LiquidSky

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by LiquidSky 1y ago
He's such an elite gamer that he's transcended using a mere computer to game.
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by LiquidSky 1y ago
Pretending that Trump isn't a key part of what's going on isn't some kind of noble pure objectivity, it's just being willfully ignorant. Politics doesn't go away just because you ignore it. You have to address reali
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by LiquidSky 1y ago
He’s the President of the United States and the one (officially) making these decisions. It’d be absurd not to include him in talking about these issues.
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by LiquidSky 1y ago
Then look harder. The “blunder” was orchestrated by the man who owns one of those two companies.
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by LiquidSky 1y ago
That old-fashioned Nile Delta sound.
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by LiquidSky 1y ago
If this article is accurate it doesn't sound like it. The change was a political tactic to make the tax bill it was part of comply with Senate budget rules on paper. Apparently this is a common tactic with tax bills, with the expectati
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by LiquidSky 1y ago
>It's one of the few pieces of fiction I've ever seen that really grapples with the idea of paradise and what meaning life can have when all obstacles are removed. I'm not so sure about this. It's hard not to see thes
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by LiquidSky 1y ago
Elder abuse is certainly a real problem, but the guardianship/conservatorship system also does address a real problem: many seniors actually do become mentally unable to manage themselves. You're worried about falsely being forced
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by LiquidSky 1y ago
Yeah, I'm not religious but I've read the Bible, and it's not clear on a lot of things but it's very clear on this point.
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by LiquidSky 1y ago
So much of AI discourse is summed up by a tweet I saw years ago but can't find now, which went something like: Scientist: Say "I am alive" AI: I am live. Scientist: My God, what have we done.
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by LiquidSky 1y ago
During Chris Claremont's 16 years on the X-Men this was his practice. He'd seed little details in his issues and then go back and flesh them out in a later issue if he felt like it, with the effect that it seemed like an organic w
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by LiquidSky 1y ago
>Like, that is an extremely unpopular, borderline heretical opinion already in the west. Not these days, or at least not in the US. With all the federal cuts has come more public acceptance of openly deploring empathy for people not in y
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by LiquidSky 1y ago
Reminds me of a friend who was an attorney at a boutique Manhattan firm during the lockdown. Their managing partner was very old and traditional and as soon as legally able demanded every associate return to the office. He, of course, conti
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by LiquidSky 1y ago
That's what he and his defenders claim he was saying, yes.
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by LiquidSky 1y ago
>Well yes, as I mentioned in my post China does make more than cheap junk. And yet you don't see the contradiction in characterizing people's fears as being unable to "go without TikTok and Temu junk" rather than bein
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by LiquidSky 1y ago
The idea that China only makes "cheap, disposable junk" and this faux-tough guy "we gotta man up and suffer through" pose is a big part of the problem.
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by LiquidSky 1y ago
This isn't going to go away with a new administration. Global trust in the US is broken. Even this idea that things will swing wildly back when an administration changes is part of the problem. There's no going back from this, the
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by LiquidSky 1y ago
No, we have to back off tariffs because they are a terrible idea.
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by LiquidSky 1y ago
Unfortunately, that has only fueled this madness. Because there is a lead time for shipments, things didn't instantly go bad when the tariffs were announced, so many people mistakenly seem to believe there's no problem. A lot of p
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by LiquidSky 1y ago
In addition to what others have said, in theory it's also a way to call public attention to the problem. These are coveted positions that people don't just walk away from lightly, so someone in this position stepping down and expl
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by LiquidSky 1y ago
>People have admitted in news interviews to destroying government data to prevent others from knowing what the government was doing. That’s likely criminal. This is a legitimate reason to get at information before people who might destro
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by LiquidSky 1y ago
These are government employees, you don't get to do that.
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by LiquidSky 1y ago
>people have dominion over the Earth and animals Then you should be happy: it's not the Earth and animals creating the permitting system.
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by LiquidSky 1y ago
This could be combined with crypto. You could endlessly spin up entire shitcoin ecosystems that briefly exist to eke out a bit of money from marks then collapse and disappear like cherry blossoms in the spring. It doesn't matter if any
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by LiquidSky 1y ago
>With a tontine, you bet you'll live. One problem is that everyone else in the tontine is betting you don't and sometimes are willing to act on that.
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by LiquidSky 1y ago
>If its a "middle" road what is it in the middle of (i.e. what "scale")? That's pretty clear. We already have two "sides": AI is the latest useless tech boondoggle that consumes vast quantities of money
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by LiquidSky 1y ago
>Back in the 1990s politics were much less polarized. The 90s were the era of Gingrich and the "Contract With America" and the rise of figures like Rush Limbaugh. If you weren't around it was pretty bad back then too. Witn
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by LiquidSky 1y ago
Point of order has been raised. However, this is not a valid point of order, as there was no specification in either the comment to which I replied or the original article of real-world interaction as opposed to online interaction. This app
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by LiquidSky 1y ago
My point is this is naive in the real world, especially online. Many people appear to be engaging in good faith but are actually just baiting, trolling, trying to make a spectacle, etc.
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by LiquidSky 1y ago
Eh...all of this is premised on good faith engagement, which in the current age is a very questionable premise.

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