ericmay

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by ericmay 5mo ago
It’s also not the end of the world to not have capital gains tax.
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by ericmay 5mo ago
The post-WW2 American-led world order was, at times, a shared world order between the United States and Soviet Union. Free trade, perhaps, was "enforced" by the United States Navy but that was for the benefit of all nations and it
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by ericmay 5mo ago
> Hilariously the USS George HW Bush had to go the long way around Africa rather than risk transiting the Bab El Mandeb after the Houthis defeated the US Navy last year. The ship went the long way around because why risk being attacked b
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by ericmay 5mo ago
> The major reason for the never-ending disagreements on the nature of consciousness is that pretty much 100% of the time no-one ever rigorously defines what (things) they are actually talking about, and the word is so overloaded and poo
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by ericmay 5mo ago
Fuel comes from oil. We're the number one oil and gas producing country in the world. Nobody is concerned about whether or not the United States can grow food or fertilize it. At a higher cost? Yea maybe. Oh well - the alternative is u
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by ericmay 5mo ago
Crashes are rare. Exposure to the civilian for what their tax dollars are paying for, opportunities for pilots to become more skilled and train other pilots for advanced maneuvers. Things like that. Overall there’s not too much meat on the
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by ericmay 5mo ago
It kind of is a miracle when you think about what goes in to creating those machines, maintaining them, and learning to fly them so well, of course crashes notwithstanding.
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by ericmay 5mo ago
That contradicts your earlier statement but that’s fine. Does the price of fuel matter or not?
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by ericmay 5mo ago
> seems like that actually did happen, and maritime trade is already impacted? Seems a bit silly to say "the US must act to prevent the very thing that the action will provoke." No it’s not silly. It’s called a preemptive actio
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by ericmay 5mo ago
> Since when is it acceptable to invade another country just for being communist or a dictatorship? Conventionally it's up to the people in those countries to overthrow a dictator. Such is the burden America must face, unfortunately
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by ericmay 5mo ago
Watch and see. > Especially with midterm elections coming, the US will fold. These are the kinds of misunderstandings that are disappointing to see. There is no disagreement here amongst the political class. It is political theater for v
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by ericmay 5mo ago
We are handling it just fine. Your perspective of struggle is very wealth-oriented. We aren’t struggling at all as a country. The second problem with your argument is that you’re using it as an argument against the war but it’s actually a
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by ericmay 5mo ago
We’ll be alright. We handled it in 2022 when Russia (who is helped and supported by Iran by the way) invaded Ukraine. The world didn’t end when gas prices were crazy high then, we just kept chugging along.
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by ericmay 5mo ago
> I’m struggling to understand what this spin is even supposed to mean? Are you unfamiliar with the term? In the case of Vietnam we “lost” the war, yet today we have pretty strong and good relations with Vietnam. Hence we won the peace.
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by ericmay 5mo ago
It won’t be a global catastrophe but if folks around the world think it will be they better figure out how to stop the IRGC and get the Iranians to knock it off. Otherwise we will just keep the Strait closed and deal with it. Don’t forget,
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by ericmay 5mo ago
Yes, and will continue to do so even if it’s at higher prices. What in the world do you think is going on here? Do you think the US is going to run out of food or something because prices are a little higher?
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by ericmay 5mo ago
Well they don’t have to, but we aren’t going to let Iran obtain a nuclear weapon or build up such a missile and drone stockpile that they could then threaten and attack their Gulf neighbors and implement restrictions maritime trade, which t
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by ericmay 5mo ago
The best course of action now is to spend less time criticizing the United States and more time working with the United States, sending assets, military capabilities (if able), or at least providing political and diplomatic support &c
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by ericmay 5mo ago
Yes I'm rather serious. For the US it's not a big deal (again unless you're driving one of those giant trucks where you're spending $300 to fill up, not my problem). Are $5 gas prices great? Not really, but is it a catas
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by ericmay 5mo ago
Well, there are quite a number of factors. I think you're right that "it's inflation" is a little too simple, but it does seem to be at least a significant factor, in my opinion. The Strait of Hormuz is, basically not
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by ericmay 5mo ago
> It seems a lot more reasonable to prosecute kidnappers rather than the makers of generic tools. As someone who is pro 2nd-Amendment (but not pro-gun) I of course appreciate this argument. There are certainly gray areas. The most immedi
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by ericmay 5mo ago
I'm not entirely familiar with the arguments used by the UK, but in the US neither long knives or realistic airsoft guns are used for wide scale law-breaking. That would probably be the key difference.
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by ericmay 5mo ago
Your understanding about how this works is incorrect, I think that's the problem. If a product being sold is primarily being used for a purpose which violates the law and does not otherwise have fair usage the government can and has pu
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by ericmay 5mo ago
The case is against EZLynk, not the folks using the product. > The question is, how did the investigation got started, unless they already can see that people are misusing the product? And since they obviously must be able to see that pe
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by ericmay 5mo ago
> They are both brown sugar water, > AI is like electricity or water, a generic commodity with minimal cost or friction to switching. I can flip the VSCode plugin between a dozen different models a day. I don't think that's
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by ericmay 5mo ago
That would be a very unusual perspective, at least in the western world and specifically the United States which has a legal and moral system broadly constructed on a mixture social trust and rule of law and we take into consideration both
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by ericmay 5mo ago
The DOJ first sued EZ Lynk in 2021, accusing the Cayman Islands-based company of violating the Clean Air Act by marketing and selling “defeat devices.” These tools allegedly allow users to bypass factory emissions controls on diesel ve
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by ericmay 5mo ago
"Things exist as they are today and can't possible change or improve in the future". People lie all the time too. You're just radicalizing yourself to create a bias for no reason other than concocting a straw man expecta
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by ericmay 5mo ago
> This is also very bad and people complain about these things all the fucking time. So at worst these AI tools are as bad as the existing system. Worth complaining about? Absolutely . Worth holding to much higher standards? Nah I don&#
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by ericmay 5mo ago
> Or, it will acknowledge that it made a mistake and continue to make the same mistake again. People do this too though. At least the AI generally tries to follow instructions that you give it even when you are lacking clarity in the det

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