Thousands are speaking their mind about this short clip despite it likely being half-fiction made in the editing room
Along with many falling for the "idiot spring breaker" trope for the 30th consecutive year
It was bothering me, so I decided to make a PSA to get it off my mind
It's the pandemic, stupid (Part 8)
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But also long-running issues.
Teachers who leave have an 7-8.5x greater chance of advancement, better environment & influence over it than the opposite, 6x prestige, 4.7x work/life balance
Better in all but job security
It's the pandemic, stupid (Part 9)
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I'm so glad I took a break from Twitter.
Don't waste your life on this stuff.
Anything else in your life is more important.
If you live with your parents playing video games 12 hours a day, that would still be a more important use of your time than this debate.
1. I'm sure cultural shock & disappointment happens anywhere Americans move to & includes immigrants going to the US
Happens w/paradise destinations like Hawaii too!
2. I doubt these exp represent >⅕th
3. I'm sure regrets are far far less prevalent than those who ran to Russia
The internet told them Europe was a social paradise. Turns out the trains are awful, the health care isn’t free, and people can be really mean. buff.ly/5cLtnha
Yes
Follow multiple ideas concurrently
Estimate the difficulty, thus time. It's not hard to separate a 5min task from a 5sec one
Listen to a 🎼, take📝🗒️, brainstorm, watch YT, read an article, relax, rest👀😌, 🧘
Workers should already be doing these Pomodoro-like breaks!
So, interesting fact, the lost data center water is evaporated water, so it is distilled water—one of the purest kinds of water one can drink at 99.99% pure.
You'd need lab grade double/vacuum distilled (99.999%) or ultra pure (99.999999%) water to drink better.
I've never liked simplifying a very diverse population into only 2 partisan boxes. Party ID data backs me up a lot on this now
Are Dem coal miners & GOP environmentalists a specific type of person? That'd be a great qualitative study! It's long past time to have some granularity
Partisans are highly segregated by workplace--the effect is similar in size to gender segregation at work.
Museums and environmental organizations have the fewest Republicans, gas pipelines and mines have the most Republicans.
Historians are most likely to be Democrats, drill operators are the most likely to be Republicans.
Political Segregation is largest among the politically active and those with more market power (senior executives).
Republicans experience higher exposure to Democrats at work: the average Republican’s coworkers are 50% Democratic versus 32% Republican for the average Democrat.
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Many possible ideas to improve community engagement and DC construction, but there is still little indication of any slump in hyperscaler/DC construction.
It's a lot of bad polling and screaming on X, but the rate of construction is increasing if anything.
This is over 53 @Scaramucci s. It's probably a record!
No controversies, not even a story about swallowing over 35 sticks of gum per day. Less hated than Kellyanne Conway. Young enough people will forget and she can rebrand quickly.
Good for her, actually.
BREAKING: White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, the youngest person to hold the role, will leave at the end of the month, President Trump says. apnews.com/article/trump-pre…
Since the 1980s, it's been a cliche for middle-class to say they're going to Disneyland/world *only after* a big success or💰windwall.
It's never been considered cheap.
Even tho 30hrs of two parks costs less than many 2hr concerts. And SoCal residents can go 200x/yr for $599 🤷♀️
Egypt's solar eclipse next year may be more epic.
Still can't top what the Artemis crew saw, those very lucky few :(
YouTube's algorithm served me up
@CountBinface 's latest album yesterday.
The world is getting strange.
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This is a common complaint among moderate politicos, yet like age & term limits, few prioritize changing the status quo.
Lazy?
We know now that open primaries barely help because it's a turnout problem.
Top-2, RCV, etc systems help, but how many really push for em?
Very few
This frequency is about an F# at 1460Hz szynalski.com/tone#1460,v0.5…
That's right below the nails on a chalkboard freq that pierces our ears most. Even if they're technically under the dB limit, it'll sound louder.
How stupid are they? A simple wall can easily block this noise.
🦔Turn your sound on for this one. This is what it sounds like to live next to an AI data center, 24 hours a day. In Dowagiac, Michigan, residents sued after a facility run by Hyperscale Data ran around the clock at 78 decibels outside their homes. The company offered to buy their houses rather than fix the noise. One family has lived on that street for nearly a century.
My Take
This isn't one town with one bad facility. Microsoft faces a class-action in Wisconsin over data center noise residents can hear a mile and a half from the property line. In Virginia, one-third of data centers sit within 200 feet of homes. Noise from thousands of servers can hit 96 decibels, and diesel backup generators reach 105, which is a jet overhead. Residents report headaches, nausea, and sleep problems. Property values near this kind of infrastructure drop up to 20%. The company response in Michigan was to offer to buy the homes rather than quiet the facility, homes that families spent decades in, priced against a corporate buyout.
Water in Oregon, wells in Georgia, ratepayer costs in Louisiana, river water in California, and now noise in Michigan and Wisconsin. None of this was in the brochure when these projects got approved. Closed-loop cooling and proper sound barriers exist and would solve most of this, but they cost more, so the companies skip them and the neighbors lose sleep and equity instead.
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