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by pstuart 5mo ago
This is a textbook free speech issue, versus not being able to post your conspiracy theory on some web site which has nothing to do with free speech.
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by pstuart 5mo ago
And if there was space for it, hosting board/card games.
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by pstuart 5mo ago
America has a long history of privatizing profits and socializing costs. Market economies are clearly preferable over demand economies (like, no question about it), but Late Stage Capitalism is bad for everybody except the oligarchs. John S
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by pstuart 5mo ago
I had a lovely conversation with Claude where I tried to input the relevant conversation contexts for its analysis: https://claude.ai/share/49c55947-219c-4381-99fe-8aebbec3592c While it's nice to be vindicated, I&
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by pstuart 5mo ago
That facet was built into my ask, yes.
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by pstuart 5mo ago
I think that without being there it's not nearly as accurate as you think to dismiss the whole of it.
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by pstuart 5mo ago
Scientologists back in the days, and likely still: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snow_White
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by pstuart 5mo ago
One rare happy surprise coming from the Feds is accelerating research into psychedelics research for mental health. That said, it remains egregious that psychedelics are still scheduled as being highly illegal for personal use. They undenia
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by pstuart 5mo ago
"It, for many, many years, was a part, and I would argue not a small part, of what held the country together." Indeed! A shared news source with known, manageable bias (don't rock the boat, bite the hands, and ostensibly just
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by pstuart 5mo ago
> analyze it from a purely sociological point of view - it behaves identically to any other religion or faith What is the analysis? What is the behavior? I'm genuinely curious. Help me see what I am apparently blind to seeing.
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by pstuart 5mo ago
There's a lot tangled up in there but I fail to see the point you are trying to make.
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by pstuart 5mo ago
> the New Atheism movement Not a religion, not a faith. It's simply well-publicized challenging of religion. I think that you only see it as such because of how you see the world, but Dawkins, Harris, et al are not my leaders and I
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by pstuart 5mo ago
Way back when I heard someone state that the reason Christianity spread so wildly was because it was foundational to proselytize and convert non-Christians to the faith. That makes complete sense to me. It's not like it was this passi
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by pstuart 5mo ago
Oh, the irony. Yes, it does feed a spiritual need but is's absolutely about control. The current US administration is guided by Project 2025 which wants God to govern (so to speak). I spend a lot of time thinking about religion, and mo
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by pstuart 5mo ago
Yes, and that's always been vexing to me. I think the reason is like a combination of brainwashing (indoctrination if you must insist), and the fact that Church does offer comforts that most humans need: a feeling of belonging, a mea
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by pstuart 5mo ago
As it should be. The pay gap from CEO to bottom tier worker is now obscene (21 times in 1965 and ~285 today). It's the foxes looking after the henhouses.
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by pstuart 5mo ago
This is the first I've heard of the Mondragon cooperatives, and I quick peak makes me want to learn more about them -- I'm enamored with the idea for coops.
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by pstuart 5mo ago
Many Americans consider themselves to be temporarily distressed millionaires ;-) I'm not trying to knock "personal ambition", the test was for who would knowingly and willingly choose to subjugate everybody else to misery i
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by pstuart 5mo ago
> You could go do A right now at a local level. You don't though, because you don't actually want to live that way. "A" by its very nature is a "group effort". I could definitely be a better citizen and volu
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by pstuart 5mo ago
The AI is effectively free with the NPU/GPU just sitting there. I could see the possibility of models that are tuned to network/radio analysis that could enhance the value proposition.
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by pstuart 5mo ago
I agree that people want to be rewarded for their effort, and should be. But putting in 12 hour days being an EMT and saving peoples lives vs 12 hour days working with Claude to boost conversion pipelines have wildly different economic rewa
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by pstuart 5mo ago
I have a dumbed down version of this question as variant of the Voight-Kampff test (Bladerunner) that goes like this. You have 2 choices for how the world is shaped, pick 1: A. You have a modest but comfortable home, a job that pays you eno
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by pstuart 5mo ago
This would be a worthy experiment to do. I think Harlan would be amused, horrified, and flattered -- let's find out!
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by pstuart 5mo ago
I would love to see something like that. The trick would be to keep it from being gamed to lock valid voters out.
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by pstuart 5mo ago
Yeah, it's a an ongoing processes of being gobsmacked that things could be run like this, and more so, that a significant portion of our fellow citizens be totally ok with it.
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by pstuart 5mo ago
This is what "America First" gets us.
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by pstuart 5mo ago
An acknowledgement, let alone an apology is highly unlikely.
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by pstuart 5mo ago
We need better democracy, where opportunities for corruption are minimized and proper representation is possible. Campaign finance reform would be the foundation for this, otherwise we will continue with legalized bribery. The other need
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by pstuart 5mo ago
This is a tired trope but must be made: society has accepted that drugs can be dangerous but we won't stop people from using them -- leading with alcohol and tobacco. Yes, restrict access to youth and avoid reckless advertising, but st
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by pstuart 5mo ago
That so much could be done in an open source context is encouraging -- if Fisker could have made that a core of the offering maybe that could have made it more viable? They can still sell hardware, parts, services and support but owners wou

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