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My SO was a teacher before moving on and would see offers like this all the time. A few of the rural school districts here offer this incentive to move out there. Sometimes they in…

> > We are not shown that war or killing are bad, only that good men sometimes feel bad about it – a very different point. Any serious depiction of violence, ancient or modern, mus…

Based on this, if I were working at the White Pillars WB, I would find another job and not go into work anymore.

Awesome stuff! Now, can this interface with Libby? The worldcat interface is, well, confusing. I can't figure out if it knows libraries near me exist.

I can see doing this for job interviews, and even then only for certain types of jobs too. But yeah, if I learned that a potential match did this to me, well, I think that would ch…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgYYOUC10aM reminds me of this Key and Peele skit

You know what? I'm glad that nurses and healthcare workers are finally not thinking of the patients first and are thinking of their pocketbooks too. No, really, I mean it. For deca…

"Had the atomic bomb turned out to be something as cheap and easily manufactured as a bicycle or an alarm clock, it might well have plunged us back into barbarism, but it might, on…

Related: the reverse Fermi Paradox. Essentially, we've been humans for about 200,000 years. But only in the last 5,000ish years have we done the whole civilization thing. Why? Clim…

Honest question here: What does this mean for Anthropic's OPenAI's rumored IPOs?

> 2)Why we need to work? It's a status thing, right?

I'll echo this too. I've liddles in the house and books are a no go right now. If they even let me the minutes to read, that would be great. But I know from repeated experience tha…

I think it's a trait with these types that makes them what they are to begin with. They don't just turn it on and off for the bad guys, they're like this all the time with everyone…

Wait the giant deadly ball of mercury that is highly radioactive for neutron studies? Or is this another mercury thing there?

I hang out on fertility related sites and on twitter. It's an odd bunch. You have hardcore Jewish rabbis hanging with radical imams and dyed-in-the-wool Chinese communists and ever…

The cost is really tough to pin down, yeah. The way one of their employees told me it to me as like a dishwasher. Of course the dishwasher should be more expensive. When you add up…

Oh gosh, I run out by Wednesday usually. But I'm not really coding with it, per se. Mostly just writing docs and tech manuals and AI generation. I'm in biotech.

I have close friends that has quite serious genetic diseases in the family, ones they passed on to their children too. In that, they are in and out of the hospital all the time. An…

Especially in something as squishy as biology. A field famous for withholding any kind of certainty. Sure, DNA seems like something that is 'real' and 'grounded', but once you get …

The house they would be buying would come with a much higher tax bill. Personal anecdata: My folks bought their house for ~70k, it is now worth ~1.5M. The taxes are about 600/year …

Prop 13 y'all https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Proposition_13 Any discussion of the cost of housing in CA has to include this. Want to know why the property market the…

Brown's PLME program is famous for getting you into med school. And med schools are quite focused on grades. Same goes for Law Schools, which, again, Brown is an outlier for JDs. L…