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    The number of men who hit on me while I had a red version of picture #2 would beg to differ.

    The 1.5% of people leave reviews statistic is a bit misleading; it seems as if it is 1.5% of the people who buy any given product, not 1.5% of the population that buys things online. I bet that the number of people who write any online reviews is much larger, and skews toward people with either very positive or very…

    A thing that bothers me in dialogues about issues like this, which I’ve read on this site as well as in many other places, is “PoC can’t be racist; they can be prejudiced, but can’t be racist”. This is an example of where PoC absolutely can be racist against other PoC. Is it white supremacy that is the source of the…

    This is a hugely controversial ballot proposition in DC right now, requiring everyone be paid DC minimum wage rather than the tipped minimum wage. All of the restaurants near me have a voting no on taking away tips sign, but I live in a popular business district. Who the proposition really helps are the waitstaff at…

    On a communist tour of Budapest I was told the USSR told everyone to go home and shave off all of their body hair in the event of a nuclear bomb to protect themselves from nuclear radiation (in reality so that people would die at home and not in the streets). But I can’t find that anywhere on the internet— just that…

    Done this with a coffee filter. Slightly more hygienic. Also with a bottle of limoncello where we broke the bottle trying to open it without a corkscrew to strain out the glass shards. It worked.

    Hey, I had USPS forge my signature for my laptop not just once, but twice (shipped it out for repairs, issue reappeared shortly after getting it back so sent it out again). Not only did they do that, but they also left the package in the approximately 5% of my front porch that is visible from the street on both…

    I’ve consistently had this problem, particularly for Sunday deliveries. I had a package marked as delivered *4* days before I actually got it once (usually it’s 24-48 hours). It’s super annoying, especially when I order things that I actually need in that amount of time— the 4 day delay was for a new laptop charger.

    I picture the hip white kids in Portland going to this to assuage their white guilt, paying $10, then going outside and calling the cops on the non-white person moving in next door because they think they’re stealing.

    I’m pretty sure I’d die from the scratching at around 1000 bites. You’d have to put me in a medically-induced coma for anything even close to 670,000.

    Because it’s for DoD, so clearly evil. They’re using AI to sort through the extreme amount of data that currently goes unanalyzed because they don’t have the analysts to comb through the sheer amount of imagery they currently get. It’s especially important for change detection algorithms—would you rather have humans…

    This is one perk that is in huge favor of the Chase Sapphire Reserve— trip delay insurance if your trip is delayed 6+ hours. Would have saved me a ton of pain years ago; haven’t had to use it since getting the card.

    I live a couple of blocks from here. These are drunk people cops, generally on bikes, who are stationed on about two blocks of this street every night to deal largely with drunk Beckys. It’s pretty common to see them have to deal with Beckys on the ground that can’t even stand up and walk. And my Saturday/Sunday…

    This is my own educational pet peeve, but I’d personally like to ban calculators from classrooms. Kids keep using them as a crutch and fail to understand the actual math (not a school teacher, but I’ve done a decent amount of education-related work and volunteering, in addition to being a TA for college science…

    That assumes everything works. Comcast is infamous for its outages and also not letting you cancel/downgrade your service.

    I don’t disagree with you there, but remote sensing is used for far more than offensive purposes. Do you want to know anything that’s going on in North Korea? Because images are about all we’ve got (and even then, NK is 50% cloudy all the time, so synthetic aperture radar imagery becomes super important). What about…

    As someone who has worked on Project Maven-like issues and is also fundamentally against many of the parts of the military industrial complex, I get that they might want some transparency about working for DoD, but I think incorporating more AI in image analysis prevents deaths rather than increases them. The major…

    I read about some dude in the news who was just completing his house in that neighborhood and lost his entire investment. I did not feel bad for him, because he should’ve known what he was getting into, though I do feel for any Native Hawaiians who live in that area.