tehjoker

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by tehjoker 9mo ago
It really will become about rich people swaying narratives or even making reality comport to their desires when practical. Poor people without insider info will just lose their savings on gambling. A cheaper stock market.
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by tehjoker 9mo ago
China is much less likely to attack civilians. Don't project america and israel's way of war onto others. I would imagine part of their strategy is to win hearts ad minds. America just kills and kills and kills and wonders why we
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by tehjoker 9mo ago
This is a very bizzare misunderstanding of democracy.
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I don't think that will be strictly true that everyone will be able to consume $3000 worth of goods at today's prices, but I do think that people will be less precarious in their lives and able to not be evicted for the crime of n
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by tehjoker 9mo ago
Does your landlord stand for election? That's a huge huge difference. The landlord is only out for themselves, but the government can potentially make decisions that benefit society as a whole and are rational. The basic problem in Ame
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by tehjoker 9mo ago
This is a clever perspective, but you have to again ask where that foregone consumption is coming from. It is coming from mainly workers and renters and the sums are concentrated into a single parasitic entity.
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If there were no landlords we would have a robust public housing program. The government would build out housing then lease/sell it to the public and then they would be obligated to sell it back to the government when they finished wit
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by tehjoker 9mo ago
That’s true too.
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It is said that Trump did not give her dominion over Venezuela because he was miffed over her getting the Peace Prize and not him. She's a fascist by the way.
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This is heavily context dependent... There are plenty of situations where everyone knows the relevant factors, it's who has possession of land, resources, people, etc.
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The Bolivarian revolution kicked us out before, they can do it again.
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We chose this path because the U.S. dollar is underpinned by fossil fuel markets. Also, batteries do not have the energy density to mobilize a mechanized military. Our elites refuse to concede dominance of the affairs of the world, so they
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by tehjoker 10mo ago
I hadn't heard about the SHG platform. Thanks for the link!
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by tehjoker 10mo ago
There is a small watery layer covering your cornea, this is enough to impede far UV-C (~222nm is safe, 254nm regular UV-C is dangerous to your eye!)
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What do you think those policies might look like? It's true that we have more screen based entertainment options today. We also have a very different music distribution system that is likely influencing things substantially. In the 196
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My guess is if we don't get a better vaccine, the COVID issue will probably be mostly or partially solved when 222nm UV-C LEDs become relatively efficient and low cost. At that point they will be mandated in public places.
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Yes, it's due to changing the pH of water in the air.
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A natural solution for this kind of problem would be either a private or public grants program. Critical infrastructure built by random uncompensated people... ideally there would be some process for evaluating what is critical and compensa
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by tehjoker 10mo ago
The UK music culture of the 1960s was in large part due to the "dole" or cash payments to poor people.
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by tehjoker 10mo ago
Trump is trashing the economy and the easiest way to pick a scapegoat is to blame foreigners.
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by tehjoker 10mo ago
This agent is really interesting! Learning a lot. Thanks!
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by tehjoker 10mo ago
This is a good idea. One thing I never understand about these kinds of projects though: why are the standard questions provided to the user as prompts never cached?
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There's a place for oppressed groups to get together to discuss things, but for the most part, various forms of segregation, even when well intended, are a very bad idea. Sometimes people innovate segregation for "good" reaso
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by tehjoker 10mo ago
This is the definition . People thought long and hard about what genocide is, because people are quite creative in finding ways of trying to destroy other people. Israel is committing genocide because they have tried to destroy part of the
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It was a pro-segregation stance. Heinously racist.
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This is the kind of opinion that could only issue from one of the last societies to own literal slaves.
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Without western support, it is quite possible Israel will simply lose and the conflict will go away, leaving a possibility of building a democratic secular state in Palestine that treats people with equality.
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RobertoG's comment is a good one, but I will add that the definition of genocide is defined in the genocide convention as: Article 2 of the Convention defines genocide as: ... any of the following acts committed with intent to de
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It's very obvious what they are trying to accomplish: ethnic cleansing. The idea is to make life so miserable to Palestinians that they will give up their national liberation struggle and venture into the punishing Sinai desert, allowi
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by tehjoker 10mo ago
If the US wasn't selling weapons, Israel wouldn't be able to do what it does. It wouldn't be happening like this. So that's right, the level of caring would be lower because the genocide would not be possible.

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