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TriplePlaid

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  • Have you ever met an actual dumb person?

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  • In my experience I have come across people who presented as "stupid." I have worked with rotating casts of temps at a couple of jobs - the "stupid" people are just as common in management as in the temps.

    Usually I think it is because they are not present in their moment/don't care about what is happening, so they aren't really stupid but are just... vacant. Once you get them talking about a project they are actually passionate about, you can see the light of their intellect. Some folks however really do have a hard time understanding the world through logic, even when they are really trying.

  • There Are 630,000 More Home Sellers Than Buyers—the Biggest Gap on Record

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  • What habit do you possess that seems very normal to you, but would seem odd to anyone else?

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  • To add to bougie birdie's reply, a doctor would be able to actually diagnose you and determine if this is a nerve related issue, repetitive stress injury, or potentially early signs of a degenerative disorder such as arthritis, etc. The treatment for a repetitive stress injury, if that is what is causing your pain, could include things like specialized brace to immobilize certain parts of your hand so they can heal properly (especially important during sleep).

    My partner had a repetitive stress injury that she had diagnosed and then didn't see a therapist for (at first). Her injury did not heal even though she was not using that part of her hand until she finally went to an occupational therapist and got an appropriate brace (and instructions for tendon gliding exercises).

  • What habit do you possess that seems very normal to you, but would seem odd to anyone else?

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  • If either of your hands is getting sore from clicking with any sort of regularity you should probably mention it to your doctor - it sounds like it could be a repetitive stress injury in the making.

  • USDA plan to jack up line speeds at meatpacking plants seems like a terrible idea

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  • Ultimately, the spokesperson said, “The USDA’s legal authority is strictly limited to ensuring food safety and process control; we do not have the power to regulate piece rates or how private companies manage their staff."

    The USDA spokesperson said, “The safety and well-being of the workforce are essential to a stable food supply; however, worker safety is overseen by the Department of Labor, not USDA."

    As someone working in the food industry, it boggles my mind that line speeds could be regulated in any sector. Meatpacking is not the only industry where higher line speeds mean worse working conditions for workers. Stronger enforcement of OSHA regulations is what we need to truly address these issues, not a USDA mandated line speed cap. USDA don't have worker safety in mind because that is literally not their job - they are responsible for food safety and quality.

    Now that we have the FSMA, most medium and large food producers have robust food safety programs that submit themselves to 3rd party food safety & quailty audit every year. It should be the same for worker safety, which would make this whole line speed conversation essentially a moot point.

  • There is another.

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  • I can definitely see how a race of superintelligent industrialized beavers could be a bad thing for the world, so as far as the comic goes you are right lol.

    As for real life beavers - whether beavers are conscious of it or not, the way they relate to the ecosystems they inhabit in some ways sets an example for humans to follow. We don't need to limit ourselves to only living in North America and Scandinavia/Eastern Europe, but maybe we should try to farm in ways that intentionally promote species diversity. There could be other lessons to take as well, such as spending more effort farming appropriate locations (beavers spend considerable effort finding the right place to set up shop) - many farms around the world are located without much thought toward how they will relate to neighboring ecosystems.

  • There is another.

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  • I think on average beaver ponds promote more biodiversity than human farms, allowing for a larger number of specialized species to find homes. This article gives a breif view of how beavers help to boost biodiversity, including hosting beaver pond specialists. Some methods of farming promote biodiversity, but monoculture largely prevails - 80% of arable land plots are used for monoculture globally.

    So we need to do better and strive to do as good of a job as the beavers do.

  • Senate blocks third attempt to stop Iran war

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  • Curious to hear how those opposed to the conflict see this playing out - diplomacy? Containment? How does this play out for the region in the long term?

    For me it is hard to see how this could resolve without the demilitarization of Iran, or at the very least the dissolution of the IRGC.

  • Do you use tor for everyday things?

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  • IIRC the government has actually always had a large number of nodes because the government helped to create the Tor network. I don't think they operate "most" of the entry and exit nodes though. With appropriate precautions it is still a hugely effective tool to preserve privacy.

    For example, the person who ran the "Silk Road" (formerly the most famous website marketplace on the darknet) was only caught because of revealing personal information theough forum posts and on the clearnet, not because the government can see the traffic of anyone using Tor (which they cannot if you are using https). There are way too many curious high schoolers out there for it to make sense for them to monitor like that anyway. The more people who use it, the more effective of a tool for privacy it becomes.

  • Do you use tor for everyday things?

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  • Am I being overly paranoid?

    Yes, simply connecting to the Tor network is not a sketchy thing and browsing the clearnet using Tor is a smart way to preserve your privacy if you aren't in a hurry for your pages to load.

    I used to browse the clearnet with Tor regularly but eventually I decided it was overkill and stopped (Tor really is slow a lot of the time so it isn't always a walk in the park).

  • Extraordinary, climate change-linked heat wave envelops the West with mounting consequences

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  • I shudder to think of the impact this could have on plants and animals. We have already seen horrifying mass environmental death in the oceans (see: coral bleaching) and other crazy biological imbalances like red tides. Soon we are going to be experiencing similar insanity everywhere. Not just the ocean, not just that other part of the world that you yourself don't live in - everywhere.

  • Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash

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  • GTX 760 🫡

    It's "super clocked" so you know it's good!!

  • Trump faces impeachment calls after massive TikTok deal fee revealed

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  • I am not seeing why the massive fee here is being seen as a reason for impeachment, maybe someone can explain?

    Sounds to me like the fee goes to the treasury department, so it's not like Trump is getting this money. Maybe I am misunderstanding this?

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    The Moral Limits of Gambling [Or: what do Polymarket and the history of life insurance have in common?]

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  • Great article. The rise of sports betting and other gambling has been hard to watch as someone on the outside who doesn't have an interest in gambling.

    I think one side of the story that this article didn't touch on that separates modern gambling such as Polymarket from the life insurance gambling of old is the participation of youth gamblers in today's market. I think for me and many others it is especially alarming to imagine that children are the ones gambling on whether people will die. And I think that the normalization of children in betting sits in its own context of rising "loot crate" schemes in video games (not that it is completely normalized for children to gamble yet, but it is gradually becoming so).

  • spoopy figs

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  • Forced age verification is comming sooner than we thought.

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  • Pretty soon you'll be hearing folks say things like "why are you worried if you don't have anything to hide" as if personal privacy has no value whatsoever. It's a slippery slope!!!

  • NATO condemns Iran’s ‘targeting’ of Turkey with missile fire

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  • I'm not sure I would call the particular missile the article is referring to "retaliatory" since afaik Turkey has not attacked Iran.

  • The US would rather make people homeless than build apartments without parking, study finds

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  • The article makes no mention of homelessness and thus I find the title disingenuous/misleading.

    It's a good article though. I think the community would be better served with a title about how this study shows that we would be better off removing parking requirements from building codes.

  • What is your funniest case of misheard song lyrics?

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  • I had to go and listen to this song because of how outrageous I thought this interpretation was... But it's real!!!!!