to understand about voters who chose 24/7 incoherent, belligerent rambling over the alternatives.

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A foundryman and a cook.

Chimpanzees Are Really Into Crystals

This article is amazing.

"An LLM that occasionally hallucinates a citation is competing against ... junk science dressed in enough jargon to pass review."

“I get the desire for artisanal, hand-crafted research ... But our job is to move the frontier of knowledge, not self-actualization.”

Which is it? Craft prevents junk.

I got myself suckered into helping to plan a lunch series, but I remind myself we are bringing people together, building a mesh.

Paradoxically, collegial activity -- connecting and communicating -- is about the only thing that can switch the union on. A union is nothing but its members, and they have to know one another to care.

and (F) establishing new requirements concerning facial recognition technology, and (6) requiring certain state and municipal contracts to restrict the sale, sharing, transfer or allowance of access to automated license plate reader information.

(C) eliminating the entity-level exemption for certain processing decisions concerning employment, (D) providing consumers with additional rights concerning certain profiling decisions, (E) prohibiting the sale, sharing, transfer or allowance of access to precise geolocation data, /

(4) require disclosures regarding the use of personalized algorithmic pricing, (5) amend the Connecticut Data Privacy Act by (A) defining "facial recognition technology", (B) redefining "publicly available information", /

To (1) provide for the registration of data brokers, (2) require the Commissioner of Consumer Protection to establish an accessible deletion mechanism program, (3) require manufacturers to affix tariff cost estimates to new automobiles, /

Here is the link to submit written comment ahead of the meeting. SB4, limiting Flock data sharing is urgent, but we also want all of the other protections in this bill. Please comment!