agentgumshoe

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by agentgumshoe 3y ago
Have you got a source for that? But your point is valid, life expectancy is not the same as quality of life. I'd personally rather live five years less and be in great general health than be slogging through pain and medical bingo for
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by agentgumshoe 3y ago
As Rain Falls said in RDR2: "People don't change, they just become more of who they really are."
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by agentgumshoe 3y ago
This is disingenuous. Glorifying 'science' (which can be entirely shoddy to 'gold standard' and cover the whole gamut of garbage to spot on, which can change weekly) and dismissing cultural knowledge (i.e. how certain p
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by agentgumshoe 3y ago
I think the key question is: do reparations actually change anything? You give one generation a 'payout' so the politicians can wipe their hands of the issue, then what, are we back to the same point with the next generation? Wh
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by agentgumshoe 3y ago
There never is.
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by agentgumshoe 3y ago
Yes lots of people go around saying how proud they are their trash can is made in the USA...
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by agentgumshoe 3y ago
That's exactly the point, that's how it's sold. They don't exactly go around telling us that it's cementing centralisation of large corporations, leveraging slave/cheap labour as much as possible until caught w
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by agentgumshoe 3y ago
Globalism was and is always sold as a good idea.
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by agentgumshoe 3y ago
I think there's a weird situation here. People don't actually want 'cheap' things made in America (because that's what China et al do), but then complain it's too expensive to make locally. This is very diff
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by agentgumshoe 3y ago
Aside the hyperbole, yeah, it's now decades of 're-learning' ahead again, that's permanently destroyed for a generation or two (considering the existing decades of loss) who it won't be there for.
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by agentgumshoe 3y ago
Silly analogy. If you're going to remove grazing animals, you might need to figure out how many new fields you'll need for the extra veg required and it's transport, figure out where wool and leather are going to come from,
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by agentgumshoe 3y ago
They're also a great virtue signal. This is of course the most reductionist argument, it's a lot more complex than that!
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by agentgumshoe 3y ago
There are ways to fix this of course without moving to not eating meat of course. Meat eating is not a 'fetish' in any significant way, much as it suits some agendas to make it seem so. I could claim that about any product or foo
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by agentgumshoe 3y ago
I'm still wondering, why should anyone rely on AI generated answers? They are logically no better than search engine results. By that I mean, you can't tell if it's returning absolute trash or spot on correct. Building tru
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by agentgumshoe 3y ago
Well I suppose he can pay out the arbitration a bit easier now...
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by agentgumshoe 3y ago
True, though I think there are some things about Musk that really should be looked at more critically*. Yet we focus on character and hype reality instead. * https://www.deepthroatipo.com/its-not-about-tesla-or-alibaba...
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by agentgumshoe 3y ago
Yeah same. Though you can still use it without an account if you install the app... But you have to install the app.
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by agentgumshoe 3y ago
Would be slightly better if the competition wasn't coming from the megacorp across the road...
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by agentgumshoe 3y ago
Isn't this the captain obvious outcome? Or were people seriously thinking Threads would completely eat up Twitter's lunch and they could finally announce "the king is dead, long live the king."?
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by agentgumshoe 3y ago
But if it said "he turns fluids into Black Holes and inflating universes" we wouldn't even be having this discussion... Shall we avoid gender altogether these days because it's too tricky not to go down moral rabbit hole
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by agentgumshoe 3y ago
It's like there isn't a bunch of people out there that might like the 'old fashioned' style of media. We're all kids now? Silly article really, of course online has more reach, an analogy here is that video games s
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by agentgumshoe 3y ago
I assume back then they weren't too fussed about having 100 people work on a small rock should they desire. I think we just don't comprehend, as mentioned above, how much time and effort could be allowed for back then. I'm s
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by agentgumshoe 3y ago
Why so many?
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by agentgumshoe 3y ago
You ignored the bit where I said 'billion+ existing users'. Not exactly 100mil new random users with that install base.
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by agentgumshoe 3y ago
I think it's interesting that we expect each new social app to be 'the next big thing' and a failure if not replacing Twitter/Insta/Threads/Whatever by tomorrow. If they get decent user growth and remain profit
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by agentgumshoe 3y ago
Amazing what having a billion+ users already with a logon/ID can do for uptake! I'm wondering whether it'll be Apple or Meta that becomes Zetatech...
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by agentgumshoe 3y ago
Remember, we're talking 'targeted advertising' here, where I imagine it is not easy for general business owners to understand whether it is more, or even as effective as 'traditional' advertising. Easy money for adv
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by agentgumshoe 3y ago
Perhaps, people are sold on the idea that it works even if it doesn't at all, and so the people selling those ideas make lots of money. Like gambling.
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by agentgumshoe 3y ago
So we need to eradicate more retirees then? Seriously though, workers on what? I find it quite odd to base the value on workers as being a percentage of retirees, that's entirely detached from demand, productivity and opportunity. &qu
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by agentgumshoe 3y ago
This all seems to be missing the point. What does using DNS for your identity do for your actual data? Your data is still going to be on whichever platform you log on to, and otherwise wouldn't we want to be able to make a unique ID

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