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by freen 1y ago
I always that the GOP was against public ownership of the Means of production? Seems awfully… communist?
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by freen 1y ago
Same same with Quantum Mechanics. Serious people don’t write serious articles about quantum copper luck bracelets.
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by freen 1y ago
SubEthaEdit? https://subethaedit.net/
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by freen 1y ago
There is no way in million years this will ever hit the front page. Innovation? Check. Tech? Check. Startups? Check. Potentially critical of deal leader? Hide it!! Hide it!!! Why criticism of fascism in the abstract is also criticism of th
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by freen 1y ago
That’s why all the scientist came to the US. Fascism has its own goals. Definitionally, they are not your goals, unless, of course you are the autocrat.
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by freen 1y ago
It is several orders of magnitude cheaper to produce bullshit than it is to produce truth and/or invalidate bullshit. The truth value/prediction value for the knowledge system as a whole produced by the invalidation of bullshit is
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by freen 1y ago
I will never, ever, ever see an “osteopath”. Or a chiropractor. It’s a red flag for critical thinking capabilities.
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by freen 1y ago
Well, Israel could have worked with the UN… it’s not the like choices are ONLY Hamas or Drug Dealers. Unless, of course, delivering aid is not actually your intent.
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by freen 1y ago
They are not subject to the law of the land and can act with full legal immunity?
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by freen 1y ago
There are places with absolute monarchs. You could live there you know.
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by freen 1y ago
There are countries you could go to with absolute monarchs. Wonder why you don’t live there…
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by freen 1y ago
How many Scaramucci’s did Elon last? 20? Maybe 30?
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by freen 1y ago
Ted Chiang: “I tend to think that most fears about A.I. are best understood as fears about capitalism. And I think that this is actually true of most fears of technology, too. Most of our fears or anxieties about technology are best unders
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by freen 1y ago
Full throated and enthusiastic ethno-fascism is new. Africaaners are enthusiastically welcomed and coming in droves, everyone else, quite the opposite. Should tell you everything you need to know.
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by freen 1y ago
CIO of $20B/year ARR company: “I was going to send my kid to the US for college. Now? Never in a million years. I’m not even going to go to the US!” Well done everyone. Well done. For those without a choice, no threat of punishment&#x2
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by freen 1y ago
Most, if not all, of that funding has been cut.
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by freen 1y ago
100% Energy costs over the lifetime of many appliances types are many multiples of initial purchase price.
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by freen 1y ago
Please oh please I hope my team isn’t as catastrophically dumb as it appears they are.
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by freen 1y ago
If it was your life on the line, how comfortable would you be with all of that room for interpretation?
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by freen 1y ago
By the federal government? Owned by whom?
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by freen 1y ago
If you know how to convince Trump to stop, or the GOP controlled congress to stop him, or the GOP packed supreme court to stop him… By all means, share the wisdom!
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by freen 1y ago
I know. HN doesn’t do subtlety, hence I felt the need to spell it out. Even at that, we have the “how are tariffs related to authoritarianism” stuff.
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by freen 1y ago
Yes. And will send more. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/homegrowns-trump-doubles-sen...
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by freen 1y ago
The purpose of a system is exactly what it does. This IS the point, the goal, and the purpose.
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by freen 1y ago
Gamergate folks are incredibly silent about other “ethics in Journalism” issues… Same with all those “free speech wing of the free speech party” folks.
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by freen 1y ago
Completely destroying the local economy, severing ties with other countries, and irrational isolationism are, in fact, on the roadmap to complete dictatorship.
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by freen 1y ago
Especially the part about “we imprisoned legal residents of the US in a foreign country without due process and now can’t do anything about it, even though the Supreme Court told us we have to return them to the USA, because, whoops, they a
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by freen 1y ago
I seriously doubt you are of sufficient “in group” status to avoid the gulag. I hope that it is never decided that you are a terrorist/enemy combatant/whatever and shipped off without due process to an American concentration camp.
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by freen 1y ago
The cruelty is the point.
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by freen 1y ago
Anecdote != evidence. Also, your anecdote is specifically about a social media article about an attempt to use social media spaces to harass people. Seems extra “special case” to me.

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