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by mullingitover 2mo ago
My takeaway is that Russia, China's vassal, wanted to use nukes and China told them they can't[1]. I don't believe Russia really cares about the rest of the planet. At the same time, China doesn't care if Russia gets a b
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by mullingitover 2mo ago
> All that money we’re coughing up for rooftop solar and batteries at home would be better spent investing in grid scale electricity generation, of any technology. In my city we literally can't buy any more grid scale solar. We rely
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> They didn't fall for it, this is what they want. If it's what they wanted it's very odd that the winning candidate's platform swore no new wars. It's also weird that his approval rating is bouncing around at th
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by mullingitover 2mo ago
There is one economic class that controls essentially all mass media, and even if their chosen candidates are 'out of touch' they can just blast every channel with propaganda until voters have the slogans burned into their memory.
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US voters chose to reduce their taxes by a margin they won't notice in exchange for increasing their energy prices by an amount they will absolutely notice. The wild thing is that this is an extremely predictable thing that has happene
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The fun part of this is the crack spread doesn't care about the relatively low price that crude is selling for. Refined petroleum is going for eye-watering prices, and will continue to do so for a very long time, even if peace breaks o
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by mullingitover 2mo ago
It's certainly the closest we've come to directly taxing the hope of the downtrodden. This goes back to my original point, that legalizing gambling happens after economic downturns. There are so many downtrodden in those situation
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by mullingitover 2mo ago
> or are people just realizing It's a stretch to say that gambling is truly anyone's best option, so 'realizing' isn't the right word here. I'd go with "delusionalizing."
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by mullingitover 2mo ago
Gambling legalization historically happens in waves following economic downturns because society’s tolerance for exploitation increases. It’s fundamentally a regressive tax that healthy societies won’t tolerate.
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> I don't think we have the same reading of the paper. Strong agreement here. > Scientific facts inform ethical decisions, they are antecedent to them. Sometimes, as your paper is saying is the case, they're orthogonal to t
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by mullingitover 2mo ago
The whole point of this paper you're citing is that the scientific definition isn't relevant to the ethical debate. You're taking this paper and saying "Aha! See but the scientific definition (which the paper points out
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by mullingitover 2mo ago
Of all the debate tactics, citing a paper that is very much not in support of your view point as a trump card is certainly one of them.
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by mullingitover 2mo ago
I agree, but for a sizable chunk of the population who've had it drilled into them from the time they were a toddler, it's an article of faith. So for people who won't debate on anything but that axiom, it's important to
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by mullingitover 2mo ago
> Hang on, how is listening to the heartbeat mental torture? How about if the state decided that it wouldn't force you to donate your organs to some dying person who needed them, but every time there was a person who needed your y
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by mullingitover 2mo ago
From what I understand, random interactions with wild pathogens can prime the immune system in the wrong way, leading it down the wrong path. This is why some people can get lucky with immunity and be super resistant to flu, because they ha
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by mullingitover 2mo ago
The US is already under an authoritarian regime, the only thing keeping the wheels on the bus is a very tired and barely-effective judiciary. This is a temporary situation because either this regime is going to be knocked out of power, or
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by mullingitover 2mo ago
The defense has a chance to educate the jury about it in a trial, and given how widely CBP/DHS is distrusted in 2026 it’s not difficult to see at least one juror having reasonable doubt. Bonus for the defense: whatever is left of the D
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by mullingitover 2mo ago
Seems like they’re going to have a struggle proving intent. “I was stressed out and afraid and I got the passwords mixed up” would be the magic words I’d hear as a juror and I wouldn’t be able to vote to convict.
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by mullingitover 2mo ago
It's great they're talking about it, but they should just do like California and DO something about it.[1] > When the law takes effect in January 2027, Californians will see new privacy options in web browsers. When enabled, th
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by mullingitover 3mo ago
You’d think a head of product at a tech company would embrace a “it’s literally impossible to have your password stolen if you use this” technology.
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by mullingitover 3mo ago
India and Latin America doing some final assembly is kind of a whimper of a counterpoint. Most of this litany is trivially refuted by pointing out that roughly 40% of the world's declared 5G Standard Essential Patents were developed in
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by mullingitover 3mo ago
> the winner will be whoever burns their models to ASICs fastest. It'll obviously be China, and they won't need the bleeding edge of lithography tech to make it happen. Every Chinese smartphone will have something like Sonnet 5
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by mullingitover 3mo ago
The U.S. was openly a pirate nation for most of the 1800s. Like with the ICC, the US respects or doesn’t respect international law strictly when it’s beneficial to the state’s interests. China really can’t be held to a different standard.
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by mullingitover 3mo ago
China has presented itself and its leadership well over the past few decades. Upward-rocketing standard of living. Brand-new gleaming cities. Bullet trains everywhere. Incredible EVs so advanced and affordable that every other nation's
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by mullingitover 3mo ago
> AI company, supposedly Mainly it’s a REIT that bought a bunch of hardware which is now depreciating like fresh lettuce. They don’t even have a way to use it productively for AI purposes themselves and are instead renting it to competit
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by mullingitover 3mo ago
It’s honestly a howler to imply that this isn’t a deeply corrupt regime that’s openly doing crimes. The burden of proof is frankly on the argument to the contrary at this point. The president is making a genuine, serious attempt to instal
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by mullingitover 3mo ago
Call it what you like, but it’s basically the same dimensions as the 2025 Outback and that’s generally called a ‘lifted wagon’ type vehicle.
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by mullingitover 3mo ago
I love the Trailseeker for being the anti-Tesla car. I rented a Tesla a while back and have driven friends cars: I hate everything about their UX. It's like people who never drove a car tried to invent a car from how they imagine it sh
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by mullingitover 3mo ago
GNC used to sell freaking GHB in the 80s and early 90s!
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by mullingitover 3mo ago
I accidentally bought a midlife crisis car: a Subaru Trailseeker EV station wagon. It was cheaper (and more to form) than the 2026 Outback. It just happens to be the fastest production vehicle Subaru has ever sold. Rip-your-face-off speed w

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