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by subsistence234 1y ago
As far as economic policy goes Democrats are neoliberals (which can be considered right wing). They are far left on cultural topics (e.g. favoring retributive discrimination, wanting frivolous late term abortions to be legal) and far left i
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by subsistence234 2y ago
> You're literally describing the tax system that was funding it before it was axed by the guy who can't stop making mistakes. The tax system took from those who didn't want to pay for corruption, only the actual aid. They
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by subsistence234 2y ago
DOGE didn't abolish PEPFAR, they reduced its budget by 25%. Probably because ~50% of that budget was being wasted. There's likely still a big buffer before anyone runs out of meds. Also there are lots of private donors who would m
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by subsistence234 2y ago
>you can't just reduce spending by firing swathes of people Twitter style. mozilla probably could.
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by subsistence234 2y ago
> Mozilla currently spends $260M on browser development, Mozilla spends that on development, but firefox is only a small part of that.
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by subsistence234 2y ago
It's not about that one conference.
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by subsistence234 2y ago
Quite a few people would donate for Firefox development, but they can't donate to Mozilla because Mozilla spends the money on other stuff. Until now, as Google's lapdog, Mozilla didn't need donations, so that wasn't a pr
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by subsistence234 2y ago
"Nobody" is an exaggeration since there are a few people like you. Most people want Mozilla to focus on making a good browser. If Mozilla had used the Google billions on improving Firefox instead of fart sniffing, Firefox would be
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by subsistence234 2y ago
someone else always does and they always have the same knowledge and skills. except in this case, hellwig had more experience coding in rust than his replacement.
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by subsistence234 2y ago
> Hellwig is free to change the DMA code without considering whether or not it breaks the rust bindings. The fact that he was not allowed to do that is exactly why he escalated.
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by subsistence234 2y ago
For his day job he's regularly been coding in Rust since ~2020.
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by subsistence234 2y ago
Or am I missing something? C subsystem patches have started to be rejected by Linus because they break Rust builds despite the agreement that this wouldn't happen. That's why Hellwig switched from ignoring Rust patches sent to him
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by subsistence234 2y ago
How do you clean up a corrupt organization?
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by subsistence234 2y ago
All the world's billionaires own about $20T. Distributing that equally among all the people of the world would provide each a $75 annuity indefinitely.
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by subsistence234 2y ago
sure, making the government smaller is basically the same as putting the government in control of everything.
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by subsistence234 2y ago
let's stigmatize admitting when you were wrong. never changing your mind is the only way to avoid joining a murder cult!
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by subsistence234 2y ago
it's always easier to dismiss imaginary strawmen than real people.
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by subsistence234 2y ago
who bullies the bullies?
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by subsistence234 2y ago
"it's different when we do it..."
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by subsistence234 2y ago
they didn't become angry, they became excited. and a famous conjecture is by definition something for which all the experts know that its truth is UNKNOWN (even in cases where most experts believe it's true).
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by subsistence234 2y ago
https://steveinskeep.substack.com/p/how-my-npr-colleague-fai...
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by subsistence234 2y ago
lol no
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by subsistence234 2y ago
lol they probably asked him to write the article one article criticizes them, of course they're not gonna allow that. the other article praises them, of course they're gonna allow that.
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by subsistence234 2y ago
>no one called our inclusion DEI - they just called it hiring locally. because it wasn't DEI.
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by subsistence234 2y ago
you've clearly never lived anywhere else. on cultural topics the US is far left nowadays. - limits on abortion are more strict in most of the world's developed countries. - legally-enforced and culturally-encouraged discriminatio
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by subsistence234 2y ago
that's your religion
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by subsistence234 2y ago
When progressive "solutions" are implemented, if their success is measured empirically at all, they usually just make things worse. See e.g. the outcome of most educational reforms of the past 20 years, or the attempts in America&
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by subsistence234 2y ago
> consequences The Idi Amin school of civil rights: "There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech." If you want to know what freedom of speech actually means in the USA, you should read up on the topi
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by subsistence234 2y ago
there are five comments ITT that confuse developers of a platform with investors in a SPAC. weird mistake to make repeatedly.
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by subsistence234 2y ago
the majority on this site are still relatively sane, as are the mods, but only 1% of users needs to be ideologically deranged to hide ideologically inconvenient comments with [flagged] which is what happened, as predicted by the user.

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