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by pstuart 3mo ago
Sorry, I guess I wasn't clear about "vote against their interests". Of course nobody's going to vote for a candidate who doesn't promise what they want. But if the promises are lies and never honored, and instead th
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Great! I engage to try and reach consensus, not dismiss. Sometimes it even works! I want to point out that there were enough viable voters for Harris to win (but I am in the camp that believes there was actual election fraud done by Trump s
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by pstuart 3mo ago
Let me try this again. A two party system is a rigged game. Period. The Democratic party absolutely needs to be taken to task and none of their bullshit should be tolerated or defended, ever, except one small exception: election day, in t
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by pstuart 3mo ago
I agree with the former, and conceptually with latter. But we've seen people vote against their best interests because of the promise of destroying those who've they've been taught to hate. Contemporary US immigration "p
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by pstuart 3mo ago
> an actual threat to panic and pearl clutch about seems to be largely a creation of the US right. "woke" has been a goldmine for the Right. Who needs policy when fear, panic, and anger get the voters in those booths? After all
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> will you give up identity politics for the deplorables vote? That phrase gets used a lot, I'm curious what you mean by that. If you mean "woke", then you're probably missing the irony of how that is actually used po
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by pstuart 3mo ago
On corporate whoredom? Absolutely. My pushback is that now is not the time for both-sides-ism. It needs to be addressed but most voters are poorly informed or vote their emotions and that talking point needs to go in the back pocket for lat
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by pstuart 3mo ago
If you're going to play the "both sides are the same" game you need to be more precise in what that means. DNC is absolutely subservient to their patrons and party leadership in general owned by the donor class. But the simil
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by pstuart 3mo ago
I think you missed my point: it is incredibly useful. But its important to recognize that there are indirect costs that come from it and more in store. Smartphones are cool, but do you think that they don't have issues? * Distracted dr
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merci!
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That was not a very insightful article. It's super easy, and in most cases, correct to hate on AI. But that ignores a couple key facts: * It's not going to go away and will only get more sophisticated whether we like it or not. *
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I only glanced at the video thumbnails and was repulsed. But then again, I'm not the target audience for this garbage.
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You are probably correct, but I imagine the SQLite team's dedication to backwards compatibility has things the way they are so that existing systems can user later versions a swap without worrying about changing the SQL using it.
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Skeuomorphism was an interesting idea but should have been basically just that -- a design inspiration, not a full fledged embrace of extending old school ways of things. The folder metaphor for the Mac desktop was reasonable, but it effect
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by pstuart 3mo ago
This is why every kratom vendor should have explicit warnings about addition risks as well as being tested for potency, and purity / contaminants.
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Your certitude is not supported by your ignorance of history: Prohibition was that generation's war on drugs, and it's not pretty. The government went to obscene lengths to "discourage drinking": https://www.
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by pstuart 3mo ago
Drug regulation should be very simple: 1. Purity, strength, and disclosure of ingredients. 2. Responsible advertising/promotion/distribution. I'm pro kratom but I find it abhorrent the way it's marketed and sold without
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by pstuart 3mo ago
> Voters tend to get what they want I wish that was true. In the case of tobacco and alcohol, there's enough monied interests to ensure it would never be illegal. So this defines the classic simple argument about the issue: alcohol
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by pstuart 3mo ago
I have side effects that are significant enough to warrant finding another avenue to address the pain. I knew what I was getting into, but chronic pain is a bitch and I'll do whatever I can to minimize it.
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Fuck the DEA -- they need to be abolished today . Then, fuck all the kratom vendors that absolutely irresponsibly market their products. I've used kratom for 10 years for pain management and it was my best option at the time. Drugs
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by pstuart 3mo ago
Gosh, with such efficiency of operations consumers will win because pricing of their services will be more efficient! Todays Feds will try selling that story.
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gwern is OG, and that name is enough.
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by pstuart 3mo ago
Oh yeah that belongs too. The current "justice system" is really just a legal system that is designed to punish. Prisons are expensive and we would be better served helping keep people out of prison in the first place. It doesn&#x
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by pstuart 3mo ago
> reducing fossil fuel consumption to a negative value isn't really a viable plan, as it turns out That seems to be the case politically. Technically it could be done with the only variable being the time to do so.
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> Judges being elected that nobody knows. I think this falls under "least worst option". I confess that I (and most others) don't have the time or focus to properly evaluate judicial candidates, so I turn to "trusted
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Correct. There is no actual obligation to protect and to serve, according to SCOTUS.
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> half the calls could be handled by folks without guns This can't be emphasized enough. A lot of enforcement and "civil order" work does not require guns, and in many cases (e.g., mental health crises), they're the w
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by pstuart 3mo ago
This may be the case, I haven't researched it deeply enough because it was already a day late and a dollar short. I just asked The Goog and it said the answer is effectively "possibly, but nuanced". So you may be right but no
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I got shingles in my early 50s and did not know there were antivirals that could help mitigate its effects. I now have postherpetic neuralgia and the pain is not quite enough to off myself but the fact that I have to live with this for the
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by pstuart 3mo ago
I'm too stupid to stop caring -- but it's a delicate dance because it's so easy to have one's hopes crushed these days. A small bright spot is that solar and battery tech is improving at a rate far greater than was forec

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