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by vkou 3mo ago
Do you think 70 years for an unarmed person going to a protest where some other asshole shot at a cop is justice? That is five times the average American sentence for murder .
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by vkou 3mo ago
There was a protest in Texas. Some protestors set off fireworks into the air. One protestor brought and shot a gun at a cop. He got 100 years in prison. Everyone else who was there got 70. One person in their signal group, who didn't e
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by vkou 3mo ago
Anyone with eyes can see that those killers are guilty. You don't need to split hairs on that, you can look at the video yourself. As anyone else, though, they constitutionally deserve a fair trial where the onus is on the state to pro
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by vkou 3mo ago
The United States, the first two in Texas and the latter in Minnesota. In that bit, an unarmed man was murdered, the killers scatter like roaches, the federal police is covering for them, while actively preventing the state from giving the
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by vkou 3mo ago
In a country where not attending a protest gets you 30 years in prison, and attending a protest where you set off a firework gets you 70, and where a government thug can pin you down and execute you on the sidewalk, and get recognized for h
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by vkou 3mo ago
The press seems to think that someone who lies whenever their lips are moving deserves an elevated platform.
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by vkou 3mo ago
Biden may have been a senile fool in 2025, but he was smart enough to listen to people who knew their ass from their elbow. And to also not burn down the furniture to 'own' his political enemies.
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by vkou 3mo ago
Sure, but it means that they managed to pick third-parties they work with that give a shit . They could have always picked ones that didn't. When you're buying a pig in a poke (which is always the case when you're a first-ti
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by vkou 3mo ago
A high degree of polish was tangible evidence that someone in the organization gave a shit about their work.
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by vkou 3mo ago
Those countries were occupied by a foreign empire. You may recall what happened when they attempted regime change - the Soviets would roll in. As soon as Gorbachev made it clear that he's not going to do that, all of the Warsaw pact st
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by vkou 3mo ago
Conscripts policing their own society will almost certainly produce better outcomes than people attracted to power volunteering to do so instead. Especially if that society is fairly homogenous. (I'm well aware that Singapore is a fusi
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by vkou 3mo ago
It's somewhat meaningful. No society can go on for very long when a supermajority of it actively hates the government.
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by vkou 3mo ago
> Which insurance firm was this? Any of them. They all behave in this exact same fucking way. Every single one has horror stories like this. Sometimes you get lucky, and they don't fuck your particular case over, sometimes you d
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by vkou 3mo ago
I'm a quarter Romanian on my step-mother's side, and I too can confirm that the password was Passw0rd.
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by vkou 3mo ago
Only if you routinely test it, and if that kind of access to the offline backup is low friction enough to be doing that monthly, it might not be enough of a redundancy.
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by vkou 3mo ago
Looking at a 7 mile trip to a random destination in Seattle, right now, I can pay $26.70 for an Uber if I'm willing to wait 20 minutes for a pickup. With a $3/mile fee and a $5 pickup fee, that's exactly equal to that of a
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by vkou 3mo ago
Yeah, but that mousetrap keeps working for SV startups, what makes you think it won't work for Chinese ones? Uber spent a decade undermining taxis, and once it had market share, it stopped giving away rides and raised prices. It now co
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by vkou 3mo ago
Let's look at the thread of discussion. > Assertion that China has brought incredible prosperity to its people. > Complaint that actually , China's economic policies that brought that prosperity are... Structurally robbing
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by vkou 3mo ago
> government policy is now making Chinese consumers poorer than they otherwise would be Right, that sort of thing never happens over here. We don't give the rich tax breaks while robbing the middle class (and saddling it with mounta
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by vkou 3mo ago
Their economy has grown, and continues to grow faster than that of any of their neighbors.
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by vkou 3mo ago
> spend the youthful years struggling This would be accurate if remuneration were proportionate to how much you struggle, but from my observation of life, it really is not. There's no shortage of people who bust their asses for wage
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by vkou 3mo ago
> The factors of millions of men (workers) dying in war while the country itself was untouched, Less than half a million Americans died in WW2. For American demographics, the war was a footnote, unlike the utter devastation it inflicted
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by vkou 3mo ago
> I think OP is a good case in point where people are blaming AI but really the issue here is the human in the loop, the person implementing these abhorrent policies that happen to be powered by AI. I don't care if the torture nexus
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by vkou 3mo ago
Are prices going down, as they need to do less work per patient? Or are the providers just pocketing the difference? Given that prices are definitely not going down, I'm not sure how this makes my life any better.
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by vkou 3mo ago
> Today its a mixed bag of corpo hate, anxiety about the future, inequality and traditional class warfare, combined with the typical technical ignorance. Are there no actual problems with what it promises/how we're expected to
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by vkou 3mo ago
Neither Whatsapp nor my landline is the kind of social network that I'm talking about.
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by vkou 3mo ago
Do you... Have a lot of professional experience with making $100 million-budget movies?
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by vkou 3mo ago
Social networks only destroyed discourse. This both destroys discourse, and centralizes the means of production into ~4 companies, with everyone else paying them an economic tax in order to be competitive.
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by vkou 3mo ago
That only poisons the pool for actual kidnappers, not scammers.
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by vkou 3mo ago
After you've had that 30 second vaccination, the second same 30 second vaccination provides next-to-no added benefit, but the physical does.

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