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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I think the article is fine. It’s just the reality that makes no sense. A bunch of social media celebrities agreed to join an esports league where the celebrities would manage the teams. People could buy a pass for each celebrity that would let them vote on team decisions and give them other benefits. The company selling the passes used blockchain authentication for them. They were also, separately, involved in NFTs. People saw blockchain and NFT and thought “wait a minute, the passes are NFTs? Aren’t NFTs a big scam? These passes are a scam!” Then the celebrities saw the outrage and said “What?! No one told me there would be crypto-blockchain-NFTs!” They then dropped out of the league and it was indefinitely postponed. Unless by “actual problem” you meant something that was meaningful in anyway to anyone not directly involved in this nonsense. In that case, no, there was none of that.


  • “Quality of Life” was a category on the survey, although it was only one of ten. Additionally, they were mostly asking the people who were benefitting the most from their society:

    a survey of over 17,000 people from 36 countries – including business leaders, middle-class or higher college-educated individuals and “nationally representative” citizens of each country

    So I imagine there were a lot of folks who disagreed with the final rankings, but their opinions were mostly considered irrelevant.








  • It’s also possible that the vessel is at or near the surface

    NPR has someone on that had done the trip and said there are multiple systems in place to surface the sub in an emergency, including some that happen automatically. So there’s a very good chance that they’re at the surface, but still very hard to find because it’s a 20-ft sub in a huge search area. And they’re still running out of air because the hatch must be opened from the outside.


  • this is all pretty standard shit

    But the ICWA requires a higher standard of evidence. So what might be considered typical is not enough. And those were the circumstances when the children were taken away. Her parental rights were terminated 9 months later with no consideration of any changes that had occurred.

    crying racism since the state took her kids.

    The state also returned her kids. Two courts ruled that they shouldn’t have been taken away. And she never cried racism. ProPublica is the one pointing out that this is an example of a systemic issue in South Dakota that is disproportionately hurting Native Americans.