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by istjohn 10mo ago
You can't rush enshittification.
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by istjohn 10mo ago
That quote from Google is 2.5 years old.
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by istjohn 10mo ago
It wasn't obvious to me either. But we know the angles ABC, ABD, and DBE equal 180 degrees, as do the interior angles of triangle ABC. From that we can deduce that angle BAC = angle DBE, from which it follows that angle ABC = angle BDE
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by istjohn 11mo ago
That's not true. Who told you that?
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by istjohn 11mo ago
If you're a tech worker who would like to improve your social skills or overcome mild to moderate social anxiety, I can whole-heartedly recommend working as a server nights and weekends for a few months. As a server, you will always ha
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by istjohn 11mo ago
We're concerned with society's safety, not just that of the user. Citation needed on your second paragraph. We deliberately shape the information environment all the time for different reasons. It can be done. Of course there are
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by istjohn 11mo ago
What do you expect from a bit-spitting clanker?
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by istjohn 11mo ago
Modulated signals flow
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by istjohn 11mo ago
> Let’s put aside that this isn’t good for the end user, as it openly admits the whole point of solar is great profit, rather than savings for the end user. The whole point of capitalism is that in a well-regulated, open, competitive mar
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by istjohn 11mo ago
Donations from multiple foundations, most of which were created by people long dead, are hardly comparable to ownership by a wealthy, living business magnate.
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by istjohn 11mo ago
Where are the class action law suits?
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by istjohn 1y ago
Lead used to be in paint and gasoline, so the top soil of entire cities were adulterated with lead in the last century.
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by istjohn 1y ago
The indigenous people of Palestine did not start this conflict. They did not choose to be colonized by Jews fleeing persecution in Eastern Europe.
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by istjohn 1y ago
Gaza has been under blockade since 2007, and the roots of the conflict date back to the founding of the Zionist Organization by Theodor Herzl in 1897 with the purpose to facilitate the escape of Jews from persecution in Eastern Europe by es
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by istjohn 1y ago
Famine is not an inevitable outcome of war. It is the inevitable outcome of Israel's deliberate actions to limit access to food, which are well-documented.
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by istjohn 1y ago
OP didn't specify decreasing government employees. They said decreasing government. And DOGE was promised to cut federal spending. In any case, I wasn't addressing DOGE, but the specific assertion that most people want less govern
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by istjohn 1y ago
> But most Americans want the government reduced... Citation needed. Do elderly Americans selling their every worldly possession to pay for home healthcare after a medical crisis want reduced or increased government? Do single mothers un
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by istjohn 1y ago
I see routine bad faith in: - politicians of both parties (eg, speaking disingenously on issues of relevance to their corporate sponsors) - corporations - judges, including in the Supreme Court, who abandon espoused judicial philosophies th
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by istjohn 1y ago
You should never argue with an LLM. Adjust the original prompt and rerun it.
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by istjohn 1y ago
The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem determined that it is a genocide in a report released September 16: https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-r
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by istjohn 1y ago
> The incredible vast majority of people in the world are acting in good faith. We have fundamentally different priors.
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by istjohn 1y ago
Both can be bad. The NYT absolutely publishes some slop from time to time, and I'm inclined to believe this is one such occasion. But this Substack essay isn't a measured correction and has its own mistruths and exaggerations. In
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by istjohn 1y ago
You're strawmaning the socialist view. The stealman version is that people who are feeling economic pain are more likely to want to do something about it, and may be primed to develop class consciousness and become politically mobilize
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by istjohn 1y ago
I mostly blame bad journalism for this. Always looking for sensational content to capture attention, outlets publish credulous articles on single journal articles without providing enough context for their unsophisticated audience. It would
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by istjohn 1y ago
How does this fit the EEE pattern? For reference, here is Wikipedia's description of EEE: > "Embrace, extend, and extinguish" ... is a phrase that the U.S. Department of Justice found was used internally by Microsoft to d
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by istjohn 1y ago
See also the incident ca. 2021 when a third of 37signals employees left the company over heavy-handed policing of employee speech[0]. 0. https://www.platformer.news/-what-really-happened-at-basecam...
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by istjohn 1y ago
I think you should re-read the parent comment, and try to read what is written instead of what you are looking to read.
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by istjohn 1y ago
Good luck.
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by istjohn 1y ago
Biden doesn't get credit for a few weeks of ceasefire after materially supporting the genocide for over a year.
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by istjohn 1y ago
"Saving people" is an Orwellian turn of phrase for not supplying the bombs that are dropped on hospitals and refugee camps. Does the commuter "save" the child playing in the street by not willfully plowing her over in hi

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