SonOfKyuss

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by SonOfKyuss 1y ago
You sort of touched on it, but yes this isn’t about changing the minds of adults, it’s about keeping the kids in those areas from questioning what they are being told by those around them
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by SonOfKyuss 1y ago
But this is also what the folks behind this want. Rural America is easier to radicalize when they aren’t exposed to all that woke empathy crap on Sesame Street or facts-based reporting from NPR. If PBS news hour sounded like Fox News, they
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by SonOfKyuss 1y ago
I actually think that spending over $75 billion to fund a secret police force for a corrupt autocrat might not be the best use of taxpayer dollars
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by SonOfKyuss 1y ago
Ah of course. I was looking at it from the greed angle and totally overlooked the pettiness angle.
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by SonOfKyuss 1y ago
I’m really curious why Trump is suddenly open to aiding Ukraine. Regarding the war, he’s been pretty favorable to Russia until now. As with all things Trump, the answer is usually to figure out how this can benefit him personally, but there
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by SonOfKyuss 1y ago
You voted for theater and for cruelty against the least fortunate. If they really wanted to bring jobs back, they would aggressively go after the businesses that hire illegal workers.
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by SonOfKyuss 1y ago
They may be relatively safe now, but they bore the brunt of job losses for the past few decades and will be next on the chopping block when more advanced automation is available
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by SonOfKyuss 1y ago
I’m genuinely curious if this will apply to vaccines as well.
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by SonOfKyuss 1y ago
Whoever wrote this article needs to update their AI model
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by SonOfKyuss 1y ago
Hypocrisy is a feature of fascism, not a bug. Demonstrating that the rules apply to your enemies but not your supporters is part of the appeal.
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by SonOfKyuss 1y ago
I invite you to spend an hour watching Fox News and then an hour listening to NPR and still claim those are just two sides of the same coin. The level of bias, propaganda, and active misinformation is so much greater on Fox News and it’s no
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by SonOfKyuss 1y ago
I mostly disagree with regulations that specifically limit progress, but I can also see the benefit of phasing changes in at a regulated pace in order to give the real humans who depend on those jobs with very little social safety net time
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by SonOfKyuss 1y ago
Your point would be kind of valid if the tools they build were free to use
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by SonOfKyuss 1y ago
If your industry relies on stealing to exist, maybe it doesn’t deserve to live
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by SonOfKyuss 1y ago
Not OP but I’ll give my perspective. I have no problem fixing someone else’s bugs up to a point, but I also don’t want to be the one cleaning up someone else’s mess who didn’t take time to do proper testing but is getting rated higher than
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by SonOfKyuss 1y ago
It only makes sense to fire someone who needs to be nudged into getting their job done if you can find a replacement at a similar cost who doesn’t.
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by SonOfKyuss 1y ago
Agreed. I spend maybe 20% of my time writing code. The rest is gathering requirements, design, testing, scheduling. Maybe if that 20% now takes half as long, I might have time to actually write some tests and documentation
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by SonOfKyuss 1y ago
I used to get their mail order catalogs as a kid in the 90s. I recently rediscovered them on Facebook. Great group of people with a passion for quirky stuff
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by SonOfKyuss 1y ago
If they really are getting the same amount of productivity with less staff, they’re probably pretty happy with that
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by SonOfKyuss 1y ago
It seems like it is targeted at people who currently commute by car. It could be a net benefit if the number of car riders who use it outnumber the amount of people it cannibalizes from public transportation.
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by SonOfKyuss 1y ago
Bill Gates was seen as a bit of a villain in the 90s, especially by the Linux and Mac user base. He never did a nazi salute though. Those were simpler times.
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by SonOfKyuss 2y ago
I’m all for holding journalists to account, but I think they gave away the game when their main takeaway from reading that article was to complain that a terrorist was treated unfairly using a weak comparison to another group they likely ha
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by SonOfKyuss 2y ago
Maybe because only one of those movements was rooted in white nationalist ideology and massacred children? The whataboutusm to defend a terrorist is pretty sick
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by SonOfKyuss 2y ago
It’s a good thing we still have consumer protection agencies to look into predatory practices…
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by SonOfKyuss 2y ago
Auto parts come to mind. Also there are plenty of products on shelves at big box retailers like Walmart that are made in China and won’t fall into the exempted categories.
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by SonOfKyuss 2y ago
More likely is that competitive districts flip blue. Republican primary voters don’t seem to be upset. They’re getting what they wanted. It’s independents/undecideds that flip flop every election that could sway back against the GOP af
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by SonOfKyuss 2y ago
And Tesla seems to be underperforming the overall EV market in terms of growth and market share lately. It will be interesting to see how that trend continues
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by SonOfKyuss 2y ago
Given that Putin and Trump are firmly in power and Musk is the most wealthy person on earth, I’d say that strategy works pretty well. Destroying the truth helps authoritarians drown out opposing views
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by SonOfKyuss 2y ago
I think we have quite a ways to go before that. The price is still pumped pretty high compared to what it would be without the Musk hype that got it to where it is. I bet we’d see a 30-40% drop in share price if they fired him now. They’re
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by SonOfKyuss 2y ago
Who’s to say how much the stock price “should” be based on individual company performance, but I think the idea is that individual company performance may be affected by uncertainty in the broader economy. You could also see movement out of

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