They’re there because the city needs to pay the private company that owns the parking spots for the space the bus lane occupies

(Actually not sure about this specific case, but wouldn’t be surprised if it was, since Chicago Parking Meters owns all the parking meters too)

Chicago Parking Meters - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Parking_Meters

Kagi also has SlopStop. Basically sponsorblock but for AI slop.

SlopStop | Kagi’s Docs - https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/slopstop.html

The default experience depends on what you’re searching for, usually traditional search engines fall apart pretty quickly when it comes to anything related to a possible purchase, or more technical/esoteric info.

Tbf, one of Kagi’s killer features is its ability to up/down rank websites, which means you also need to spend some time customising it to your tastes. No more Pinterest, quora, medium, etc

Employers: use shitty recruitment platforms, ATS, and internal systems that require Chrome to even function correctly

Also employers:

Not without matching rises in incomes.

Housing is a necessity, and the economy suffers if people can’t afford it. If you are poor and priced out of the city, you get less access to resources such as education and career opportunities, the key drivers of growth.

Even if a government decides to rely on the growth brought by attracting wealthy individuals, they still need to hire a labour force, which can’t exist if they don’t have anywhere to live. Can’t rebound to pre crisis levels of tourism if the tour guide can’t afford to live in the city.

Also, as a matter of pedantry, higher rents make the landlords wealthier. Typically with high rents we start to see more high income, yet asset poor households who are unable to save and become wealthy.

Microsoft Tay

Tay, Microsoft’s AI chatbot, gets a crash course in racism from Twitter | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/24/tay-microsofts-ai-chatbot-gets-a-crash-course-in-racism-from-twitter

New affordable housing policy

IIRC there were some polls for how helpful LLMs were by language/professions, and data science languages/workflows consistently rated LLMs very highly. Which makes sense, because the main steps of 1) data cleaning, 2) estimation and 3) presenting results all have lots of boilerplate.

Data cleaning really just revolves around a few core functions such as filter, select, and join; joins in particular can get very complicated to keep track of for big data.

For estimation, the more complicated models all require lots of hyperparameters, all of which need to be set up (instantiated if you use an OOP implementation like Python) and looped over some validation set. Even with dedicated high level libraries like scikit, there is still a lot of boilerplate.

Presentation usually consists of visualisation and cleaning up results for tables. Professional visualisations require titles, axis labels, reformatted axis labels etc, which is 4-5 lines of boilerplate minimum. Tables are usually catted out to HTML or LaTeX, both of which are notorious for boilerplate. This isn’t even getting into fancier frontends/dashboards, which is its own can of worms.

The fact that these steps tend to be quite bespoke for every dataset also means that they couldn’t be easily automated by existing autocomplete, e.g. formatting SYS_BP to “Systolic Blood Pressure (mmHg)” for the graphs/tables.

This is why drakes can’t open doors

Truly a big brain move

Inb4 conservatives change from

“Mary was a teenager”

to

“The Founding Fathers were pedophiles too”

I respect the pedantry, but I was trying say that I was using the “Anglo” - which in casual speech is short for the casual “Anglo-Saxon”, itself short for White Anglo Saxon Protestant.

I remember I had this exact same conversation IRL, and we determined that the confusion and somewhat jargony nature of the latter two terms (especially since WASP isn’t well understood outside the US) was why people in casual speech just use the ambiguous “Anglo”.

Semantics 🤷‍♂️

Oop, I meant Anglo, as in the the shortened version of Anglo Saxon (basically Germanic).

Kagi, the premium paid search engine, has a “small web” feature that is exactly this

Poor people using spices to cover rotting food is a complete myth falsely attributed to the Middle Ages. Spices were incredibly expensive and a luxury limited to the upper class - anyone rich enough to afford spices did not have to worry about rotting food.

The actual reason for the perceived blandness of White American food is basically the converse of this. Stereotypical white suburban food is probably closest to mid western cuisine.

The mid west was uniquely isolated from Spanish, French, or Italian influence (which were heavier in tastes), lacked international trade to get any spices, and as the nation’s bread bowl specialised in and received lots of subsidies for growing staple crops, like corn.

Ethnically, its white populace is overrepresented by more Anglo ethnicities, like the British, German, and Nordic, which also had more, shall we say, limited palates.

Spices Were Used to Mask the Taste of Bad Meat in the Middle Ages? - https://culinarylore.com/food-history:spices-used-to-cover-taste-bad-meat/

More like bill of wrongs amirite

“If you turn a new leaf, it’s the same leaf” - Kandy Muse

Usual suspects

Because marrying for love is a very recent development when it comes to the institution of marriage.

Marriage was created for the primary purpose of passing down family wealth, and ensuring that it stayed within the family. Marriage was a tool to secure political and economic relationships first and foremost. For most of history, consent between the couple to be didn’t even matter.

This fundamental reason behind marriage predates most religions, who later co opted it.

As time goes by, the actual reason behind traditions gets lost and forgotten, so most people just have some nebulous obligation to marry ingrained within them, e.g. my grandparents got married without even knowing each other, so people should be satisfied with anything better than that.

This extremely problematic history behind marriage is also why some progressives perceive marriage as an oppressive institution that is impossible to reform, and seek to abolish it entirely.

Ten key moments in the history of marriage - BBC News - https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17351133

Heartbreaking: cancer diagnosed with Mitch McConnell