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by ericmay 2mo ago
> Imagine trying to create a single set of laws to apply to all of the countries in North and South America at the same time. I actually think it would be quite a bit easier than it is to create the EU. There's a lot more broad cult
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by ericmay 2mo ago
That doesn’t make any sense. The US has access (and is the source) of global capital because of our markets, laws, and strength of our economy. China won’t supplant the US because it’s a communist dictatorship that disappears people which m
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by ericmay 2mo ago
> That is literally the stage we are in now. No we're not, and when it started to look like we were heading that way in some limited fashion the public fought back and stopped it, people were fired, and the heavy-handed tactics most
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It's honestly insulting to people who have actually lived and died under dictatorial regimes, communist regimes, and other barbaric forms of government and those who, and many times they've been Americans, who fought and died to p
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by ericmay 2mo ago
Ok. Don’t use them and then we’ll just leverage China’s models too. What’s the problem? Why does the US need to lead in AI if Europe (and everyone else) prefers to partner with China? We can just partner with them too. They can have Taiwan.
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by ericmay 2mo ago
> You are the one who said “doesn’t affect most people”. Because it’s true. > But now, what you write is it’s only 5% of the people being affected. Well you wrote it was 49% or something. Me saying 5% is still in the bounds of “vast m
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by ericmay 2mo ago
I don’t believe I equated any two things, but if you in fact read my comment that way this comment is now clarifying you and informing you otherwise.
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by ericmay 2mo ago
> This illegal shit going on doesn’t affect more than 49.999% of the population so… no big deal. Well it’s more like 95%, and you’re also injecting a false distinction here to suggest 49% of folks think one thing and 51% think another wh
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by ericmay 2mo ago
No, I have rights. Nobody can target me for anything including the police. All you're doing is proving my point about sensationalism. -edit to your edit- Black people still have rights even if some cops do some dumb, illegal thing.
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by ericmay 2mo ago
We're not living in a dictatorship or anything close to it. Communist regimes killed tens of millions of people outright. Rather important difference.
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by ericmay 2mo ago
> You have no real rights when police can kill, maim, or otherwise fuck you up with impunity even when you have done nothing wrong. Really? You have no rights now!? Jeez. When did that start? Was it on Inauguration Day or was it like, th
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by ericmay 2mo ago
One can just argue about the normalization of people breaking the law by overstaying visas or hopping the border or whatever being the Supreme Court (or whoever you feel like blaming) legalized some other concept that most Americans also fi
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by ericmay 2mo ago
Your day to day is still pretty much normal. If you turned off the news and never read about Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data [1] you'd just in your head remember there are tens of millions of folks flying, going throug
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by ericmay 2mo ago
> 1 in 6 officers were on leave the entire year? What is that about? No clue my friend. Public sector unions do weird things. > Like I wrote in another comment, both can be simultaneously true. The department is both understaffed and
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by ericmay 2mo ago
I'm not an expert in police staffing levels, just poking around and asking questions. This seems interesting from your second link: > The number of Oakland Police Department officers has varied from a low of 626 (in 1996 and in
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by ericmay 2mo ago
What about crime?
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by ericmay 2mo ago
How much did crime go up? How much did the population increase? What other factors were there? Those would be helpful data points too.
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by ericmay 2mo ago
Yea, it is an extension. It's additive. The safest car is the one that's parked. Car-centric culture has a lot of negative externalities. But the entire society is geared toward cars and propping them up. Cars themselves, auto job
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by ericmay 2mo ago
Self-driving cars are really cool but they won't really solve our transit problems, they'll probably just make them worse and more expensive. We should be focusing on better development patterns (appropriate density - not skyscrap
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by ericmay 2mo ago
> Is the local power structure not allowed to charge taxes? Yes the local power structure is allowed to charge taxes, or taxes by other means. > Would we rather bomb the whole place into rubble than allow them to feed the hungry? Mayb
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by ericmay 2mo ago
Please stop saying things like " I don't think you are honestly engaging with how fucked this has gotten.". This is just a dumb waste of time. When someone disagrees with you, it doesn't mean they are not "honestly
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by ericmay 2mo ago
Jeez the horror of societies around the world wanting to be rich. Damn America for wanting to provide material wealth, medicine, and more instead of its citizens living in abject poverty! > I mean, think about it. The USSR was the second
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by ericmay 2mo ago
I'm not resolving policymakers of blame, but ignoring consumer behavior and cultural attitudes leads to incomplete analysis and faulty solutions. You see the same thing with respect to the environment. People still buy plastic bottled
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by ericmay 2mo ago
If they want to be more effective they should rephrase the language used here. Taxing AI to help workers sounds collectivist which is bad and most Americans at least don’t work. Change it to “Taxing AI to Help Citizens Sounds good…” to be
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by ericmay 2mo ago
Don’t worry, it’s all over the world. [1] [2] [1] https://www.wsj.com/world/india/500-000-applicants-583-jobs-... [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/03/world/asia/china-sl
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“People are worried about German/French/Italian/Japanese/Swiss/Canadian solvency” [1] “Germany’s benchmark 10-year bund yield was last seen trading at a 15-year high, while its French counterpart reached its hig
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by ericmay 2mo ago
> The #2 economy in the world is run by the Communist Party of China. #1, if you measure in material terms rather than financial terms. Well if you can even get accurate measurements out. Nobody really knows, for example, whether the pop
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by ericmay 2mo ago
> I'm arguing on your terms in the hopes that when you see the output of the "center" function change dramatically with zoom level you will trust it a little less as a source of foundational truth. I'm not following.
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by ericmay 2mo ago
Given the history of communism and the results in every state that implemented it, I just do not agree with this assessment at all. For example, you don't need the US to be a capitalistic country for the implementation of the gulag or
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by ericmay 2mo ago
Hm, if my options are "not knowing what I'm talking about" or being an apologist for genocide, I'll go with being an apologist for genocide every time. Why? Because if someone is going to misconstrue my comments to that

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