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NEW RULE: if you are going to *thank ChatGPT* in the acknowledgements of your book, then you have to put the acknowledgments at the beginning rather than the end.

One more newfangled acknowledgment: ChatGPT was a significant help in
476 / ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, METHODS, AND SOURCES
writing this book, serving as a creative muse when coming up with things like chapter subheadings, metaphors, and analogies, and for refining my understanding of technical topics that are likely to be well represented in its corpus. t is not a reliable fact-checker, which is why I needed Andy and the Penguin Press team. And I can't stand its prose style-all of the writing is my own. None-theless, it's a helpful tool for a nonfiction author and improved my productivity.
Finally, thank you for purchasing this book. I hope to have made it worth your while. But I'm still going to claw out every inch of EV that I can if we met at the poker table.
—Nate Silver, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 10, 2024
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It is with a heavy heart that I must admit I spent a summer in college working in a lumber yard and another working in accounts payable for a small company. To have hid this from the public is unforgivable. bsky.app/profile/greg...

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CWcargoweasel.com

The purpose of the postmenopausal female is to stop the rebels in the outer planets, bring Mars to heel and gain control of the protomolecule

Christen Avasarala, the leader of Earth in "the Expanse" tv series.
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idk why everyone makes such a big deal about lebron maintaining this level at age 39; I am also about as good at basketball as I was 20 years ago

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Mmezentine.bsky.social

My lovely fiancee sent me this

An image of two small white porcelain pigs sitting on a plate. A paper sign says "Pigs with no specific duties". The caption reads "What 30% of the city budget goes to"
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Ddavidjroth.bsky.social

"As someone who knows a little something about getting shot and just generally wearing out my welcome,"

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constitutional lawyers use your fucking brain challenge www.politico.com/news/2024/07...

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ENeladn.bsky.social

Yep. One of the biggest blind spots people have is assuming that underneath, others share the same basic values as them. They have trouble imagining an ideology that is completely misaligned with theirs.

The thing you have to understand about fascism is that you’ll never understand it. You don’t have a need for absolute power that becomes absolute obedience. You’re not a sadist. You feel empathy not hate. It’s about stopping it, not debating it
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Everyone is always afraid to say why people like Trump or Marie Le Pen have some level of popularity and it’s just that there’s a lot of people in the world who believe in racism. You end up with these goofy ass explanations for Trump where it’s NAFTA or shit and it’s like no you know what it is

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scotus has absolutely RUINED bobby bonilla day

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