Schmerika

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by Schmerika 6mo ago
If humans only work so that they can live, and wouldn't ever work if they didn't have to - then why do so many of our best inventions and advances come from people who didn't give a toss about profit? If we have the technolog
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by Schmerika 6mo ago
> The psyop is perfectly okay. Is it? You really don't mind if everything that gets put in front of you is controlled ? What if the people who talk about class war, the people who speak up about US and Israeli terror and torture an
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by Schmerika 6mo ago
And the inevitable continued degradation of all our resources leads where , exactly... Because once you answer that question for yourself, you'll hopefully care a lot less about the "many of good sides".
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by Schmerika 6mo ago
Oh look at that, Quarrelsome's going for the 'righteous anger' dollar. That's a good; that's a good market.
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by Schmerika 6mo ago
> Perhaps only 10% of workers (the most unattached and lacking in obligations) would voluntarily work. That's not even close to true. Basically every study on UBI, everywhere, has shown that either more people work, or employment st
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by Schmerika 6mo ago
Yes - but OP would need to take off their blinkers to see any of that. As long as they refuse to do that, they can keep claiming this war was a big cool success.
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by Schmerika 6mo ago
> It is really hard for me to see how any of this has made the IRGC more stable in the long run. It's not really that hard to see - if you open your eyes. If you refuse to do that, to the point where you see nothing but the hint of
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by Schmerika 6mo ago
Being against genocide isn't a "value". It's not idealistic, or naive either. It's a duty. Moral, and legal; domestic and international. Drawing a hard red line at genocide is damn near the very least any human must
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
> folks like you will go to the ends of the earth to make excuses for anyone who's complicit in the use of these tools Settle down would ye. > in exactly the same way, to use your example, that smoking cigarettes is bad. No one s
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
That's exactly what it is; and it's worse than negligence for the Atlantic to pretend not to understand this*. The phenomenon of the Epstein class explicitly calling wars and coups and crashes "full of opportunity" gets
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
Nice review; covers all the best points of the book, and its place in the world, without too many spoilers.
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
> It has been very revealing in a "see who your real friends are" kind of way. Nah, not really. If I had 'friends' who went about kidnapping and assassinating leaders, mass murdering little girls, bombing literally hu
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
> What I fear is that regulation will be informed from the false and dangerous equivalence you've made there comparing addictive drugs to looking at an audio-visual screen. Let's be extremely clear - I'm not the one who fi
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
You're on HN; a platform where the founders and CEO are big cheerleaders of DOGE. Where talk of many third rail topics is quietly flagged into oblivion, and discussions on the flagging processes are explicitly banned. YC were best buds
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
> haven't we always had that weird eccentric dude(tte) I would bet the first human to do lots of stuff was that weird eccentric dude(tte). Who else would come up with writing, or words, or carry fire, or wear clothes, domesticate
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
> Later re-verification of the same data produced figures around 6.5-7.5 hrs. Well, yes, climate and ecology matter a lot. Still, I believe that figure is including things like making sure a pot doesn't boil over, ie low intensity c
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
Honestly not sure how necessary that /s is. Like, without cats storing grain becomes so, so much harder; maybe basically impossible/unfeasible. Without storing grain you don't get cities as easily or as long. Same with transp
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
> Can't imagine having to live with anxiety of just staying alive. Spoken like someone who easily affords both rent and food. > Constant diseases, infestations, starvation, animal attacks. Not really, no. Sometimes, sure. Not
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
I don't think my tone was 'raging'. Very strange takeaway - but also interesting... "Keep raging" is a good example of what's known as a "thought terminating cliche". You might not want to terminate y
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
Global wildlife populations have dropped 69% since 1970. Virtually all climate scientists agree human activity is destabilizing the climate, the oceans, and entire biospheres. Military spending is at record highs while housing, healthcare,
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
Defending the idea that large-scale civilian harm is acceptable is where your argument, such as it is, becomes truly dangerous. Aside from all your debunked claims, and aside from your ahistorical misunderstandings of very recent history...
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
> Thank you for being honest about where you get your news from (the links at the bottom of the post). This helps explain your worldview. What a weird leap to make. Nope, I just searched to find those; with a search engine. > I would
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
And even 50 year old computer games generally have better UX.
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
Huh; that seems like a way better etymology for the "tada!" flourish than any of the explanations in this rather heated discussion: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/33564/origin-of-...
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
I was gonna say, we already dragged Garry for writing like this a couple weeks ago [0].. But this is a new incident of him measuring value by lines of code. Carry on. 0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47418576
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
> The hyperbolic statements in your comment suggest your worldview comes from an online echo chamber. No, nothing hyperbolic whatsoever. Everything I said is trivial to source. If you believe otherwise then you might follow your own advi
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
Also, let us never forget that the Epstein class are extremely skilled, and experienced, in making money off of things going to shit.
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
> sub-optimally Optimal for society? Optimal for the Epstein class? Or do you mean optimal for the owner, personally, in the very short term? Because that's the choice people are making these days. It's not really "partisa
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
The enforcement gap is real. That doesn't mean IHL doesn't exist. Legal norms and international courts still influence state behavior, slow and relatively toothless as they may be. That's why you haven't seen Netanyahu
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
> a) You'll have to back that number with a reference. I did, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47552783 > Then demonstrate that they were targeted, not just hit. If you want to believe that 498 schools

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