distortionfield

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by distortionfield 7d ago
This is the company that literally hired the Pinkertons and has been repeatedly fined millions for labor related violations, up to and including union busting. Consider me not even an iota of surprised.
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by distortionfield 18d ago
The democrats are completely complacent right now. They don’t even want to pretend to fight anymore.
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by distortionfield 18d ago
The causes of the subject of the article are inherently political. It absolutely is relevant.
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by distortionfield 1mo ago
I’ll never forgive the US for pulling out of the Paris accords after we had gotten China to come to the table. That was our moment to get a real grip on this problem and we blew it. It’ll never come back, I’m convinced.
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by distortionfield 2mo ago
Honestly this seems like it would be a sick party trick. Combine with some strudel.cc and it could be pretty cool little setup.
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by distortionfield 3mo ago
> where the government doesn't just force harms on the public whenever it will make them more money and voter's concerns about health and environmental impacts are listened to. This is exactly what just happened in Utah et. al.
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by distortionfield 3mo ago
They already have a balanced budget, why would they need to cave to these corporations?
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by distortionfield 7mo ago
Isn't this a non-sequitur though? Artemis presumably doesn't have to actually load up humans on the rockets to flight test them.
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by distortionfield 7mo ago
Yup, absolutely I do. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/dhs-anti-ice-s...
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by distortionfield 7mo ago
It’s not a “maybe”. This administration was collecting lists of people who spoke negatively about ICE from social media like a week ago. you really think they’re going to send them gift baskets or something?
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by distortionfield 7mo ago
Disagree. I have seen people pay more for less. Especially in the case of something like a PR where their job performance could be tied to the result.
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by distortionfield 7mo ago
We already have agentic payment workflows, this won’t stop it either as people are already willing (and able) to give their agent AIs a small budget to work with.
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by distortionfield 8mo ago
It’s going to lead to balkanization, and it seems at this point to be basically intentional.
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by distortionfield 8mo ago
There is little reason to believe that low hiring will be improved in any significant amount by removal of the H1B pool.
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by distortionfield 1y ago
I’m familiar with those applications of exploitation, too, but they also wouldn’t apply here. This wasn’t demeaning work and wasn’t predicated on necessity, past their disability. And of course, all work is exploitation under capitalism (fr
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by distortionfield 1y ago
Exploiting? I’m lefty, but this dude volunteered for the procedure and was fully reimbursed. I’m having a really hard time seeing “exploited” on this one.
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by distortionfield 1y ago
Climate migration from South and Central America to North America has already started. If the US think they have an immigration problem right now, I can’t imagine how vicious immigration propaganda is going to get when that number goes up b
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by distortionfield 1y ago
This is the natural end result of giving the president qualified immunity for acts in office. There is now no reason for them to follow the law.
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by distortionfield 1y ago
Unrelated; but I am absolutely in love with this blog theme and color scheme.
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by distortionfield 1y ago
Two heads of the same coin I guess! I agree though, we sorely need a counterweight to this administration. I keep asking my friends that support Trump if they’ll have the same staunch attitude towards strong executive branch powers if a Dem
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by distortionfield 1y ago
You’re being downvoted but you’re right. The number of people who act like a web cam reproduces the in person experience perfectly, for good and bad, is hilarious to me.
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by distortionfield 1y ago
Trump has already joined those ranks, he just failed at it. January 6th was a legitimate attempt at overturning the election results. He was impeached over it. Mike Pence was the only thing that stopped it, and I can’t believe how close we
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by distortionfield 1y ago
Most numbers I can find say that about 65% of Americans are registered to vote. Let’s say 100% of them voted in 2024. Of that, let’s call it a flat 51% voted for Trump. That means that about half of 65%, or roughly 32.5% of American citizen
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by distortionfield 1y ago
Republicans used to limit themselves out of of fear of a Democrat being able to do it the next time they won. Now it seems like the republicans are trying to speed-run to a point where there won’t ever be another Democrat to worry about.
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by distortionfield 1y ago
Which makes this situation all the more remarkable, since Trump called in the national guard without Newsom’s approval.
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by distortionfield 1y ago
Not without it being received in earnest. You can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into.
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by distortionfield 1y ago
Because the Chinese Room is a much better analogy for what LLMs are doing inside than the Turing test is.
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by distortionfield 1y ago
The president is currently ignoring a Supreme Court order, not explaining why they’re ignoring it, and even if they tried to charge him, last year the Supreme Court ruled that he has immunity from everything anyway. So where exactly is it d
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by distortionfield 1y ago
A shocking amount, and it’s well spent, because it literally underpins everything else. The stability it provides (or rather, provided in the past) is what made America so appealing to build and invest in in the first place.
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by distortionfield 2y ago
Lefty here. I didnt consider the WaPo left of center. I considered them moderate right. What’s really interesting about this is that the Overton window has shifted so far to the right with this presidency that even moderate right is now exp

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