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Lemmitors: You don't understand! I'm not voting for Slightly More Rotting Corpse, I'm voting for the Slightly More Rotting Corpse administration. Yes it's true that both of them support nuclear warfare along the Mexican border, but Rotting Corpse would be dropping more nukes with higher frequency on the climate refugees so we have to vote for the lesser evil.

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Perhaps if both sides were not so awful, people wouldn't feel compelled to meme about them.

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If choosing red or blue doesn't work, and choosing another option also doesn't work, then what good does feeling self righteous about your decision to pick one over the other do? Unless you're suggesting that the shitty reality of our situation is that we're fucked and nothing will work at all no matter what - which is a level of defeatism that I don't think is very helpful either.

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As I've said elsewhere, to fix it from within the system itself you would need a bloc of people willing to punish one of the parties for moving right by withholding their votes and their donations. To fix it from without the system is also possible, but would require some "authoritarianism" in the form of people with guns. Anything else is just people flailing around ineffectually and getting mad at others who aren't flailing in the ineffectual way that they prefer.

Either way you've got the same problem: getting a large enough group of people together who are willing to do the thing. Socialists of all stripes have been trying to crack that egg for over a hundred years and the only ones who had any success were the ones that managed to get the peasants on their side because peasants have a certain amount of class consciousness that proles don't.

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If you had enough people to do the thing, then you would be able to protect members of the group at a local level while national orgs realign and/or get replaced.

But nobody has a large enough group of people to do the thing. In the absence of a large enough group of people to do the thing, voting is a purely personal decision that will not effect the outcome.

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I won't deny that people can do multiple things at once, I just don't agree with the premise that voting matters in the current paradigm.

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It's an illustrative comment though. Our society teaches us not to view women as predatory, and to always view men as such - so that creates the difference between a woman talking about baby anatomy and a man talking about baby anatomy.

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First time I saw this movie I didn't get it. On rewatch I liked it, and over the years I feel like I've come to appreciate it more and more. Dunno what it is about it, I don't really enjoy any other movies like it.

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Borat sucked and its aged to be even worse.

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the engine's running and the wheels are attached, these extra bolts probably aren't important.

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But not before spending an hour debating the ethics of doing so, as is tradition.

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I can't think of a better endorsement, tbh.

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They use everything that's not used to make other chicken products, it's gross but also very efficient.

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It's not even a joke, as far as I can tell they're referring to the only nonwhite character who looks like a racist caricature but it's actually such an outdated caricature that it didn't register for me at first.

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I guess the idea is that it's an entire imac but in a VR form factor, trouble was they didn't have anywhere near the app support that you would need to make that idea work

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52% of all trips made are less than 3 miles and less than 2% are over fifty miles

I got a Chevy Volt based on this premise, and it's true! I barely touched my car's ICE until I moved further out into the sticks (running away from rising rents) and even way out here most of my trips are to the grocery store or post office and don't need it.

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When a driver enters their automated station, the station will connect directly to the vehicle, drive and park it at the platform, have the depleted battery be dropped out from the bottom of the vehicle and replaced it with a fully charged battery while charging the user’s account — all within three minutes. The driver doesn’t even need to control or step out of the car.

That's really cool, although I maintain that for urban travel the scooters with the hot-swappable battery under the seat are the ideal solution.

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True. Over the past ten years, China has invested something like a trillion dollars into renewable energy through a combination of their state enterprises and public-private partnerships, and this is just one of the ways they're reaping the dividends of that investment.

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You're saying you got out of college ten years ago, and worked for exactly one company that entire time, and you can't say who it was or what you did because of an NDA?

Yes.

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In my headcanon, the further into the future you go the less attached to his humanesque form Dr Manhattan becomes, and eventually he just becomes a sentient force that does things that are beyond comprehension.

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situations where MIT is the right answer

Genuinely curious, when is this the case? If you're programming on your own then it just takes the option of controlling what others do to your work off the table for no benefit - if you go copyleft and someone uses it and you don't "mind" them using it then you can give/sell them an exemption while retaining the ability to go after uses that you don't like.

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I gotta wonder, the more this kind of stuff picks up steam the more risky Chinese companies are going to view investing in American exports. When, if ever, do we reach the tipping point where Chinese companies currently selling things that simply aren't produced in America anymore stop sending them because the risk is too high?

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Well one is talking about a personal buyer choosing to buy a $200 HDMI cable that cost $0.50 to manufacture and spent $5 on marketing, and the other is talking about Chinese companies investing millions of dollars into shipping goods across the Pacific potentially deciding that the risk of their deliveries not being able to be made is more than the gains of selling them in that particular country, so they're not related concepts at all.

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I agree in principle but if we're going to do it we should target all disinformation equally, and that would mean that far more american content would get blocked than russian content.

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This week in "simulations trying to mimic reality end up showing why the socialists are right"

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Normhub, the hub for normal videos.

Do you think people would be okay with 'Recall' if Apple did it?

With the recent WWDC apple made some bold claims about privacy when it comes to so called Apple Intelligence. This makes me wonder if they did something to what Microsoft did with Recall feature, would people be less concerned and to an extend praise their effort?...

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If a bunch of security experts came out in the wake of the feature's announcement talking about how much of a disaster it is, I hope they would.

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I would love a Kei truck, but I don't live in a state where you can legally have one. That said I really think that if a Japanese manufacturer brought a barebones electric Kei to the American market they could make a killing because "people who want a truck but not a massive truck" is a totally unserved market segment.

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Yeah but most people don't know what their bed capacity is and they never test it. Maybe something like the old Ranger is the optimal size truck for the average person, but our politicians wrote environmental standards which somehow incentivize making the biggest vehicles that can possibly fit on the road instead of making reasonably sized vehicles but with more efficient engines.

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Well, the employees who were hired to service the bubble and get laid off will eat massive shit, I'm sure NVIDIA and its executives will be fine.

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China's puts about as much effort into developing their own shovel head manufacturing capability as we do fearmongering about a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, which is why they're rapidly closing the shovel head manufacturing gap.

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Ever since the first version of this video came out I've been a Dishwasher Evangelist. At my parents' house I regularly pack it full and get perfectly clean dishes an hour later with no rinsing or anything - but I swear to god I have seen them hand wash dishes with soap and then put them in the dishwasher to be washed again and when I point out that they don't need to do all of that they get mad at ME for trying to save them time, water, and energy.

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Depends on the game, in my experience tanks set the pace for everyone and always have to give the most otherwise nothing gets done.

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plot twist?: you become a girl but literally nothing about you physically changes

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AI, ads, and useless google add-ons can all literally be switched off - that's basically the value add of any given Google alternative. What's harder to beat is SEO.

I think the only way to beat SEO is with a dedicated "anti-SEO team" that manually flags shitty/generated websites to be downranked. It would take a lot of labor and it would be impossible to do in a purely neutral way, but something human-run would be preferable to any automated system which everyone would quickly figure out how to "game". A vote system to get mass reports on good/bad results might help but you would still need the upper tier of people making sure that brigades and bots aren't constantly fucking things up.

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Yeah but downranking one AI-generated page downranks it from all search results, and you could come up with rules like downranking specific service providers or companies that are repeat offenders. I don't think it would be easy but I think it's the only way to get something better than what we have with techniques that currently exist.

A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back (www.windowscentral.com)

It's a nightmare scenario for Microsoft. The headlining feature of its new Copilot+ PC initiative, which is supposed to drive millions of PC sales over the next couple of years, is under significant fire for being what many say is a major breach of privacy and security on Windows. That feature in question is Windows Recall, a...

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I've been driving Linux for about a year now, I ended up switching to Debian because I don't want my programs updating with bleeding edge releases that can break things. The coolest part about Linux is that you can choose like that.

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Dicks in the posts, pussies in the bio.

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If Twitter introduced blackjack it would be the worst blackjack game ever - automatic shufflers, 1:1 BJ pays, no DAS, no RSA, no surrender, $1 ante per hand, and $50 minimum bet.

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When I was building my current computer, I considered getting a Steam Deck and pretty much just doing this. Going in and out of a dock makes a lot of sense, especially with stuff like not having to transfer files between machines.

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This isn't a huge deal yet but I suspect that if it becomes a huge deal we might see companies start trying to verify their oldest accounts.

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