They can replace your knee just fine. The issue in this animation is the leison growing on the thigh bone. This isn't knee replacement, it's a cancer relation amputation.

After the last 5 years, I'm no longer convinced that part isn't true. It's the part where they give a shit about the location of our children. They already have their hookups, and they already have more personal information than they know what to do with.

Also, they're not signing off on every decision of government. They're mostly just pushing for deregulation, lower taxes, and control of the courts.

It's a classless, cashless, democratic society. That... That is communism.

Conversations in public are about who's listening.

I can only upvote once, so I'll just reply with "This" as well.

You can't convince a true believer that they're wrong via argument. But a true believer can convince others that they're right if it looks like no one can challenge their assertions.

So, the periods all over the place are the broadcast operator. In order to apply a function to each element in an iterable object, you need to apply it inside a loop, either explicitly, or implicitly via broadcasting.

Each column in the data frame is an array, which is an iterable object. Strings are also iterable objects, made up of character objects. Trying to apply replace() to the entire column here has the function looking for an element in the array that has the value '['. Unless you have a cell value that is the open bracket character literal, it won't find the substring you're looking for to replace.

Instead, try broadcasting the replace function: replace.() or replace!.()

They're just living on the farm, with Grandma!

Is she an adult in that photo?

"It doesn't have any deeper meaning" is a hilarious statement by anybody about the matrix. At the time the movie came out, people were over-the-top enamoured with Neo the Christ alagory.

It's an punchy-kicky movie that everyone knew had deeper meaning, and that a lot of people actually discussed the deeper meaning of. Now that the writers/directors have told us explicitly what some of those deeper meanings are, they don't get to deny that those meanings exist.

So there's a couple of things going on locally that's causing this. The big one is that people have been moving here from larger centres site unseen. This was largely people buying homes, but as home prices here bmhave skyrocketed, I'm sure people have become less keen on that, and are instead looking for rentals first so they can house hunt with better clarity.

The other is that property is still cheap enough here relative to the big cities that income properties probably look like a steal, so we almost certainly have some aspiring absentee landlords buying income properties and setting prices without understanding the market.

You sound like someone who has never faced starvation, or slept in a tent in a public park for lack of a proper place to stay.

How much turnover has there been on the A's since last year? Because I would have assumed Semien was teammates with a fair few people in green.

Source?

Amazing. I'd like to take this in exchange for 1 updoot

Because vaccines reduce your chance of infection significantly? That's what vaccines do. They're not symptom mitigators, they help prevent an infectious agent from getting root and spreading through your body.

They're just. Not. Perfect.

Most socialists aren't even arguing for equal distribution of resources. The focus is on ensuring everyone has their needs met (and an understanding that "needs" extend beyond the bare minimum to not just drop dead), and that they can live good, meaningful lives.

If there are resources left over after that, then we can have discussions about other outcomes. I don't think most of us care if some people work harder and earn more if everyone is living well, and those who earn more aren't or can't using their excess resources to fuck anyone else over.

The problem is, the people screaming about "equality of outcome" pretty explicitly want to control, demean, and take from others. So, they can get fucked.

If you have a year-to-year or fixed term lease, they can't change the rent mid-term. For annual leases, the notice of a rent increase has to come at least 3 months prior to the lease renewal. For fixed term leases, there's no automatic renewal, and AFAIK, no notice needs to be given for rental changes; they're just part of negotiating a new lease.

Month-to-month renters still get 3 months warning, but are otherwise fucked.

I like you.

I fucking wish. I'm a data analyst, and I've worked in both ed-tech and video games, and everyone with an even slightly technical technical job seems to work in sprints. I've been lobbying for years to not, because exploratory data analyses are... Well... Exploratory. They can take hours, they can take days. You don't know until you actually see the data.

But still, it's time estimates and weekly commitments.

Contracts can be renegotiated for shit like this. They're not written in stone or blood. A quick discussion like "hey, we're doing an MLK event, and think it's a PR nightmare for both of us to have this whip emote accessible during it. How about we freeze the deal for a few days, and we'll extend the end date?"

But no, they just decided that that was too much of a bother.

They chose to have their cake and eat it, too. They can deal with the optics without internet bootlickers playing apologetics for them.

Nesting* time.

Sure, but they still had 2 years left before they had to call an election. They're announcing stuff they could have done anyway with the time remaining in the current Parliament.

I do love it when capitalists and their fawning dogs equivocate the meaning of "efficiency". They have the general public completely convinced that government is "inefficient" because it costs the government more to provide a service than private industry.

Because government tends to pay people a solid wage for their labour.

Sure, they'll point to other things, like overpaying for supplies or what have you, but the only thing that ever really chages when a government service is privatized is how much the people doing the actual work get paid.

But, of course, that's what the capitalist means by "efficient". What percentage of revenue goes to the top. But the world hears "it can be done faster/better/cheaper by private enterprise", not "fat cats can pocket more".

They might not present the math in the class, but everyone "knows" economics is a mathy subject.

I can teach a physics class without writing a single number down; people will still know that what I'm talking about is, somehow, math related. It's picked up through cultural osmosis. And knowing that there's math under the hood, people assume that what I'm talking about is true.

It's all about reputation, not reality.

Jesus fucking Christ

Business school economics is the absolute worst. People treat it like they're studying the fundamental nature of the universe because they use math (as if there aren't quantitative analysts in every social science), and they basically treat capitalism as a natural construct as if it's a frigging mountain. It's question begging at $18,000 a class.