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The odds of being in a fatal helicopter crash are impossibly small. 0.63 out of 100,000 in the USA

https://www.airmedandrescue.com/latest/news/us-helicopter-accident-rate-analysis

And if you read up on what causes a lot of these fatalities, you see a lot of accidents with pilots and personal aircraft, or pilots trying doing things like high risk medical evacuations.

The chances of dying in a helicopter air taxi are insanely small.

Helicopter carrying Iran's President Raisi crashes, search under way ( www.reuters.com )

DUBAI, May 19 (Reuters) - A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister crashed on Sunday as it was crossing mountain terrain in heavy fog, an Iranian official told Reuters, and rescuers were struggling to reach the site of the incident....

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Oh great, another log onto the raging fire in the Middle East.

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Nah, the US government will pander to the real estate industry and subsidize insurance, just like they have done in the south east for flood insurance.

California is the nation’s biggest economy and the nation’s biggest real estate market. If that were to get disrupted, people are going to freak out like they did in 2008.

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If you want some big city live’n, this place in Wyoming’s capital is 160k and has a killer Kiss room.

https://redf.in/w4wqjW

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/0735c6c9-9cb4-48ee-8a2d-cf00e9592ca1.jpeg

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With a room like that, do you need anymore?

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We're been here before. People implement an extreme policy, the extreme policy makes life worse, then they say "the policy was good, but it didn't work because it didn't go far enough."

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We don’t have a democracy, we are a constitutional republic

This is the new battle cry of American fascism.

The opening of the American Declaration of Independence literally states that the country is going to establish a government that derives “their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

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Where do you live where leeks are not common? Speaking for California here, they’re a common grocery store item.

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I feel like this thread is going really be “available in your part of the US.”

Grocery stores and populations are pretty varied across the US. What you can easily get in a San Francisco, Manhattan, or Boise grocery store can differ quite a bit.

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Yeah, probably has more do to with proximity to at least a B tier grocery store. If your local grocer is Target, Walmart, or Family Dollar, then you’re only going to have access to the vegetables from Veggietales and bread from a plastic bag.

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Electric cars have a very legit use case for this… extended charge times. The video games and streaming apps are so you can kill time.

Telsa’s have pretty fast charge times, but even those are slower than a gasoline fill up. Moreover, if you get cursed with charging at a non-Telsa station, you could be there for quite a bit.

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Yeah, sometimes you’re in BFE and there isn’t much around. Other times you just want to eat fast food in your car like an animal and watch a TV show that is too embarrassing to watch on the couch with your significant other.

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This famously worked marvelously for the USSR. /s

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Sounds like a lot of this is for non-generative AI. It’s for dumb things like that frequently used emoji feature.

Knowing how my legal teams have worked in my tech companies, I’m a bet that a lawyer updated the terms language to be in compliance with privacy legislation, but they did a shit job, and didn’t clarify what specifically was being covered in the TOS. They were lazy, and crafted something broad, so they wouldn’t have to actually talk to product or marketing people in their org.

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Where do you live?

Taiwan is selling more to the US than China in major shift away from Beijing ( apnews.com )

WASHINGTON (AP) — Whether it’s tapioca balls or computer chips, Taiwan is stretching toward the United States and away from China — the world’s No. 2 economy that threatens to take the democratically ruled island by force if necessary....

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Yeah. Taiwan is arguably the world’s most important player in semiconductors. It’s where the most cutting edge fabs are, it’s a big reason China and the west are quarreling over Taiwan, and why Biden has been trying to dump a shit load of money into catching up with Taiwan.

China invades Taiwan, the pandemic chip shortages are going to look like child’s play.

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Best part…

The web filter is in that stupid filter carousel, and it’s just off of the screen on mobile. So you have to swipe left from the top of the screen to view web results.

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For you. It’s dynamic and the links keep changing location now. That bar is terrible now.

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Jackets, often, but not always. Track jackets, windbreaker jackets, shell jackets, etc. Light jackets and coats without lining are pretty easy to find. I even have a light sport coat with no lining.

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A model trained on jokes about bacon, narwhals, and rage comics.

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I SAID RAGE COMICS

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This is about making an electric leaf blower even quieter. The students were not given a gas leaf blower to design around.

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For the people not reading the article. This is not about gas leaf blowers.

The challenge was to take an electric leaf blower and make it even quieter.

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Good engineering and industrial design programs find opportunities for students to work with real companies on real products.

Back in the day I used to be the student that published stuff like this to our product design department’s website. The point wasn’t to demo tech or sell a product, it was to make the program look like something worth applying to and donating to.

If a brand was name dropped, it wasn’t because we wanted to sell their thing. It was because we wanted to let applicants and alumni know that we were offering real world experience with recognizable companies. It’s basically like a reverse internship. Department faculty finds companies to bring to the students, as opposed to students applying to companies.

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IMHO, the thing that’s being promoted here isn’t the leaf blower. It’s the university’s engineering program and the opportunities it’s providing for students.

I kind of doubt someone has this University blog post in their deck of Spring 2024 leaf blower marketing initiatives.

This is the kind of stuff that the people managing internships handle in a company. Companies do this for talent acquisition. They don’t even do it for the cheap labor, because coaching students usually gobbles up a lot of your IC’s time.

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A spirt visited me and told me this.

Luckily that spirt read the article and watched the video in it.

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Alternative headline:

“People protesting against violence found to be nonviolent”

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Reminds me of my high school buddy who was in a family with 8 kids. Every closet in that house became a bedroom.

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Kids in my generation:

“Mom, can I have my GameBoy back?”

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Kids asking for an entertainment device back basically exploded with the Atari 2600 and never died down.

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You might want to talk to your dentist if granola bars are hurting your teeth.

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It’ll all be good after you marry a high performing NFL kicker and don’t need two incomes.

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Lt. Lois Einhorn cares

The inside story of Elon Musk’s mass firings of Tesla Supercharger staff ( www.reuters.com )

May 15 (Reuters) - The day before Elon Musk fired virtually all of Tesla’s electric-vehicle charging division last month, they had high hopes as charging chief Rebecca Tinucci went to meet with Musk about the network’s future, four former charging-network staffers told Reuters....

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I feel like Howard Hughes might closer to the path Musk is on.

That guy is going to be collecting piss jars in a decade.

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