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CNET editor. Totally serious. No candy.

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peterbutler, to MLB
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“[Josh] Gibson is MLB’s new all-time career leader in batting average (.372, moving ahead of Ty Cobb), slugging percentage (.718, moving ahead of Ruth), OPS (1.177, ahead of Ruth), and holds the all-time single season records in each of those categories”

(He still can’t top Barry Bonds’ .609 OBP in 2004 though!)

This is fantastic news for baseball fans

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/columnist/bob-nightengale/2024/05/28/negro-leagues-statistics-officially-incorporated-into-major-league-record-book/73882293007/

#MLB #MajorLeagueBaseball #Statistics

mhoye, to random
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This is a remarkable graph.

You might have heard that "EV sales are slumping", "people are starting to avoid EVs", etc.

That's not what's happening.

What's happening is "Tesla is cratering so hard that it's skewing the aggregate market data."

peterbutler,
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@mhoye Tesla also sold more EVs in Q1 2024 than all other EV manufacturers combined

I get that the rest of them are up ~30%, but it’s still like ~120K cars total?

There are like 50 million cars sold every year

br00t4c, to random
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The Senate Has Called Leonard Leo In for Questioning. Leo Has Said: No Thanks!

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/05/leonard-leo-ignoring-senate-subpoena.html

peterbutler,
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@br00t4c "above the law, untouchable, and unaccountable"

SteveThompson, to nyc
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"Biden campaign sends allies De Niro and first responders to Trump’s NY trial to put focus on Jan. 6"

https://apnews.com/article/trump-de-niro-biden-insurrection-hush-money-78a33c5083a243e18f9fbd63ce9e8ddd

peterbutler,
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@jackhutton @SteveThompson If it were the Biden admin prosecuting Trump, I might agree. But it’s not

It’s a risky move. I think it will further the narrative that the trial is compromised because the charges are politically motivated

If you’re a low-info voter who's paying attention to the trial, what would you think? I’d think it’s the Biden admin that is prosecuting Trump

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/poll-majority-of-americans-arent-paying-attention-to-trumps-hush-money-trial

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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These AI SEO spam operations have used lists of common searches to ensure that their pages come up first in searches in the “long fat tail” the kind of search where it used to be about 50/50 if you’d find a page addressing your needs. But, it used to be if you found something like “The top 15 smallest ants in the world” it wouldn’t be nonsense. It’d either exist and be the work of another person who cared OR you found nothing. Not so now! I can’t possibly over-stress how bad this is! 1/

peterbutler,
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@Segebodo @CatDad @futurebird Google’s new AI Overview feature provides sources

kevinrns, to climate
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In the near future a mass of people are going to die in a city from the heat, and the headlines will say that "it wouldn't have been so bad except the power went out"

Heat is going to take down power systems. The power systems that could protect us from an event, will be harmed by the event.

618 people in Canada, in the mountains, in the forest, died of a heat event, on the floors of their homes, on their beds. No flames. Just a days heat.
The power stayed on, it would have been worse

peterbutler,
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@kevinrns I haven’t heard anything about this since January, when the first four states (CA, HI, NM, and NY) applied for HEEHRA funds

https://www.energy.gov/scep/articles/first-group-states-apply-landmark-home-energy-rebates-funding-lower-energy-costs

Still stuck with the feds? (The 30% back via tax credit is valid nationally for any income)

AFAICT, no one can apply for HEEHRA rebates yet

jmcrookston, to random
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" Conversations about disasters have always been colored by fear and superstition. The word disaster, from the Latin dis (away) and astrum (stars), can be translated as "ill-starred." ...

peterbutler,
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@jmcrookston “research shows that as much as two-thirds of the time it takes occupants to exit a building after an alarm sounds is start-up time--time spent milling about, looking for more information”

https://www.apa.org/monitor/sep04/fighting

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