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by slibhb 3y ago
The fact that Israel is stronger doesn't seem especially relevant. We're not talking about a couple kids fighting during recess. The weaker side isn't automatically right and the stronger side can't be expected to modera
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by slibhb 3y ago
How? The cartels want to make money through illegal means, they don't want to destroy America. The cartels studiously avoid killing Americans. When they do kill Americans, the leadership either kills the members who killed Americans or
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by slibhb 3y ago
If Mexico-based cartels killed 1000 Americans and kidnapped 200, the US would send armed forces into Mexico in a heartbeat, probably with the support of the Mexican government. Of course the cartels don't do that, though, because their
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by slibhb 3y ago
Depends on the rubric. Kundera was a much better writer.
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by slibhb 3y ago
https://archive.is/lDyOB I have no idea whether affirmative action in Air Traffic Control has anything to do with increased incidents. Either way, I think affirmative action as applied here is a travesty.
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by slibhb 3y ago
I feel like you're an LLM having a fit of hallucinations. Like I said, in any social mileu there are insane things that are commonly believed. Providing evidence that people believe in "greedflation" doesn't contradict t
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by slibhb 3y ago
Wow that's an insane conspiracy theory.
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by slibhb 3y ago
There are no free lunches. The idea that inflation can be curbed by companies being more empathetic is wrong. If they don't raise prices during a spate of inflation, then they'll have to fire workers or make other cuts.
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by slibhb 3y ago
I don't have to read the article to know what "greedflation" means. You read the article and don't know!
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"Greedflation" is the theory that the 2021 spate of inflation was caused by greed.
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Bingo.
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> Nobody is saying inflation doesn't exist. Bizarre non sequitur. > By your logic any price hike is to be accepted and not questioned because "basic economics"... No it doesn't. But by your logic, surge pricing is
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by slibhb 3y ago
It's not just America. Everyone is fixated on the Jews (for or against). There's plenty of ethno-religious conflicts all around the world but the world only cares about one of them. Also, "lobbying" is a boogeyman here.
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by slibhb 3y ago
Microchips are actually a more defensible belief. I can deduce that inflation isn't caused by greed with an extremely basic knowledge of economics. Meanwhile, while it seems a priori extremely unlikely that Bill Gates has been spiking
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by slibhb 3y ago
In every social mileu there are insane things that are commonly believed. Believing in "greedflation" is like believing in vaccine microchips.
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Really? Aren't you curious if it actually works? Feels like there's an attitude here along the lines of "we know exactly where cavities come from, so we don't need empirical evidence that our treatment works". Seems
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by slibhb 3y ago
There's all kinds of propaganda from both sides all over the internet. But the linked article is about organized pressure campaigns. It's been interesting to observe that various official Israeli accounts have taken to posting tik
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by slibhb 3y ago
It's insane to voluntarily colonize your body with a virtually untested genetically engineered bacteria. The article claims it occurs naturally but they have no good data on its natural prevalence and they added two additional mutation
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by slibhb 3y ago
I don't see any evidence that Tyler is surprised by this. If you read his blog, it's wide ranging and the fact that he's linking something doesn't imply surprise. To me, the surprising thing here isn't the humanitie
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by slibhb 3y ago
The whole point of the joke is that Nixon famously said "People have gotta know whether or not their president is a crook. Well I am not a crook". Posting a gibe that Hunter S. Thompson wrote about Nixon after Kissinger died is ju
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by slibhb 3y ago
In foreign policy you have to walk a line between moralism and realism. Kissinger was too much a realist. But moralism has its dangers too, as we saw with the Bush (Iraq, Afghanistan) and Obama (Libya) administrations. At any rate, it'
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by slibhb 3y ago
It was Nixon. The joke doesn't apply to Kissinger because he wasn't a crook.
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You don't want to be "less efficient with money" or "make your life worse". Factors like that don't come into it. Neither does "making society better," "reforming the guilty party," or deter
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by slibhb 3y ago
If you're a retributivist, you believe the point of prison is to punish the guilty. Therefore you will be uncomfortable with the idea of prison as a means to "improve society or economics". Kant: > [Punishment] can never b
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by slibhb 3y ago
If you want to get down to it, forget technology. Living requires "destruction of the environment". The question is whether it's sustainable in the short, medium, and long term. I don't think that 8 billion people is t
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by slibhb 3y ago
As people get richer, as we stop starving and freezing, we prioritize the environment more and more. People in rich countries like green spaces and wild animals, are concerned about climate change, and invest massive amounts of money in env
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by slibhb 3y ago
The idea that we're at some fundamental limit where we can't keep building technology without destroying the environment seems wrong. Besides solar power, there's plenty of room for alternate, environmentally friendly technol
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by slibhb 3y ago
If a "super intelligent AI" is something in the vicinity of an LLM, which does nothing but respond to prompts, then humans provides a necessary element. Without a prompt, it'll just sit there doing nothing forever.
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by slibhb 3y ago
This is like the debate over welfare and free-riders. There are some people who need welfare to get by. They cannot provide for themselves. But once a welfare program is created, there will be a different number of people who don't nee
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by slibhb 3y ago
War may not always be necessary in the future but it was in the past and continues to be.

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