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by jpster 1y ago
> This crashes with the western view where countries and populations have a right to self determination. It’s really time to retire this type of statement. For example, are you aware the CIA or US government has officially acknowledged i
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by jpster 1y ago
IBGYBG. “I’ll be gone, you’ll be gone”. Infamous email sign-off associated with the run-up to the Great Financial Crisis. Used by Wall Streeters asking analysts to inflate credit ratings for undeserving securities, backed by risky mortgages
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by jpster 1y ago
Wow, you seem to be so confident in defining exactly when and how any of the following “beliefs” are “anthitetical to American society”: > hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, > hostility towards thos
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by jpster 1y ago
> They are going to define "best behavior" in a way that never threatens their feelings, let alone threatens their powers, if you let them. You are painfully correct https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps
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by jpster 1y ago
> [Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent] said the Trump administration hoped to solidify what it sees as a rightward shift in Latin American countries, including potentially Colombia.
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US ready to support Argentina's currency with 'large and forceful' action(reuters.com)
10 points by jpster 1y ago|5 comments
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Streaming Live: San Francisco Low Riders Festival(sanfranciscolowridercouncil.com)
2 points by jpster 1y ago|0 comments
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by jpster 1y ago
> “vote blue no matter who” Say centrist Dems, unless it’s Zohran Mamdani. They have learnt nothing. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/16/zohran-mamda...
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by jpster 1y ago
I don’t see how retaliation against Israelis on a personal level helps anything.
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by jpster 1y ago
A majority of the American electorate voted for Trump, shall we treat all Americans as pariahs, too?
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IBM and the Holocaust(en.wikipedia.org)
6 points by jpster 1y ago|9 comments
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by jpster 1y ago
> The union also alleged that CBA was hiring for similar roles in India, Bloomberg noted, which made it appear that CBA had perhaps used the chatbot to cover up a shady pivot to outsource jobs.
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by jpster 1y ago
IMO this used to be a problem. But I’ve found LLMs are really good at helping one fill in these knowledge gaps, well enough to get started.
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by jpster 1y ago
I guess they feel threatened by content like this? https://archive.ph/HTNMO
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by jpster 1y ago
https://archive.ph/N978I
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Trump Says Smithsonian Focuses Too Much on 'How Bad Slavery Was'(nytimes.com)
16 points by jpster 1y ago|4 comments
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by jpster 1y ago
Eric Schmidt and Selina Xu write that Silicon Valley is AGI-pilled. While China is instead focused on knitting AI deeply into its real economy. IMO events like last weekend’s Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing are evidence in favor of their ar
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by jpster 1y ago
https://archive.ph/NJ7ho
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Silicon Valley Is Drifting Out of Touch with the Rest of America(nytimes.com)
14 points by jpster 1y ago|4 comments
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by jpster 1y ago
And what of the other 179 journalists killed?
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by jpster 1y ago
Should journalists who are friendly towards Israel be killed for that reason? I personally do not think so, so I’m surprised that you seem to be introducing that as a justification.
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by jpster 1y ago
From the article: “more than 180 Palestinian journalists were killed in 22 months of war, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.” This seems awfully intentional.
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by jpster 1y ago
> the US had a few decades of very racist housing policy…. The surprise on Bay Areans’ faces when I explain to them that this is why Blacks have such a low population presence and homeownership in the most wealth-producing region of the
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by jpster 1y ago
Supposedly. But Pete was on CNBC today doing all kinds of tortured math to justify the GDP miss. They didn’t kick him far enough.
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by jpster 1y ago
I mistakenly assumed Scott Bessent knew better and would do better, given his financial markets experience. From Wikipedia: “He was hired by Soros Fund Management, eventually becoming the head of its London office. In this role, in Septembe
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by jpster 1y ago
What I don’t understand is why Scott Bessent is going along with these harebrained schemes. He supposedly was the big brain genius who devised the trading scheme that George Soros used to break the pound. Surely he anticipated the outcome o
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by jpster 1y ago
I suspect it would be a good idea if the US abolished the presidency and moved to a parliamentary system. Turns out that concentrating so much power in a single position is a bad idea.
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by jpster 2y ago
Incompetence on an epochal scale. But DEI!
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by jpster 2y ago
What’s worrisome is, if they’re planning on things to suck until 2028, that is precisely when the next presidential election is supposed to happen. Suppose he feels like he must have 4 more years, to take credit for the V-shaped recovery,
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by jpster 2y ago
What are Canada’s options for successfully resisting a US invasion? I imagine it could call on NATO and UK military support? Support from other commonwealth nations? It seems it would be outmatched by the US military might. I think its only

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