jaybrendansmith

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by jaybrendansmith 9mo ago
But the real issue here is his party. It's gone from 'economically conservative with preference for free markets, austerity, and military solutions' all the way over to 'Populist with slavish devotion to a fascist leader
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by jaybrendansmith 9mo ago
100% this. I run a software company and we never run out of new things to build. Our issue is velocity, we would be foolish to lay off employees, rather we must use AI to build things 50% faster if we can. What AI will do is further level t
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by jaybrendansmith 9mo ago
Humans are terrible at it. There's a short sci fi story where an AI selects the next American President from all 350M citizens. I'm here for it. I think it's a fantastic idea.
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by jaybrendansmith 9mo ago
If they will do it to them, they will do it to you, just wait. We can have zero tolerance for the intolerant ... there's a galactic difference between a few individuals voicing their support for the suppression of hate speech and a nat
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by jaybrendansmith 10mo ago
Gambling is legalized crime. We are living in the future the dystopian novels warned us about.
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by jaybrendansmith 10mo ago
Yes, I really don't understand why we cannot discuss the current reality like, well, hackers would. Like developers do when discussing design patterns or types of databases. Flagging content that should interest hackers ... like the pe
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by jaybrendansmith 10mo ago
Completely agree with this. There's a reason the FCC exists and it has nothing to do with electromagnetic frequencies. This agency, just like the Fed, needs to be broken away from politics completely. It's almost too late.
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by jaybrendansmith 10mo ago
It might be just me, but I just like to be surrounded by human energy. I don't need to talk to anyone, and actually that can make it worse. But to be onstage, playing live music, in the zone, surrounded by positive energy: Really there
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by jaybrendansmith 10mo ago
We should all be concerned. I was watching Ken Burns, and it seems Washington ordered all his troops to be inoculated for Smallpox, and it made a huge difference in that war. Vaccines are good science, and the amount of testing we do to che
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by jaybrendansmith 10mo ago
A great essay. I would say this is 'business ethics' for certain. It is not typically personal ethics, nor Christian or Muslim ethics. But this describes better than anything I have read what happens to every corporation, eventual
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by jaybrendansmith 10mo ago
There's a difference between favors and corruption, there has always been. It's something called regulations. We the people must tolerate a certain amount of favors, but there's a line: You cannot accept these favors while in
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by jaybrendansmith 10mo ago
This too, shall pass, but we need to make it happen. I am looking forward to the day when we spit on their remains, destroy their ballroom, torch his painting and turn this administration into a footnote in history that future historians wi
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by jaybrendansmith 11mo ago
And when you can build one, you will also get telepathy, telekinesis, clairaudience and clairvoyance. I can't wait until I can send a directed thought to someone else.
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by jaybrendansmith 11mo ago
MAGA is a Russian Psyops initiative. Very effective.
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by jaybrendansmith 11mo ago
Not really sure what he is but this comes immediately to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strahd_von_Zarovich "He is a malignant narcissist trapped by his malignant narcissism – forever alone, forever feared an
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by jaybrendansmith 11mo ago
Excellent, but was thinking more of a Cloaker, Soulleecher, or Succubus. These creatures seem safe/helpful or innocent, but then attack, draining your life force and leave you as a discarded husk.
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by jaybrendansmith 11mo ago
But you must admit it was a gamble at the time. My mother got Covid early, before lockdowns. She spent a week in the hospital and almost died. She then had a stroke, she can no longer walk. She also got cancer, and now can barely talk. Plea
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by jaybrendansmith 11mo ago
As a democratic socialist, I find this article fails to back its claim that equity is theft. Workers at startups get equity; this is why they work so hard. Would a worker cooperative be better? Possibly, but there is little incentive for th
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by jaybrendansmith 11mo ago
I think this concept is good from the perspective of focus and targeting issues, meaning that de-emphasizing certain issues seen out of touch with the mainstream is important. But remember that a lot of that is the fruit of the right's
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by jaybrendansmith 11mo ago
I don't understand why people still blame the lockdowns. When the lockdowns started, it was unknown how dangerous Covid actually was. It could have killed 20%, or reduced lifespan by 30%, or something. Nobody knew. It takes 20/20
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by jaybrendansmith 11mo ago
This is all about student loans, and destroying the academia, with a nice dose of quackery and anti-intellectualism thrown in for amusement. While it does not impact me at all to know my degrees are no longer 'professional', it re
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by jaybrendansmith 11mo ago
I still am having trouble comprehending that we are in a timeline where our own police are gassing US citizens. Don't they all take an oath to 'protect and serve'? Who do they think they are protecting and serving? We the Peo
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by jaybrendansmith 11mo ago
Anybody imagining themselves as alive during the Franco regime and not considering throwing a Molotov cocktail or two doesn't believe in freedom, equality, or democracy. It's disturbing to see how many fascists seem to comment on
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by jaybrendansmith 11mo ago
It's not existential for the Republicans. THEY ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ABLE TO DO ANYTHING THEY WANT. This setup is essentially anti-democratic, which is why they are able to murder hundreds of thousands of aids patients in Africa and k
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by jaybrendansmith 11mo ago
The point is they should not have to. The funds were already appropriated by congress. This is a political maneuver by the Republicans to avoid bringing congress back into session, because they want to give the justice department time to re
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by jaybrendansmith 11mo ago
Actually, there is $500 billion that is REQUIRED to be used to fund SNAP. But Republicans are not activating it, because if they do, they need to bring congress back in session, and then they will be forced to vote on releasing the Epstein
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by jaybrendansmith 1y ago
Here's hoping that doesn't happen, but the view from 3000 might look different.
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by jaybrendansmith 1y ago
"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger" - maybe sometimes if you're an adult. But not childhood trauma...that makes you weaker almost every time, and you take that weakness with you and spread it around.
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by jaybrendansmith 1y ago
His program is actually pretty Christian imo.
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by jaybrendansmith 1y ago
I think you are missing a few things. Saved the world from fascism for one.

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