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by vkou 2mo ago
They are only losing one war in the last few decades, another major empire has in that timeframe lost one and is currently losing another.
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by vkou 2mo ago
Geopolitical decisions aren't made by countries, they are made by individual people . Sometimes those people are a plurality that organically endorses that decision and votes some representative in. Sometimes those people are a plural
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by vkou 2mo ago
It's the same beef ha Russia has with Ukraine. Despots are incensed when someone next to them gives an example of how to live well without them.
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by vkou 2mo ago
Well, he did deliver on his promise of $1.99 gas. He didn't say that it would be $1.99/liter.
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by vkou 2mo ago
"John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it."
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by vkou 2mo ago
Are there a lot of concert pianists who got to the level that they did by just playing random songs they liked, without deliberately practicing the mechanics? And then, one day, woke up with the ability to quickly learn and perform unfami
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by vkou 2mo ago
I suppose I could always place my phone that's playing Rachmaninoff somewhere under a pile of sheet music, while I mash the keys on an unplugged electric piano.
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by vkou 2mo ago
That can't happen from anything short of civil war.
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by vkou 2mo ago
If being an insurrectionist and convicted felon and neck-deep in the Epstein ring wasn't enough to sink the guy, I don't think anyone who voted for him (or anyone who for good or bad reason, abstained) would give a single flying
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by vkou 2mo ago
How do you expect students to learn anything when: 1. They don't do any homework. 2. All the in-class time is split between the teacher babysitting and playing social worker to problem students, and lecturing, with little to no opportu
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by vkou 2mo ago
I have demand for people not dumping garbage in the oceans. Other people have a demand to dump garbage in the ocean because it's cheaper than disposing of their trash properly. How does the free market solve this? Will someone be buyin
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by vkou 2mo ago
How well do free markets resolve basic problems of resource distribution? Like, say, the tragedy of the commons?
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by vkou 2mo ago
> How exactly do you think those authoritarians are identifying whose freedoms are to be taken away? Pretty easily. Do you look sort of like their enemy of the week? That's all the excuse they need to grab you. They don't actua
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by vkou 2mo ago
And here I was thinking that flooding the zone with fascist bullshit, an office that's entirely above scrutiny, and their violent, unaccountable private army was the biggest threat to it.
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by vkou 2mo ago
The argument generally doesn't demonstrate that. The argument generally goes: 1. Google could do it. 2. <This space is intentionally left blank> 3. Therefore, Google is doing it! (Step 2 needs to be filled in a bit for it to be a
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by vkou 2mo ago
If trust and reliability were a priority for America, we wouldn't be where we are today.
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by vkou 2mo ago
> AI is much more available to people than motors of any kind Vacuum cleaners, washing machines, refrigerators, air conditioners, automobiles of all shapes and sizes (private and shared), power tools are all examples of electric motors t
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by vkou 2mo ago
Some of them are redpilled assholes. A lot of them think life is a joke and that his 'trolling' is really funny. Some are the kind of angry young men that make up the front line of any brownshirt movement. Some are just going alon
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by vkou 2mo ago
Electric motors empower you, and are available to almost anyone. Trillion-dollar AI firms sitting like a dragon's hoard of state-of-the art models and hardware disempower you. That's the difference. --- People who were disempowere
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by vkou 2mo ago
The problem isn't the quality of proc-gen. The problem is that every gameplay loop roughly consists of 'scan for a thing in a proc-gen world, then click on it.' Improving the quality of the proc-gen won't fix that. This
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by vkou 2mo ago
It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to figure that one out.
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by vkou 2mo ago
The other parties boycotted the election, because unlike in America, they don't want to normalize letting someone win a legitimate election as a means to avoid serious sanction. (Any country in which that sort of thing works is fucking
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by vkou 2mo ago
Your single-issue concerns are valid, but most people view an executive office's performance as a holistic union of their stances on issues.
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by vkou 2mo ago
If you live in a town with eight beds and ten people, and you just 'build more' your way into building another bed... You're still going to have someone sleeping under a bridge, but now really smart people will raise their ha
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by vkou 2mo ago
Nomads also live in those areas because agrarians pushes them out of more productive land. Prior to the development of agriculture, there wasn't such a distinction.
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by vkou 2mo ago
That's what happened to the Atlantic cod fishery. The biologists kept warning of collapse, the relevant regulators didn't want to piss off the fishermen, and didn't institute necessary restrictions, and then the fishery colla
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by vkou 2mo ago
What would 'find out' look like? Companies don't function in a vacuum, pulling the consequences any particular good or bad executive decision from the background noise is an exercise in divination by chicken entrails.
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by vkou 2mo ago
What do you think drone operators and their support staff do?
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by vkou 2mo ago
> Why is using it for code more acceptable than for art? There's no good reason for it. Nobody seems to piss on an artist who leans on AI for the programming side of their game, whereas when it's the other way around... The con
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by vkou 2mo ago
It's interesting how people want to tar and feather people for working at... A shitty social media/advertising firm for being in the periphery of morally questionable practices, but are waaaaaaay more lenient when it comes to peop

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