metabagel

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by metabagel 2mo ago
Trump doesn't have the legal authority nor the mandate to enact arbitrary tariffs. His previous attempt ended with the Supreme Court declaring his tariffs illegal. This was the President of the U.S. willfully breaking the law, and he&#
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by metabagel 2mo ago
You're right, but his base are also a bunch of lemmings who will believe what they are told to believe.
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by metabagel 2mo ago
Absolutely, Trump is a symptom of the problem. The root of the problem is the moral rot of the Republican Party.
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by metabagel 2mo ago
He's an agent of chaos. His decision-making process is rashly emotional and based on narcissistic needs.
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by metabagel 2mo ago
As an American, there is a lot of disinformation in the U.S. A lot of people absorb MAGA talking points. The rest of us are in a continuous state of stunned disbelief. Trump tore down a third of the White House without permission, and someh
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by metabagel 2mo ago
> I have not been following the Canada thing but generally have been learning more about trade and Trump's approach seems less chaotic and random than is talked about. Trump imposed tariffs on an island populated only by penguins.
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by metabagel 2mo ago
He would run a child's lemonade stand into the ground.
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by metabagel 2mo ago
It's the "crazification factor", which is the idea that 27% of the American population will always vote for the stupidest option. So, that 27% is Trump's true floor. He's pretty close to it. https://kfmon
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by metabagel 2mo ago
It's not the U.S. which will suffer but individual companies, which will tend to create political pressure to end the tariffs. https://www.fastcompany.com/91531349/trumps-canada-trade-war...
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by metabagel 2mo ago
He's using a different rationale, so this would have to be litigated all over again. It's like whack-a-mole.
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by metabagel 2mo ago
No, they wouldn't. Trump has treated Europe shamefully and built a tremendous amount of ill will.
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by metabagel 2mo ago
That's one tax. The other tax is that companies raise their prices elsewhere so that they aren't lower than the list price on Amazon, because that would violate Amazon's policy.
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by metabagel 2mo ago
https://jskfellows.stanford.edu/theft-is-not-fair-use-474e11... https://styleblueprint.com/everyday/the-quiet-theft-ai-steal...
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by metabagel 2mo ago
I have YouTube Premium, so I don't see ads on YouTube.
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by metabagel 2mo ago
The obvious solution is to not use Facebook.
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by metabagel 2mo ago
> One report documents a problem; many reports can make the case for enforcement and safer, protected bike lanes.
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by metabagel 2mo ago
Once a week, LOL. I get 3-6 calls per day (USA).
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Funeral for Oscar-winning songwriter Glen Hansard(apnews.com)
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by metabagel 2mo ago
This doesn't mean that you can't give negative feedback. But, I tend to make suggestions/requests rather than calling someone out. If you're a manager, part of the job is telling someone that they aren't meeting sta
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by metabagel 2mo ago
I see a possible misunderstanding on my part here. My experience has typically been that engineers respond, "Claude said..." and then say what they think about it. If people are really receiving just a straight dump of AI response
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by metabagel 2mo ago
Depends on what they wrote alongside. Ideally, I get more than just a dump of Claude's response. Ideally, they summarize what they regard to be the key point. This might be why I'm having difficulty understanding why people are up
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by metabagel 2mo ago
So, you have different roles and specialties, but you know for a fact that this person should know the answer to your question. I think we're speaking past each other, because this doesn't make sense to me. I don't presume th
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by metabagel 2mo ago
So, people are using AI to answer questions about tribal knowledge? Is that really the assertion which is being made here? Because I find that hard to believe.
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by metabagel 2mo ago
> and goes along with us (in the US) only thinking politically in 4 year cycles One of the two parties spends most of their intellectual capital on acquiring and maintaining power. The other party spends theirs on policies which they rar
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by metabagel 2mo ago
Just FYI, scolding people causes them to resent you. Take great care when giving negative feedback. Courtesy costs you very little and gains a lot.
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by metabagel 2mo ago
I generally provide the source for my information. Even if I already know the answer, I will generally provide a reference on the web or in a document. If I asked an LLM, I will provide that as part of my answer, and I'll generally chi
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by metabagel 2mo ago
"I don't know" could also mean they couldn't be bothered. It can't possibly be better than getting a response from someone who lifted a finger to help find an answer for you.
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by metabagel 2mo ago
I appreciate "Claude said...", because it helps me assign an appropriate level of trust in the information.
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by metabagel 2mo ago
I disagree that it's necessarily laziness. I work in the embedded space, and I routinely have to work with technologies I'm initially not familiar with. Internet searches are very hit and miss. So, is "AI". I generally u
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by metabagel 2mo ago
Why is it their job to know, but it's not your job to know?

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