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811.
by thrance 1y ago
The 18F team was doing remarkable work devoid of all profit motives, before it was gutted by this admin. Americans are missing out on a lot of QoL improvements based purely on the false belief that private is always better than public. In F
812.
by thrance 1y ago
I really like the idea of UBI but the math just doesn't add up. Even where I live, France, our entire welfare expenditures (that is supposed to be quite high relative to our neighbors) wouldn't be nearly enough to give each citize
813.
by thrance 1y ago
I don't know, an income with no strings attached sounds better than putting them all on a few media corporations' payrolls, that are controlled by, like, three guys.
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by thrance 1y ago
Argentina didn't manage shit, else they wouldn't have to be bailed out by the Trump admin. This should come as a surprise to no one, "General AnCap" may have artifically and temporarily given the impression of good numbe
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by thrance 1y ago
I don't see what point you're trying to make. Do you mean to claim that the Sveriges Riksbank is unbiased in who it chooses to give their price to? Unless you believe that 90% of economists come from the US (and the remaining 10%
816.
by thrance 1y ago
At first glance, "sustained growth" sounds like an oxymoron. Nothing can grow forever, unless the growth asymptotically approaches zero.
817.
by thrance 1y ago
The issue with this prize isn't that economics is not a real science. Nobel prizes are primarily vulgarization and communication tools, and as such are inhenrently political. The Sveriges Riksbank is piggy-backing off the popularity of
818.
by thrance 1y ago
You forgot the stuff that actually matters: - Universal healthcare: I have never needed to pay for my medicine, and I can rest assured that my family won't go bankrupt if I ever get cancer or something. - Extensive paid leave: I have 1
819.
by thrance 1y ago
The monarchy is demonstrably powerless and unwilling to fight the destruction of UK democracy. Right-wing populism has infiltrated all sides of the political landscape there, and with it all the self-destructing ideas we have come to love:
820.
by thrance 1y ago
I don't believe any climate change "skeptic" has ever been swayed by "bulletproof" numbers and arguments. Well, not for the last fifty years at least. This disbelief in a fundamental truth of our times wasn't b
821.
by thrance 1y ago
We have to stop this "every position I disagree with comes from ideology" line of thinking. There are good reasons to dislike crypto: environmental cost, scam omnipresence, failure to actually decentralize anything, community toxi
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by thrance 1y ago
Yet you don't see insurance companies hiring snipers to get rid of their oldest customers. Maybe the solution is to prosecute those who would push MAID too aggressively as we would those who push to suicide.
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by thrance 1y ago
> I don't even think there's a party on either side of the spectrum that's like "fuck disabled people". Trump said to her niece about her disabled son: "maybe he should just die". The right is ableist
824.
by thrance 1y ago
That's a terrible take. Of course politics will play an increasing part in daily life when the country is devolving into a dictatorship. A journalist is getting abducted on the street by the regime's gestapo and your first reactio
825.
by thrance 1y ago
I agree, we should ban influencers from accepting any money from parties or other political actors (think tanks, foreign nations...). We can't and shouldn't ban them from expressing their honest opinions, but we should keep the de
826.
by thrance 1y ago
These are only about direct donations. Most money in politics nowadays is this so-called "dark money". Most billionaires I can think of supported Trump: Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Thiel, Ellison... Lobbies generally favor the Right
827.
by thrance 1y ago
Look at Paris or London, we don't need to improve tunnel boring. We just need to get rid of cars and build subways. The technology has been there for more than a century at this point. The Vegas Loop is a laughable solution to a proble
828.
by thrance 1y ago
That's how it always work. You're against the genocide in Gaza? "Activists think Israel doesn't have a right to exist". You don't like ICE abducting people on the street? "Activists think we shouldn't
829.
by thrance 1y ago
No matter the merits of NextJS, they are very valid political reasons why one might want to distance themselves from Vercel.
830.
by thrance 1y ago
I think you're being way too charitable with Vercel's CEO. I don't doubt he came up with some way to justify to himself that what Israel is doing is completely necessary and reasonable. But I doubt you can get access to a pre
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by thrance 1y ago
I live in France, we have Universal Healthcare here. We individually spend less than you Americans on healthcare, as the costs are distributed across the entire population. The state also acts as a single buyer, giving them more leverage ag
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by thrance 1y ago
ngirx and granian are my favorite technologies to work with! Completely agree, this trend of putting a completely useless and ugly AI image on top of your page, I despise. You could have searched the web for an actual diagram, if you wanted
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by thrance 1y ago
I did not put these words in my comment, what are you even talking about?
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by thrance 1y ago
How horrible, feel very free to leave for greener pastures, then.
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by thrance 1y ago
Yes we know, being pro universal healthcare is equally as radical as building literal concentration camps and sending legal immigrants to them. The left has never oppressed the right in this country. Being banned from twitter for saying ra
836.
by thrance 1y ago
You seem to have missed that Musk nurturing a cult of mentally ill edgelords is a feature , not a bug. Why would he ever want to shield his users from the made-up ragebait that so successfully radicalized so many of them into joining MAGA?
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by thrance 1y ago
Crime is actually at its lowest point in 40 years, but you wouldn't know it looking at the constant fearmongering by legacy media and conservative politicians alike.
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by thrance 1y ago
The average US citizen voted in Trump, so no. You can't listen to his UN speech and go "that's the man to rule my country" if you're not seriously mentally impaired.
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by thrance 1y ago
You're discounting the fact that building Starship, if successful, has a non-zero chance of taking Musk away from Earth forever. That's a huge potential positive.
840.
by thrance 1y ago
Musk and his right-wing propaganda platform plays a big part in the destruction of Western democracy. He deserves the hate he is receiving. Providing internet to an insignificant fraction of the global population does not even begin to offs

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