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by thrance 8mo ago
This isn't rude, this is fucking insulting, and you know it. > Collectively you don’t speak your minds and do not defend those who dare to do so. Unlike Americans? Your democracy is in peril, not ours. Your press is under attack
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by thrance 8mo ago
Neither of these two groups you mention hold any meaningful power anywhere, and have zero links with the issue of age verification: your comment is pure disinformation.
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by thrance 8mo ago
I tire of this pathetic bothsideism. "Cancel culture" never made it to law, and had zero implications for the people that were supposedly targeted. Case in point: Trump is still president despite being a child rapist that tried to
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by thrance 8mo ago
During a press conference yesterday, Hegseth, the secretary of war, received a question on Iran from CNN that he didn't feel the need to answer, and then went on a rant about how he can't wait for Ellison to buy the network and ri
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by thrance 8mo ago
I really can't stand this style of writing anymore, this quick succession of "impactful" short sentences, some of them without even a verb. I don't know if I just started noticing them recently or if it was always like c
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by thrance 8mo ago
And realistically, if we did live in a meritocracy, that's where he would be.
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by thrance 8mo ago
The US killed many, many more civilians accross the world that Iran ever did. Yet you don't seem to care about that, why? > And it's not a war started, its a "war" responding to decades of heinous, vicious, deadly fun
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by thrance 8mo ago
So, since the Iranian regime killed protesters, it's OK for the US regime to obliterate a girl's school? And then lie about it? I'm having trouble following your reasoning.
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by thrance 8mo ago
It's only a speed bump for progressive laws while the most reactionary garbage gets fast tracked with their approvals.
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by thrance 8mo ago
Slippery slope fallacy. It's unfortunate that gender seggragation is the only way to stop women from being raped by their Uber drivers, but in a country led by a raging misogynist and pedophile, it's hardly surprising that we woul
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by thrance 8mo ago
And then this automation contributes in turn to this "low-trust environment", removing one more human interaction from your day and further erroding the social fabric. Taken to the extreme, this only ends with everyone completely
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by thrance 8mo ago
> How long till "I don't want a black/white/gay/etc driver" options show up? Slippery slope fallacy. > "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." — George Orwell, Ani
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by thrance 8mo ago
If so, by how much? 1.5 billion pigs are slaughtered each year, is that too few to matter? It's so normalized to think of animals as worthless that I don't blame anyone for not having thought about it, but the moral calculus is re
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by thrance 8mo ago
This is exactly what happened with a minor nitpick: the lobbyists and shareholders that orchestrated it obtained what they wanted (a quick buck) and got out unharmed, free to think about their next enterprise. The workers will be the ones t
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by thrance 8mo ago
Lesser of two evils, I guess. People are tired of Israel/The US annihilating girl schools with expensive missile strikes and then have to hear from Netanyahou that it was actuall an Hamas/Hezbollah/Whatever hidden base. Also
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by thrance 8mo ago
Politely, you should reconsider your views on immigration. Immigrants (even illegal ones) are on average less violent than native citizens, and net positives to the economy. Their constant scapegoating in the public discourse was always goi
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by thrance 8mo ago
To me, there is little difference between the stock market, prediction markets and horse betting. I just don't believe speculation is necessary to a healthy economy, and often ends up hurting millions accross the world in the "bur
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by thrance 8mo ago
> Not necessarily–plenty of social systems let the market boom and bust without causing social distress. And again, smoothing out the business cycle penalizes risk taking. The wealthy are shielded from most negative consequences of their
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by thrance 8mo ago
At any given time, there are enough economists fearing a recession to write an article about it. Doesn't mean they're always wrong though, recessions do happen.
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by thrance 8mo ago
Don't let the populist sentiment gain you, this has nothing to do with environmentalism. You want a scape-goat? Blame the decades of neoliberalism that led to such under-investments in our public infrastructure.
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by thrance 8mo ago
The real insanity is to keep burning that coal, that we know will render large part of the Earth uninhabitable if we don't stop ASAP. Also, it's more expensive than cleaner energy. You want a culprit so bad? Blame EU neoliberalism
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by thrance 8mo ago
Cool! I found your solution a while ago while searching for something similar, do you plan to support other locales and/or keyboard layouts in the future?
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by thrance 8mo ago
Think of AI more as a speculative vehicle than an actual tech.
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by thrance 8mo ago
I doubt that would change anything, in this era of shamelessness. Being corrupt has become a virtue, and winning lots of money is cool, doesn't matter if it was from gambling on war with insider trading. I believe prediction markets an
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by thrance 8mo ago
France also uses 5-digits zip codes, and many other countries too I'd wager.
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by thrance 8mo ago
Also, in the fleeting moments between waking and full consciousness, I can hear all sounds coming back to me (ringing included), exactly as if they had been turned off by my brain during sleep and are now being turned on again.
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by thrance 8mo ago
The more you think about it and the more negatively you think of it, the worse it gets. I know it's easy to say, but the secret is just to not care about it.
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by thrance 8mo ago
Except the same people disbelieving in climate change hold a blind faith in Trump's administration, that is extremely corrupt and influenced by rich donors. This isn't skepticism, these people have just been completely ideological
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by thrance 8mo ago
Too bad the next guys will also be completely owned by capital.
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