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by pear01 7mo ago
Prioritizing or deferring to existing contributors happens in pretty much every human endeavor. As you point out this of course predates the age of LLM, in many ways it's basic human tribal behavior. This does have its own set of costs
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by pear01 7mo ago
And they make money. A scammer is the President of the United States. At a certain point why blame people for trying to keep up? Why are scammers so successful? It seems to me we have a systemic failure at a societal level. Until we are hon
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by pear01 7mo ago
People walking around with guns and badges should be held to the highest of standards. Suggesting an equivalence between the burden of proof on a hackernews commenter and individuals authorized by the state to detain, arrest, and potentiall
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by pear01 7mo ago
Was it AI generated? If so, should I just delegate my AI to do so?
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by pear01 7mo ago
He doesn't want to have to stand up, turn around and apologize to parents on behalf of an asleep at the wheel Congress again. At some level I don't blame him. It is also a bit strange how in that act alone he showed more accountab
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by pear01 7mo ago
I'm not offended. I actually appreciate you answering the questions and attempting a good faith reply. I have some follow-ups. > Yes! We already do this. Everyone in the EU can freely migrate to another EU country in the Schengen zo
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by pear01 7mo ago
People like you are somewhat amusing. You keep going on and on about how you are Swedish when the right-wing playbook is global, this could easily be a post from any of your ilk anywhere on the European continent or the United States. Let&#
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by pear01 7mo ago
Exactly, that is the proof. We are already losing this game. Trying to outspend lobbyists using some kind of crowdfunding sounds interesting at first, but is just restating the same terms on which the game is already rigged, which means you
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by pear01 7mo ago
Humorous of you to think they would be against AIPAC. Gulf states have little to nothing in common with Palestinians. Citizens of most gulf states are born into relative wealth merely by the fact their countries are rich in petrodollars. Th
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by pear01 7mo ago
This assumes enough of the small dollar population agrees on anything to meaningfully compete on the cost of buying. They may on paper, but of course a lot of money goes to dividing us up come election time. What you are suggesting is no sh
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by pear01 7mo ago
It's called qualified immunity. Many support its repeal. I hope you join them, and convey the same to your local representatives and candidates. Until it is reformed few if any officers or administrators of criminal justice in the Unit
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by pear01 7mo ago
I would think people killed by the machinery of needless wars would appreciate the same fate not falling on others. You omitted that part out of your quote to do what, imply I don't care about dead drone victims? Because I believe we s
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by pear01 7mo ago
What an amazing standard of proof you operate under. Luckily our legal system more often than not makes it literally illegal to operate under your standard. How many were victims of people like you before they had to codify that principle I
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by pear01 7mo ago
> It's important to be extremely careful about this kind of "reverse racism" - yes, the point is that the target race is privileged in some way, so it feels more harmless than "regular" racism. But "reverse
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by pear01 7mo ago
I never said a 100% guarantee. You may put words in the president's mouth if you wish, please don't put words in mine. You aren't answering my questions at all. You are evading them. The argument is clear. This war is not wor
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by pear01 7mo ago
What is this supposed to prove? I asked for evidence. This is "the FBI said so" and as another commenter noted, in the vaguest terms possible. Am I supposed to be impressed by this? "Allegedly aspired" so it's not e
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by pear01 7mo ago
With what? And the damage caused was what? The answer: A drone. The damage, little to none. What a powerful response to an outright attack on their country. This is the capability we are supposed to start a war over? Sorry it does not follo
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by pear01 7mo ago
> It was a bad deal that structurally did not prevent IR from building a bomb. This deal did not allow for "Anytime,Anywhere" inspections, had a sunset clause, and simply put provided financial relief to IR for the next 20 year
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by pear01 7mo ago
> China has both the nukes and ballistic missiles. Obviously, the calculus for the war with China completely different: you create a situation where China prefers not to attack Taiwan. The same can be said of Iran re creating off-ramps f
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by pear01 7mo ago
Great logic. China and America might find themselves at war in the coming years. Should we just get it over with and attack them now? Where did you pull Greece from? The Iranians can barely hit anything next door. Maybe in five years the re
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by pear01 7mo ago
Your post is extremely misleading. Shipping drones in a box or whatever they are doing so Russians can use them is completely different from what we mean by projecting power. In many cases the Russians are actually manufacturing the drones
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by pear01 7mo ago
And the evidence of this plot and Iranian involvement is what? A quick Google search yielded nothing in that regard... honestly it just doesn't sound that credible in an age where increasingly anyone can say anything. Why believe such
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by pear01 7mo ago
Weird of you to neglect to mention the hundreds of dead Iranians, including not only many civilians on their own soil but also layers of the Iranian leadership. Including of course the assassination of the supreme leader. I'm not sayin
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by pear01 7mo ago
It would be pretty dangerous to attribute such a thing (if it ever happened) to Iran without concrete evidence. Some stateside lone wolf nut might claim to be acting on behalf of Iran, but it doesn't make it true. It's pretty easy
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by pear01 7mo ago
Indeed. Remember this is the same regime that was insisting their leader was alive and about to make a speech when he had been dead for hours in the opening strikes of the conflict. They said they would sink American aircraft carriers if at
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by pear01 7mo ago
One should highlight the best part of this: https://www.toolsforhumanity.com/orb An orb that scans your eyeballs for "proof of human".
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by pear01 7mo ago
Someone thinking they need 40M to escape the "anxiety about the cost of living" is not just a personal decision. It is either extreme greed or delusional. He makes money doing Roblox he is the "laptop class". If you make
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by pear01 7mo ago
Why would you say "but economically" in your first sentence? Is hegemony merely a competition about who can blow up the most people? If you think the Chinese economy doesn't count for anything re force projection because they
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by pear01 7mo ago
Simply incorrect. Get a map of modern Europe and Rome at that time. Then plot not only the Roman territory, but also population and flows of commerce. Compare. It does not map to modern Europe. It encircles the Mediterranean with much of Eu
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by pear01 7mo ago
Europe is not an ancient civilization. It is a continent and politically, an amalgamation. Most of the "Western" civilizations old enough to attempt comparison with China were not European in the modern sense at all. The classic e

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