Sabinus

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by Sabinus 8d ago
America desperately needs ranked choice voting, everywhere it can implement it. I would also argue mandatory voting would be useful but I don't think the Americans are ready for that.
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by Sabinus 9d ago
If you want an industry to act in a certain way you legislate for it, not wag fingers at consumers buying things. "If you want cheaper consumer devices we all need to individually stop using AI" is not useful or realistic.
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by Sabinus 9d ago
Plenty of diesel trucks though.
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by Sabinus 10d ago
The amount of times "global commodity" was explained in this comment section was interesting.
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by Sabinus 10d ago
I guess no one can fault the West for retaliating by paying people to light stuff on fire in Russia, for deterrence. And I guess no one can blame the West for sending Ukraine more missiles to fire into Russia, to end the war.
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by Sabinus 11d ago
The one-party-state and leader-for-life thing is a bit more substantial than egg eating habits. It's all fun and games while they're increasingly productive and not very internationally assertive but that won't last forever.
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by Sabinus 11d ago
If you're going to make claims of bad faith about other users like that you should link and quote.
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by Sabinus 11d ago
We do, just not social media for the sake of extracting maximum ad revenue out of users. We're a widespread society we need large online spaces, but not ones algorithmically designed to addict and derrange users.
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by Sabinus 12d ago
Look up how the wireless radio helped spread European fascism. It's not about "the people can think this but can't think that", it's "how does this new communication platform change the existing political cult
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by Sabinus 13d ago
The way you've talked about the average Asian it seems like you're describing a cultural predisposition but representing it as a racial one. And it's easy to see why HK citizens would have cultural preferences towards indepen
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by Sabinus 13d ago
What makes you characterise Hong Kong independence movements as naive economic nostalgia and not a desire for political freedom or independent legal systems? Do you think individuals experienced more freedom under the British monarch and Pa
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by Sabinus 13d ago
Reputation and past statements are useful tools in analysing people's beliefs and arguments and the reasons they make them. Fully anonymous commenting creates certain incentives and you can see those at work on 4chan. There are good p
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by Sabinus 13d ago
Neither link you posted showed anything to me other than you need a negligible of karma to unlock comment downvoting. Do you want to quote the sections you feel detail how "high karma posting" is treated?
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by Sabinus 14d ago
The consequences of electing a wealthy grifter with obvious personality defects and a contempt for professional politics.
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by Sabinus 15d ago
I struggle to understand why this article is interesting or upvoted.
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by Sabinus 15d ago
The ex-President's son cashing in on the family fame is an utter nothingburger compared to Trump's children actively participating in government and diplomacy and taking bribes for themselves and the most openly corrupt President
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by Sabinus 16d ago
And? You're suggesting she was assassinated for voting for Trump supported legislation, by a Trump supporter?
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by Sabinus 17d ago
Hunter Biden is accused of doing 10% of what Kushner is doing in the open. It's very different. And there isn't hundreds of billions "funneled through" Ukraine.
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by Sabinus 19d ago
A country who drugged their citizens into mindless robots would be shunned, sanctioned and perhaps attacked. Their economy would be isolated and not pose a threat from competition. It's an obvious attack on our collective humanity and
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by Sabinus 20d ago
How is this any different to the invention of the cotton mill? You don't get to pick and choose what productive technologies to adopt. You either adopt them, or you'll be paying the countries that do and you'll still lose you
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by Sabinus 21d ago
>At the 2025 market, vendors and Christmas Village staff had temporary ramps that they could place out to accommodate shoppers who used wheelchairs or walkers. >"Well, it was a great approach, but a very small group of people do
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by Sabinus 21d ago
Or you could just not spend any more and increase taxes.
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by Sabinus 22d ago
I understand the sentiment, and would expect that grace be given to American citizens, but the USA has millions of people applying for visas and citizenship that don't have fraud convictions. And it's not the cold war any more, co
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by Sabinus 23d ago
But the American public is petrified of systems like that because of the leftovers of frontier settler culture and fear of communism. They're apparently far more comfortable with the similar but worse systems being set up by corporatio
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by Sabinus 24d ago
The article could have benefited from a mention of why Anthropic is like this now. The reason this happened to you is Anthropic's systems presumably think your work looks like (Chinese) distillation and subscription-to-token-reseller
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by Sabinus 25d ago
AKA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_the_zone "The strategy came to public light after [former Trump chief political strategist] Bannon told Michael Lewis in 2018 that "The Democrats don't matter... T
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by Sabinus 25d ago
How are the Democrats 'just letting it happen' in your opinion? Are the DSA 'just letting it happen' too?
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by Sabinus 25d ago
It's all the 1900s 'proper English' that's in the training material. There are indeed people who talk like that. https://marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-i-dont-write-li...
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by Sabinus 25d ago
>Was Obama allowed to prosecute foreign influence operations or was he prevented from interfering in elections? He launched https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossfire_Hurricane_(FBI_inves... , "but the evidence ava
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by Sabinus 26d ago
The Trump charging and convicting didn't happen fast enough during Biden and now Trump's immune and has pardoned his co-conspirators.

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