Sabinus

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by Sabinus 1y ago
How is the institution 'liable' for the slaves owned by the founders? I'm both confused that people expect the University to pay significant reparations to the many descendants of slaves and that it would be afraid of that ex
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by Sabinus 1y ago
Colonies send resources back to their motherland. Israel has no motherland, and is majority Middle East-origin Jewish.
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by Sabinus 1y ago
That's what I've been wondering. How is this much different from Nixon's trickle down economics? An idea the wealthy are happy to promote because it protects their influence.
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by Sabinus 1y ago
The result is not the same. In free countries there are many 'they' that can fund research. And 'they' can fund it without fear of the government. It's not perfect but until we're post resource scarcity it&#x27
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by Sabinus 1y ago
That's what happened to me. Show had too much of a modern air, needed a far more gritty epic fantasy tone.
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by Sabinus 1y ago
Interesting, I didn't get that prompt. Read the whole thing fine, no login.
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by Sabinus 1y ago
Gene editing is not eugenics. Eugenics are managed human breeding programs. Gene editing is gene editing. In fact, gene editing completely removes the need for eugenics programs.
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by Sabinus 1y ago
The medical profession allocates scarce resources based on the amount of quality-adjusted life years it will bring. Humans see value in living life, so cutting a life short is worse than a life that would be ending soon anyway.
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by Sabinus 1y ago
There have got to be community fine-tuned models for this floating about. I mostly work with image gen so I can't give you recommendations, but there are plenty of people fine tuning their own models to make smut. Discord servers and p
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by Sabinus 1y ago
I thought the reason we don't need fluoridated water any more is because of the widespread availability and use of fluoridated toothpastes.
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by Sabinus 1y ago
In this era perhaps it's a plus. The paper is the direct thoughts of the authors, and hasn't been put through a LLM.
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by Sabinus 1y ago
Also Roku's basilisk. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk
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by Sabinus 1y ago
I highly encourage you all the watch the various 100 days interviews Trump gave, they're interesting. Take the ABC News one, it's all very normal and cordial and you can almost believe he's a competent president until they ac
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by Sabinus 1y ago
Hilary answered questions for 11 hours in front of a partisan House committee regarding her email server. Trump's admin won't get a fraction of that scrutiny.
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by Sabinus 1y ago
And Hegseth answering questions before a House committee for 11 hours, like Clinton did.
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by Sabinus 2y ago
Short term treasury bills, like the ones TFA says Buffett has, mature between 4 and 52 weeks. Since, within that timeframe, the risk of Trump crashing the stock market is far greater than Trump having the US default on its debt, Buffet is
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by Sabinus 2y ago
Apparently the CCP does suppress wages in various ways to keep export goods manufactured cheaply/competitively. It's probably more of an economic strategy than an expression of collectivism but I can't be sure.
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by Sabinus 2y ago
>If you want to restrict imports from China, it is somewhat necessary to restrict trade from Western countries as wel A good strategy would be not to impose tariffs all goods, just the more important ones, and you would do it WITH your a
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by Sabinus 2y ago
That's why the manufacturing companies did it. The politicians allowed it because it was meant to make the world more peaceful and prosperous. Which it did, really.
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by Sabinus 2y ago
Perhaps. The Courts and the Legislature have yet to defend their powers, but the crunch point to do so is approaching. When we get past the stage that they have fully capitulated to Trump then it'll get truly ugly.
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by Sabinus 2y ago
Maybe they shouldn't have, but the reasons were: It'll make America richer. It'll encourage world peace. (It's hard to go to war with a country you trade with a lot) The disadvantages of this were that high labour manuf
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by Sabinus 2y ago
The Israeli government may have been lied to by a radicalised IDF commander. I assume it's at least a squad required to do what's in the video.
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by Sabinus 2y ago
But Trump hasn't calculated these tariffs based on their tariffs. He's calculated it based on trade surplus.
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by Sabinus 2y ago
So they are left out, but not intentionally?
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by Sabinus 2y ago
What's your point? The olive imports from these 4-8 countries will all be tariffed also.
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by Sabinus 2y ago
Ah you're right, too late to edit.
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by Sabinus 2y ago
It's only been months of the Trump admin and already the imperial attitudes are coming out. It's 2025, not 1900. Converting the US into an empire isn't going to go as well as you think it will.
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by Sabinus 2y ago
Your comment reminded me, an excellent showcase of institutional shenanigans is the Chernobyl miniseries on Netflix. Denial, blame, coverups, accountability. It's a very well made series in a grim Soviet setting.
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by Sabinus 2y ago
>civic institutions provide the safety net instead of the government Now that the internet has destroyed local community and trust in institutions, what will conservatism do?
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by Sabinus 2y ago
The power of invested Capital protecting itself is what delays climate change action. Billionaires have a oversized influence on the decisions of Capital, for obvious reasons. Looking at their personal co2 consumption multiplied by their nu

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