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- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 2 weeks ago:
Obama also ran a sham campaign in '08, presenting himeself as far more progressive than he really was.
And it worked. So why has the DNC abandoned that strategy? Why can’t they countenance even so much as a falsely held progressive stance?
- Comment on Unstoppable 2 weeks ago:
Remember when red blood was all the rage?
Oh man, that fad takes me back
- Comment on Need a AI update 2 weeks ago:
I know this is a joke, but why should the machines for doing sums also just happen to reproduce the same phenomenon that happens in a living growing meat brain?
- Comment on try out my AI agent bro, it'll change your life bro, I swear... 2 weeks ago:
Goes further up the pike than that. The phrase is “in a gold rush, sell picks and shovels”. The real shovel seller is NVIDIA, with their graphics chips.
Really, this is just an extension of the graphics chip boom crypto started. A lot of “mining” server farms transitioned smoothly into renting server time for AI training. It’s always been the same bubble: overproduction of graphics cards.
- Comment on Would they really? 2 weeks ago:
Drop Bear sweap
- Comment on 2/10 people on Lemmy, is that you? 3 weeks ago:
The english speaking world may be largely secular, but its a Protestant secularity. The same pattern of behaviors and underlying assumptions just transfers over to politics.
Every instance of
Christendomleftism is actually untrue and wrong and doomed to failure except for the personal beliefs of me and maybe a few people in mylocal churchdiscord group.And the emphasis is always on personal beliefs, rather than actual actions. It’s how you get the Lockheed Martin engineer who “hates capitalism”. Doesn’t matter that they’re contributing to the globe-spanning death machine, because they personally believe the right things in their head.
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- Comment on Close enough 4 weeks ago:
Afghanistan used to be a major heroin producer. So much so that in the 90s, the Taliban gained a lot of local goodwill and support by driving out the poppy plantations and replacing them with wheat. When the US invaded, a lot of those former drug lords became officials in the occupational government, and heroin production skyrocketed again.
The reductive take was that we invaded for oil. But we didn’t, it was so we could move crazy amounts of narcotics through Fort Bragg.
- Comment on Real 1 month ago:
Documentaries and science communication in general has always been waaaay too fucking lax on properly disclosing artists’ renderings. Every field suffers from it, but I have to say astrophysics and astronomy are the absolute worst about it.
- Comment on What the Hell is this Bull shit ? 1 month ago:
I’ve found oat milk keeps far longer and has enough fat content to substitute well into most recipes.
- Comment on Anon is bored of it all 1 month ago:
there’s also the weaponized floating parking-lot
- Comment on Anon reads the ink blot 1 month ago:
The idiot was Zack Snyder, not the actual author of Watchmen, Allen Moor.
In the comics, vv this vv is what Ozymandias manufactured to trick the world into peaceful deescalation. A supposed alien for all of humanity to unite against. But that’s too cartoony for Snyder, so he changed it to something more “realistic”, ironically undermining the believability of the story.
- Comment on oh ok 2 months ago:
the world’s most lossy store of compressed fiction reproduces sci-fi tropes
make sure to clutch your pearls and act like the machine god is coming
- Comment on MEGA FLAG 2 months ago:
Discovery’s last season took place in a dilapidated, far-future federation that forgot how to build Genesis Devices.
I saw the first episode of it, was reminded that better episodes exist in TNG, and watched that instead.
- Comment on Spicy spicy 2 months ago:
Autism is when you [common behavior]
- Comment on Every fossil site hides a lost paradise 2 months ago:
this, but for the British rainforests
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Missouri
- Comment on ..? 2 months ago:
Genuine political change has to come from the people who live under it. If Trump got blown up tomorrow, it would no more change US politics than this is gonna do anything for Iranians. If you want a people to rise up against their “dictator” give them space to decide the best course of actions for themselves.
Why should Iranian citizens look on this as a good thing when the country that bombed and ransacked their neighbors for 20+ years is looming like a vulture?
- Comment on big facts 2 months ago:
People who grew up around the same time and geography have the same historical pressures on what behaviors they learn. Obviously outcome varies a lot individual to individual, but it creates broad trends among large groups. Sorting chronologically brings those trends to the forefront.
- Comment on big facts 2 months ago:
You might enjoy Terry Pratchett’s witches series. There’s magic, but the real trick is solving your problems without ever using it. Wyrd Systers or Wee Free Men are good places to start.
- Comment on big facts 2 months ago:
To put on my obnoxious skeptic hat, it sounds like you are analyzing how the historical conditions of people’s upbringing affects each generations’ behaviors and mannerisms. Just, with an astrological chart rather than with a calendar.
- Comment on Stubborn, maybe, but if it ain't broke 2 months ago:
“Ain’t broke” is a lot better of a description than “fittest”.
Evolution selects for the first thing that happens to work. It’ doesn’t have to work particularly well, only well enough to not die from it.
- Comment on We're just scanning for the bear... 2 months ago:
whaaaat surely BYU, the school that claimed to have done cold fusion, is an upstanding pillar of academic research
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 3 months ago:
I have pointed to the history, and your response is to say “nuh huh read more”
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 3 months ago:
Convince them that your priorities is minorities and foregin policy and they will tell you that it’s all good and well but they are about to lose their job and the cost of living is going up so they are just going to vote for the other guy that promises to fix that.
I recall a damn lot of the Biden administration was spent saying “no no the economy is really really good look at the NASDAQ and the S&P and stop talking about groceries!” and not promising to fix anything.
Does that sound like effective campaigning to you?
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 3 months ago:
“There’s always never-ending conflict in the middle east” is a rather convenient position to take for the globe-spanning military super-power that’s been meddling in the region for more than half a century.
- Comment on Follow me for more shitty diet tips 3 months ago:
when your nutrition app has a contract with Suntory
- Comment on ESL homework 3 months ago:
Damn, these look kinda fun…
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 4 months ago:
Euro bonds, the EU needs to start issuing bonds
- Comment on Anon catches a glimpse of his own mortality 4 months ago:
I mean, sure, an inheritance tax curtails the most egregious aspect of an informal aristocracy. But it’s a pernicious thing. Creeps in. Who your parents know, the school you go to, the district you grew up in, the jobs available after you graduate. I’m pretty damn skeptical of any claim to true meritocracy.
