grafmax

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by grafmax 10d ago
Let's pretend US sanctions have had nothing to do with N Korean prosperity.
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by grafmax 10d ago
Cooperative deescalation is the right direction.
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by grafmax 12d ago
I wish. The government, regardless of party, wants AI for mass surveillance and perpetual war. It is paid off and lobbied and effectively another arm of the billionaires. Holding big companies responsible for their actions won't happe
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by grafmax 12d ago
That would be nice, but let's get real, with billions of dollars at your disposal you can more or less get away with whatever you want.
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by grafmax 14d ago
But I like to pretend the US is fighting for human rights.
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by grafmax 3mo ago
Immigrants are a timeless scapegoat for the problems faced by the working class.
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by grafmax 3mo ago
IMO US vs Chinese data vacuuming is a false choice. One of the main benefits of these open weights models is that you can get the privacy and cost savings by hosting your own model in cloud infrastructure. Open weights models are only 4.5 m
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by grafmax 4mo ago
The poor capitalists with all the money and power, making the decisions at the highest levels, guiding society's direction... can you imagine they might be responsible for the shittier and shittier turns our world is taking? Class is t
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by grafmax 5mo ago
Georgia acceding to NATO was viewed no differently than Ukraine by Russia and Russia clearly stated that this would cause a war, which it did. It's strange to me that you think that the US had nothing to do with expanding NATO to thes
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by grafmax 5mo ago
It also harms US' Asian allies, which makes them more dependent on US energy, increasing US leverage to push them toward proxy war with China. Very similar to the situation in Europe!
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by grafmax 5mo ago
In fact the commenter’s point is quite relevant. A central characteristic of the information war is to dismiss the “other side”’s POV as propaganda. This works to prop up one’s own propaganda. The article makes this quite clear: > Thos
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by grafmax 5mo ago
The US installs dictatorships, overthrows democracies, supports genocide, mass targets civilians in its bombing campaigns. It doesn't care about human rights or democracy except as an excuse to start new wars which only harm the people
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by grafmax 5mo ago
Human rights are a pretext of US controlled media to advocate for expanding US imperial interests. Notice how US support of Israel, Gulf state dictatorships, South American dictatorships are glossed over whenever warmongering toward China
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by grafmax 5mo ago
There's a lot of money in genocide.
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by grafmax 5mo ago
There is a giant capital outlay required to produce a competitive model. Joe Schmo can’t jump into this market. Best he could do would be to ingratiate himself to an existing funding cartel. The moat surrounding a handful of market particip
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by grafmax 5mo ago
The tech industry goes through investment phases to produce oligopolies it turns around and enshittifies, parasitizing income off what it has built. Venture capital, acquisitions, acquihires, circular investments - It’s been incestuous for
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by grafmax 5mo ago
CPI is an aggregate measure which munges a bunch of things together under a single statistic. In fact, the cost of necessities has overall risen faster than the cost of discretionary goods. This has been generally true since the mid-1990s;
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by grafmax 5mo ago
> inflation adjusted wages are actually up over the long term Inflation is a tool for monetary policy. It doesn't track cost of living. For example, if luxury items become more affordable, but housing prices rise, inflation-adjusted
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by grafmax 6mo ago
They’re shooting themselves in the foot with these dumb restrictions.
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by grafmax 6mo ago
I clearly said he deserves expropriation not violence. Reread my comment. The US defense industry profits off the mass murder of civilians including literally burning families alive as we bomb their homes. That’s mass murder at scale, not a
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by grafmax 6mo ago
In those cases those dictators were US proxies. In this case it seems the relationship is reversed.
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by grafmax 6mo ago
Friend, they choose our legislators. They control the political process. They own the mass media and the social media companies. Denial isn’t a strategy.
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by grafmax 6mo ago
Who is going to lobby to make it illegal? Our system is broken and won’t fix itself. Inequality is going to continue to increase until society collapses. If we want a better world we need to prepare for this eventuality by building avenues
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by grafmax 6mo ago
As I see it the underlying issue for many ITT is the hypocrisy of condemning violence against Altman while while looking the other way from his role as an oligarch and as a Defense contractor. This is a human being with an awful destructive
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by grafmax 6mo ago
An oligarch who promotes “democracy”. Is trying to cynically ingratiate himself, or is he really that deaf to the irony?
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by grafmax 6mo ago
> no moat I'd like to think the superior product wins. But Windows still thrives despite widespread Linux availability. I think sometimes we can underestimate the resilience of the tech oligopolies, particularly when they're V
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by grafmax 6mo ago
Joe Kent (the director of counterterrorism who recently resigned to protest the war) stated that US intelligence gathering in the Middle East is lacking, that the US has extensive intelligence sharing agreements with Israel, that the US rel
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by grafmax 6mo ago
Trump would also have to navigate the loyalty the US state apparatus has to Israel. Iran has made it clear that the ceasefire option is off the table this time round. So I just don’t see the US extricating itself from this quagmire barrin
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by grafmax 6mo ago
> In the fog of war, it is hard to tell what's exaggerated and what's not. Honestly it's more than that. Propaganda and lies put out by ALL actors in this conflict. If you want to understand what's going on I think y
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by grafmax 6mo ago
Funny how 401ks can make members of the American public think the stock market is really about them. In capitalism, assets follow a Pareto distribution. A small minority hold the majority of assets.

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