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by Teever 5mo ago
The implication of the argument that you're making is that humans could never understand any alien artifact that we come across. Or that we could never understand the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs or Linear B, or that we could ever
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by Teever 5mo ago
I'm not American and I've never flown Spirit Air so can someone explain where all the loyalty to this airline is coming from? Like isn't this another big corp biting the dust?
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by Teever 5mo ago
It's very important for people to understand that China has something like 260x the ship building capacity of the US and about 60% of the global total[0] while Japan and South Korea make bulk of the rest with the rest of the world work
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by Teever 5mo ago
If this mechanical clock mechanism was part of some sort of Von Neumann probe that was sitting dormant in a star system waiting for the clock to strike a specific time and when that occurs it triggers another mechanism in the probe that com
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China became addicted to its tobacco monopoly(theexamination.org)
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by Teever 5mo ago
Here's more than a decade of claims from Tesla on self driving vehicles summarized in one handy table: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_predictions_for_autono...
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by Teever 5mo ago
My favourite example of bureaucracy that I've ever personally experienced and that I consider to be a hole in one is when I had to show my ID to pick up my passport from the office. I paused for a second and asked the lady what was up
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by Teever 5mo ago
Agreed. We need to look at reforming fines in general. Fines should be scaled to income and the value of the vehicle and should exponentially increase for reoffense when in the same catagory of offense.
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by Teever 5mo ago
Most countries never recognized the Soviet annexation de jure, and under the legal-continuity doctrine Estonia remained an independent state under occupation throughout 1940–1991. I wonder if French people born in Vichy France should have t
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Alberta allows windfall oil and gas payments to select ranchers – on public land(thenarwhal.ca)
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by Teever 5mo ago
I’ve been watching people in /r/balticstates talk about how Russia has been actively changing the birth places of Estonian officials to say Russia instead of occupied Estonia. https://united24media.com/latest-news&
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The X-Files has made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced(midnightmurmurations.substack.com)
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Russia cloaks launch schedule after spaceport falls in Ukraine's sights(arstechnica.com)
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by Teever 5mo ago
You're assuming that I subscribe to the left-right paradigm and that I am an American but that is not the case. The way I see it the modern American left-right paradigm that you identify with is the problem. The little gotchas that yo
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by Teever 5mo ago
That sounds great in theory, but how did it work out in practice? It's been thirteen years since Snowden, and twenty years since Mark Klein, and there have been no real reforms in the system, people continue to work for them, and with
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by Teever 6mo ago
Yes that frees the people with a conscience to work on endeavours that challenge these corrupt institutions. That’s a good thing. It isn’t really a radical or counterintuitive thing to say ‘don’t do evil work for evil people.’ People who gi
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by Teever 6mo ago
The mistake wasn't in not blowing the whistle but it was taking a job with this kind of organization in the first place. Yeah the solution is to not put yourself into a position where you need to make these choices. The fuel for the f
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China Is America's Equal Now and in Any Future Fight, Marine General Warns(twz.com)
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China pushes EU capitals to scrap 'Made in Europe' law or face retaliation(euronews.com)
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by Teever 6mo ago
I think the bigger question that you should be asking is what is America going to do for the next 5 years without the stockpile of munitions that the just burned through.[0] China has every incentive to goad Israel or Iran into starting ano
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by Teever 6mo ago
Again, I don't want to get into a political slap fight here, I want to keep this on the subject of advertising. It sounds to me like you're confusing the magnitude of advertising spending with effectiveness of advertising techniqu
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by Teever 6mo ago
> We aren't mindless zombies buying whatever we see on TV. But we are. I don't want to turn this into a political slap fight but it became apparent to me the extent in which people are swayed by advertising when I read an arti
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by Teever 6mo ago
I saw someone in another thread put it quite succinctly: Shit in the pool then sell the nets to clean it up.
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by Teever 6mo ago
Why do companies put stuff like this out in 2026? Like who is the intended audience and what purpose does this serve? I can't imagine that this will have the same powerful effect that Google's 'don't be evil' stuff
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by Teever 6mo ago
That's the wrong way to look at it. People still drink and drive because the deterrents aren't heavy. It's a bit tautological but if they were heavy enough then by definition they would be deterrents, but they aren't,
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CIA ran MK-Ultra experiments on prisoners of war declassified docs confirm(theintercept.com)
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by Teever 6mo ago
I don't think that's the way to look at it. There are standards for interoperability and user-friendliness with all kinds of devices, and we should expect the same from modern devices. It would have been pretty peculiar and unacce
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The reporters at this news site are AI bots. OpenAI appears to be funding it(modelrepublic.substack.com)
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by Teever 6mo ago
When you pay someone to do sensitive work like plumbing or electrical work in your house do you go for the cheapest guy? Why or why not?
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by Teever 6mo ago
It sure isn’t the 1920s, it’s the 2020s so things like digital money are ephemeral and whimsical. The bigger question is how much food and medicine is there in the supply chain buffers? If all production was to stop immediately — how many

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