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I hadn't heard of it until this year. The name isn't particularly inspiring either, makes me think of past kings of England.

And a whole tripod. What a waste.

Can she ask the coauthors how they're dealing with it? Maybe ask the bosses if they can open the uploads earlier, especially if everyone is having a hard time getting their work uploaded in time.

Wikipedia lists Real Clear Politics as having become more conservative and right leaning in recent years. Their polls may not be as accurate.

Fuck Vox. Forces you to agree to cookies before finding out you can't read the article anyway because its behind a paywall.

I know this is completely counterintuitive, but if you can sit with that wrong feeling without panicking, it will go away faster. Just accept that it is there. Don't fight it. The more you fight your emotions, the harder they grip you.

Ok, I'm genuinely confused. Without some kind of landlord, how can people live in homes they don't want to own? Would the state or the federal government own, maintain, and rent out unowned homes? Or would there be a free-for-all of free abandoned homes and if you want to live in one, you'd be responsible for making it livable? Or...?

I knew a guy that did something like this. He had at least 2 LLCs, one which owned a building and the other owned a restaurant. So his building LLC rented space to his restaurant LLC, which simply never paid any rent. That way he could write off all that rent he didn't collect from himself as a loss for the building LLC. Dumbass still couldn't make the restaurant profitable even without having to pay rent.

Well, the thing is, this is exactly what led to the housing crash of '08. Back then it was because the banks were pushing people into it (and then selling the bundled loans as better rated than they were, where inside investors bet on the loans failing). If this is what's happening now, it's certainly because the banks are enabling it again. That would be insanely stupid of the banks after what happened in '08, but somehow we've gotten stuck in the stupidest timeline, so...

The out of state group is the Democratic Governors Association. The Republican Governors Association could have spent just as much money on this race, but they chose not to. Washington isn't going to turn red, so I don't know why the article would expect R's to spend big on a race they know they'll likely lose. What a non-story.

I think we should require professionals to disclose whether or not they use AI.

Imagine you're an author and you pay an editor $3000 and all they do is run your manuscript through ChatGPT. One, they didn't provide any value because you could have done the same thing for free; and two, if they didn't disclose the use of AI, you wouldnt even know your novel had been fed into one and might be used by the AI for training.

One thing I've noticed about current media portrayals of the 90s is they're all wearing crop tops and high waisted jeans, which are in style now but weren't back then. Baggy jeans, sure, but the high waist was an 80s thing.