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by klipt 2y ago
2 cherry-picked datapoints does not contradict a trend over all datapoints.
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by klipt 2y ago
Would be nice to have anti corruption measures to prevent this kind of decentralized corruption. But I don't think dismantling the government and giving the pieces to Musk is the solution to corruption. That just sounds like more centr
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by klipt 2y ago
> Elon's businesses are highly successful running exactly this algorithm. Oh how nice, but we don't rely on Twitter to look after nuclear weapon stockpiles, warn us about E. coli in food, or fund vaccine development. So it&#x27
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by klipt 2y ago
Already done, USDS is what was renamed to DOGE.
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by klipt 2y ago
The neat thing about oligarchy is, none of those decorums matter anymore. The oligarchs just do what they want. Trump funneled US taxpayer money (and foreign government money) into Mar-a-Lago his whole first term and still got reelected.
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by klipt 2y ago
> Clearly Putin has something on Trump, but what could that possibly be? Maybe something Epstein related. Even Trump's base has people who want to shoot pedophiles.
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by klipt 2y ago
Careful, it may soon be illegal to say this. > Trump's pick for FBI director, Kash Patel, has vowed to "come after" the media
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by klipt 2y ago
If Congress disagrees they have ways to override the president. They can pass new laws or even impeach him. But unless the dems get 2/3 the senate that will never happen.
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What you want is a parliament with proportional representation. Parliaments don't experience gridlock nearly as often.
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Health professionals often refer to leukemia and lymphoma as "liquid tumors"
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Only two years since chatGPT was released and AI at the level of "impressive high school sophomore" is already blasé.
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> Factory farms have been around for almost a century So around the same time as the Spanish flu pandemic?
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by klipt 2y ago
We already know cancer rates are going up for young people. What's changed, apart from all the extra chemicals floating in our blood?
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> not replacing the core skills that make a developer so far
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You can't just turn people off and on again like computers and expect them to carry on as before. You cut funding for cancer trials people are already enrolled in, people die. You cut funding for HIV drugs, patients' viral loads g
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by klipt 2y ago
Oligarchs don't want "government by the people, for the people". They want to own the government and rent it back to the people for massive profits.
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Or just the Bay Area tests more honestly...?
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Is America supposed to be a republic or a dictatorship? What transparency do we have into Musk's decisions? Why should we give one person power to ignore Congressional laws and the Constitution? How is that different to a dictatorship?
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by klipt 2y ago
America just appointed an anti-vaccer as Health Secretary. I don't think the next virus breakout is going to go well.
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> which is probably why many of them don't end up with tenure There are far fewer tenure track positions than PhD's, so most of them not ending up with tenure is tautologically guaranteed.
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by klipt 2y ago
If Congress already passed a law to regulate food so customers don't get poisoned. And the president can say "I'm gonna ignore that and dismantle the agency Congress set up to do it" What power does Congress have anymore
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by klipt 2y ago
Unfortunately the only leverage Congress has to stop Executive overreach is impeachment. If they refuse to impeach, then they are tacitly handing the Executive ever more power, essentially moving us from a republic to an elected dictatorshi
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by klipt 2y ago
So China subsidizes a lot of their factories and now they have all the factories and they also have rising standards of living so ... seems to be working for them?
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by klipt 2y ago
Surely these days much of that is done by robots? And will only be increasingly robotic with advances in AI.
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by klipt 2y ago
Or try to rule by executive power while ignoring the Constitution, Congress, checks and balances... Of course it's not only fascists who can be totalitarian, but totalitarianism is a bad smell in any form of government and should be av
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by klipt 2y ago
I think at this point it's no longer coding, it's more "AI coder management"
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Trump tariffs are definitely not going to make the economy boom...
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Yeah a relative of mine had it decades before Covid. A better term may be "Long Virus" since multiple viruses can trigger it, Covid just happens to be the most recent pandemic.
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Just need AI to write the comments and the circle of life will be complete
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by klipt 2y ago
> the people have no power now There's always the midterms. Politicians shouldn't get too complacent if their party screws up.

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