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If you live in the US, you should know that there is a national database of unclaimed property, and you can easily search it to find & claim money that businesses owe you! There are no ads and no fees, and all you need to search the database is your full name.

I know this sounds like the most basic phishing scam, and you should always be cautious of anything promising free money in exchange for your personal info. But this is a real government program that you can independently verify through trusted news sites and official government sites (look for https:// and .gov in the url).

According to unclaimed.org: “1 in 7 individuals have some form of unclaimed property waiting to be collected, whether it’s an inactive checking account, missed paycheck, utility refund, or some other forgotten funds. Though held by each state, owners have the right to reclaim their money in perpetuity.”

That money is yours! Go claim it!!

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argumate

it's just a tragic irony that on an internet packed with extremely online posters wishing they were captains of industry there is one legit captain of industry wishing he was an extremely online poster who remains bafflingly bad at this

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romanceyourdemons

ah fuck me. just went to the ramen shop for some dinner and i’m only now realizing i’m wearing my ramen socks, and with sandals too so everyone can see them. this is just like the time i got some strange glances at the bus stop and realized i was carrying eight packs of ramen while wearing my ramen shirt

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romanceyourdemons

some disagreement in the notes

[ID: 1. a tag from @dont-spoop-yourself reading “mmmmm little noodle freak behavior though”; 2. a tag from @fictionyoubelieve reading “no that’s a normal amount of enthusiasm for ramen”]

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fictionyoubelieve

no disagreement. Who among is can say they are not a little noodle freak? It’s perfectly natural.

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lumsel
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femmenietzsche
The devil is in the details of Microsoft’s arrangement with OpenAI, which had been seen for a time as too generous to the startup. Microsoft has exclusive rights to use OpenAI’s technology and it knows how that technology works. With Altman and Brockman — and the leading AI researchers who will surely follow them there — Microsoft has both the contractual right to use what OpenAI has built and the talent to invent whatever OpenAI would have come up with next. OpenAI, on the other hand, is handcuffed to Microsoft. It is contractually barred from taking its technology to one of a small handful of cloud compute companies with the scale to train these models. OpenAI could theoretically keep developing the technology and just not hand it over to Microsoft. But there’s another wrinkle: According to people familiar with the matter, a large portion of its much-touted $10 billion investment from Microsoft comes in the form of cloud compute credits. In other words, OpenAI’s funding comes in the form of the right to use MIcrosoft’s infrastructure. The two companies have had to work extremely closely to figure out how to run OpenAI’s models at scale, so this process involves a kind of IP osmosis. Microsoft’s team learns a lot about how OpenAI’s models work in the process of implementing the technology. It’s possible OpenAI could one day sue Microsoft for stealing its IP, but that’s going to be a tough case to win, based on the fact that so much AI technology is open source.

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But the biggest reason investors will steer clear of OpenAI is that the company has decided to act against the interest of all the current financial backers in favor of the company’s nonprofit mission statement: To develop AI for the good of humanity, even if it means hampering the for-profit’s commercial interests. For all these reasons, OpenAI has nowhere to go. And that’s the real reason it will face a massive employee exodus almost immediately, with a majority likely going to Microsoft, which has offered all of them jobs. The most likely conclusion to this melodrama is that Microsoft, one of the most valuable companies in the world, just acquired an $80 billion company with the fastest-growing consumer app in history for basically nothing.

Once again the capitalists have outflanked the idealists in the race to waste billions of dollars on an obviously doomed venture 😔😔😔😔

Source: semafor.com
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highhoneypiee

Pick a bottle any bottle lol

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artisanalbooty

I recently read an article about a therapy group for depressed people who had all attempted suicide at some point. The breakthrough question for them was, “If your goal was to be just as miserable as possible, what would you do?” Most of them listed things like not getting enough sleep, or isolating themselves from everyone… the list goes on, but the point is, they listed things they already do. But now they saw those “coping mechanisms” for what they really were: things that were actively making their condition worse.

I read that article at 2:00 AM, asked myself, am I TRYING to be miserable tomorrow? And it was easier than usual to put my phone down and fall asleep. Even my intrusive “lying down” thoughts about meaninglessness and existential dread were easier to suppress when I framed them as things I’d think about to purposefully make myself feel as awful as possible.

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crystalwitch-in-the-tardis

Fuck that is helpful

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kaity--did
Anonymous asked:

Parenting hack via my father: He was a single father and very stressed all the time. We were pretty crazy kids and getting us to do anything was a hassle. He made up a game to get us to eat veggies/try new things, where my siblings and I were bunnies and he was a farmer protecting his crops.

We would have to sneak into the kitchen and ‘steal’ his crops (cut up veggies that he put out for us), while he wasn’t looking (ie: making dinner/getting work done)

If he saw us, he would get really theatrical and ‘chase’ us with a broom, hollerin’ about pesky rabbits and all that, while we would run away and scarf down the veggies in hiding. Then the game would start again.

A carrot has never tasted so good.

(As an aside, I don’t know how he got any work done in the end, but I don’t know if he actually cared so long as we ate lol)

kaity--did answered:

Amazing stupendous wonderful I’m stealing

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the-real-seebs

that is some stunningly blatant reverse psychology, very clever

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curlicuecal
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brendanicus

They need to invent more fake celebrities like Hatsune Miku and Gorillaz and the Muppets because it's genuinely the most sustainable way to maintain a parasocial relationship with the entertainer class.

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brendanicus

Kermit the Frog can never get canceled because Kermit the Frog has no agency or personhood beyond what he is imbued with by the collective labor of puppeteers, voice actors, singers, and writers. He is, along with these other examples, effectively a celebrity by gestalt. He has transcended the inherit instability of the celebrity class through diffusion of responsibility for his personhood. He is a god.

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bread--quest

[ID: Gritty, posing on a couch. End ID.]

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lumsel
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Why is there a talking flower in every poplin house. Is it like a baby poplin. Is having one like having a roommate or is it like having a weird pet. If you have a shitty flower roommate could you just. Stop feeding it and there's nothing it could do. Is it a crime to release your flower roommate into the wild

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