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by vkou 11mo ago
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by vkou 11mo ago
He is doing good to his supporters, at least as far as they think. He has delivered all sorts of stupid, cruel and self-destructive stuff that they want. The problem is that they wants have been steered in that direction by decades of cynic
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by vkou 11mo ago
> so does government The public is supposed to police the government, and replace it if it acts against the public interest. But now that you mention it, perhaps we should also give everyone an equal vote on replacing the boards of too
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by vkou 11mo ago
They aren't servile puppets because they are children, they are servile puppets because that's what they are paid (and threatened, via financing their more pliable opponents) to do.
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by vkou 11mo ago
Gamifying and advertising the shit out of options trading to make it more attractive to morons isn't, strictly speaking, an improvement of our world.
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by vkou 11mo ago
Which is the whole problem . Your friend's apple orchard is not a replacement for the modern grocery. It's a seasonal supplement that replaces the cheapest and easiest part of a diet - in-season produce. And he has to work insane
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by vkou 11mo ago
> I don't understand your second point. When I go to the grocery, food is available to me at any time of year. Your friend's apples are only available for ~2 months/of the year. The supply chains that feed the world have t
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by vkou 11mo ago
> In 50 years, the proportion of the budget allocated to food, halved. Sure. But 50 years ago, healthcare and education didn't cost an arm and both legs. In those 5 decades, every single rent-seeker that you need to engage with to
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by vkou 11mo ago
1. The law in question does not compel the US Government to bend over backwards to protect foreign nationals from prosecution for war crimes. 2. The US Government plays incredibly fast and loose with laws that compel foreign policy fr
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by vkou 11mo ago
Looking at the track record of everyone involved, they'll be tried, convicted, and released to pull the con off again - but perhaps someone from Brazil can chime in and tell us that something's changed in the past year with respec
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by vkou 11mo ago
> Healthy food, grown naturally, not sprayed with chemicals, harvested in the last week, is just not a cost-effective plan for them. It's also not a cost-effective plan for most shoppers who have enough other expenses in their lives
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by vkou 11mo ago
> The police investigation confirmed that two REDD+ project areas were generating carbon credits at the same time they were being used to launder timber taken from other illegally deforested areas. > Both projects, which cover more th
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by vkou 11mo ago
The EU has more weight than Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Cuba, or Grenada.
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by vkou 11mo ago
A US company is free to cut off service to whatever foreigner it wants, just like a foreign country is free to ban whatever US firm it wants from operating in it.
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by vkou 11mo ago
While your slippery slope argument can be applied to literally anything that children are restricted from, it consistently fails to materialize. Perhaps it's predictive power is not as expansive as you think.
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by vkou 11mo ago
Here's a simple and elegant theory - an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of the cure. If you'd like it to be even simpler, "Measure twice, cut once." Trying to squeeze blood out of a rock from people who cut corners
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by vkou 11mo ago
If central planning didn't work, why does every corporation under the sun use it internally? Why don't they just let everyone do what they want, and then sue eachother when it doesn't result in great outcomes?
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by vkou 11mo ago
And you cannot separate the idea of lack of regulation from the harm inherent to the concept. This kind of lazy ideological posturing is thought-terminating and incredibly tiring . Your position is simply unable to demonstrate to us how a
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by vkou 11mo ago
The day Apple leaves the EU will be the day that its shareholders will string Apple's CEO up by his own entrails. His successor will immediately reverse course.
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by vkou 11mo ago
> I'm curious what you think the solution is? The solution is simple. If there's a judge that signed off on a warrant to track a particular vehicle or person, cameras should be permitted to track its movements. Otherwise, cam
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by vkou 11mo ago
WA state has figured out a solution to the Flock problem. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/washington-court-rules... If they are going to be used by the government and law enforcement, they are clearly
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by vkou 11mo ago
> It's a bullshit world we're living in, but I guess it's always been the same? > It seems for the wealthy, raping children is an acceptable pastime and we're just supposed to accept that it's ok? This categor
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by vkou 11mo ago
There was nothing particularly suspicious about Maxwell's death. The music was up, the noose was tightening around him, and he was about to start eating shit for the consequences of his fraud. The people he robbed in that fraud were re
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by vkou 11mo ago
The fallacy of the middle is a poison that extremists with power and media reach use to kill productive discourse. People who don't care about the distinction between truth and falsehood understand this very well, and use it to its
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by vkou 11mo ago
That's the 1%. It's the hair on the back of the elephant. Their capabilities will fall further and further behind models that need a billion dollars to train, and a supercomputer to run. You're making a faustian bargain.
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by vkou 11mo ago
Neither are the billionaires and their deputies who both own and run all the megacorps. 99% of the current AI push is entirely anti-hacker ethos . It is a race to consolidate control of the world's computing and its economic surplus t
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by vkou 11mo ago
> released products that nearly everyone dislikes but still has to use for some reason (Teams comes to mind), Principal-agent problem. The dumbass that is buying Teams for your company isn't the front-line grunt that has to use it.
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by vkou 11mo ago
> Lately, I see a lot of drivers who turn on their brights and just leave them on and this includes cars with the older halogen and even incandescents. This is a change in behavior. I mean, the reptile part of my brain is really tempt
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by vkou 11mo ago
> Modifying the file system to be would be kind of like mocking to me. Modifying the file system's implementation would be. Including a valid_testdata.txt and an invalid_testdata.txt file in your test's directory, however, is n
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by vkou 11mo ago
> TIL. Now I'm really curious how maintaining this fiction works (or doesn't) in practice. Very easily. There's an official account, which 'everyone'[1] knows is bullshit, but if you try to assert any logical con

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