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No you tried some bullshit article with bad data. I showed you the charts they should have used.

Not sure who you're trying to fool here; I think it's pretty much just you and me at this point. You know (or you should) that the numbers I sent you were from your own sources (OECD and the St. Louis Fed respectively). You can accept or not the explanation I gave for why I chose different charts in those sources... but just moving the goalposts around instead of addressing it head-on when that happens doesn't leave me with a real good impression of your goal in the overall conversation.

All the data we've seen actually paints a pretty consistent picture of a single coherent world; there aren't, like, big contradictions between different sources. It's just how any given person chooses to interpret the information.

The deal here is I do not have the time, mental power, or inclination, to teach you statistics in economics on a forum.

🙂

Buddy

Only other thing I'll add is:

Wake me up when Biden comes out and says we need (checks inflation calculator) a $12.37 minimum wage.

January 2022 along with an executive order putting it into practice for all federal workers.

It's pure magic

You said that wages had gone down because of inflation from previous years

Then when we looked at that, and determined it wasn't true, you said average doesn't count and we need to look at the median

Then when we broke it down into percentiles and showed that the median income was steady and income compared with inflation was going up at the bottom end of the pay scale, you started saying it needed to be by household instead of by individual

The average low-income person is now making more than they used to. They can buy more at the grocery store than they could even pre-Covid. To me, that is economic progress.

I think when you're 0 for 3, you don't get to keep the goalposts that you've now moved to the 4th location based on whatever logic you're using to justify income going up only matters if it's per household. You can think what you like about it though.

A minor accident had forced me down in the Rio de Oro region, in Spanish Africa. Landing on one of those table-lands of the Sahara which fall away steeply at the sides, I found myself on the flat top of the frustum of a cone, an isolated vestige of a plateau that had crumbled round the edges. In this part of the Sahara such truncated cones are visible from the air every hundred miles or so, their smooth surfaces always at about the same altitude above the desert and their geologic substance always identical. The surface sand is composed of minute and distinct shells; but progressively as you dig along a vertical section, the shells become more fragmentary, tend to cohere, and at the base of the cone form a pure calcareous deposit.

Without question, I was the first human being ever to wander over this . . . this iceberg: its sides were remarkably steep, no Arab could have climbed them, and no European had as yet ventured into this wild region.

I was thrilled by the virginity of a soil which no step of man or beast had sullied. I lingered there, startled by this silence that never had been broken. The first star began to shine, and I said to myself that this pure surface had lain here thousands of years in sight only of the stars.

But suddenly my musings on this white sheet and these shining stars were endowed with a singular significance. I had kicked against a hard, black stone, the size of a man's fist, a sort of moulded rock of lava incredibly present on the surface of a bed of shells a thousand feet deep. A sheet spread beneath an apple-tree can receive only apples; a sheet spread beneath the stars can receive only star-dust. Never had a stone fallen from the skies made known its origin so unmistakably.

And very naturally, raising my eyes, I said to myself that from the height of this celestial apple-tree there must have dropped other fruits, and that I should find them exactly where they fell, since never from the beginning of time had anything been present to displace them.

Excited by my adventure, I picked up one and then a second and then a third of these stones, finding them at about the rate of one stone to the acre. And here is where my adventure became magical, for in a striking foreshortening of time that embraced thousands of years, I had become the witness of this miserly rain from the stars. The marvel of marvels was that there on the rounded back of the planet, between this magnetic sheet and those stars, a human consciousness was present in which as in a mirror that rain could be reflected.

-Antoine de St. Exupery

Does it work out okay with 12 cores purely on CPU? About how fast is the interaction?

I played around a little with Ollama and gpt4all but it seemed to me like it wasn't fast enough to be useful on pure CPU, but if I could just throw cores at it then I might revisit the issue.

What the FUCK

There's a lot of useful nuance in that Guardian article; it's not exactly that simple

But also:

The Israeli prime minister said ... "I told him that I hope we would do [Rafah] with US support but if necessary – we will do it alone."

Promise? Because that sounds like a good step.

The US upholding its nominal commitment to international justice and hauling the appropriate leaders to The Hague sounds better, but Israel doing it alone if atrocity is this big a core value for them sounds like, at least, a step in the right direction.

I ran across this yesterday in a book I was reading. From spring 1940:

"Sentiment for going to war with Germany has increased since the Nazi invasion," Dr. George Gallup, the nation's best-known pollster, wrote while British warships were still ferrying retreating Allied troops off the Continent, "but the increase has been less than four percent. A nation-wide survey just completed finds the country still more than 13 to 1 against American entrance into the conflict."

Almost as if 🥲

They did an experiment where they had high school teachers go through a normal day from the perspective of the kids: Go run to this new location whenever the bell rings and tells you to, limited time to eat and then a bell rings and you have to hustle to your new location and sit still and listen quietly to this guy up in front talk, and then get tested on whether you can repeat the information back and you have to do everything you're told in exactly the way you're told to. They did it for 1 day and they were absolutely shocked at the experience, like WTF this is awful I have anxiety now, I don't even know how these kids can handle it.

The whole public school curriculum is designed to prepare you for a late-1800s world

In the modern day, it needs to include media literacy and practical civics within the core curriculum, on equal footing with science and math

For some reason that suggestion isn't popular with our leaders. I wonder why

You're getting hate but you're absolutely right

I love the left and I don't want Trump to put us all in concentration camps more than anyone else does. But even that being the case, I've been yelled at much more by people on the left for having an "incorrect" opinion than I have from the right.

• The right will disingenuously repeat talking points and groupthink
• The left will very sincerely repeat talking points and groupthink, and then call you a racist asshole and get insanely mad at you for daring to question.

actually not on either corporate party's side

Did you know that Biden's corporate tax reforms at the beginning of 2023, meant that Amazon went from getting a $1.2 billion tax credit to again paying a billion dollars per quarter? And that it's now up to $3 billion per quarter, comfortably more than they've ever had to pay before? And that he's using those corporate tax increases to fund his big-ticket priorities like student loan forgiveness?

Me neither. I didn't know that shit at all, until a few days ago, when I was arguing with someone like you who was saying how much Biden loves the corporations.

Lmao