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by thrance 8mo ago
They are, by any relevant metric...
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by thrance 8mo ago
A scientist moving to a country isn't usually expected to learn the local language, the vast majority of laboratories speak English.
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by thrance 8mo ago
It's easy to pin this all on a foreign enemy, but this "theory" is completely invalidated by noticing that Trump receives support from all the most powerful person of the country: Musk, Zuckerberg, Thiel, Ellison, Bezos...
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by thrance 8mo ago
I believe WebMCP will fail for the same reason as the semantic web and public APIs did: no one wants to put in the effort to make their website readable by machines, as that only benefits the competition and is immediately exploited by bad
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by thrance 8mo ago
Damn, I missed that. That's a shame.
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by thrance 8mo ago
I think the DB itself is open-source, and you can self-host if you want. Biggest risk is if the company goes under and stops maintaining it.
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by thrance 8mo ago
My bad, but it supports persistent changes to a shared game world.
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by thrance 8mo ago
The company that is building SpacetimeDB is also making a voxel MMO with it, so it looks like it works well enough. But I am still a bit skeptical at how scalable this is.
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by thrance 8mo ago
So what's your position on trans people? Persecute them, or let them be? Persecute half of them perhaps?
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by thrance 8mo ago
Don't make the mistake of idealizing the past. It took a decade of terrible winters and famine for the head of a single French king to be parted from his body. And it took one century more for a lasting Republic to be born.
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by thrance 8mo ago
American "activists" (didn't know being anti-genocide was a fringe belief but here we are) clearly won the narrative. Most Americans now oppose what Israel is doing in Gaza and want all support to this country to stop ASAP. T
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by thrance 8mo ago
You're making the mistake of correlating these proxy wars with any later improvements in these countries' living conditions. War is always detrimental to quality of life.
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by thrance 8mo ago
I mean, nothing unhinged here, nukes are only ever useful if other countries believe you will use them when attacked. Same thing for North Korea as the US, France, etc. (Well, nuclear war is unhinged, but...).
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by thrance 8mo ago
These policies are symptoms of the authoritarian zeitgeist, not its causes. We will keep getting more and more of them until people start believing in democracy again. In that sense, I don't think it's a slippery slope, since one
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by thrance 8mo ago
Modern Bethesda games, for all their faults, are still very moddable. But who needs these when we have Morrowind? And same. Me personally, I learned Java to mod Minecraft. That's how I got into programming. Overall, I'd say moddin
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by thrance 8mo ago
That's delusional. The vast majority of people lack the economic and social capital necessary to "work for themselves". Instead, they must compete with each other to work for someone that keeps the majority of their output, o
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by thrance 8mo ago
Are people also slaves under capitalism then? "Their work is owned by their employer, not themselves".
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by thrance 8mo ago
If we let the markets have their way, Earth becomes unhabitable. Coal and oil plants aren't being shut down. In fact, we have more than ever with additional ones on the way.
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by thrance 8mo ago
Thanks for sharing! I will definitely give this a watch.
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by thrance 8mo ago
> property is enforced, contracts are enforced, and people are allowed to trade consensually without (much) interference from men with badges and guns. Capitalism isn't about that at all . It is about private ownership of the means
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by thrance 8mo ago
I'd really like to get stats on how many evangelicals believe in this "dual covenant" vs how many follow scripture and legitimately believe that Jesus will send all Jews to hell to be tortured forever when he comes back.
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by thrance 8mo ago
I don't know how much weight the legalist argument holds here, seeing how the IDF has been acting extra-legally for a long while now, but anyway, I seriously doubt that each destroyed hospital and each destroyed school held terrori
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by thrance 8mo ago
Grandparent was specifically pointing to women's rights as a reason to invade Iran and overthrow their government. I was asking why we never hear such things against Saudi Arabia, a country that is comparatively misogynistic. My point
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by thrance 8mo ago
The correct course of actions is to reexamine your beliefs in light of the new evidence that was presented to it, not shut off your mind completely. If you still doubt its truth, you can easily get more with a quick google search. Also, it&
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by thrance 8mo ago
Keep in mind that these powerful men believe that Jewish people coming back to Israel is the first step of the Apocalypse, and the return of Christ. It is a death cult quite literally trying to bring about the end of the world, and they&#x2
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by thrance 8mo ago
I don't know why you're using the past tense here, I was still trying to talk some sense into these people barely two days ago. It's hopeless at this point.
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by thrance 8mo ago
I think you know perfectly well what I meant by "slaves". I trust you are able to recognize an hyperbole when you see one. Most of humanity lives with little prospect of improving their lives through its work, and OP's commen
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by thrance 8mo ago
Capitalism enables the boundless concentration of wealth and power in individuals. I reject the premise that seeking to become a billionaire is a natural behavior, instrinsic to the human experience. I won't pretend to know what shou
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by thrance 8mo ago
> With capitalism we have the power to control our economic outcomes (to a large extent). Work more; earn more. Go tell that to the slave laborers in the global South that made the clothes you are currently wearing. These people work way
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by thrance 8mo ago
Capitalism can only sort of work when there is balance between the classes. Inevitably, one wins over the other, which leads to fascism or communism, and later a big reset. If the proletariat (i.e. those who depend on a salary to survive) a

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