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by standardUser 9mo ago
Perhaps in an ideal world, we trade mostly with allies and nations that are ideologically aligned with the US. Unfortunately, the current president is doing everything he can to weaken alliances with those nations and cripple those trade re
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by standardUser 9mo ago
Yes, following an almost cookie-cutter-like pattern of emerging economies protecting and supporting their auto industries.
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by standardUser 9mo ago
Who fucking knows with this guy. It feels pointless to speculate. Remember when he was obsessed with the Panama Canal? And the talk about relocating every person in Palestine? It reminds me of Hitler's writings, where he would divide u
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by standardUser 9mo ago
Europe isn't the US and it isn't China, but it is collectively one of the preeminent military and economic powers in the world. So, as long as they'd like.
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by standardUser 9mo ago
I fail to see what "good will" has to do with anything.
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by standardUser 9mo ago
Personally, I despise an outspoken bigot like Scott Adams more when they die, not less, because now their window for growth and repentance has closed. The grotesqueness they harbored becomes permanently tied to their legacy.
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by standardUser 9mo ago
Explain why any for-profit enterprise would ever take any action that wasn't in it's own interest, unless compelled by law.
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by standardUser 9mo ago
The only excuses for bad corporate behavior are bad corporate laws and weak enforcement.
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by standardUser 9mo ago
I am saying that half-assed measures that rely on the imaginary goodwill of megacorps is getting us nowhere, fast.
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by standardUser 9mo ago
How long can we keep trying to put a finger in this particular dike? In five years, most people will be able to run a local LLM capable of whatever nefarious purposes they choose.
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by standardUser 9mo ago
The locations of the detonations were indiscriminate, the intended targets were not.
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by standardUser 9mo ago
I wish this country had a libertarian right that cared one iota about widespread suppression of civil liberties instead of only whining about taxes.
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by standardUser 9mo ago
This is the thing people seem to sleep on when it comes to EVs - they simply drive better than other cars. More responsive, better pickup, smoother drivetrains, etc.
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by standardUser 9mo ago
If a home isn't the sole primary residence of a person, it's essentially "vacant" and should be taxed, imho.
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by standardUser 9mo ago
Utilizing vacant properties is easier and cheaper than building new ones, by a massive margin. We should do both, but ignoring perfectly good homes in desirable locations being used by nobody is silly.
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by standardUser 9mo ago
Tax vacant properties. To high heaven.
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by standardUser 9mo ago
UI and UX have decline dramatically in the last 10 years across the board. Most of this can be attributed to hamfisted security measures and data collection/dark patterns to abuse consumers. But why cars? I only drive rentals, so I dea
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by standardUser 9mo ago
I learn a lot more from informative posts that add something than critical posts that tear something down, largely because the critical posts are basic and repetitive while the informative ones are often novel and offer insider/profess
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ICE's interest in high-tech gear raises new questions: 'What is it for?'(politico.com)
106 points by standardUser 9mo ago|105 comments
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by standardUser 10mo ago
That you could come up with one reasonable-sounding explanation while they offered nothing makes me wonder if the administration is too lazy, or too inept.
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by standardUser 10mo ago
I've been waiting for large-scale molten salt/rock batteries to take off. They've existed at utility scale for years but are still niche. They're not especially responsive and I imagine a facility to handle a mass amount
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by standardUser 10mo ago
> if these folks were all so concerned about U.S. consumer privacy, they should have passed a functional modern internet privacy law applying to all U.S. companies and their executives. This is the way. I wonder if we'll ever see th
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by standardUser 10mo ago
The more China advances domestically, especially in this area, the less it has to gain from invading Taiwan. China is getting to the point where the conquest is finally doable (rapidly advancing and massive military, plus a weak US presiden
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by standardUser 10mo ago
Non-verifiable by what standards?
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by standardUser 10mo ago
> I can understand culturally incompatible, but what on earth is "racially incompatible"? It's racists, being racist, and likely conflating skin color with cultural differences.
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by standardUser 10mo ago
The real tragedy is that we don't already have regulations already on the books in response to the endless data-hoarding that's been inflicted on us since at least the first tracking cookie.
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by standardUser 10mo ago
What does it mean to "leave" the US? I know several people with advanced degrees in the sciences who had children in Europe and raised their kids there for years, but eventually came back. One family returned to Europe a second t
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by standardUser 10mo ago
It's all the shareholders care about. These are not research institutions.
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by standardUser 10mo ago
Apple's policy is to submit to nearly all requests made by the federal government, though they get substantial credit for resisting some requests. This of course depends on the decisions made by current leadership, which can and will c
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by standardUser 10mo ago
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