khriss

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by khriss 7d ago
> Many people bought Pixel because they saw it in a store or online That's usually reserved for iPhones and Samsungs. Pixels have a tiny marketshare compared to Apple and Samsung. The GP is right when they say a significant portion
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by khriss 9d ago
> The country has been _run_ by fools for 26 years. It's hard to accept the 'everyone is the same' in light of Trump's antics. Remind me again which presidents started wars of choice at the behest of Israel even when
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by khriss 9d ago
I wonder which party's presidents have started all the trillion dollar wars in the past 30 years.....
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by khriss 11d ago
Wow, it's almost as if science works by gathering data and then forming an informed opinion. Crazy, I know!
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by khriss 12d ago
You're forgetting that all of this has an opportunity cost that most people simply do not have the ability to meet. Spending dozens or even hundreds of hours following up with companies that have a lot more capital, manpower and incent
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by khriss 12d ago
Let's see, the biggest increases of debts under Democrats have been during the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression And the biggest worldwide pandemic in a century. On the other hand, the biggest debt increases under Rep
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by khriss 12d ago
I don't doubt your experience is true. But consider the fact that your experience can be true in parallel with the other scenarios people are highlighting.
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by khriss 21d ago
Unfortunately, decades of media conditioning and extreme polarization has led to a situation in which the normal checks and balances have been severely degraded or are non functional. A significant fraction of the population is happy to ove
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by khriss 22d ago
> like the behaviour of Fable, not the behaviour of Opus - the fact that many people speak about this is evidence. I'm wondering how much of that is the harness vs the model. Overall, the 'feel' of a model seems to be lar
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by khriss 22d ago
You can thank Citizens United for that.
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by khriss 22d ago
Good for you.
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by khriss 24d ago
If that's enough for you, then by all means use Chrome.
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by khriss 25d ago
> you can sign into the Play Store with a Google Account that isn't tied to anything else. The problem with this is that increasingly Google is insisting on having a phone number to create a Google account. Further, they are aggress
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by khriss 28d ago
The extent to which this administration will go to protect and enhance obvious and blatant corruption is truly breath taking! What's heart breaking is that in spite of overwhelming objective evidence, the same MAGA folks who were apo
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by khriss 28d ago
> Those second-order effects are easy to mitigate with sensible public policy. Regrettably, sensible public policy seems to be in remarkably short supply these days.
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by khriss 28d ago
IIRC, the Binance founder simply paid Trump off and got a pardon, with Trump himself admitting afterwards that he 'didn't know who the guy was'. So, the assertion that there are no real consequences anymore for 0.1% continues
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by khriss 29d ago
Oh no! Surely under capitalism the competition from other producers would ensure that such a thing could never happen. Surely this is a freak event /s Many commenters have pointed it out, but it's such an important point that it
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by khriss 1mo ago
> If you throw a party and a guest refuses to leave Show me where the govt has actually revoked their visa? Instead, because they cannot cancel the visa legally they are trying to create as much pain as possible for these visa holders
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by khriss 1mo ago
Thanks!
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by khriss 1mo ago
You know, you're only supposed to drink the kool aid, not chug it by the gallon.
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by khriss 1mo ago
I think most would say yes? The sheer amount of misery Elon has caused with the DOGE antics would alone qualify, IMO.
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by khriss 1mo ago
> I use AI to generate a textbook style reading material for me along with "verify yourself" types of exercises along the way This is fascinating . Any chance you have your workflow or prompts documented and would be willing t
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by khriss 1mo ago
> Then vote for someone who will make the debts go away? As opposed to vote for someone who gives even more power and money to the oligarchs? You bet your last dollar that people will choose the former over the latter.
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by khriss 1mo ago
Hmm according to this theory, the president can be an absolute dictator since according to your logic, oaths are not legally binding and by definition the president literally reports to no one. If this is the thinking amongst MAGA then mayb
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by khriss 1mo ago
And how many times did Alexander Hamilton apply tariffs to islands inhabited by penguins while specifically exempting Russia and Belarus?
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by khriss 1mo ago
> DSA's agenda is socialism via the democratic process, and > The DSA wants to abolish the existing US democratic process. So, getting into elected office by winning elections is wanting to abolish the democratic process? I think
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by khriss 1mo ago
I was actually thinking of them overturning Humphrey's executor vs United States....
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by khriss 1mo ago
The craziest thing is, that in spite of the obvious, balatant corruption and supreme incompetence of the US govt, Trump still has around 35% approval rating. That means the hardcore MAGA base is a third of the US population. I genuinely d
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by khriss 1mo ago
Well, of late, what was considered settled law is being reinterpreted at a remarkable rate, so maybe there is hope for this 'settled' law to be overturned....
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by khriss 1mo ago
And to add to that, a very loyal set of voters who will literally vote for more of the same even when it directly and empirically makes their lives worse.

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