cm2012

5 ms·

31.
by cm2012 1mo ago
I was referring to BEAD by the short hand name of gigabit, my b
32.
by cm2012 1mo ago
The Gigabit Project (edit: should be BEAD) has allocated 40 billion since 2021 and still has not finished any last mile projects.
33.
by cm2012 1mo ago
The fishermen don't use regular dynamite. They make their own with easily available agricultural and mining chemicals, which are impossible to ban on the island without other worse effects.
34.
by cm2012 1mo ago
Amazing share! What a performer. What a life.
35.
by cm2012 1mo ago
If you add in all super PACs and outside spending, it would make up roughly 30-35% of the overall expidenture. That's a lot but super PAC money is worth much less to a campaign compared to donations because it can't be used for co
36.
by cm2012 1mo ago
There are a dozen small business owners in this thread alone, giving specific details of how this legislation is irrationally hurting their business and the economy.
37.
by cm2012 1mo ago
Sure. Here is us politician finances from 2024. Note that the vast majority is from individual contributors. Only 6-8% of us political funding in 2024 came from business-PAC contributions. https://www.fec.gov/resources/
38.
by cm2012 1mo ago
Thank for sharing so many fascinating details!
39.
by cm2012 1mo ago
Is europe liberalizing its labor laws at light speed?
40.
by cm2012 1mo ago
You are about 20 years out of date. Modern politicians get almost all of their funding from small donations, in other words, from passionate partisans who care about culture war issues.
41.
by cm2012 1mo ago
Because if it's just a few evil people making the world bad then that's fixable. The truth that it is it's an extraordinarily complex stew of incentives means its harder to fix.
42.
by cm2012 1mo ago
It's comforting to believe that large corporations with the greed of the rich and powerful is what makes these inefficiencies but really it's about a million little political negotiations, primarily driven by voters dislike of cha
43.
by cm2012 1mo ago
In Europe air pollution, while much higher than the United States, is at a hundred year low.
44.
by cm2012 2mo ago
Yes. I dont understand at all what AA is worried about. One copy of a book is no big deal? good will and used book stores throw out a lot more than that.
45.
by cm2012 2mo ago
I dont see how that follows at all
46.
by cm2012 2mo ago
So is Kelsier from Mistborn, Isaac from the binding of Isaac, lots of fun nerd characters
47.
by cm2012 2mo ago
That law would take a hammer to average US quality of life almost overnight. Its hard to state how dramatic the societal upheaval would be and how destructive.
48.
by cm2012 2mo ago
The Medici Banking family paid Michelangelo to paint the Medici Chapel. Scrovegni Chapel by Giotto was made to help the reputation of the scrovegni family who were big creditors. This is as old as time.
49.
by cm2012 2mo ago
I read and enjoyed this article but strongly disagree with the thesis. Oreos are as important a part of life as anything else. People have feelings, memories, and good experiences with it. Just because a big company makes them instead of a
50.
by cm2012 2mo ago
Official BPD LPR policy says they use them: https://www.baltimorepolice.org/transparency/bpd-policies/10... Here you go from BPD on recent initiatives, many of which involve surveillance: https://www.ba
51.
by cm2012 2mo ago
I have provided 2 links showing this! There are dozens on the internet. Baltimore uses social services AND surveillance. I dont know why this is hard. Official BPD LPR policy says they use them: https://www.baltimorepolice.org&#x
52.
by cm2012 2mo ago
This writing is so delicious. Just became a paid sub
53.
by cm2012 2mo ago
Yes
54.
by cm2012 2mo ago
If a store does this, they will eventually be caught and lose business
55.
by cm2012 2mo ago
Sure here is more research for you. This is the last one I will do though, Google for yourself after. "At a high level, the strategy involves three parts: identification, notification, and action. First, a series of weekly meetings led
56.
by cm2012 2mo ago
Sure there are lots of articles but here is one: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/16/baltimore-vi...
57.
by cm2012 2mo ago
Baltimore's crime drop is surveillance-related. They have over 800 city watch cameras across Baltimore. They even sent personalized custom messages to certain gang members who they've tracked doing crime adjacent things and tell
58.
by cm2012 2mo ago
All the news articles we're hearing about amazing cyber hacking are being done internally inside Anthropic and OpenAI, where they remove most of those safeguards.
59.
by cm2012 2mo ago
While it may be one of the safest cities in the U.S., it is still dramatically more crime-ridden than similar-sized cities in Europe or East Asia.
60.
by cm2012 2mo ago
A warrant is too much but strict audit logs and other protections like that I agree with.

More ›