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by vkou 5d ago
There's a monthly non-refundable fee that I pay for use and regular wear and tear of the property. It's called R E N T, and the difference between that and a landlord's costs is called profit. If you don't want any wear
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by vkou 5d ago
> Also I'm not sure what the new law changes It doesn't change anything about pets, the grandparent poster's complaint is a dogwhistle. What it does ban is shit like 'consigliere' trash disposal, where you are ma
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by vkou 5d ago
Yes, this legislature explicitly permits them.
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by vkou 5d ago
From the legislature: > There is no market incentive to advertise the all-in price of a rental unit. Research by the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research documents individual businesses losing significant market share when s
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by vkou 5d ago
It takes a odd kind of person to look at someone who can't tell the truth if their life depended on it... And then start bending over backwards to explain how brilliant they are. Most of the rest of us understand that once you've
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by vkou 5d ago
And yet all of them have an even lower fertility rate than China. On the one hand, you're proving my point. On the other hand, if you think that China's headed for a demographic disaster, so are all of those countries , and your
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by vkou 5d ago
> Was it also the Chinese plan all along to annihilate their own birh rate? No, that's generally what happens when countries stop being poor. Taiwan, Singapore, Korea, all have similar fertility rates.
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by vkou 7d ago
58,000 US and 230,000 south vietnamese soldiers died during the Vietnam war. Over 500,000 PAVN/VC soldiers died. Who lost the will to fight, and the war? Wars tend to end long before one side runs out of men between the ages of 13 and
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by vkou 7d ago
In a conflict, the side that is winning is the side that still has the will to fight.
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by vkou 9d ago
It is essentially a (weird-ass) two-round system when it comes to the presidency (and many lower offices). Party primaries exist, they overwhelmingly gave one of the nominations to a dumpster.
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by vkou 9d ago
You're missing choice #3 - spend more money on stupid shit, cut taxes some more, pile on more debt, blame Obama Hussein Hunter Biden for the debt as the opening salvo of the third-term run in 2028.
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by vkou 9d ago
In a war where schools and bridges and aid convoys and bread lines are targeted, anyone should consider themselves a valid target. It's true that you are less likely to be a target than a state-sponsored tech megacorp's data cente
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by vkou 10d ago
No, because they are all products of unchecked late-stage capitalism, which could have disastrous consequences for humanity.
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by vkou 10d ago
If their foreign intelligence office hasn't made the kind of contacts and capabilities that could , they wouldn't be doing their jobs. Low level sabotage under the guise of hooliganism wasn't invented in Leningrad.
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by vkou 13d ago
So, complain to the stalker?
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by vkou 13d ago
Well, we already had the toilet paper shortage last time around, but round #2 of this administration just keeps on giving.
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by vkou 13d ago
Who do I call if I think Flock is stalking me, and who will the police show up to intimidate when I do?
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by vkou 13d ago
The vermin that are building it understand it just fine.
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by vkou 13d ago
The alternative is Sam Altman winning.
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by vkou 14d ago
If you're being given an A-B choice between cinnamon-flavored shit and lutfisk-flavored shit, you might convince the experimenter that cinnamon-flavored shit ranks highly in user preferences.
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by vkou 14d ago
If energy security were that high a priority, the US would have been rushing head-first, instead of dragging its feet, in a transition off fossil fuels and onto renewables and energy independence. It's quite clearly not.
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by vkou 14d ago
The role they exist to perform is maintaining the American empire and hegemony , and they've done a pretty good job of that up until ~this year. 'Keeping Americans safe' is not on their agenda. If it were, they wouldn't
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by vkou 16d ago
You're assuming the truth ever prevails in marketing and PR. It doesn't.
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by vkou 16d ago
Meanwhile, costs will somehow go up by 40%.
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by vkou 17d ago
> and not exactly sure how merely the existence of a solution precludes the advancement of human knowledge. You'd be more sure if you read the tweets. Tao's point is very simple. 1. Working on problems that AI solvers can solve
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by vkou 17d ago
> It’s extremely disruptive, but blaming Google or Apple for any of this is a bad move, imo They have the capacity to push back, instead of pre-emptively rolling over for an autocrat.
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by vkou 18d ago
Increasing COL for everyone is an interesting solution, I wonder how well it would do for your re-election prospects. The United States voted a shit-slinging gibbon in over anxiety of a minor COVID COL increase. (That he caused, but everyon
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by vkou 18d ago
Did the Brexit campaign address the issues of the people who voted for it? Are all those people now better off because of it? Did Trump and his 'no new wars' and '$1.99 gas' and 'Drain the swamp' and 'Bal
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by vkou 19d ago
I think it's more that the 'original cryptocurrency enthusiasts' tend to look the other way, because the more of these weird shitcoins/nfts/networks get minted, the more their numbers go up. It's 2026. Show of
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by vkou 19d ago
I throughly enjoy music edutainment, and I don't think I'm the only viewer who then goes and actually plays some music after viewing it. (I can't honestly say that I go and start doing chemistry after listening to NileRed..

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