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by watwut 4mo ago
> America’s current troubles are political polarization and ballooning deficits. American problem is one sided right wing radicalization, not polarization. If left of center moved the the right even more, the issues would remain.
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by watwut 4mo ago
And the disaster part is where exactly? Their or their close ones lives being negatively impacted are where exactly? The original claim was "addicted" and "disaster". The world has 22 million of people who are addicted a
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by watwut 4mo ago
> makes no sense to pay right away when you can pay with no interest 15 days later on average. Why in a pray tell would you favor late payment? Why would I create myself a chore for an end of a month if I can just pop a card, pay and se
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by watwut 4mo ago
Virtue signaling that consist of blocking Russia is double virtue. You do the good thing and you motivate others to do the good thing too. We need more of that.
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by watwut 4mo ago
Middle and higher income people dont need debt on monthly basis and see not having that debt as personal virtue. It just makes no sense to not pay things right away.
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by watwut 4mo ago
> Intellectual Diversity Until I see a situation where this is used to add leftists or far left to a right wing organization, I will just assume it means quota for minimal number of underqualified right wing hacks.
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by watwut 4mo ago
You made that claim up. There was a study of Some 22 million people around the world being dependent on marijuana. You are severely overestimating US addicted people. What about this: that policy was huge success, because unlike gambling,
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by watwut 4mo ago
This is first time I have seen the claim that firefighters have the same domestic violence rates as police. I have seen multiple studies on police vs regular citizens and police were more violent in all of them. I did not seen comparable nu
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by watwut 4mo ago
> The context they make these statements is when you are a person of interest to the police, if you are just a witness to an event unrelated to you its different. But people mostly just say 'never' without regard of the situati
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by watwut 4mo ago
The propaganda lego cartoons I have seen were not AI slop. They were also perfectly doable in a traditional studio. The lyrics had meaning - insulting but a real one. They were not constrained to truth, but that seemed like normal propagand
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by watwut 4mo ago
> That is also true of a lot of pre-2023, so most likely human penned, writing. Frankly, much less so. People were more likely to just write nothing at all. The "things are drowning in slop" complaint is about very real change.
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by watwut 4mo ago
Futures role is not "generate real time estimates of the probability" and never was. They have two roles: actual contracts to deliver later at set price and high risk trading (yes, some peoples use of it is gambling). Futures mark
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by watwut 4mo ago
Using "terminally online" for "the advice layers consistently give both online and offline but people don't follow" is, imo, using that term incorrectly. "Terminally online" is derogatory term which invol
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by watwut 4mo ago
It is not technically correct. It is just manipulative. It is gambling in its pure sense and meaning.
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by watwut 4mo ago
> Most people simply don't see themselves as being in zero-sum contests with the police. Yes, that is why they don't do it. It does not mean the advice is "terminally online". It is the advice coming from layers that
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by watwut 4mo ago
> I don't even know what to do with the "never date police officers" thing. Most police officers are married. It's a shift-work job, so they have high divorce rates, but they just remarry. They have also unusually hig
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by watwut 4mo ago
Personal responsibility: a way to avoid talking about responsibility and behavior of large rich actors. Yes online gambling and sports management actions are their personal responsibility. And we should blame them for harm they knowingly ca
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by watwut 4mo ago
The other point about supreme court is also factually correct.
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They pretend they are "market" and not gambling to avoid regulations.
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by watwut 4mo ago
I dunno, maybe OpenAI and Anthromorphic should learn from Chinese companies how to not act in ridiculously off-putting ways? Maybe Chines sell tools for artists pitching them as useful rather then "haha this will make you obsolete you
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by watwut 4mo ago
Big part of the annoyance is that journals demand basically free labor - while costing massive amount of money if you want to read them. A review call might just end up being less work then reading a lot of slop papers.
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by watwut 4mo ago
They are literally the companies who are actively working to create the future they warn about. So, if they are genuine, they should stop being evil and stop trying to bring in armagedon. So, yeah, if that is real concern, they should not i
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by watwut 4mo ago
Yeah. I am definitely not saying one must spend money on tutors. You can learn French without tutor, actually. French is one of those languages that have fairly large amount of free or cheap high quality resources available online. But, the
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by watwut 4mo ago
Fossil fuel companies do everything in their power to stop that discussion. However, arms manufacturers are doing everything in their power to make you feel unsafe and weak and scared. That way, you are more likely to buy a gun.
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by watwut 4mo ago
If they genuinely believe that, then they are literally a conspiracy to destroy the world. If their current actions are the outcome of genuine belief to what they say, then they are indeed massive "midwits" and a literal cult cons
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The final victory of Islamic Republic was after they did NOT used force against west, but when America and Israel started idiotic war, bragged about using force and then promptly lost. This was quite literally the case of "actions back
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by watwut 4mo ago
Does it count when I hate the Dario, Altman and their weird cult more and more, every time they open their mouths? I think that I would not hate the tech in isolation, but considering who tech elite became, their rhetoric and how they behav
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by watwut 4mo ago
I mean, my company is also having internal test release before going out. That is just a normal process.
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by watwut 4mo ago
I remember large banks that caused the failure to be bailed out. And talk of trickle down economics, except that average joe was not bailed outed, but punished. I remember robo signing of home foreclosures with no checks and people loosing
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by watwut 4mo ago
They did not wanted export controls, but they did wanted everyone so scared and thus pay for license. The decision backfiring does not imply it was not intended to be self serving. If the company really think their product is dangerous, the

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