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by vkou 19d ago
It's one thing when randos on the internet choose to express something vile and stupid, it's an entirely different thing when people you know express something vile and stupid.
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by vkou 21d ago
Are the need to make music, the need to read books, the need to work on and improve myself dependencies that make me weak? Lacking those things is not a luxury. What is a luxury is time . Time is incredibly precious.
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by vkou 21d ago
> because they cling to unpopular positions on cultural issues. The Republican propaganda machine will always be ready to make any cultural issue the dems hold 'unpopular'. They turn anything and everything into a culture war
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by vkou 21d ago
Two thirds of those independents will vote MAGA down the ballot to give him a third and fourth term.
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by vkou 21d ago
What would anyone expect to happen when people are stupid enough to elect someone who tried, with multiple parallel methods, including an attack on Congress, to steal one election already .
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by vkou 23d ago
This isn't a 'bad idea', this is a blatant attempt to at election fraud.
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by vkou 24d ago
If you're salaried, every moment of time in your life is on the clock.
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by vkou 24d ago
> If I learned things at one company, took my experience and memory to another company, and applied what I had learned there, am I technically stealing that company's secrets? Human brains are in many ways privileged agents in a le
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by vkou 25d ago
> Does it seem like companies just aren’t that well run anymore? They've never been well-ran, but the laws of physics and economics put hard limits on the amount of stupid bullshit that they could produce. Now that those limits have
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by vkou 25d ago
> "US government commands you to turn over this encryption key and you're not allowed to say you did so" That barely even registers given the scale of more modern escalations against its 'allies'. Escalations lik
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by vkou 25d ago
> If you attack a country, that country shooting back at any military installations in missile range has to be one of the expected outcomes. Americans make war on other people, other people don't make war on Americans. It's on
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by vkou 28d ago
It's easier to be blissfully unaware when the illegal books don't bombard every fucking screen and surface with ads.
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by vkou 28d ago
> It doesn’t fully explain why Congress has allowed the expansion of executive power for nearly a century, resulting in more and more major issues being pushed to the Supreme Court. It's because the US is a presidential republic wit
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by vkou 28d ago
What kind of society do you get when the positive EV play is to always break the law first, litigate later?
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by vkou 29d ago
Generally, one side would come up with their idea of the number and state their reasoning, the other side would do the same, and the judge looks at their reasoning and decides what makes sense. This requires a lot of work to estimate and re
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by vkou 29d ago
Who owns them matters less than whether they ever get inspected.
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by vkou 1mo ago
How is a newspaper calling for war, or a billionaire sponsoring a warhawk not meet the same criteria?
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by vkou 1mo ago
You're assuming elections will be fair.
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by vkou 1mo ago
> anything said here applies to Canada as well. Correct. But Canada didn't start this trade war, all it can do is respond to it. And the correct way to respond to a bully, fraud, and liar is tit-for-tat. Tax his exports, tax your ir
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by vkou 1mo ago
So, tl;dr, it's the environmentalists' fault?
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by vkou 1mo ago
I'm observing that a country with an actual environmentalist political presence achieved a greater overall reduction than one without. Maybe they aren't the problem, as popular as they may be to bitch at on this forum. Even if one
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by vkou 1mo ago
I see it as 'Large companies are proof that concentration of wealth and capital is occurring, and that unless something structural changes, it will continue to occur.'
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by vkou 1mo ago
But currently housed people becoming street homeless would. Unless you mean to say that you don't care either way if they do. (If your value system places zero value on that, then my value system places positive value on spending yo
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by vkou 1mo ago
1. The cities didn't 'react' to those protests by reducing enforcement, cops started quiet-quitting.[1] 2. Katie Wilson was elected last fucking year, replacing a pro-cop, pro-establishment incumbent, whereas the usual suspec
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by vkou 1mo ago
I assure you, if they stopped spending that money tomorrow, things would get dramatically worse, as all the people that money keeps off the streets would be on them.
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by vkou 1mo ago
And despite that, this is what Germany achieved in the past 35 years. https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/GHG%20em... Over a 60% reduction in emissions from the electrical sector. --- Compare
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by vkou 1mo ago
> It's funny that environmentalists would rather see the world burn than solve all emissions problems with nuclear. This criticism would hold more weight if environmentalists held a shred of power. They aren't the ones at the s
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by vkou 1mo ago
Worked out how? They've made no meaningful concessions, and are quietly dumping treasuries. US bond yields are skyrocketing, making it more and more expensive for the US to borrow... Under a president that's pissing away taxpayer
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by vkou 1mo ago
> Even in the wars they win they tend to suffer massive human and materiel losses. Which is a doctrine that works in countries that will suffer far more pain before they get war-weary.
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by vkou 1mo ago
To piss away decades of hard-earned trust in its products for some short-term one-time political 'pwn' of the enemy. If that goal sounds stupid to you, that's because it is. I would expect some countries that are not China

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