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maynarkh ,

Almost as if homosexual people were just people.

maynarkh ,

My guess is that the argument is that participating in society does not equal endorsement of the system we live in. This is how musicians make money. By playing music to who pays for it.

That said, I myself am of two minds about them taking the money.

maynarkh ,

I doubt Russia would escalate in that way. If it happens, I'd imagine a "tit for tat" thing happening, where the Nordic countries sink the Russian Baltic Fleet and say that they consider the matter resolved.

maynarkh ,

It's not hawkish, it's the opposite. If there is no retaliation, then that signals that NATO is a joke, and bombing member states is fair game. If we don't shoot back, we lose our own protection, and we are much, much closer to war.

Nobody wants a precedent where NATO is called into question. Remember when there was a stray Russian missile that went into Poland, and immediately half of NATO leadership was there, and it was quickly swept under a rug? If Poland pulled the trigger there, NATO would have went to war.

The point is, Article 5 is not escalation, it's the status quo. If someone gets attacked, we all retaliate. Fucking that up would actually be a massive escalation against peace in Europe.

maynarkh ,

But you don't understand, if a Russian soldier shoots a NATO soldier, that's realpolitik, if a NATO soldier shoots back it's

ESCALATION

maynarkh ,

The only reason there is no war between NATO member states and Russia is NATO itself. If a NATO member gets attacked and NATO does not retaliate, NATO ceases to exist. If there is no NATO, there is no defence for the Baltics, no defence for Moldova, no defence for Poland, and no defence against the stated goal of Russia, the finlandization of the whole of Europe.

A policy of retaliation against warmongers is a policy of promoting peace.

maynarkh ,

Brexit. The EU has laws forbidding stuff like this.

maynarkh ,

Leftie Youtuber. IDK more, I'm not big into Youtube.

maynarkh ,

They knew.

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Well, the endgame of that radicalization will be hangman's nooses being put up in the Capitol, last time the people putting it up were too stupid and led by a moron, but if they let it continue, someone half competent might try to come at them as well. They don't live that far away from society that if they let it catch fire, they won't get burned.

maynarkh ,

The point is that societies could progress past it, that it's not inescapable.

So the fact that there are still absolute monarchies does not invalidate that societies that are better are possible, like most of our societies today.

Every empire seems unassailable and eternal, until it doesn't. The USSR seemed like it will last beyond our lifetimes, until it didn't.

maynarkh ,

Most of these articles are buzzword SEO for stock trading bots. Bots are set to buy AI up now, so you want to put AI next to your ticker if you want that bonus this quarter!

maynarkh ,

I can't really imagine it working. Maybe resulting in a firing with cause at max.

Also, what would the company win by suing? The employee is most likely broke, and anything recouped is offset by the negative PR.

maynarkh ,

who helped cobble together a computer in his garage with his dad’s money

And the sold it with his mom's connections.

maynarkh ,

Good. The thing is that network "fast lanes" work by slowing down all other lanes.

maynarkh ,

See also "deregulation" types arguing for even more stringent regulation of unions.

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    maynarkh ,

    All I can say is, nice. /s

    maynarkh ,

    Yeah it would poison the training data.

    maynarkh ,

    Also, the free market is a tool, not a utopia. It optimizes for whatever the people setting the limits of it make it optimize for.

    maynarkh ,

    It does not matter the least what China considers their waters, this is international waters, everyone has the same rights to be there.

    The sanctions were voted for by China as a permanent member of the UNSC, if China did not vote for it, there would be no sanctions.

    In fact, the Australian crew whose lives China endangered along with their own pilot is enforcing the sanctions that China levied on NK by proxy.

    Maybe China should stay in their own fucking waters if they can't behave like people. Aviation is not a toy for dictators for international dick measuring contests.

    maynarkh ,

    Haven't NATO forces been doing something similar recently? At least I've heard of a UK sub failing to launch a missile in a test recently.

    I get it that this is saber rattling, but these tests are ideally regular so everyone - both you and your enemies - know your nukes work. I wonder if Russia's nukes work? I wonder if they are wondering that too?

    maynarkh ,

    To be honest, if France put soldiers into Ukraine, you could make the same argument the other way.

    Continuing the war against Ukraine is a very bad idea since France has nukes, and they might do tactical strikes against Russian formations, so it's better to get out of France's way. France has enough nukes to destroy the planet 10 times over, or at least enough to destroy Moscow 100 times over, for sure.

    Either way, people should stop killing people, Russian soldiers should stay in Russia.

    maynarkh ,

    So they don't scale up and we'll have another shortage.

    maynarkh ,

    Or if money wasn't used as the ultimate priority mechanism for distributing scarce goods in a time of unprecedented inequality.

    maynarkh ,

    They still break new ground globally. The DMA/DSA has Japan follow the EU's lead for example, and the more countries adopt better regulations, the more the US gets pressured to follow.

    maynarkh ,

    What is Hamas' position on this whole thing, by the way? A "new onslaught" would certainly boost recruitment numbers for them.

    maynarkh ,

    They may have ironed that out, this article is talking about tech that is more than half a century old. We got from first aeroplane to man on the moon in less than that.

    maynarkh ,

    They were all invited to do their depositions in some flyover state. The only way there is using flights on Boeing planes.

    /joke

    maynarkh ,

    I knew it's either your comment or a bunch saying how I'm peddling bullshit. I chose to be ridiculed on style instead of substance.

    maynarkh ,

    The thing is that there isn't. Israel could continue to exist if they didn't murder all the children in Gaza. In fact, there is probably a derailer on the track with the people, since all this killing makes for great recruiting for Hamas.

    maynarkh ,

    When you put it like that, it sounds like something out of Metro 2033.

    maynarkh ,

    Look, the problem with crypto is that while government backed currencies are somewhat abused by governments and financial firms, those two at least keep each other in check some of the time. Since crypto is completely unregulated, Wall Street can make it go up and down as it pleases. It's basically all Wall Street scrip.

    maynarkh ,

    Not in Europe, that's a US thing.

    maynarkh ,

    It really broke the ice, didn't it?

    maynarkh ,

    There is no real loophole though. Apple latched on to some part of the Act to justify what they are doing and play for time, while pretending the rest of the Act does not exist. The Act says in no uncertain terms that Apple is not allowed to self-preference - meaning that the alternative app stores must have as much exposure and placement on their platform as their own.

    maynarkh ,

    There is no loophole though.

    Even if there was, the EU runs on civil law, not common law, which means the intent of the law trumps the wording, and there is no emphasis on precedents. So if an EU judge decides that Apple is fucking around trying to skirt the law, there is no change required to the law to slap them down.

    maynarkh ,

    They have to allow sideloading for all devices their app store supports. So either cut off support completely and brick all old devices, or let people do whatever.

    maynarkh ,

    I bet they won't be paying upwards of 200k salaries there though.

    maynarkh ,

    The iPhone workers designed, workers made, workers marketed, workers transported, workers sold and "landlords" got paid for. It really is a perfect illustration of the issue.

    maynarkh ,

    If it can name what the most likely combination is, couldn't it also know how likely that combination of words is?

    maynarkh ,

    Just to note, it's not free, it's not magic, it's just better regulated. I've lived in a few countries with socialized healthcare, and we still pay insurance. It's just a lot less since we don't have to cover ever-increasing insurance profits, and there is no such thing as "out of network" as long as you don't leave the country (and the rest of the EU).

    My premium is 116 EUR for full coverage per month, with no maximum coverage or any other fees, and every healthcare institution in the EU is going to treat me for that in an emergency, for no additional charge. If I need extended treatment, I will get transported to the institution that's most convenient for me (and thus, the system), and be treated there. Dental, mental healthcare included.

    I still pay for some OTC medicine, but prices are kept low.

    maynarkh ,

    Your premium is 116 EUR per month, plus the taxes people pay – which are much higher in those countries.

    Nope, our system is exactly like the US system, except properly regulated. It's still private insurance, I pay a private company for medical insurance and make claims when I need to use the system. We just didn't let the industry grow as a cancer on people.

    You have also traded your freedom.

    What freedom did I trade away?

    About the taxes, yes, I might pay more of them, but at the same time when I got burned out by my workplace, I could leave, get mental healthcare, rest, and get back into work on my own terms. I had no financial problems from doing any part of this whatsoever. What is that if it's not freedom?

    I lead a happy and easy life. I am not rich by any means, I have a middle class existence, but can pay for nice travel holidays, hobbies, whatever. I don't know what exactly the US could give me except a constant anxiety from guns being everywhere, school shootings, a semi-fascistic government sliding further and further into tyrannny, and no public services whatsoever.

    The UK is currently talking about banning tobacco entirely

    The US is "talking about" stopping the whole democracy charade and installing a dictator. The fact that it's being talked about by a few members of the government does not make it inevitable or even likely.

    New York is still trying to control soda sizes in the name of public health.

    I hope so! I mean, I don't think that anyone should be prevented in going home, making a huge soda and dying of sugar overdose, but it is nobody's interest to be served one litre soda cups just so that they can feel how "generous" McDonald's is while they get addicted to sugar.

    Canada now offers suicide as an option for people who would have a long (and costly) treatment with low probability of improving health.

    While the US just bankrupts them and leaves the suicide part to them. Also, are you bringing up an example of a state not providing adequate care to justify abolishing all socialized healthcare altogether?

    maynarkh ,

    I'll be honest, I'm of similar age and if my partner went "does the man want his appy slices", there is no way I won't go "fuck yeah this man wants his appy slices"

    maynarkh ,

    No data means you get the highest rates.

    You can't solve systemic problems without regulations.

    maynarkh ,

    Wan't CA a Russian op though?

    That said, this new hybrid war era has nation states conduct disinformation campaigns against each other. Tiktok was a tool to conduct such a campaign, the US wants to defend itself. It's not like China or Russia doesn't do the same even harder to try and defend itself. It's not a crime yet to accept Russian money as an NGO or politician in the US (as least not in itself), it is definitely a crime in Russia to do the same.

    Don't get me wrong, it's a move that will definitely consolidate control over opinions, and that's not a good thing. It's like a fever. We can't have nice things because China would break them, so we need to put them away until China stops doing that.

    maynarkh ,

    How do you know? The US would be a different country if it wasn't targeted by Russia during the 2016 election. Russia made Trump. Russia made Brexit. How do we know how the world would look like if that hasn't happened?

    maynarkh ,

    That's my point, all that shit was justified by pointing to Cold War enemies. Of course, no country exists in a vacuum, but if the US and the USSR hadn't been both engaged in a dick-measuring contest for a century, we would live in a different world. Both of them justified their horrendous human rights records by saying, "they are doing it too!"

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    maynarkh ,

    Let's be honest, they are looking for brands where it is not everyone's first association that the CEO is in the news every week for being in the wrong side of the culture war. They don't mind if the company they buy from does some union busting and buys raw materials mined by slaves, as long as it's drowned out by the marketing of said brand.

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