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> No connection between the individual agents and actors. This is obviously untrue. They all know each other and communicate. This would be true even if it were something more anodyne like antismok…

It's so aggravating to have to have arguments about whether some coordinated political push is happening due to money being spent. Literally every coordinated political push, at least ones with a…

If you're proud of incuriousness, you'll never see evidence. I think I should be looking for evidence of the push being organic. I don't see it pushed anywhere but from the top down, ev…

> The world is much more globalized now. Countries are watching each other, political movements can be global. This is simply not true. The US puts pressure on countries to harmonize their regulati…

> Why not just pass a law that says people born after 2008 have to pay higher taxes, and work longer hours for less pay? People should be equal under the law. This is one of the ways they broke the…

> you can get a 10 year old ThinkPad for 10% of the price that will perform roughly as well as this one. Eventually those Thinkpads will run/wear out. The hardware designs for a [pretty much a…

The philosophy that was not being understood was "move fast and break things." "Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast" was mentioned as an opposite point of view. To then explain &quo…

Yes. Journalists don't make a living from journalism, they live on family money. That's why working class journalists have disappeared along with working class perspectives. It was once a jo…

From the mall story, you also seem to be living in a "bougie" place. What makes you think that places other than where you live are different? One would expect that after your first sentence…

But then capital can't pretend that it's doing anything. It spends all of its time now acting like ownership is a job rather than a title in order to justify itself. If a machine can manage,…

The AI didn't recognize anything. It didn't come up with the project or publicize it.

Why do you assume that?

> IT Community No such thing. And if you just want to assign anybody who works in IT to it in order to create the concept of such of a thing, a large percentage of this community would work at Goog…

> Google can be put under so much pressure by the government, they are basically forced to do what they says This is true, but only because Google is a horrific monopoly and is allowed to continue …

Notice how pro-free speech = pro-clearing brush buildup? It's so weird how people join these partisan factions that have a full package of beliefs that you have to be evil not to share. Woe to yo…

The culty character of contemporary politics is entirely due to the complete destruction of labor rights. We've created a situation where you need to have particular political/ideological be…

I almost think this Spotify stuff is an op, just like I think the archive.org covid library was an op. Just pulling these targeted orgs into stupid decisions that will leave most of the public unsympa…

Because their assets would have been vastly overvalued. The bailout is when the government buys those assets at as close to that fictional valuation as they can, and likely then sells them back at the…

At some point you reach a size when too many politicians and the people who own them have invested so much money that they're willing to take any size political hit in order to save themselves fr…

Because we don't and we shouldn't? Don't defend bad practice in discussing the US by inventing bad practice that people you just made up are using to discuss Canada, Russia, and China. …

Just what we need, another Rube Goldberg machine to lay over the current Rube Goldberg machine in order to avoid "socialism." Somehow a socialist army, police, and fire department work, but …

Did anyone say that Mandarin is the "universal spoken language" of China? IIRC, >90% of Chinese people speak Mandarin as either a 1st or 2nd language. I don't think as many did 20 ye…

The only reason not to dub a cartoon is that you're an adult who cares about quality and the dubbing is usually done for a smaller audience so it is going to be worse. There's no reason not …

A cartoon is the worst possible example.

The basic problem is that these projects need democratic governance, not dictators. If you do the thing that lawyers always tell us not to do and compare code to law, you'll see how inadequate a …

It's a meaningless, empty phrase. Even worse, the focus of the OP is on a RAND survey of some "youth panel" where they asked them how they felt about other kids' relationship to th…

This is just mass cheating. If you want to fix it, tell the kids to study with AI at home, and make them write in class. Schools should stop accepting homework altogether. Assign it, and tell them if …

> This is a perfect illustration of what cracks me up about the hyperbolic reactions to Mythos. The hyperbole was press released and consciously engineered. It consists entirely of the company who …