Bottom 10% have a negative net worth…

Which is fucking crazy

ρ.Sh.a.T.

I can’t help out think P Shat was intentional…

What you just described is called “ban evasion”…

If a sub doesn’t want you. Go make your own

How about this?

OP has posted and deleted this at least twice before…

It keeps getting longer and more off the rails too

by more than 7,500%”, so I trust that the journalists did their journaling.

The “%” sign adds two zeros…

So 75x is the same as 7500%

I’m not trying to argue I’m trying to help you. If you don’t want help. That’s cool, I can stop trying.

It’s not …

100x means it’s 100 times as much, you add two zeros to the last number.

Did you think the “75 times” also meant it increased by 75%? Because that’s not what it means either.

Like if it was $100 and went up 75 times the original amount, and the new amount would be $7500. To go up 100 times the original it would be $10,000

100x

(CBP) Public Affairs Officer Thomas Gresback said that the wall was privately paid for and on private property, and CBP does not have anything to do with the project. CBP is constructing its RGV-03 project wall outside the floodplain 0.3 miles (0.48 km) away.[66] As of July 2021, the property had been reassessed at 100 times its original value, and Fisher was hoping to sell a 3-mile section of wall (4.8 km) that had cost $30 million to build

Out of curiosity, how old was that drive?

Direct from Seagate wouldn’t be bad, check their store first to see if you can cut out Amazon.

I was talking about random reseller stores. “Manufacturer refurbished” for things you can’t see is almost always a good idea. The manufacturer has their brand name on the line and usually go over common fail points and replace if it looks worn.

Stores/Amazon doing “renewed” means they tried to cover up superficial damage and is completely different. It might look ok on the outside and be complete junk on the inside.

Think of “renewed” as “open box returns” except it might have taken the last user 5 years to return. It’s a much worse gamble.

Depends.

If it’s “buy from Amazon” then you can return it with no issue if shits bad.

If Amazon is just the middleman, than the seller could be scamming and will either fight returns or just close up shop. I wouldn’t buy any used electronic over $200 from a middle man because of that, so this is kind of on the line.

But modern HDDs hold up a lot better than they used to. I tend to “ship of Theseus” PC builds and I’ve got some HDDs probably 15 years old that are still going strong.

I can’t remember the last time I’ve heard anyone say a HDD failed. Just people remembering what it was like 25 years ago. We don’t think of innovation with old tech like HDDs, but there’s been a lot of improvements to the parts that used to fail regularly.

Exos x18 are enterprise drives that came out last than 5 years ago, I can’t imagine they were replaced because they’re all bad, just companies upgrading to newer tech. So should be fine and last you well over a decade.

Thanks for the example!

Whether an individual determines AI “smart” depends on how smart the person is. We’re all all our own frame of reference.

I have no doubt AI impresses you every day of your life, even stuff that’s not AI apparently, because not all of your examples were.

Another idiot who thinks “prompt engineering” is a real skill and not just another step those companies are using idiots for free AI training.

You ask AI to draw a ninja turtle on a skateboard, and that “effort” they put into phrasing their request well enough for the AI to understand makes the AI learn the 10 past attempts were looking for what the 11th got

And now it won’t take ten tries to go that route

Any “skill” by the user has a very short expiration date because the next version won’t need it thanks to all the time users spent developing those “skills”.

But no one impressed with AI is smart enough to realize that. And since they’re the on s training the AI…

Idiots in, idiots out

Biden is stuck with what life was like 70 years ago. Russia was the bad guys then so he treats them as the bad guys now at least.

But he’s gone on record saying his support of Israel is due to a promise he made his dad when he was six years old.

He’s just flat out not looking at things logically, it’s a joke that we’re still pretending he’s capable of running the country when he’s obviously not

They’re not going to stop land grabbing…

As long as they think America has their back. They’ll keep going.

And Biden has spent over 50 years saying he’ll always support them no matter what.

That geriatric old fuck needs out of office now. We can’t wait for January and he’s clearly lost all his marbles or he’d be the candidate.

There is real life shit going on and Biden has shown time and time again. He’s just not capable of handling it

And the damage he did would drastically reduce the price and likely cost a lot in lawyers.

That’s what I mean, he’ll always do the worst thing possible.

Hell piss away millions after billions and won’t stop till he has negative wealth.

You assume he’d act rationally and invest in even more ridiculous wasted of money…

He’s not smart enough to keep a backup, because even if it’s just a million, he’ll think he can turn it into a billion.

As rich as he is, he’ll live another 40 years. More than enough time to burn all his money. Don’t forget everything is leveraged against each other, his money is built on stock prices, and he’s picking a fight with Brazil while using a shit ton of drugs

If Space X loses it’s governments contracts, literally everything would go up in smoke and he’d desperately try to make what he lost back.

A deat spiral isn’t implausible

Why won’t you respect their privacy?

https://youtu.be/lCqvJW1kIv8?si=M3lt9JHqaNSyD-Qp&t=47

Really good study, but it looks like the only things with a stronger correlation than attention control score and resting pupil size was caffeine and nicotine.

And it’s concerning so many participants couldn’t verify nicotine/caffeine consumption when those are the biggest connections when they disclose their sample was “moderate”.

We’d also have to get into how nicotine/caffeine would be “performance enhancing” for these kinds of tests, yet would make the pupils contract. They should have tossed the participants who couldn’t report nicotine/caffeine instead of including them.

But ideally it would have just been participants who had abstained from either for 24 hours. Good luck with that tho.

Yeah, it just seems like its measuring engagement during the testing.

Would have been better to take measurements at “rest” as well, then compare them.

It’d be a lot easier to believe there’s a larger increase in pupil size when concentrating than permenantly.

That being said both my parents had blue eyes, and looking at my DNA I should have blue eyes. But they’re green, which can be explained by pupil dilation causing an increase in pigment density. Like how David Bowie has one eye that’s permanently dilated so looking at a picture it looks like he has heterochromia when he doesnt.

https://slate.com/culture/2016/01/the-story-behind-david-bowie-s-unusual-eyes.html

Shits interesting, but there’s going to need to be a lot of follow up studies to rule out confounding variables.

Interesting, but I think it has more to do with focus and/or adrenal response…

That being said, I’ve taken the Wechsler IQ test, and scored higher than can be measured reliably.

I’m super light sensitive, had some optometrists refuse contact prescriptions because my pupils “dilated too much”, and had to pay like a $200 licensing fee when I got LASIK because they had to use some special attachment because it had to be done wide than normal Lasik due to pupil size.

So maybe there is something to this? I still think there’s a middle step in there and not direct correlation though