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by rayiner 5mo ago
No, the “security theater” argument is because TSA consistently fails penetration tests: https://abcnews.com/US/tsa-fails-tests-latest-undercover-ope... “When ABC News asked the source if the failure rate was 80 percen
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Nothing. TSA is a joke. At first, the security theater arguably had a legitimate psychological purpose. The airline industry nearly collapsed after 9/11 because people were so scared of filing. But that was a generation ago—the psychol
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That’s the premise of the hypothetical, because this discussion is about what happens when AI and robots replace humans. The point is the Gulf states are examples of societies that already are effectively “post-human labor” as to citizens.
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Please read what I wrote: "all the work is done by people who are, from the perspective of citizens , quasi-human automatons." The citizens of the Gulf states do not regard the workers as people. That's bad, but if you repla
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> but just accept it and displace the quasi-slaves? Well, the quasi-slavery is the problem, right? And replacing the Bangladeshi slave labor with robots and AI solves that problem, no?
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> If you think a race-conscious remedy is more racist than race-targeted harm No, everyone agrees you can have a “race-conscious remedy” if there is a “race-targeted harm.” Lousiana v. Callais says that right on pages 17-18 of the slip
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> How is enforcing the two greatest anti Jim Crow laws (VRA and CRA), somehow, equivalent to returning to Jim Crow itself? In both cases, republicans were the ones that wanted to enforce the civil rights laws. Democrats were the ones who
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I believe in a country where the top 75% or so of people vote and that directly influences the administration of government. You want a country where 100% of people vote, but their vote is merely a suggestion to the credentialed professiona
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> but most people would infer from that they were related and that the reason it would be nice to rollback to the earlier time was the aforementioned spoils system Except I explicitly referred to “[r]olling the government back,” specif
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I bet there were textile workers who would have written articles like this if the internet had existed back then.
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The administrative state wasn’t merely created by the same progressives that gave us eugenics. It has its roots in the same dim view of the common man and how much agency they should be given. Woodrow Wilson and other progressives were deep
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> And where do you see common grounds material self-interest shaping todays political landscape You’d think democrats would come up with a compelling one.
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> Your comment suggests you think cronyism was in some part responsible for America's rise as a global power. Not at all. My comment was that America’s good run began a century before the 20th century practice of administration thro
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Your counterargument rests on the premise that nobody thought to weaponize "hate and stupidity" until the 1970s. That's not cogent. > When Johnson championed the Civil Rights act it set the stage for the Southern Strategy
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It's never a valid argument to say that we should ignore the law in one context because someone isn't following the law in a completely different context. The question of whether scientists should have independence from the politi
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> That question is about appropriate roles. That's exactly what I meant when I said: "the important question is: who are the people who have the power to decide how taxpayer money is spent?" The answer obviously is: politi
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Yes, the man who the people picked to be the CEO of the executive branch for a 4-year term.
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The division of responsibility you describe has no legal significance. All decision-making authority ultimately rests and must rest with the political system. Of course, the political system may choose to delegate certain decisions to e
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My take is that they shed their blood to have their own nation and they're entitled to structure their affairs however they please. It that's also what precipitated my family to leave. Just because Bangladeshis have the right of s
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Only if voters remain loyal to the administration that does that, in which case that's exactly what should happen. If you want taxpayer dollars, you should make nice with the people taxpayers elect to represent them. I do not intend
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> I've come to the horrific realization that hate and stupidity are easily weaponized The FDR coalition was literally southern segregationists , immigrants, and black people, all in the same party. If "hate and stupidity&quo
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> Congress doesn't stop the executive Congress won't stop the executive because the party that won the executive also won Congress by almost 4 million votes. That's not a sign of the system not working, it's a sign of
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You don't need God's intervention. If you trust the scientific establishment to make decisions on how to allocate taxpayer dollars, then vote for an executive who promises to do that. Definitely don't vote for the guy who cam
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> That's a lovely thought but it assumes, as with so many other things about our republican form of government, that the political appointees are good faith actors, at least with respect to funding of science. It doesn't assume
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If Congress wants to earmark that money for a particular purpose it can enact that into legislation. If it wants to empower the executive to make the decision, they can do that too. Those are the only people who get to decide. Congress can’
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The country runs on the principles of the constitution, not the institutional principles of science. Control over spending of taxpayer funds always must remain within the political system. Voters can always choose to turn over those decisio
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I think Biden was an industrial policy guy at heart and it’s a shame he was so old by the time he got a chance to execute on his ideas.
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What’s funny is that Q1 per capita GDP growth in the U.S. was about 1.4% annualized (within the normal range) while Canada was only at 0.1%. Trump is the bull in the china shop but it’s not his China he’s breaking.
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It’s telling you left out the people running the biggest AI companies.
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What "balanced budget?" Mamdani got a massive bailout from the state of New York, and deferred pension payments. It's classic third worldism, made possible by a low-information electorate that not only can't do the math,

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