Schmerika

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by Schmerika 7mo ago
"Might makes right" is not a smart or sensible way for a sentient species to make decisions. We depend on trust and cooperation to achieve our potential. All the work being done to tear that to shreds (as imperfect as it always wa
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
> There's so many inefficiencies that are trivially solved with existing tech frameworks. There really, really are. The legal industry is well aware of that fact - and how many billable hours they stand to lose by making their wo
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
> The US doesn't generally intermingle their children with their military bases... I hope. There's no need to 'hope' against reality. This information is easily available to us both - there are tens of thousands of K-
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
Nope. Where are you getting your news from?
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
> Calling it a “school attack” implies deliberate targeting of a civilian facility. >It was obviously an error because the building used to be a military facility and is on the campus of a military base! ... No actually, being on the
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
Do you think that's how most students are using it? Teachers would quickly disabuse you of that notion [0]: > In study hall, I watched a kid use Snapchat to take pictures of his computer screen. He was working on IXL skills. His Sna
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
> the US and Israel have not yet committed anything that would constitute a war crime. Targeting and blowing up schools full of little girls [0] is in fact an atrocity and a war crime. Double and triple tapping it? War crimes upon war cr
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
> What if a monstrously ambitious morally flexible snake is exactly what the Democrats need now? I'd call that a very strange take, considering Dems support for arming genocide just lost them a rather important election. Not a popul
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
> an embittered Iran Very little to nothing about why Iran might be 'feeling bitter'. Amazing how our media can simply glide right over hundreds of war crimes and atrocities.
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
Large ebony pot calls enormous vanta-black kettle 'black'. > Asked about other California tech titans, Newsom praised OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as an innovator who can "look at a mountain" and "see right through it.&
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
If every wealthy country had a frog to represent their culture of taking care of workers (strong unions, workers rights, vacation days, not having healthcare tied to their employment, maternity and paternity leave, equitable pay etc), there
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
It's very weird indeed - and yet, it always seems to match with whatever 'random' country the latest shows and news reports have been demonizing. It reminds me of that old joke: > A KGB spy and a CIA agent meet up in a bar
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
That's an important distinction, thank you. However, it still points to the fact that Harris lost millions of votes due to her support for arming Israel. And, even for the people who voted Harris there was a distinct lack of enthusia
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
This comment section is about as perfect an irl microcosm of Plato's cave as I could imagine :/
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
> By the fact that Trump hasn't killed thousands of people to stay in power. Oh? How many do you think he has killed? How many people have died so far because of Trump's aid to Israel? How many people have died because of the c
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
> Alone smoking is terrible. You enjoy the first, then you know very well how you feel the following ones. > Only the bad effects of being lazy, tired, sleepy, none of the pros. ... You are allowed to stop at one you know.
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
Democrats funded, armed and protected a live-streamed genocide so horrific that roughly a third of their own hard-core base (Biden 2020 voters) couldn't bring themselves to vote for Harris, even in a close race against Trump [0]. There
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
By what metric? Certainly not by lives lost, damage done, or dollars embezzled. Not by interference in other countries, or apocalyptic rhetoric. So, what exactly is your opinion based on?
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
> at some point the only logical conclusion is that we like to suffer and to lose. Or that our political and media class are captured...
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
> Green energy isn't very useful for heating in winter. Solar energy isn't the only 'green' energy. The wind, tides, geothermal vents, rivers etc all continue to work as well or better in winter. Plus there's a l
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
With respect, if you believe that then you likely aren't aware of the true scale of the problem. Unless they follow /active, /new, and have [showdead] on, people have very little idea just how much is getting suppressed here.
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
Honestly it's not even that moderation doesn't care. Garry Tan and PG were big DOGE fans, and I'm not silly enough to believe that the moderation are unaware of that fact. There's been far too many flagged Musk stories t
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
> When everyone is just rolling around in the muck there is no incentive to be better. There have been many celebrated and uncelebrated people throughout history, known for their tremendous insight and wisdom, who all say the same thing
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
> there is just a ton of people who are natural born minions Yeah I think that's kind of it. I'd prefer to believe that it's school/culture/religion making people like that... And those are definitely factors.
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
> this seems to be sufficient to most. Yeah that's the really painful bit alright. The pretence isn't even good . But they'll get so mad at you for pointing out the obvious. It's been this way for a long time - MLK
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
Yep. The broken window fallacy and the tragedy of the commons*, darkening the future of basically every vertebrate on the planet. * A solved problem, btw.
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
Not if you've ever had good butter* on good bread*. * - which most American's haven't. I realize this sounds like needless shade, but it's very true.
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
Getting a 403 error on their site, but the archive remembers [0] and yeah - that website is wildly sus. Lil offtopic: This is interesting stuff on its own, so I don't want to distract from the important discussion. However, OP might
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
We've spent more than $20 trillion dollars on 'wars' in that region since 2003. We've killed millions. The people responsible have made billions. These 'numbers' (ie, our future potential, not to mention millio
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by Schmerika 7mo ago
You still think this problem is one sided? Dems had Trump dead to rights for insurrection. They had everything in the Epstein files and didn't drop it. They told you they were working tirelessly for a ceasefire - while unilaterally v

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