joe_mamba

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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
>Let's stop the blut and soil BS right here Would you also tell that to native American Indians? Or to the Japanese? Or to the Indians? It's no BS unless you've been brainwashed and make massive efforts to ignore reality
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
> is there any country an immigrant can move to, and better their lives as well as the locals' life/economy? Not really anymore. All the good ponds have all been fished out by now. Housing is in short supply in every livable
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
>Dismantling the EU is like burning down your own house just to get rid of flies. I don't like this comparison at all. Europe, the land that housed, fed and scarified my ancestors, is my house, not this supra-governmental corrupt
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
>but expecting EU to clean up after the US shooting itself in the foot Please don't pretend to misunderstand a point just to manufacture the opportunity to reply in bad faith. Nobody in EU is saying the EU should clean up others&#
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
SW developers don't have the union bargaining power the music and arts industry has. At least not where I live.
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
You said it's easy to disrupt, as per the quote, and I showed you it really isn't easy to disrupt, because if it was, someone else would have attempted it already. Now you're shying away from this fact pretending it's s
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
>sure but it would be nice if AI paid it's fair share in many different ways for humans keeping it relevant Oh that's coming, don;t you worry, the legislative part just hasn't caught up with the LLM business yet since no
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
>This should be relatively easy to disrupt for ebooks. [...] This should be feasible to overcome by a better platform. If it's so trivial as you claim, then you can put your money where your mouth is and become a millionaire&#x
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
>Cut out the middlemen. Torrent it and send the author some money. If this is the ideal model, why don't authors skip the middleman themselves and just put the .pdf/.epub on their website directly in exchange for donations? O
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
>> We can't afford it But they've already spent the money. They spent about 70 billion on activision blizzard. That was and still is an outrageous amount of money that will take fever to break even let alone turn a profit.
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
>The EU is handicapped by its very diversity on this. Thousands of years of cultural heritage can't be bulldozed over and turned into a faceless economic zone similar to the US, just because the business class elites see it as a d
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
>users that have a clear anti-EU bias If a government body wants to interfere in your privacy and take it away, isn't it normal to be against that government body pushing that policy? It's not a bias, it's just a normal
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
>I live in a country where the prime minister is picked by the parliament. I don't directly vote for him. That's kind of whataboutism. If that works for your country and the people are happy with the arrangement and the resul
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
>They are not unelected. After how many layers does the democratic part get watered down and is just members of the elite picking other elites? Role | Chosen by |
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
>Who is funding and pushing this agenda to blanket spy on all Europeans? Why are we ignoring the other side of the transaction? The side responsible for taking the money. Giving bribes for lobbying is bad, but that would not be an issu
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
>The central bank, council, and commission have to get thoroughly investigated. By WHO?! They are THE (unelected) ruling elite. Who's gonna prosecute them?
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
Welcome how we feel whenever someone only launches their app for iOS/MAcOS only.
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
My bad, I was only talking about the readings in my city, not the whole planet. I assumed it would scale to the whole planet in that period.
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
>The conditions leading to the Cold War were reversible, this crisis is becoming very much less so. During the covid start lockdowns when everyone was forced to WFH and nobody was driving to work for a couple of weeks, we saw a massive
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
>require a doctor's note That's ... exactly what I was saying. How long is your context window that you missed that? If you're sick longer than X days, go see a doctor, for your own safety first, then for the note to you
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
>Why are you defending/waiving away wage theft? I'm not, and since you started the argument in bad faith with things I never said, I will stop talking to you there because obviously there's no point to it and I'm wa
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
> it goes away in 3-5 days and I can be back at work. Sitting 5 days at home without a doctor seeing you on the basis of "trust me bro it's just a flue it will pass soon" also seems dangerous since plenty of people suck
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
>And audible != loud People who sleep with the windows opened in summer at night(most Europeans) facing the street where vespas are driving would beg to differ. Then there's the separate issue that some(many?) owners either rev t
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
>In the USA the most untrustworthy [...] are employers [...]tyranny of the untrustworthy (employers) Have you ever been an employer? Like if being a trustworthy employer is so easy why aren't you and many other people doing it to
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
>The lack of trust shown there is massive. All systems based on trust eventually get abused. Not by everyone of course, but catching a few with their hands in the cookie jar is enough to trigger a rethink on the whole trust-based thing
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
>I genuinely don't understand who looked at this policy change and thought "this will probably help with people working more". Lawmakers aren't smarter than average people. In fact, they're often more out of to
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
From which perspective are you talking about? Workers in Belgium or the US?
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
It's mostly cultural. In some countries like Germany, Sweden or Netherlands, it's normalized that if you wake up tired or hungover or have a sore throat, you just don't show up at work that day, but in others it's frowne
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
>Man, Merz truly is a genius! You can tell he's had so much experience in normal jobs, truly understands the average worker's situation. What else do you expect from a Blackrock veteran and possible trojan horse? Heck, I don&
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by joe_mamba 3mo ago
>This article was written with the help of Claude Fable 5 Thanks for upvoting AI slop you haven't even read to the front page

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