EA-3167

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by EA-3167 2y ago
I don't mean this as a moral judgement, and you should live the way you want. What you're describing sounds like an issue of spending habits, not really an issue of income. Maybe you'd prefer to live a certain lifestyle regar
902.
by EA-3167 2y ago
I think that's more of a concern for people who aren't genocidal maniacs out to destroy the species. Like I said, we already have examples of people who wanted to usher in an apocalypse, some of them even gave it the good old coll
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by EA-3167 2y ago
Come on... endlessly wealthy and wants to do harm? There's only one real, obvious answer: Engineer a plague, or a series of plagues targeting food crops, livestock, and humans. Make something as contagious as measles that kills a third
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by EA-3167 2y ago
Oh thank God, I was about to post something very similar. I have to reactions here, the first is the most charitable (but honestly feels like a huge stretch) and the other is what I believe. Charitable: Perhaps the concern here is the use o
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by EA-3167 2y ago
Trump couldn't manage a border wall in his first term, when he still had the possibility of a second term AND the benefit of surprise on his side. He has two years to get whatever he wants to do on the books, after which he's goin
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by EA-3167 2y ago
What mechanism would allow the executive branch to replace sitting judges? Impeaching a federal judge isn't something they can wave a magic wand to accomplish.
907.
by EA-3167 2y ago
Unfortunately there is essentially a loose federation of quasi-religious "cults" that have emerged around the topic of AI. For an otherwise mostly secular group of people, the lure of reinventing Abrahamic religion in their own im
908.
by EA-3167 2y ago
It's easier to make a list of things Musk DOES understand, and my word it's a short list. Politics, ethics, international relations, the value of soft power... would not be on the list.
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by EA-3167 2y ago
The author, Sam Cooper, is not the kind of source I'd trust. Hilariously from their Wikipedia controversies sections: > In September 2024, Cooper published a report in The Bureau claiming to show video evidence of a meeting of spies
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by EA-3167 2y ago
It's a closed circle, Tax money comes in, Insurance companies suck it up with a straw. That same economic activity could still occur with that money, it would just be in other sectors, and ideally ones that produce real economic value.
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by EA-3167 2y ago
You're assuming that the issue is fact-checking, rather than cherrypicking in the first place. Plastic straws are not a major source of microplastics or plastic pollution, but you know what is? Clothing! Fast fashion, and harder plasti
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by EA-3167 2y ago
I've never had a Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Myspace whatevertheF account and I've never felt like I was missing out. Social media can be great, if by social media you mean: something like IRC/Discord, or something
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by EA-3167 2y ago
This is a pointlessly destructive move that will save insignificant amounts of money, while grossly hampering important research in the US. If we're looking for "efficiencies" in government take a look at healthcare, look at
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The End of Science's Peacetime(undark.org)
10 points by EA-3167 2y ago|2 comments
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by EA-3167 2y ago
I feel like people really REALLY missed one of the central points of the Ringworld novels: a megastructure like that is a dead end. It's too big, it's impossible to effectively govern, even with near-magical tech and a hyperinte
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by EA-3167 2y ago
It was obvious back in 2017, but somehow the media, social media, and most people "convinced" themselves that this time was different. It's like Gell-Mann Amnesia, when he's being a bumbling idiot people remember that he
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by EA-3167 2y ago
People had 4 years to realize what Trump does, and yet they still take him at his literal word. Trump makes noise, makes threats, says outrageous things... and then waits for the "adults in the room" to come and placate him. Then
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by EA-3167 2y ago
Ultimately the onus is on the people claiming a genetic component to find it and prove it. There are known social issues and have been for quite some time, after all there are people alive today who experienced segregation. So if there&#x27
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by EA-3167 2y ago
So... what are the categories then? Black and Everyone Else?! That seems pretty silly on almost every level.
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The Expanse's Epstein Drive (2019)(toughsf.blogspot.com)
12 points by EA-3167 2y ago|0 comments
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by EA-3167 2y ago
So what you're saying is that alternatives do exist, but they aren't popular... that doesn't sound like a "duopoly" exists, it just sounds like Android and Apple cover the needs of the vast majority of people. I&#x2
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by EA-3167 2y ago
So, what's stopping you from becoming Apple's competition? If a significant number of people crave your idea of FOSS and you have ideas to make a superior product, I'm sure the market will reward you.
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by EA-3167 2y ago
Yeah I'm certainly in favor of term limits for almost every position, even if in some cases they'd be very generous limits. That sort of thing isn't a one-shot fix though, there's always the NEXT job to think about. &quo
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by EA-3167 2y ago
I don't think that's really a factor, because realistically the world is FAR from having any form of suffering eradicated. At best, most of what we can do is a good faith attempt to minimize suffering, and even that's incredi
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by EA-3167 2y ago
Imagine that you're a politician trying to keep your job ahead of an election, and your opponent points to your policy making the lives of your constituents miserable. You understand that the argument you're making here would be p
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by EA-3167 2y ago
I suspect it has a lot more to do with the concentration of mobile devs and FOSS types here, along with people who really can't understand that not everyone wants their phone to be something other than "Working out of the box.&quo
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by EA-3167 2y ago
A company creating a useful tool that encourages people to buy their product is incredibly boring, typical, and not at all controversial until it's Apple doing it.
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by EA-3167 2y ago
That assumes a lot, most importantly that the harm is limited to "innocent person in prison" rather than, "Government has the power to throw anyone it wants into prison, effectively disappearing them." The history of the
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by EA-3167 2y ago
It doesn't need to, but it reliably does. The whole internet, and pretty much all English-speaking media, is talking about ONE THING. Trump. American politics. Elon Musk. There's a lot noise and very little else. People often don&
930.
by EA-3167 2y ago
This is... a strange and jarring thing to read. My kneejerk response was that yes, they are innovating and experimenting with oppressive and corrupt governance, but that is ultimately uncharitable. A more balanced response is that while you

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