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by mullingitover 1mo ago
Honestly everything about the future has been about fifteen years behind schedule (or more!) from what I was expecting in 1999. I was fully expecting affordable lunar tourism for the middle class by now.
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by mullingitover 1mo ago
Your stance is that cultures are cardinally sortable things, with specific ones being more 'valuable' or 'better,' that you are allowed to be bigoted toward 'degenerate' ones, and imo you're taking it as
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by mullingitover 1mo ago
> That term isn’t an accepted thing, as your own article points out. Gravity and the spherical shape of the earth also aren't 'accepted things,' this 'I don't like it so it's not real' argument isn&#x27
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by mullingitover 1mo ago
> In the Star Trek future, people of all ethnicities think and act like Anglo-Americans, not like Bangladeshis. That's a weird way to cap off an endorsement of cultural racism? A series of fictional stories about the future, by and
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by mullingitover 1mo ago
> You can’t be “racist” against a culture. Counterpoint: yes you can[1] and it's basically what you're advocating. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_racism
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by mullingitover 1mo ago
> Simple things like saying the words we were told we couldn’t say really resonates with some people. Nobody said you couldn't say them, it was that open bigotry is something everyone associates with being a person of low class. Whe
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by mullingitover 1mo ago
I don't recall Justin Trudeau making leadership decisions so diabolical and incompetent that Serious People were forced to ask if he was a foreign agent.
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by mullingitover 1mo ago
> This whole trade war with Canada has to be one of the dumbest fucking things I have ever witnessed, and that's saying a lot given the complete incompetence and buffoonery of the current US administration. You'd think that, st
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by mullingitover 1mo ago
At the same tiem, lately I've been inserting small typos in my writing just to signal that it's not LLM generated. Nothing is a bigger red flag than a wall of text with perfect grammar and punctuation.
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by mullingitover 1mo ago
If you're not hanging out with a lot of Gen Z women it would explain why it's not on your radar, that's their key demo and they're on a very solid growth trajectory[1]. It's no secret, meanwhile, that twitter has se
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by mullingitover 1mo ago
I thought HN predicted it would fold due to mismanagement, and arguably it would've if it hadn't been delayed by being rolled into the larger Katamari ball of securities fraud that is SpaceTeslaXAI. And while it hasn't disapp
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by mullingitover 1mo ago
Contracts are worth exactly as much as you're lawyered up and willing to get them enforced. There is absolutely still a functioning courts system to enforce contracts. The one notable exception is if you're a group of workers and
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by mullingitover 1mo ago
The real farce is that you don't get paid for recycling. Really demonstrates that it's a complete charade. If there was any value in recycling you'd pay some fee for the packaging, and you'd get it right back when you re
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by mullingitover 1mo ago
Capitalism doesn't exist without government regulation. Who's going to enforce the contracts? Who's going to break up the giant entrenched companies rent-squeezing every cent out of their natural monopolies, and then using th
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by mullingitover 1mo ago
And we can tell ourselves that those regions which fare better will be left entirely alone. No one is going to, say, kill all the inhabitants and take the land from them.
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by mullingitover 1mo ago
> He’s seen by at least 50% of the population as completely valid. This is laughable. He never hit 50% in the popular vote, and that doesn’t count the ‘none of the above/don’t care’ non-voters. That was at the peak of the oligarch-f
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by mullingitover 1mo ago
It goes both ways. You can’t buy an Iberian ham that’s fully compliant with EU standards and take it back to the US because it’s not USDA certified. It’s arguably the same flavor of backdoor protectionism involved.
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by mullingitover 1mo ago
Those are things you can buy with a paltry eight figure net worth. I’m talking about 13-15 figures. When you don’t have ‘influential friends’ but obedient servants who happen to be public officials.
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by mullingitover 1mo ago
Good for them. They really can’t win: if they don’t modernize they get blamed for high CO2 emissions and used as an excuse for the US to shirk its responsibilities to the Paris Agreements. If they do , and help the rest of the world at the
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by mullingitover 1mo ago
Qualitatively I’m much closer to a homeless person in terms of my power to control other people. We should stop calling it a wealth tax and start calling it an unearned power tax. That’s a far more apt term.
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by mullingitover 2mo ago
They defrauded everyone who bought a Tesla on the promise that the Tesla they bought would be fully self-driving sometime in the near future. Taxis are a different and wholly irrelevant product that doesn’t absolve the fraud that they c
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by mullingitover 2mo ago
I didn’t realize the LinkedIn feed was a problem for people. Literally the only thing that makes me use that site is when the safety/shelter tier of Maslow’s pyramid is at risk.
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by mullingitover 2mo ago
Pretty sure you can rig something far better than radar if you have the ability to detect extremely tiny gravitational waves via an array of hyper-accurate clocks.
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by mullingitover 2mo ago
In my case I wasn't even reporting ads. These are plain old Facebook accounts and groups using very obvious AI-generated slop images of pets for 'adoption' or 'rehoming', so Facebook isn't even making money on
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by mullingitover 2mo ago
Seems very naive to think that people who have access to immortality technology aren't going to have children, and if you're immortal of course you're not going to watch your children grow old and die, so you share it with
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by mullingitover 2mo ago
If I'm any kind of indicator of where Youtube users are headed, their AI chatbots in the video pages are going to kill their business model. There are so many videos with hooks/teasers/'you won't believe what we dis
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by mullingitover 2mo ago
Facebook literally trolls you when you report criminal activity, rampant well-documented scams, on their site. They write back and tell you it's not violating their policy and ask if you want to support for your personal problem.
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by mullingitover 2mo ago
At a population level, humans getting rid of their off switch is about as good of a thing as your own pancreas cells getting rid of theirs.
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by mullingitover 2mo ago
Regardless, Russia is far weaker today then when it was in the USSR, and China is far stronger than what it was when it was getting into shoving matches with the USSR. It's relegated to a chess piece China can move around without much
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by mullingitover 2mo ago
The Soviet Union's relationship with China was more of a peer rivalry situation. The Russian relationship with China is nowhere near parity. Russia would fold tomorrow if China withdrew their backing and went along with the US/EU

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