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by atmavatar 3d ago
Rather than worrying about major world powers killing a large portion of the global population in a nuclear war, I'd worry more about the ultra-wealthy - i.e., the people with enough wealth where they can call up a world leader and exp
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by atmavatar 5d ago
It's wild that it still works to this day. I just checked it the other day via PuTTY. I first ran across it over 30 years ago while I was still in school, and I'm sure it's been up longer than that.
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by atmavatar 5d ago
No. He literally says he'll cut a check for $5,000 for every adult american if the Republicans win both the House and Senate in the midterms. You don't have to take my word for it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
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by atmavatar 5d ago
It's even worse: Trump literally just promised during his midterm convention to pay everyone $5,000 should the Republicans win the midterms. Note that this promise is itself illegal. It is a violation of 18 USC 597. See: https:/
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by atmavatar 8d ago
I feel it worth pointing out an important distinction between censorship coming from "the left" vs. that coming from "the right". On the left, when someone uses a racial or sexist epithet, for example, the reaction is to
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by atmavatar 9d ago
Yet paradoxically, being old is nearly a requirement for political office. Biden was the oldest president in history, and with his re-election, Trump will become the oldest president in history should he live out his term. The average age o
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by atmavatar 12d ago
For some quick and easy evidence, you could look at the history of the Post Office. USPS has always been the poster child for efficient and effective government agencies. Despite claims otherwise, the agency still manages to deliver lett
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by atmavatar 12d ago
Do they act on their beliefs or merely parrot them? I ask because I've known people who were shocked at what took place 2021-01-06 but who proudly voted to re-elect Trump. Today isn't much different: talk to a conservative voter w
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by atmavatar 13d ago
A significant fraction are non-whites. Many who were born before segregation ended in the mid-1960s were not granted birth certificates, as their mothers were forced to use midwives during birth because local hospitals were whites only and
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by atmavatar 13d ago
The primary motivation for Rupert Murdoch's creation of Fox News was to prevent the Republican party from ever suffering an embarrassing resignation like Nixon again. Present the Republican base with an alternate reality where every ac
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by atmavatar 14d ago
> The problem is bigger than tech. Is it capitalism? The underlying problem is that power and wealth causes people to believe themselves above others to a degree proportional to how much more power and wealth they have relative to those
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by atmavatar 15d ago
That's because the Democrats are controlled rather than true opposition. It still makes the party a better option than Republicans often times, in that they won't intentionally (but will sometimes accidentally) break things or st
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by atmavatar 16d ago
> Are there positive aspects to laziness? Hard work often pays off in the future, but laziness always pays off now .
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by atmavatar 16d ago
I find it fascinating that some people have never themselves or known anyone else who, upon some person causing them serious loss of emotional well-being/time/work/money, joked about harming them in some way while venting to
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by atmavatar 16d ago
Another way to close the loophole would be to amend the tax code to realize the gains for any stock used as collateral, since the person obtaining the loan is already de facto realizing the gains for the sake of the loan.
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by atmavatar 16d ago
There was a time not so long ago when it was common for chemistry teachers to show off pools of mercury in their bare hands. By the time I first took chemistry classes, though, that practice had stopped, less out of concern of exposure to l
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by atmavatar 16d ago
Back in my day, we had nine planets.
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by atmavatar 17d ago
> it looks to me like both sides are weakening US hegemony in entirely different ways and have been for a while now. That's a pretty bold claim, especially insofar as it (perhaps unintentionally) sounds like you're claiming bot
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by atmavatar 17d ago
> All the while voter turnout is a complete joke. To be fair, the US electoral system is designed to discourage or outright disenfranchise most voters: * First-past-the-post, winner-take-all elections ensure that anyone who isn't li
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by atmavatar 17d ago
Because many of the wealthiest individuals de facto realize their gains in the form of collateral for loans that allow them to live without ever realizing their gains from the perspective of the tax code. If you do well enough, you never
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by atmavatar 17d ago
It gets easier with an electoral system other than FPTP (e.g., ranked choice, instant runoff), whereby more than 2 parties appear. You can then mix and match multiple parties that support policies you want in a way that you're aiming
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by atmavatar 18d ago
> They’re smart enough I worked at a small company that had a policy of putting devs on front-line support in a rotation, both because it was too small to have dedicated support staff and because the owners wanted devs to understand how
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by atmavatar 19d ago
So only slightly less dangerous than a standard salad, with the cyclospora lettuce and killer tomatoes: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080391/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8...
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by atmavatar 20d ago
That's almost like disbanding the CDC's pandemic response team mere months before a once in a lifetime global pandemic. And then he was re-elected. Unfortunately, it would seem that stupid, unnecessary, self-own changes are not a
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by atmavatar 20d ago
Maybe grandparent meant fruit salad.
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by atmavatar 20d ago
I'm not so sure about that. See: https://www.independent.org/article/2026/01/14/flock-condor-... However, what Jordan found was a free-for-all, with less security than even what a standard Net
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by atmavatar 20d ago
That's a tough ask of a court where half its members (including the chief justice) were caught not only accepting lavish gifts from wealthy individuals who brought cases before the court, but where the outrage was that the gifts were m
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by atmavatar 21d ago
Because they're sabotaging the country from within. In this case, they're alienating (former?) allies.
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by atmavatar 21d ago
In the US, you're at least as likely to have half the population vote that anyone who cannot find a job should be exterminated, despite a large proportion of those voting for it being the very people most likely to become jobless, beca
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by atmavatar 22d ago
> Collectively, people born in rich countries between 1930 and 1980 could have done something. In the US, I would narrow that a bit and place the blame squarely on the boomer (or "me") generation. Slightly less than a majority

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