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by pfannkuchen 4d ago
So if USA hadn’t interfered in the middle east or supported Israel, ever, the oil supply coming from the Middle East would be significantly less stable? How…?
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by pfannkuchen 7d ago
“Wealth” isn’t just shiny things you buy, beyond a certain point it’s mostly the amount of the economy you control. I’m curious how you propose that business ownership should work?
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by pfannkuchen 7d ago
They want to make money. I don't picture new data centers being banned outright. I picture a lot more regulatory friction driven by public reaction which is in large part driven by media (which then also amplifies the perception of the
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by pfannkuchen 7d ago
Is anyone else getting regulatory capture play vibes from the media coverage of AI and data centers? It would be awfully convenient for the current big players if friction was added to bringing additional large scale compute resources onlin
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by pfannkuchen 8d ago
I don’t think that’s whataboutism? Maybe I’m confused, but I thought whataboutism was more like “you are saying I am doing X bad thing? What about Y bad thing you’re doing, let’s discuss that instead”. It’s a deflection technique, not a che
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by pfannkuchen 10d ago
I wonder if you are capable of thinking into the future? Have you looked at the projected future demographics in America if the current trends continue? What does it matter if it's peaceful in the moment or not if the end result is the
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by pfannkuchen 11d ago
I feel like most projects like this must be run by people who are independently wealthy(ish) already and are in it for the long run? Like if this style took off enough to mass produce they could eventually make a lot of money, but if they k
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by pfannkuchen 12d ago
If your ancestor was against feeding poor black people because they were racist, then yes, absolutely, you wouldn't be honoring them by feeding poor black people. That doesn't mean you shouldn't feed poor black people, you ju
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by pfannkuchen 13d ago
Go on…
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by pfannkuchen 16d ago
I don’t really care what the lake is called, but can we have some creativity, or at a bare minimum consistency? Gulf of America at least makes sense as a name swap, as it previously shared a name with a country and it still does after the c
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by pfannkuchen 17d ago
Have you actually talked to people from other places about racism? People in the Middle East and the far east and Africa are maaaassively more racist than the euro diaspora is today. How are you surprised that an Iranian is racist against I
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by pfannkuchen 17d ago
They didn’t think their racist views were ignoble. You can’t decide that they were wrong and then feel like you are honoring them by supporting immigration to which they would have been viscerally opposed. You can certainly support that imm
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by pfannkuchen 17d ago
You first link specifically says “by mistake”. What percent of cases does this happen in? If we have an imperfect system we don’t have rule of law? When has anyone ever had a perfect system? Why do you need to be so hyperbolic? It makes it
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by pfannkuchen 17d ago
Okay can you please justify your assertions? Where are people being tortured? ICE is pulling off fingernails and shoving glass up urethras? ICE is chopping off hands and pouring scalding water on people? What are you calling torture? How ma
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by pfannkuchen 17d ago
Well sure you can have whatever opinions you want generally and you can reject what your ancestors thought, certainly, you just don’t get to reject meaningful parts of what they thought while simultaneously acting like you are honoring them
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by pfannkuchen 17d ago
What due process is missing in deportation cases? Serious question, I haven’t looked into it too much because I am quite allergic to hysterical coverage of an area and I start to tune out and assume the hysterical people are probably wrong
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by pfannkuchen 18d ago
Isn’t this comparison actually quite offensive? It equates Jews who were perfectly allowed to be in Germany until the N’s gained power and unilaterally eliminated their status for no legitimate reason, with people who are knowingly breaking
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by pfannkuchen 18d ago
Do you think you are telling me something I haven’t heard before? I don’t mean that with attitude, I’m actually asking. Because you are just telling me the standard mass schooling version of the story. I used to believe this version myself,
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by pfannkuchen 21d ago
Serious question - would your ancestors from the 1700s agree that you should support the immigrants you are supporting? Or have you been taught that your ancestors were wrong and evil and that you should honor them by doing the opposite of
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by pfannkuchen 21d ago
There is no contradiction here. Different groups have different interests. The natives rightly attempted to fight off the Europeans. They lost. It does not follow that the Europeans here now should just let in whoever wants to come in, to t
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by pfannkuchen 24d ago
Yeah I dunno, I own one in the extremely rainy PNW and it’s fine. I was very apprehensive of using the touch screen for basic functions also but it turns out you don’t need to.
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by pfannkuchen 24d ago
To turn on the wipers you tap the button and scroll the wheel to select a speed. No touch screen required.
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by pfannkuchen 1mo ago
What we really need is a prison voucher program. The prisoners get to go to whatever prison they want to, and then the prison they go to gets paid. Incentives aligned!
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by pfannkuchen 1mo ago
Unions?
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by pfannkuchen 1mo ago
> is not usually this discrete process of ideate -> plan -> write -> test -> review or whatever. Programming is a continuous interaction So LLMs are waterfall? Where are the agile evangelists when you actually need them???
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by pfannkuchen 1mo ago
What percent of them are married to men in tech and then leave the industry after they have kids, since they can afford to live on a single income at that point even in HCOL areas? I would guess a lot.
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by pfannkuchen 2mo ago
Perhaps now you can better relate to the Laurelhurst residents, they also experienced a whooshing over their heads.
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by pfannkuchen 2mo ago
Isn’t stones/pounds just like feet/inches? Do you support dropping feet and only using inches? If not, why not?
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by pfannkuchen 2mo ago
The current crop of big influential companies is old and super bureaucratic, possibly with the exception of Apple which from the outside seems to have less bureaucracy. I’ve been wondering whether 2006 Google, Amazon, Facebook would be acti
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by pfannkuchen 2mo ago
I’m going to start referring to exhaling as “venting gas”. Thank you.

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