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Nvidia to join Dow Jones Industrial Average, replacing rival chipmaker Intel
  • LOL, with that price, it'll be interesting to watch how it skews this already-pretty-shitty index when it inevitably returns to reality.

    Edit: ehhh forgot about the 10-for-1. Oh well, it still won't be great, especially with how linked the other tech companies are to this AI hype.

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    Alberta seeks to block trans athletes from female competition but can't say how many will be impacted
  • See, the problem here is that you're approaching this as a rational skeptic, instead of someone who takes their marching orders from a christofacist subsect of their voters (Take Back Alberta / TBA), and doesn't care about hurting anyone that isn't white and wealthy.

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    It's because of Gerald's Game, isn't it?
  • Stephen Graham Jones' The Only Good Indians was wonderful, and Augusta Bazterrica's Tender is the Flesh was dystopian nightmare fuel. Both absolutely excellent books.

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    Washington Post cartoon team skewers paper’s decision not to make endorsement
  • The case for Donald Trump is “I erroneously think the economy used to be better? I know that he has made many ominous-sounding threats about mass deportations, going after his political enemies, shutting down the speech of those who disagree with him (especially media outlets), and that he wants to make things worse for almost every category of person — people with wombs, immigrants, transgender people, journalists, protesters, people of color — but … maybe he’ll forget.”

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    Tim Walz and AOC are going to play Madden together on Twitch
  • So just don't watch then? It's incredibly easy to just not participate.

    Even easier than going on the internet to complain about it, in fact.

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    Washington Post Readers Revolt Over ‘Shameful’ Decision to Not Endorse Kamala Harris
  • Sure would be a shame if the general public and subscribers of the LA Times and WaPo learned about having only to put 12ft.io/, or archive.is/ in front of paywalled article URLs in order to bypass the paywall very easily...

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    Polymarket says one French whale is responsible for the lion’s share of bets on a Trump win, to the tune of $28 million worth of crypto
  • Okay, then we're in agreement; it's only real value is in the conversion back to liquid money. And "betting" is entirely accurate.

    I more meant it's not money because it can't be spent / consumed easily. It's a non-productive, illiquid asset in the same sense that collector cars or fine art isn't money, it's a hopeful store of value, and you'll only know what it's worth when you convert it back to liquid money.

    Or maybe a better comparison would be that Beanie Babies or NFTs weren't money, they were a non-productive, illiquid asset based on hope and the greater fool theory.

    I've yet to hear an argument about the value of crypto that doesn't boil down to either hope that someone else will keep buying to drive up the price, or that it's being used to reduce friction in traditional money-transfers applications, usually international transfers where fiat-to-fiat has very high fees, or money laundering and terrorist financing LOL

    Interestingly, reducing friction in international money transfers is, I think, a laudable goal. I'm still not sure that makes the crypto count as an asset instead of just a technological function. The SWIFT system isn't an asset, for example, it's just a tool.

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    Polymarket says one French whale is responsible for the lion’s share of bets on a Trump win, to the tune of $28 million worth of crypto
  • LOL, yeah, that's why I can buy a chocolate bar at the corner store with it.

    /s

    Remind me, how do you measure or capture the returns of cryptocurrency again? Oh yeah, by converting them to fiat currency.

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  • As a non-American, I don't know exactly how your polling works, but why am I seeing "plan your voting day" or "set a voting strategy" like they've done on the Cards Against Humanity voting campaign?

    Where I live, it's just show up on voting day and cast your ballot, or ask for a mail in ballot, or go to a special voting station if you need (or want) to vote early. Is it the same in the US, and this is just getting people to gather those last pieces of information early and put a reminder in the calendar? Or is there more to it than that?

    Thanks!

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    www.cp24.com Following review, Business Insider stands by reports on wife of ex-Harvard president's critic

    Business Insider’s top executive and parent company said Sunday they were satisfied with the fairness and accuracy of stories that made plagiarism accusations against a former MIT professor who is married to a prominent critic of former Harvard President Claudine Gay.

    Alternative Title: Billionaire hypocrite Bill Ackman embarrassed after he fails to do satisfactory due diligence before opening his big mouth, again

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    calgary.ctvnews.ca Doctor who charged patient for 'alternative' Parkinson's treatment found guilty of unprofessional conduct

    A Calgary doctor has been found guilty of three counts of unprofessional conduct stemming from a fruitless four-year-long treatment of a woman's case of atypical Parkinsonism that her family says cost them close to $400,000.

    Alternative Title: Local family in medical distress scammed for $400,000 as doctor simultaneously steals from public health care system

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