ternnoburn

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by ternnoburn 2y ago
This admin bends to money. They all do, of course, but this one especially. Maybe this whole late stage capitalism isn't the most efficient way to allocate resources after all...
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
Covid is no less virulent or no less serious than it was 4 years ago. Among well vaccinated populations, the seriousness of infection decreases, but among populations who cannot get the vaccine it is as dangerous as it ever was. It has not
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
Nick Fuentes is celebrating the "Nazi salute" (his words) musk did on stage this week. If you have actually neo Nazis saying you did a nazi salute, and you have leftists saying you did a Nazi salute...
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
I think more people are realizing that the stories of startup success in 2013 were heavy on survivorship bias, and that over the past decade people have become aware of just how predatory and unequal the VC model is. New founders have less
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
Read up on 1557 changes and title ix changes, which include language that specifically permits institutions to say, "we do not discriminate based on criteria X, y, z" when they discriminate against trans people. It also affirmed t
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
In no universe is Musk a centrist.
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
It's not a direct criticism of the PG article, the OP is examining a broader cultural phenomena right now. PGs scribbles were just one example.
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
Anti communist or anti Stalinist? Or even anti Marxist-Leninist? Homage is a complicated book to place because it's been interpreted so baby different ways across eras. But it's hard to imagine someone going and fighting for POU
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
I think it's human nature under capitalism. I think before the 1800s there were loads of different societies that valued things like community and mutual support over "got mine". This is the fundamental assertion of anarchism
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
A party that wants to kill my and a party that wants to kill me politely are the same. Yeah, sure, I can discern one is smiling, but practically the "choice" I have is die or die (politely), which really isn't a choice at all
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
The Dems are writing and sponsoring anti lgbtq laws nationwide. Biden removed anti lgbtq discrimination rules, permitting local municipalities to discriminate against trans kids. The Dems aren't just side liners here, they are active p
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
It's worse than this, actually. Biden administration removed anti discrimination statutes that both Obama and Trump had in place around discrimination in healthcare care and education. Biden changed the rules to permit discriminatory b
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
Yep! Thanks for finding the source. I was on my phone, couldn't get the actual text.
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
It's worth remembering that Orwell was a socialist, a leftist, and was anti authoritarian not anti communist. (Which isn't opposed to your comment, the Soviet Union was authoritarian.) It just gets brought up so often that because
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
Are you familiar with Malcolm X's speech about the fox and the wolf? Given the past four years have seen things like shutting down labor strikes, support foreign wars, expanding arctic drilling at record pace, increased police budgets,
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
I believe the patent was highlighting an additional issue and providing a pretty clear follow up question. Not equating the two questions.
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
The law has a provision permitting the President to grant 90 day exceptions. Trump has indicated he'll sign one tomorrow. This isn't going around the law, it's just the law as written. We can debate whether the law was good o
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
You say I'm naive, I say you've been had by jingoistic propaganda. You are more concerned about a foreign boogeyman, I'm more concerned about the one that's governing me. The US government has shown, time and time again,
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
You think he changed because he was worried about either admin? I think he changed because he sees the outcome of an election as an endorsement of his beliefs by the populace.
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
You use these words like they are axiomatically evil. Like, "it's a foreign project"... so is my Nintendo. Are you afraid or worried about foreign things? A lot of the world does a lot of things better than the U.S. "I
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
"Why would an adult not hit someone when that someone hits them?" Some people believe that not retaliating stops cycles and systems. Some of us have principles beyond the very childlike, "well, they did it first". If you
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
Do they? Do they actually? I'm not sure the U.S. has control sufficient to exercise meaningful jurisdiction, even if it exists on paper. Big companies have too much influence in Congress and with politicians to be meaningfully reigned
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
I see this thought posted frequently. It makes no sense to me... what power could China exert here that wouldn't also be a bad power for anyone to exert? Surely, if they started exerting power on their platform in ways people didn&#x
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
The drones are also clones (?) of the prior queen. They are unfertilized eggs, so they contain a genetic copy of half the queen's DNA. Mating with a drone from you hive would be like mating directly with your genetic mother. It's
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
Use the technology you know and move quickly in. For a game like this, personal preference is way more important than optimal language/technology choice.
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
Kids with dysgraphia sometimes can successfully write in cursive and cannot write in block letters. I don't know where I fall on how hard it should be taught, generally, but it's clearly very helpful to some kids.
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
Europe and the U.S. are miles (or kilometers, I suppose) apart of human rights policies. Another poster pointed out Guantanamo, but our prison population is unreal compared to Europe. We're rolling back child labor laws. We're bur
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
Then again, if you can stall a nascent polluter before it becomes entrenched, maybe that's the right time to intervene. Getting people to not eat meat is hard, we've been eating meat forever. Getting people to not use LLMs? That&#
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
Per capita beef consumption is down by 35% in the US since the 70s. From 62kg/person/year to 35. Beef produces ~100kg CO2 per kg of meat. That's a reduction of 27,000kgs of CO2 reduction, per capita. That's not nothing.
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by ternnoburn 2y ago
"Other bad things exist" does not mean this thing isn't bad. Or absolutely could be that all these other things are huge energy wasters AND chat gpt is an energy waster. We have to stop thinking about problems so linearly --

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