horseshoe theory is real. leftists almost got kat abughazaleh elected into congress and now it comes out that her boyfriend owns infowars…

How a Janet Jackson song crashed laptops for 9 years In 2001, Microsoft support employees made a shocking discovery: Janet Jackson's hit, "Rhythm Nation," could cause laptops to crash. New details have now come to light showing what was done about it.

God I love stories like this.

'Rhythm Nation' used to crash hard drives.

I’ve always thought it said something that the main reaction to her admitting to having a lot more mess in her home after kids wasn’t “wow it’s even hard for a professional organizer at that stage of life, new parenthood is tough“ but was instead “haha, where is your god now, cleaning witch?!”

I still find it funny that the English use the far more accurate "maths" but the far less accurate "sport."

The Arc de Triomphe was commissioned to honor Napoleon in 1806. By the time construction had really begun in earnest, Napoleon had suffered a disastrous military defeat and had been forced into exile.

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Saw an ad for a t-shirt with this graphic, and I wonder how many people are old enough to understand why it's funny.

a blue cartoon character is standing in a room with a red wall ALT: a blue cartoon character is standing in a room with a red wall

Yep. I blame cartoons.

Proving 2 things:
1) there have been recent advancements in humanoid robots.
2) For many tasks, specialized nonhumanoid robots are still far superior. (A car can do this a lot faster, for example.)

Its like these people have never even seen MallRats (an escalator safety psa masquerading as a romantic comedy).

some of the most insufferable academic wannabes I’ve ever worked with outside of academia once made everyone go around the room and say their least favorite vegetable. I said mushrooms. they told me that was a fungus and so didn’t count, meanwhile one of them had already said squash which is a fruit

You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t, not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that?

👇🎯 Your regular reminder that <no one> knows the right amount viewpoint diversity on college campuses, & there are <exactly zero> societal institutions in America with more respect for viewpoint diversity than universities. It's not even close.

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As someone who has developed a data center from naming it to selling it (Project Rivendell!), and unsuccessfully had many killed by the 'locals', my take:

People dislike data centers cause of the normal reasons they dislike new infrastructure. The issue is it's much harder to explain local benefits

The thread also almost certainly confuses revenue and profit. We won't know profit until later, becuase costs (particularly in the oil sands) escalate with prices.

In the oil sands, this is quite mechanical since the industry purchases condensate (itself a refined petroleum product) as a diluent.

Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)

Also, 20 to 40% of oil sands profits go straight to Alberta government revenues, with similar rates in other provinces.

If you read this thread, you should remember that >90% of Canadian crude oil is exported to world markets. As a result, >90% of the revenue being complained about is being paid by Canadian export partners, who are currently willing (if not glad) to pay that price they're charged.

The head of the FBI isn't supposed to be getting blackout drunk. He's supposed to be cross-dressing

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Once again, it all should have ended in January 2017, when he began openly monetizing his hotel, blocks from the White House, in plain sight.

Every generation needs its Galaxy Quest: a movie that, despite every individual element screaming that it can't be good, is actually good

Then, we can put a bit of structure on things to simulate the impacts of a funding cut (increase in private school marginal cost) and the implications for tuition pricing and private school enrollment.

But it's early days for the work.

Not sure we will get all the way there (hard to get data) but what I want is to see if the student can estimate a demand curve for private schooling in AB.

i.e.- if we don't subsidize the private system, and tuition goes up, how many of those kids end up in public schools.

I've got two students doing capstone research on this (for Alberta) this summer.

I think a critical issue (beyond the normative ethical implications, which are important) is actually what the demand curve looks like for private schooling.

"Blessed are the Cheese Makers."

(Obviously, it's not meant to be taken literally. It referrs to any manufacturers of dairy products.)