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by pibaker 2mo ago
I don't understand how we can keep giving the police shiny new toys and juicy overtime pays but can't find enough people to take 911 calls.
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by pibaker 2mo ago
As someone living somewhere with a high chance of receiving a natural disaster warning I hate the AMBER alerts. How am I supposed to know if I need to evacuate immediately or just need to look for a car last seen three hundred miles away? I
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by pibaker 2mo ago
At least in my capitalist dystopia I'm not forced to share my bathroom and kitchen with Ivan next door, like Soviet college professors did. If you think anything in the first world constitutes indentured servitude, I have some really b
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by pibaker 2mo ago
I don't think what works in a small and flat country with a famously productive agricultural sector can work equally well in the mountains of Spain and Italy.
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by pibaker 2mo ago
This is how communist countries managed to make educated professional urbanites live more impoverished lives than American burger flippers. By prioritizing "equality" to the point that you destroy your society's productivity
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by pibaker 2mo ago
You can say this about many other jobs. But they don't get their own Joe Manchin.
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Harry Potter fans force diversion of power link to avoid 'Dobby's grave'(bbc.com)
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by pibaker 2mo ago
Alzheimer's is an entirely different beast than normal mental atrophy and there are plenty of stories of otherwise intelligent people ending up with it. I'm not saying you shouldn't try using your brain more but this is just
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by pibaker 2mo ago
From the way people talk about American coal miners, you'd think there are millions of them and they all live in the Appalachia. When the truth is there are only 45,000 of them in the whole country. Walmart employs over 10,000 people i
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by pibaker 2mo ago
Your daily reminder that Andy Masley lives on a grant from the effective altruist cult.
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by pibaker 2mo ago
> But when asking my friends what they thought, none of them noticed that the game was doing this, and they all thought it was well balanced. Sounds like the design is working as intended?
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by pibaker 2mo ago
You teach them the harm of smoking and online grooming. You teach them to not accept cigarettes or sexual advances from others. And you build a trusting relationship with them so in the unfortunate case they do mess up, they trust you enoug
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by pibaker 2mo ago
The same steps you take to make sure they are not smoking in a back alley on the way home.
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by pibaker 2mo ago
Unplug a ventilator for five minutes and a patient dies. If unplugging a data center for five minutes can have a similar effect, then every AWS or cloudflare outage would have been a mass extinction event.
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by pibaker 2mo ago
We should abolish oil companies and make sure the only place you can gas up your lifted truck is the Democratic People's Fuel Depot, that will solve climate change.
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by pibaker 2mo ago
How hard is it to maintain a fork that changes nothing except the logo? If you can't be bothered to maintain a trivial fork, then why should the author of anubis be bothered to serve your branding needs? It's not like you have a s
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by pibaker 2mo ago
As if the Romans didn't worship rebranded Greek gods, pray in bootleg Greek temples and had educated Greek slaves be their teachers…
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by pibaker 2mo ago
In practice "common sense" just means "things I learned from public TV when I was ten and never bothered to learn more about." Renewable used to be more expensive but that hasn't been the case for almost a decade. B
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by pibaker 2mo ago
A microwave that can refuse to cook your food if it considers it a biosecurity hazard, mind you. Sorry Taylor Farms.
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by pibaker 2mo ago
Affordable to you or affordable to the locals? The yen has devalued a lot in the past decade or so, giving foreigners a lot more spending power in Japan and causing the current tourism boom and backlash.
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by pibaker 2mo ago
Maybe it's my bubble, but most people around me who are against AI cite job loss and Replacement as their concerns. And guess who has been boasting about replacing workers and making everyone unemployed by 2030? Certainly not china. Ma
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by pibaker 2mo ago
Why would the data center operators pay extra taxes to your city when they can just build them somewhere else that gives them a tax break instead?
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by pibaker 2mo ago
If comrade1234 has to get contractors from 90 miles away just to clear some trees, there is no way they are going to hire locals to build a data center.
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by pibaker 2mo ago
If people not liking a thing is enough reason to ban it in a democracy, then how come we still pay tax? And if you want to say "but someone must pay for the public services," the I have some bad news about what pays for your onlin
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by pibaker 2mo ago
But now with nukes in major countries arsenals, any of the three new risks you mentioned could have escalated to civilization ending nuclear wars. It's still a miracle that it hasn't happened, but I wouldn't be so optimistic.
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by pibaker 2mo ago
The US is ten times more dense than Australia. And yet Australian cities tend to have comparable if not better transit than similarly sized American cities. The overall population density of a country is largely irrelevant in this discussio
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by pibaker 2mo ago
> A network of fully autonomous electric self-driving cars on a developed roadway can only be superseded in efficiency by high speed rail [citation needed] Not an expert but it seems trivial to me that a road full of cars each carrying o
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by pibaker 2mo ago
Not helped by legitimate websites often redirecting you through weird multi tiered domains especially during log in, or legitimate businesses using link shorteners instead of their full domains, or more and more businesses themselves hoppin
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by pibaker 2mo ago
It's fine if you either stick to your principles or play a game of shameless realpolitik. Just don't pretend you can convince us that you are actually doing the former when all we see is you doing the later. We are not retarded. Y
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by pibaker 2mo ago
> and that the main role of our military is to ensure that our ideology (liberal democracy) is protected across the world. This is why the US military is partnered with all the Middle East democracies, like the one in Bahrain, or the one

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