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by labster 1y ago
The story is from The Guardian, they have a certain point of view. I like it most of the time, but in this story it’s simpler to assume that spending money on slavery reparations and DEI activity suddenly became a political liability this J
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by labster 1y ago
[Yes, turn on stalking!] [I’ll do it later]
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by labster 1y ago
Bezos is thankfully not Elon, he won’t seek vengeance on you for literal nickels and dimes.
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by labster 1y ago
The hardest part might be getting them to wake up early enough for the ribbon cutting. I saw America perform at the Ventura County Fair around noon, and they complained it was the earliest gig they had all year. But it was Ventura Highway i
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by labster 1y ago
AI Luigi is real I guess feeding AIs the entire internet was a bad idea, because they picked up all of our human flaws, amplified by the internet, without a grounding in the physical world. Maybe a result like this might slow adoption of AI
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by labster 1y ago
Omni-time password
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by labster 1y ago
It’s like the trolley problem, where inaction is a moral choice, and people who vote for Trump are off their trolley.
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by labster 1y ago
We live in an absurd reality. Or do you want to explain to me why Elon can threaten to disassemble the Crew Dragon just to get back at Donald, while somehow we consider women to be too irrational to lead? Also: all it takes for evil men to
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by labster 1y ago
Americans want looting and authoritarianism, so that’s what they’re getting. There’s no excuses here after a majority of people voted for Trump’s return, with his repeated promises that he wouldn’t be held back this time around. We got exac
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by labster 1y ago
This may come as a surprise to you, but there were many settlements in America before Europeans ever showed up. No other British settlements in the hemisphere, though. Failed expeditions did end up in other nations colonies, but this was ne
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by labster 1y ago
When the AI is being used as a post hoc justification for a decision already made with ideology alone, we can hardly blame the chatbot for making it easier to cheat on government homework.
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by labster 1y ago
You have to target the immigrants who work hard, just so we can eventually prove Trump right when he says all of the immigrants are lazy and take our welfare entitlements. The remainder will be poorer, that’s just math. Whether it’s good
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by labster 1y ago
That’s not entirely true, the Orthodox Christians recognize the Bishop of Rome as being an equal to any of their patriarchs. Protestant Christians run the gamut from “it’s complicated” with the pope to “the pope is the literal devil”. Some
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by labster 1y ago
Hosting the ads on the same server as the content is done in some cases, but doesn’t result in any immunity. If the ads are sufficiently annoying, it only leads to a merry little game with the adblocker annoyance list community, where they
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by labster 1y ago
Yep, Musk saying he’s going to fund primary campaigns against congressmembers who vote for the Big Beautiful Bill is all just a brilliant bit of reverse psychology. Or more likely, Congress is super worried about Roko’s Basilisk.
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by labster 1y ago
It doesn’t actually matter if the foreign students are better or not: by having a mixed student body, with lots of cultures and backgrounds, students learn more from each other. They learn skills to work with other cultures, and ways of doi
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by labster 1y ago
Only if you leave the spacebar heating config set to off
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by labster 1y ago
And I had to look it up to make sure you weren’t both leading me on. Now that’s a spicy surname! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierbattista_Pizzaballa
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by labster 1y ago
Bad money drives out good money, which explains why crypto is moving so fast.
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by labster 1y ago
Oh well, we can just import beef with our renowned free trade policies.
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by labster 1y ago
There are so few honest Americans that it hardly matters to serve such a small demographic.
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by labster 1y ago
There is a revolving door between industry and bureaucracy, true. There is a problem with getting qualified people who are not conflicted financially and who are not bound by preconceptions. This problem is not particularly tractable, but
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by labster 1y ago
The fuzziness was primarily left to bureaucrats making best guesses, without any particular agenda. Of course there would be some bureaucratic capture going on, but shame would still work. Systems work best with some sort of fuzzy logic, wh
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by labster 1y ago
That’s weird, because just think about how unskilled the average person is — and then realize that half of ‘em are even worse.
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by labster 1y ago
Why secede when we can just get our state sold to Denmark?
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by labster 1y ago
They call it the Traveling Salesman Problem, but it sounds more like the Drunkard’s Walk to me.
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by labster 1y ago
They’ve already been found guilty of antitrust, so what do they have to lose? Honestly I’m surprised Google hasn’t offered to buy Truth Social for a few hundred million just to make this little antitrust problem go away.
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by labster 1y ago
The EU can accomplish it with diplomacy. It’s unknown technology in America, but diplomacy and asking to work together is truly powerful.
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by labster 1y ago
I agree, but I would also like to add that the Republican Party is not a conservative party, either. Trump brags about raising taxes on so many imports. And the current administration never saw a Chesterton’s fence they didn’t want to tear
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by labster 1y ago
And with a lot more luck, the election results will be recognized as legitimate.

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