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by vkou 5mo ago
MN can't even give two murderers a fair trial because apparently Trump's goons can kill anyone they want, and then go scurry off like roaches. If states had autonomy, those animals and their accomplices would be behind bars right
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by vkou 5mo ago
States have autonomy on paper. In practice, it turns out otherwise.
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by vkou 5mo ago
The treaties with the crown require the crown consult with them before adjusting them. This means that Albertan secession can't happen without their consent, as it would by definition, completely and unilaterally adjust the terms of th
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by vkou 5mo ago
Strange how that independent Albertan national identity consists of immediately begging to be annexed by the United States. It's almost like it's entirely driven by foreign influencers and their puppets.
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by vkou 5mo ago
95% of Alberta is unceded First Nations land. It is not a valid country without it - without the consent of the relevant First Nations, a separated Alberta would be a few municipalities enveloped by... Canada. This is not a concern in Quebe
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by vkou 5mo ago
There's a minor difference. Whether Palestinians have a national identity or not, driving them out of their homes at gunpoint and settling in is a war crime . Albertans, while obviously the most disadvantaged and persecuted Canadians
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by vkou 5mo ago
And do what? There is no 'Albertan' national identity, like there is in Quebec, or Ukraine, or Taiwan or Ireland. You can't build an independent nation around something that is only wanted by a single political party, who hav
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by vkou 5mo ago
When a non-trans person stars in a film, nobody calls it a 'straight-cis' ideological hit piece.
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by vkou 5mo ago
A) has plenty of dystopian followups.
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by vkou 5mo ago
Those taxpayers are free to elect people who will hold the police to a higher standard. The police are an organ of society (if you don't live in an authoritarian shithole), so the society that gives them the power of pit and gallows is
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by vkou 5mo ago
My 2010 Prius has out of the blue started burning oil last year, like it's going out of style. It's a common problem with them. But otherwise, it's a very reliable car.
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by vkou 5mo ago
Steve Jobs also thought that the abomination that was that stupid circular mouse was the pinnacle of UX. Requiring the use of two hands in order to right click is also a fascinating hill to die on. I'm surprised that the operation didn
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by vkou 5mo ago
That's not the problem. There are two[1] problems. One is that a small group of people will own a critical part to all future economic activity. It's wealth consolidation at an unimaginable scale. The other is that the reason LLMs
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by vkou 5mo ago
75% of it is mountains, and not exactly inhabited.
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by vkou 5mo ago
You'll be really shocked to discover that in the Soviet Union, people also got different pay and company benefits and different retirement ages for doing different work.
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by vkou 5mo ago
"We are no longer particularly in the business of writing software to perform specific tasks. We now teach the software how to learn, and in the primary bonding process it molds itself around the task to be performed. The feedback loop
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by vkou 5mo ago
The Soviets tried to build The New Soviet Man for 74 years, while having an incredible amount of control over many aspects of society. The project was... For the most part unsuccessful. I don't think there is a cure. A society will be
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by vkou 5mo ago
What about if the robot's RNG is seeded with a particular number, that we did not write down... And we can destroy it's memory hardware containing the seed, 'killing' it. Even if the memory hardware is replaced, it won&#
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by vkou 5mo ago
The purpose of airshows is to boost recruitment of cannon fodder for imperial conquests and to remind us that we are strong and the enemy is weak. Same reason as for military parades.
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by vkou 5mo ago
He murdered a few people on day one. The thousands happened over decades of his rule.
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by vkou 5mo ago
Pinochet didn't start by murdering thousands of people on day one. It takes time and work to dismantle every part of the system that will stop you from doing that. Less time in weak democracies, more time in stronger ones. The republic
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by vkou 5mo ago
The barriers are that none of your customers have any money, and nobody wants to do the work for the prices the customers can afford. That's what life in an economically declining/dying area is like.
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by vkou 5mo ago
Why would it be? People love patriotically murdering a bunch of other people in a place that never lifted a finger against them. It shows us that we are strong, and others are weak, and that we need to attack the weak before they become st
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by vkou 5mo ago
There are a lot of metabolic advantages to warmbloodedness, it makes some sense that it could evolve independently multiple times.
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by vkou 5mo ago
Nothing you described is unique to the government. If you miss paying your power bill or a medical bill for similar reasons, you're going to have problems. And you receive a lot more demands for money from people who aren't the go
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by vkou 5mo ago
I mean, it has objectively declined from a point in time where it held dominion over one in four of the world's souls, keeping most of them in poverty as it siphoned resources out of them, and blocked their own economic development, by
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by vkou 5mo ago
The expected pay and benefits of anyone in a FAANG firm have everything to do with their level. Within levels, the bands are fairly narrow. An L5 SWE performing at S gets paid about the same, and receives the exact same benefits, regardless
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by vkou 5mo ago
There is no such presumption in court. If you've been wronged you can get recompense regardless of their intent.
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by vkou 5mo ago
I assure you, in most democracies, most people are jerked around by other people acting in bad faith far more often than their government acting in bad faith. Landlords, tenants, vendors, business and former romantic partners, clients, bank
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by vkou 5mo ago
I'm well aware. Note that Palantir is an American company that failed to solve this problem well, and introduces an adversarial risk to the UK.

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