arrosenberg

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by arrosenberg 1y ago
This is pretty unhinged, so I’ll only respond to the one interesting thing - it’s pretty obvious that part of the male sexlessness problem is related to a lack of good paying, respectable jobs. Tough to get a good woman if you don’t have th
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
w/r/t the HIV thing - there are HIV immune populations in Scandinavia who have a natural mutation affecting CCR5, so there is at least some reason to believe it’s safe to edit or knock out. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.g
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
Seems kind of silly to pretend it won’t happen though. Especially since we’ve chosen to base social status on wealth.
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
Deteriorating conditions for the working class are the main driver of our push toward authoritarian government. A pragmatist would have been more sympathetic for reasons beyond pure capitalist economics.
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
45 was, 47 is closer to President McKinley than any modern politician.
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
Not really proof of much. It's more likely that there is a huge increase in people who don't like having their taxes increased by a cadre of billionaires. I doubt support has increased for expanding free trade policies (e.g. the T
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
Are we pretending Clinton democrats were not passionate free traders before?
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
Yeah, that's why I blame Harry Reid.
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
Still hate her (but Harry Reid far more). The filibuster is why we are in this mess - we can’t ever fix a problem. There will always be 41 Senators (often representing more cash and/or cows than people) to pass meaningful legislation.
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
Bill Maher is a coward who is groveling because his personal sense of self-importance makes him believe he will end up in CECOT.
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
If you look in the API there are several flavors of 4o that behave fairly differently.
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
The CCP has a pretty tight grip on the domestic narrative. The farmers in China have no agency to complain. US farmers, on the other hand, are a powerful constituency, especially the consolidated, corporate entities.
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
> Have there been societies and economies that exploit moral ambition? The Crusades seem like a good example.
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
Maybe I've watched too much Star Trek to think that's a good idea. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Booby_Trap_(episode)
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
I won't discount you here, because two of the best marriages in my circle were from dating apps (albeit back when they were more useful, like 2013-2014), but far more of them are based on what I said - regular interactions, lots of sma
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
I am giving those people a tool. Find a local sports league, improv group or regular trivia night and start going. It's fine if you only talk to the person working the league or the employees the first couple times - they're paid
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
Nope, it almost certainly won't. If you want to make friends and meet a partner you need to join groups. Pick ones where you will see the same people regularly and make a lot of small talk. Small talk is where the magic happens, so hav
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
It's kind of obvious, right? Most of us grew up on AOL Instant Messenger (or, heaven forbid, MSN Messenger).
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
I refer to this as my "Work for Money" scam. At any point, one side can pull the rug on the other, but in the meantime, I do work and you pay me full freight for it.
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
Very convincing argument, but no. They have socialist policies, but their economics are mercantile.
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
Might be because of your location. Some governments like California have regulated these types of things with a law that says you must be allowed to cancel in the same manner you signed up.
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
They're just going to replace the engineers, analysts and designers. The same greedy MBAs and VCs are still going to be running it and the agents they deploy will reflect that. This is not a competitive market by any definition - huge
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
Agree with most of what you wrote, but China isn’t capitalist, they’re mercantilist with socialist policies. Capital is heavily constrained under Xi.
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
Is porn a bigger problem than Andrew Tate in that regard?
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
We can keep social media, but the content algorithms must be made illegal. If Meta, et al. were really serious about communities they would focus on that, instead Facebook is a morass of anger and scams intended to feed the beast.
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
Sure, but I'm arguing Apple shouldn't be allowed to sell "default browser" status on iOS. Show the customer a randomized list and let them choose. Google will probably still dominate, but it won't be because they pa
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
The consumer of the ad platform is the advertiser, not the person clicking the ad. Major advertisers either play ball with Google or their ads don't get seen in search. Doesn't seem very different to Standard Oil controlling who g
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
I think it would be a good move to prevent browser deals. There is no reality in which the winner is Firefox, Kagi or DDG - it will always be Google or Bing. That's clearly anticompetitive - it locks the other browsers out of a major s
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
> They own the government, and obviously your idea of potentially making them homeless will be immediately rejected and we will be in this status quo forever. Disagree. We've been negotiating from the middle. We got the New Deal bec
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
What doesn't make sense? He'd owe $1.6B the first year, and then he'd be shit out of luck because he drove the stock to 0. Not my problem. And you should stop putting yourself in his shoes - you will never be a billionaire, a

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