caekislove

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by caekislove 2y ago
I have no idea why Microsoft even maintains a Chromium fork. All Edge does is give Google something to point at when regulators call them a monopoly.
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by caekislove 2y ago
How did capital-D Democracy function before the invention of "election needles"!?
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by caekislove 2y ago
NO FUN ALLOWED
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by caekislove 2y ago
The purpose of a system is what it does. Our telecom system is defective by design.
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by caekislove 2y ago
Just make it illegal to vote for Republicans and the "misinformation" AKA "information that makes people vote against Democrats" crisis is solved forever! /s
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by caekislove 2y ago
Protectionism built Japan, Korea and China's economies. Protectionism is good, actually.
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by caekislove 2y ago
I don't know about ALL of Japan, but in Tokyo, pedestrians frequently ignore red lights and seeing cars with green lights waiting while a large group of jaywalkers is crossing in front of them is not an uncommon sight.
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by caekislove 2y ago
This seems like a reasonable explanation until you look at the dynamics of the current Presidential race where Harris has been nonstop HITLER HITLER HITLER and Trump doing the same pro wrestling character he's been playing since the 80
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by caekislove 2y ago
No way! Something like that would only happen in a third world country! /s
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by caekislove 2y ago
I wish Whisper got 1/1000th the amount of love from OpenAI as ChatGPT. It really is genuinely useful (when it works, which is usually).
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by caekislove 2y ago
Honestly, anyone who actually believes that "whales" are gaming the prediction markets should beg borrow or steal every dollar they can and bet against the whales! It's free money if you're right!
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by caekislove 2y ago
Why wouldn't they? They've spent the last decade pretending that the clickbots sustaining the internet ad model are no big deal and apparently the market agrees with them!
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by caekislove 2y ago
That sounds exactly like what an AI would say!
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by caekislove 2y ago
Mastodon is fine outside the mastodon.social bubble. Hundreds of thousands of people to talk to is PLENTY.
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by caekislove 2y ago
"Who is making the comparisons?" MSNBC: "We are!"
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by caekislove 2y ago
Yeah, I could have sworn we had a revolution to stop old men in Europe from telling us what we can and can't do.
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by caekislove 2y ago
We have German taxpayers to thank for winning the Space Race as much as American taxpayers.
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by caekislove 2y ago
Makes sense. After all, academia is basically a leftist hugbox now. They couldn't stand the heat so they got out of the kitchen.
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by caekislove 2y ago
"Efficacious strategies for reducing support for undemocratic practices included correcting misperceptions of rival partisans’ views and highlighting the risk of democratic collapse. " In other words, gaslighting and threats.
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by caekislove 2y ago
We're still here because "Just Stop Oil" isn't a policy proposal, and as close as these activists get to articulating policy proposals are complete non-starters like "make driving a car illegal" or "make i
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by caekislove 2y ago
This isn't an airport. You don't have to announce your departure.
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by caekislove 2y ago
Heh, like that old joke "I'd never join a club that would have me as a member"!
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by caekislove 2y ago
Bad grammar helps let me know I'm talking to a human rather than a LLM
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by caekislove 2y ago
No. People are just less afraid to speak openly then a few years ago when social media was locked down by the left.
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by caekislove 2y ago
As the EU becomes increasingly irrelevant, expect this sort of "fine piracy" to become a regular occurrence.
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by caekislove 2y ago
The proposed solutions to intractable problems such as climate change, like "stop driving cars" or "call off the industrial revolution" are often so ridiculous/unpalatable that there's a tendency to dismiss the
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by caekislove 2y ago
Unironically linking this. https://archive.is/jRGPS
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by caekislove 2y ago
Nobody uses just core WordPress. The moat is the plugin ecosystem. Once somebody creates an alternative plugin repository mirroring wp.org, that's when Matt will go "nuclear".
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by caekislove 2y ago
If buying isn't owning then piracy isn't stealing.
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by caekislove 3y ago
Hey, it worked for trade imbalances and the national debt, right?

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