Aunche

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by Aunche 8mo ago
> Renting a private room was possible on nearly any wage 50 years ago, and the only reason it seems out of reach for many now is because purchasing power has been slowly stagnating for decades 50 years ago, in high cost of living areas,
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by Aunche 8mo ago
If it's just a stance, then why care so much about it? Presumably it's so that this stance influences their readers.
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by Aunche 8mo ago
It's 2026. Everyone knows that NYT is written by liberal elites for liberal elites (or aspirational liberal elites) who spend their money to read such articles. Even if you think it's propaganda, legacy media offers information an
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by Aunche 8mo ago
It's disappointing that people increasingly expect news to be propaganda for their own side. The news is meant to be a source of information. You don't have to agree with everything an article has to say to get useful information
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by Aunche 8mo ago
Michelle's Becoming sold 14 million copies. I don't see any recent figures for Barack's A Promised Land , but the initial 3.3 million print run sold within a month, and there is another volume in progress.
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by Aunche 9mo ago
That is not a good argument for privacy. I don't see how more privacy would have prevented any evil that has been doing.
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by Aunche 9mo ago
> Basically they buy weakening businesses and carve them up for parts, selling anything of value and squeezing max revenue of whatever is left. People say this like it's a bad thing, but without "vulture capitalists", stru
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by Aunche 9mo ago
> I am sick to the back teeth of this narrative that all grievances can be resolved into currency and that paying this hurts taxpayers. I don't understand. This seems contradictory. If the problem is that we're trying to resolv
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by Aunche 9mo ago
> the police have zero obligation to actually protect anybody from crime This gets misrepresented on the Internet all the time. What this really means is that you can't sue the city for incompetent policemen, which is the case in ba
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by Aunche 9mo ago
We were in a lockdown, and Congress voted for multiple trillion dollar stimulus' financed by debt. Refusing to "print money" in those circumstances is just asking for a worse Great Depression.
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by Aunche 9mo ago
The customer is always right. If they were good, sales wouldn't have plummeted as soon as the novelty wore off.
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by Aunche 9mo ago
I mean the Cybertruck, and EV trucks in general to a certain extent, are rather lousy trucks, so they aren't seen as aspirational the same way a normal F150 or Submariner are.
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by Aunche 9mo ago
> It's the suburban equivalent of a yuppie's Rolex Submariner. The difference is that the Submariner can actually be used as a dive watch. If it turned to fail significantly more often than other dive watches underwater, peop
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by Aunche 9mo ago
Can you tell me what exactly about the Washington Post differs from any other center left American news source and how those differences benefits Bezos?
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by Aunche 9mo ago
> Jeff Bezos has already reaped many multiples of his investment in the Washington Post. Has he though? The Washington Post has actually been a leader in primary reporting in Amazon's union busting activities [1]. He may have pressu
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by Aunche 9mo ago
This is one of the major reasons why Americans are stuck with expensive private healthcare that never gets talked about. People who are used treating their insurance as an all-you-can eat buffet will feel like their health coverage is getti
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by Aunche 9mo ago
> That’s why the Bible and Quran are against usury. That's why Christian and Muslim (to a lesser extent since they exploited loopholes) nations relied on Jewish financiers. It does not make sense for the exchange of good and service
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by Aunche 10mo ago
Foreign ops makes up a fraction of percent of X's revenue, if that. Any profit they gained from it cancels out with a similar degree of negative attention from the government, so overall they're incentivized to follow the directio
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by Aunche 10mo ago
Maybe it seems identical because China doesn't have any grand short term ambitions, but financial incentive is fundamentally very different. Meta may screw over the American people, but America losing it's superpower status would
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by Aunche 10mo ago
X may be owned by a crazy Elon, but that doesn't change that X today still has no incentive to allow for malicious state actors, especially under government pressure. In fact, they recently exposed that a lot of extremist political acc
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by Aunche 10mo ago
X and Meta do try to uncover and scrub malicious state actors, like the investigation of the 2016 Russia misinformation campaign. Maybe, they could have done more, but there is no reason why they wouldn't put an earnest effort as they
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by Aunche 10mo ago
Imagine a half empty mall where there simply isn't enough demand for any more stores. If you add a vacancy tax that bankrupts the mall owners, then the mall shuts down and the renters lose out as well.
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by Aunche 10mo ago
A vacancy tax would work on areas with high demand, but it also punishes areas that are already struggling.
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by Aunche 10mo ago
The idea that TikTok is somehow less corruptible than Facebook or Instagram is laughable as American investors were largest investors of ByteDance to begin with. If it was only about Israel, they can be pressured into censorship the same wa
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by Aunche 10mo ago
Ellison, Zuckerberg, and Shou Zi Chew (who to be clear is only the CEO of TikTok, not ByteDance) may be willing to brainrot Americans, but it's for the sake of profit, so they can be pressured to change. Facebook and Twitter cooperated
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by Aunche 10mo ago
OpenAi, Anthropic, etc have access to specialized network topologies from high profile relationships with cloud providers. I don't think you can get anything like that off the shelf.
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by Aunche 10mo ago
That has nothing to do with online identification. Do you believe that those operating a vehicle that can easily kill people shouldn't require registration to prevent this from happening again? Also, that a was few dozen truckers who w
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by Aunche 10mo ago
> And, from now on, if you ever criticize the government you will lose your bank account and your job. When has this happened in the countries you listed?
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by Aunche 10mo ago
1 v 1, the average nomad could kill the average conscripted peasant who was physically weaker and less experienced. An iron vs a flint spear isn't going to make nearly as much of a difference. Superior numbers for the creation of a pro
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by Aunche 10mo ago
You're completely missing my point. Without any external pressure, multiple peoples concluded that settling and eating grass was preferable to being nomads. Yes, this includes the ancestors of the bison hunting plains tribes. It was on

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