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That's about a '97 settlement of a '91 lawsuit...don't see how it is relevant to a discussion of "90s and 00s" media.

I mean, wouldn't you expect a gap in those numbers, purely from a biological perspective? If there's a biological cap on how old a woman can be and give birth, but there's no cap on how old a man can be and father a child, unless there's some truly odd stuff going on it seems obvious that this gap would exist. They even say that the shrinking of the gap over time is largely because of women having children early, not anything changing in men.

Sure, I'll grab the catnip and you put the leashes on, I'm sure this will work out great.

Love this suggestion, excited to check it out!

I've been looking for an AI/GPT/deep learning tool that would help me perform some sanitation and normalization of a large data set that's quite personal to me- my last.fm data, time-stamped logs of (nearly) every song I've listened to for almost twenty years now. The data has all kinds of issues- for example, yesterday I realized that I had two sets of logs for one album. One version of the album used U+2026 (…) and one used three periods (...). There are problems like that, stuff more akin to typos, styling stuff (& vs and), or even garbage-in garbage-out stuff (YouTube Music changing the tags on the same album over time making it look like I actually listened to different albums, or not actually having all of the tags they're supposed to have).

I've got .NET code that hits the last.fm api and dumps the info to a LiteDB database, so I can export to CSV pretty easily if this tool would be useful to me, unless anyone has any better directions to point me in. Appreciate any thoughts you folks have.

I wouldn't have either. Then, a week ago, a newly created Twitter account started following me, using my wife's first name and part of our address as the display name, and using a picture of our house as the profile picture. Look, I know that tweeting under my real name and owning a house in the US means that the amount of effort required to actually find all that stuff is pretty minimal...I didn't do anything much more bizarre than complain about Elon turning Twitter to shit, and it's a pretty good guess that that's what they were upset about since the account was only following me and Elon.

People be wilding out there man.

A somewhat related aside/question for the crowd- I've been hosting my own website for a little while with no issues, but I also don't really have any media stuff up on there. I added a wiki recently and have really enjoyed working on it. But, right now, that also has no media stuff on it, and I think I would like it to, but I also feel like this is one of those "haha you thought this would be easy? fuck you' things.

I'm not worried about it from a normal usage standpoint. The website isn't interactive, I plan on being the only person with edit privileges on the wiki, for example. But I feel like based on things I've read, mostly on HN over the years, that this is opening a...different sort of box of worms than I already have open. Easier DDOS? Abuse of my image hosting, killing my monthly bandwidth allotment? I really don't want to have to set up a CDN just to host a wiki that is averaging less than one not-me viewer per month...

Am I paranoid, or just uninformed?

Arkansas can't do much about national/global inflation individually, but they're also 49th outta 50 states in health care, 41st in education, 41st in economy, 43rd in infrastructure, and 48th in crime, so it's not like they've shown themselves to be particularly capable in matters they do have some influence either

I don't think that "cancelled for two weeks" is the bullet point you're looking for. From here that just looks like "was discussed ad nauseam on the Internet for two weeks then resumed normal life". I also don't think that calling someone mean names is "cancelling" them or really relevant to this convo at all. Pretty weak stuff all around here.

What do you think he was "a useful example" of? Context would imply you think he's an example of a comedian who was cancelled for being offensive...but most of the replies (mine included) seem to be saying "but he wasn't actually cancelled", which really calls into question whether or not that makes him "a useful example"...

This is a pretty lazy, hand-waving, "I'm right so there's no need for discussion" response, imo.

> taken as evidence that cancellation isn't a real thing for comedians

Sounds like trying to prove a negative. If people want to convince me that cancellation is a real thing for comedians, I'd want to see...examples of comedians who actually got cancelled. CK and Chappelle ain't it.

Chapelle is rolling in Netflix money and won a Grammy last night. By what metric is he "cancelled" other than "some people called him bad names"?

Comedy is still allowed to be offensive, so the changeover you suggest never happened. Louis CK just sold out MSG and Dave Chapelle just won a Grammy.

Are you suggesting that Twitch should ignore accounts that violate the ToS, so long as it was a computer that violated the terms as opposed to a person?

Not sure how you can look at that second link and conclude it has a "substantial" amount of violent crime. The overall crime rate, and the violent crime rate, are both rated at "A-" levels, which is on the good end of the scale, not the bad end.

I mean, ffs, this is from the link:

"By a simple count ignoring population, more crimes occur in the northwest parts of East Killingly, CT: about 0 per year. The north part of East Killingly has fewer cases of violent crime with only 0 in a typical year."

If I'm reading about the correct James Watson, this is not a fair or accurate comparison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Watson#Comments_on_race

Edit: the psychology of creating an account to make that particular comment is fascinating to me.

What do you mean? According to the sources I'm reading- not this paywalled one, of course- the lawsuits allege the presence of asbestos in their talc, detected in-product by the FDA as recently as 2019. Are you saying that was intentional? Because that would seem to be even more damning than what's alleged.

I don't know a single person who owns property they don't live on, and you know multiple, and they've all had to evict non-paying tenants? Seems odd.

> I also don't think anyone here seriously believes that stalking and harassing people is "free speech".

You are likely correct! However, I don't think that anyone here believes the @elonjet account was doing either, besides possibly you.

I agree that my freedom of speech ends short of stalking and harassing people! I just don't think that re-posting publicly available information qualifies as stalking or harassing. And I think it's a very big stretch to claim that it even comes close to facilitating stalking or harassing. Has Elon himself even claimed any actual negative impacts due to this information/account, or has he just expressed concerns about the possibility?

Also, "and you know it" is insulting and rude, and I don't agree with it or appreciate it.

I am genuinely interested in what you think the difference between those two things is. I don't see how "the white pages" is any more safe or secure than "everyone"...

I just looked into this like...last week, and couldn't find anything, and if it's possible without third-party add-ons, I'd be extremely surprised. But I won't consider that to be the case until I see a link with instructions that work.

Recently, I was required to use a PC that had Windows 11 on it. I tried to set it up like the rest of my computers, which involves moving the task bar from the bottom of the screen to the side, which I've done for years in Windows.

Yeah, W11 doesn't support that. If you do some digging you'll find MS claiming it's a large technical lift that they have no current plans to do.

What does this mean with regards to your question? Not much. But that regression in functionality, in an area that every other OS I use supports and has supported for years, definitely suggests the thing is a hack. In my humble uninformed opinion.

I wasn't sure about this so I looked it up...

https://www.nutritionix.com/i/usda/beef-ground-80-lean-meat-...

https://www.nutritionix.com/i/beyond-meat/beyond-beef-plant-...

> higher fat

untrue

> higher sodium

true

> lower iron and calcium

untrue

Beyond has less calories, and less calories from fat. it also has less cholesterol and more protein. at least, according to this source. I suppose your final statement still stands, though. But to me the Beyond looks healthier, especially if you compensate for that increase in sodium elsewhere in your cooking.

They haven't even claimed they were!

The 1A applies to the government forcing people or companies to restrict their speech. Since Twitter has not alleged they were forced, that means they were asked and complied voluntarily- which means it doesn't matter if the person who asked was an elected official or not, from a 1A perspective.

Collusion as you're using it would not be a 1A violation. It also would not qualify as election interference any more than any other newspaper choosing what stories to run or what candidates to endorse (legally speaking).

I mean, in my opinion, it isn't a big deal with regards to whether or not asking is a 1A violation.

Then Twitter should not only make that claim, but sue!