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by techpineapple 1y ago
There was an article recently that basically said lots of moves on the right aren’t strategic they’re ideological. So yeah, I think the right really wants to control media, and isn’t worried about the inevitable backlash. But I do keep thi
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by techpineapple 1y ago
I think the problem is it’s not the moderate 80% of each party that’s doing it, so all of the people who might be inclined to a truce are already at the table waiting.
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by techpineapple 1y ago
I mean, I often like to say, I don’t need my medication when I’m gardening, but most of us don’t get to control our work or work environments this much. That’s kind of the point. There was much less ADHD when our main jobs were physical l
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by techpineapple 1y ago
What is the argument that this article is trying to make? That it’s good that ICE is using a secretive app with unreliable tech?
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by techpineapple 1y ago
I think I've come to this place where it seems like we live in this meme economy where stock price is separate of any actual value. Sure I'd prefer a world where money is spread out more evenly. But if Tesla sold say 500 million
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by techpineapple 1y ago
I do wonder though how much freedom plays into this dynamic. Are young North Koreans “liberal” as much as they’re allowed to be, or does a stranglehold on cultural influences somehow squash organic contrarianism.
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by techpineapple 1y ago
One question I have about politics and history, is does politics tend to follow short term events or long term trends. If politics tends to follow short term events then one might tend to assume that a swap of attitude from cancel culture o
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by techpineapple 1y ago
I think the one thing that I would say in response to this, is that isn’t this an opportunity for Democrats to paint themselves as the moderate party, rather than criticizing the far left? Now that we see right leaning folks dominating the
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by techpineapple 1y ago
I think the problem with social media is it’s easy to exploit, all the most powerful people in the world perceive themselves to benefit from social media. This isn’t true for something like smoking.
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by techpineapple 1y ago
And the reaction of a significant portion of the moderate right was to call for war against the left. We all need to calm the fuck down.
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by techpineapple 1y ago
I think so? If it’s not a specific threat of imminent harm. (Just, to answer your question, I don’t advocate such behavior)
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by techpineapple 1y ago
Why would people learn that? Clearly what people are learning is it’s an effective tactic.
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by techpineapple 1y ago
My specific point is there are people in this world with “right-wing” motivation to kill Charlie Kirk, social media has been full of it in just recent weeks, just like if a prominent left winger died there would probably be evidence of left
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by techpineapple 1y ago
> he shot someone on the right, which are both strong evidence of left-wing motivation on their own. I think the idea that there are two sides is one of the most toxic ideas in our politics. We associate with teams and anyone on our sid
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by techpineapple 1y ago
Something I’m coming to realize about the free press is it’s really designed to make the world make sense. To tell a narrative the fits a certain world view. And I remember when I studied the columbine shootings; what I learned is how brok
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by techpineapple 1y ago
I’m curious if you’ll see more of this as the freshness of tech’s rightward turn wears off and the two sides realize they have very little in common. Money only buys you so much good will.
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by techpineapple 1y ago
Right but got caught doing what - trying to build a manufacturing plant that will bring jobs to Americans? It feels like the real loser here is the Americans who would have had jobs after the plant opened. We’re cutting off our nose to sp
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by techpineapple 1y ago
Got bored, went to read a book instead.
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by techpineapple 1y ago
You're argument is that you think it's a good idea to base your intellectual curiosity on the <inverse> priorities of a raving madman? Do you think that insanity is precise enough to understand the truly valuable ideas of t
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by techpineapple 1y ago
And it turned out to be true? They were wrong? I'm just saying if you were using AI in an attempt to distract from the fact that the president was not available, that would be a different thing from using AI to maximize the president
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by techpineapple 1y ago
It does if they’re trying to hide physical/mental decline.
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by techpineapple 1y ago
996 is bullshit, what slacker doesn’t start work until 9? It should be 666
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by techpineapple 1y ago
But we won’t get there unless the company integration failure rate falls below 95%
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by techpineapple 1y ago
Yes
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That’s like the absolutely highest conflict separation.
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by techpineapple 1y ago
Separating across what lines? Within group difference might be more severe than between group differences even. Most people identify as independents, there are more than two sides, and even if there were two sides, we're geographicall
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by techpineapple 1y ago
“And a brief look at history shows that nothing truly stagnates.” This seems so false to me we must be looking at different histories. Almost everything stagnates, we just over index in the things that don’t.
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by techpineapple 1y ago
This article both reinforces my sense that AGI is a long ways out, if even possible, and I think explains why the attitude that we’ll look back in if AI bubble bursts hard why people spent so much god damned money on it. It has this longter
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by techpineapple 1y ago
You know what, I’m going to donate $100 to the human rights campaign. But also, who says I’m tuning out? The powers causing all these problems are the ones that run the news, they’re showing you exactly what they want you to see. Feeling
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by techpineapple 1y ago
Would this scale? I don’t think cars and planes are miserable primarily because of speed. I don’t want crowded roads and I don’t want weather delays. It’s hard to imagine cars and planes becoming fundamentally that much better because of

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