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by m4ck_ 9mo ago
I can't say I've ever seen anyone claim Iran as an ally. As usual, plastic smoking perpetually online right wing trolls conflate support for the people in Palestine with support for Iran/Hamas/Hezbollah/whatever the
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by m4ck_ 9mo ago
Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky goes hard if you do want something in the classical world though.
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Fair enough, there is some utility to it. But we're quite along way from traveling salesmen advertising tractors. Maybe it doesn't need to be eliminated, just heavily regulated. What if the salesman said knowingly lied about his t
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by m4ck_ 9mo ago
To be clear, I'm not saying that advertising under whatever slop chatgpt outputs is killing humanity, I'm more thinking of the industry as a whole. They use lies and deception to influence behavior and push products; even if they&
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by m4ck_ 9mo ago
>Mission alignment: Our mission is to ensure AGI benefits all of humanity; our pursuit of advertising is always in support of that mission and making AI more accessible. Advertising and marketing kills humanity, these should be among the
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by m4ck_ 9mo ago
The greed of wall street and the powers that be bubbles down. I'm sure a lot of it has to do with property values and insurance and strict HOA regs. The purpose of housing in the USA has nothing to do with families or people, it is an
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by m4ck_ 9mo ago
>Is this mostly a Millenial thing? Is there a whole generation that for whatever reason never found hobbies outside work? Millennials were/are repeatedly economically fucked by boomers. Difficult to have hobbies or a social life whe
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by m4ck_ 9mo ago
We're only energy independent in the sense that we export more oil than we import. We're still reliant on foreign oil because we haven't retooled (or built enough new) refineries for a lot of the oil we produce. Allowing the
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by m4ck_ 9mo ago
Well I'm glad they're making progress on this stuff. I cannot imagine being 75 and having to deal with sleep paralysis and everything else.
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by m4ck_ 9mo ago
It's probably a good thing that gold fillings/caps aren't that common these days.
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by m4ck_ 9mo ago
In the US at least having roommates carries massive risk. Sharing a place requires taking on full legal and financial responsibility for a total stranger. If your roomie ends up a drunk who trashes the place, that's 100% on you if they
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by m4ck_ 9mo ago
can it play games for me? the factory must grow but I also need to cook dinner.
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by m4ck_ 9mo ago
that should really apply to all vehicles, because I'm pretty sure there isn't a new vehicle on the market in the US that doesn't have surveillance tech built in.
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by m4ck_ 9mo ago
There is a community maintained website for checking game compatibility: https://www.protondb.com/
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by m4ck_ 9mo ago
Do you imagine rent control is ubiquitous, and landlords nationwide are crushed under the heavy handed regulation of big government? Because that could not be further from the truth. I'd that bet without googling, you can't name m
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by m4ck_ 9mo ago
The overwhelming majority of landleeches in the US do not have to deal with rent control. It's a completely irrelevant outside of NYC and few counties spread out across the union. I can tell you that the suburb to a mid city on the eas
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by m4ck_ 9mo ago
Walmart is deep in surveillance tech. The store I worked at now has TV screens near the cash registers showing off their tracking (live camera feed with those tracking boxes or whatever drawn around people.) Once when I was using self check
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by m4ck_ 9mo ago
I've dealt with both; anecdotal but I had a much better experience with the individual landlord than corporate. Ex: AC went out in both cases; Individual land lord showed up with a replacement window unit the next day after I reported
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by m4ck_ 9mo ago
>There's lots of affordable homes they're just located where no one wants to live It's probably more accurate to say "they're just located where no one can get a job." You can give up you SWE job or whatever
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by m4ck_ 9mo ago
why's this site trying to port scan me? (actually it's not, it's just trying to load js from localhost) if this is the OP's site you're trying to load comentario.js from localhost.
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by m4ck_ 9mo ago
Replace personal PCs with thin clients that give you an RDP session to Azure? I'm pretty sure a cloud only / subscription based "agentic" OS is the goal for windows. And, conveniently, hardware prices are through the roo
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by m4ck_ 9mo ago
Uhh AI bros are promising Wall Street they're going to eliminate wages while telling us we're on the precipice of a workless utopia (while also being in bed with the far right who want to destroy anything resembling a social safet
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by m4ck_ 9mo ago
I'm not sure where you got the 'chicken' business from, but regardless, folks who want everyone to bend the knee to Putin are usually acting out of malice, not fear. Is it really warmongering to suggest a country should polic
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by m4ck_ 9mo ago
Yes, we must submit and capitulate to Russia at every turn, or face war. Good plan. Russia would deny any involvement, right? So throwing the crew in prison for a few decades and scrapping the ship aren't actions against Russia. They&#
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by m4ck_ 9mo ago
I'm sure the between the money and the talent, they can find a solution? I mean these LLM's are already capable of shutting down anything politically sensitive, borderline grey area, and outright illegal, right? So it's no so
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by m4ck_ 9mo ago
yeah, don't even think to regulate the trillion dollar industry that is aiming to insert itself into literally aspect of our lives; instead, wait for a massive overhaul of our health care system, something that has next to zero meaning
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by m4ck_ 9mo ago
Our mental health is a sacrifice the people pushing AI are willing to make.
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by m4ck_ 9mo ago
even if that's the case re: government insured banks.... Maybe it feels more secure because there is someone to hold accountable if/when it all falls apart. People can show up in DC with pitch forks and vent their frustration; goo
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by m4ck_ 9mo ago
I mean yeah, that's the Americas in general since Europeans first put eyes on it. ~500 years of brutality and slaughter in pursuit of profit. We're gonna do it again in Venezuela and probably Denmark/Greenland. C'est la
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by m4ck_ 10mo ago
Sure thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Cities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%B3spera They want to establish cities that are exempt from most US law and regulation (or whatever host

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