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by pjc50 1mo ago
You can actually see this phenomenon happening now with alcohol consumption, which is in a long decline .. replaced by social media addiction.
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by pjc50 1mo ago
It's a colony even if it's legally part of France. (Had to check: free movement does apply to Guianans, but in the other direction it's not part of Schengen)
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by pjc50 1mo ago
"Not directly" = no. Plenty of bank shareholders got zeroed out entirely! Like RBS. Please name a bailed out bank which didn't hit shareholders.
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by pjc50 1mo ago
Did shareholders get bailed out? Which bank? The UK and Ireland bailouts did not do that.
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by pjc50 1mo ago
Does Iran-Contra count? Note that it set the terrible precedent of the President pardoning high level crimes.
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by pjc50 1mo ago
The big cheap lever that everyone has is voting, and using whatever social leverage you have to get people around you to change their vote. Primary legacy democrats. In NYC, the primary was the real election. Then vote in the replacement De
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by pjc50 1mo ago
Ah yes, rule of law is when judges get their decisions overruled by invisible terrorists.
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by pjc50 1mo ago
People will correctly consider it a partisan witchhunt, but that is ultimately the only way back to "normal". Pack the court and start the prosecutions. Look at Hungary and Poland. (The UK has the opportunity to do this before t
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by pjc50 1mo ago
It allows fun things like locating aircraft carriers on Strava. I don't think the Iranians have direct targeting tech for individual mobiles for decapitation strikes yet, that's an Israeli capability.
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by pjc50 1mo ago
In IP law, the party with the most money wins.
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by pjc50 2mo ago
Fwiw it scrolls fine on Android. The underlying thesis is interesting too as a financial pitch to increase traceability. Some subtle digs at the .. less honest methodologies sometimes used in front of investors.
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by pjc50 2mo ago
The cynical approach is that the humans are hoping for this, it's part of the promotion of the power of the system. If you're building a weapon you need a big boom to get attention.
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by pjc50 2mo ago
I stand corrected. It seems like the inspiration was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits , but that doesn't have the same link to advertising. Although it still looks alarmingly prescient.
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by pjc50 2mo ago
Unclear why you seem to be blaming progressives for Trump.
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by pjc50 2mo ago
Realistically, the option that will actually work for you is to fight within Democrat primaries. The absolute best case is you get a Mamdani. (Note this means accepting a bit of populism, because ultimately it's a popularity contest).
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by pjc50 2mo ago
> I think it's generally concerning that people can vote for leaders who effectively can't do anything significant There's been a ton of this sort of discussion over the past three hundred years, and the consensus which wa
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by pjc50 2mo ago
It was generally believed that "pivot to video" was entirely fraudulent. What's happening now is the retreat from the open internet; users are either taking the Google AI search summary as gospel and not clicking through, or
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by pjc50 2mo ago
(upthread) >>>> imagine a few hundred million people getting angry within one election cycle If that many people get angry, you can bet they're all going to be different people with different motivations. This is partly why
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by pjc50 2mo ago
Everyone is, yes, that's how rule of law works.
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by pjc50 2mo ago
Google is notorious for prioritizing new features and new apps for promotion, so yes.
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by pjc50 2mo ago
"Please drink verification can" (Black Mirror)
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by pjc50 2mo ago
> but that's not caused by AI though. AI is not choosing that AI can't not "choose" that, because AI is dependent on consuming vast amounts of electricity, and everything follows from that. > The corporations are w
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by pjc50 2mo ago
How do you actually get to the thing you're looking up? The scrapeable internet is shrinking in response to scrapers. "Source: rare book ingested and shredded by Anthropic. No, you can't look it up and we can't show you
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by pjc50 2mo ago
> almost all consumer software has AI now .. whether you want it or not! We're at the point where it's becoming a product sticker like "fair trade" or "does not contain nuts" to say a product wasn't mad
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by pjc50 2mo ago
The "toxicity" was: - ingesting all the current knowledge without regard for intellectual property or the work of people that went into it; then - claiming that AI would make all those people who put in the work redundant It'
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by pjc50 2mo ago
Everyone seems to be forgetting that the US did have a pitchfork event, it was called Jan 6th and might best be characterized as a coup d'etat that fizzled with remarkably few casualties.
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by pjc50 2mo ago
The social safety net was precisely the thing which had collapsed! There were basically two options: scrabble around trying to find work in the newly evolving private sector to stay alive, or give in to despair. There was a huge drop in the
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by pjc50 2mo ago
Hardly, the country is still heavily cash-using, and where transitioning to electronic payments the local PayPay system seems to be popular. Suica payments for stores are basically only for dense areas of Tokyo.
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by pjc50 2mo ago
Most countries have a similar system in the most popular places. London Oyster may be technically not as fast but it's the same basic experience. The challenge in the UK is getting tap-to-pay through bank cards onto all the little loca
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by pjc50 2mo ago
For me, I'd want to see agricultural stoop labour automated away. It is literally back-breaking and therefore often done by temporary or illegal immigrants who can be abused without legal recourse.

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