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by sfblah 2y ago
Honestly I think the best advice is to assume masks don't do anything. The point isn't to suggest people run around having parties during a pandemic. The point is to suggest people use distancing as their primary mode of protectio
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by sfblah 2y ago
My advice is to look at studies done before 2020 when it became political. My research suggests that, while masks probably do something, it's very hard to measure the exact impacts. The prevailing wisdom before 2020 was that masking th
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by sfblah 2y ago
Very very well said. OP's vapid writing kind of tells the tale.
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by sfblah 2y ago
I don't see any evidence there that the government did this. Isn't it more likely this is a result of the US shipping all its manufacturing overseas?
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by sfblah 2y ago
Agree completely. My opinion is that if you earn a certain amount and therefore pay a certain amount in taxes for 2-3 years, you should become a citizen, period.
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by sfblah 2y ago
My opinion is if you pay more than a certain amount of income tax, the visa should be automatic.
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by sfblah 2y ago
I'm in favor of immigration generally, but I actually agree with the cultural argument here. The toxic culture really shows up in interviewing. Recently I've repeatedly had to deal with interviewees obviously cheating with AI tool
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by sfblah 2y ago
You're likely too young to remember anything much before 2012. Honestly, this stuff has been around for 50 years. Go watch a video about Steve Jobs at NeXT from the 1980s.
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by sfblah 2y ago
My EV runs through tires way faster than my gas car.
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by sfblah 2y ago
My thought on this is LLMs will replace all this stuff within the next 5 years. Skilled conversation partners work better than these apps do anyway.
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by sfblah 2y ago
Read my other comments. It's a protest vote. They don't care what his actual policies are. No one is willing to pop the economic bubble, so voters are just going to burn the whole thing down.
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by sfblah 2y ago
Of course he won't. But, see, no one will. Both parties are equally culpable here. People are just doing protest votes at this point. What are they even supposed to do? No one can even buy a house. The only actual solution is to put in
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by sfblah 2y ago
It's probably split. But it doesn't matter. The important question is who the people who have lost in the lottery voted for, not who the winners voted for.
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by sfblah 2y ago
Yep. It's ironic and shitty, but people just did a protest vote. They aren't looking at the specific proposals. They don't care anymore. You're absolutely right, but honestly both parties are completely in on the Ponzi s
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by sfblah 2y ago
Wait till the average voter figures out that they've actually hidden massive inflation in capital assets. Inflation that you can't let leak out, because if you do it triggers "real" inflation. So, the only choices are to
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by sfblah 2y ago
I'll give it a shot, just maybe to help one person understand. They voted for him because 15+ years of government + federal reserve policy has led to massive bubbles in all US capital assets while impoverishing a wide swath of the popu
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by sfblah 2y ago
Actually both the examples you cited are misrepresented. But whatever. You're in the cult. I get it.
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by sfblah 2y ago
I used the word "junk" not to suggest we're putting too much debris in orbit. It was to say that this stuff is borderline useless. I did some research on starlink, and it looks like most of their users live in the US and just
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by sfblah 2y ago
Look, just because you find some tiny clip in a stream where someone misspeaks (if he even did), that's not all that interesting. As ChatGPT pointed out, in general the guy knows this piece of minutia. You're acting like a conspir
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by sfblah 2y ago
I watched the second link you sent me. It cuts between clips ever 0.5 seconds or something. I have no idea what he actually said. I believe GPT.
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by sfblah 2y ago
If you can't see that Musk's entire net worth is downstream of US government action and bubble idiots buying his lies, I can't help you.
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by sfblah 2y ago
They don’t have 400 million Starlink subscribers you moron.
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by sfblah 2y ago
Your claims about the dollar amounts the US government has paid to SpaceX are false. The numbers are much higher than that. Just do a quick search. It’s completely nonobvious to me what value there will be in massively increased amounts of
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by sfblah 2y ago
I googled for about 15 minutes for reports about starlink’s lasers and latency and found several articles saying what I wrote above. Feel free to look it up for yourself. As for his focus on Musk, I feel the same way about that as I did abo
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by sfblah 2y ago
The entire video is not the same thing over and over. He lodges specific, credible criticisms of all manner of Musk claims. I think any reasonable person looking at the history of Musks' businesses would come away viewing Musk as a pat
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by sfblah 2y ago
Actually, it is. From the dictionary: An ad hominem attack occurs when someone attacks the person making the argument rather than addressing the argument itself. For example, saying "You're always wrong, so you're wrong about
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by sfblah 2y ago
Who cares? Since the 1960s, space launching has never been limited by supply. It's limited by demand. That's why 80% of SpaceX's cargo is for satellites to support their marginally useful Starlink business. Like Hyperloop, &q
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by sfblah 2y ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=ad+hominem+attack Edit: Just out of curiosity, I looked up his video about Starlink, and his point was it's a bad business, not that it's physically impossible to do it: https:&#x2
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by sfblah 2y ago
It's not several orders of magnitude smaller. According to ChatGPT, SpaceX has spent $20-30B as of 2023, compared to $160-170B in 2023 dollars. That's less than one order of magnitude, and consider that SpaceX is starting with all
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by sfblah 2y ago
Take a look at videos on YouTube by ThunderF00t. SpaceX is pretty problematic. Currently, around 80% of SpaceX's rockets are dedicated to launching Starlink satellites. This is because they've already soaked up all the demand for

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