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- Comment on They say, "You'll have to wait". It's a bullshit argument against Universal Healthcare. 1 day ago:
The “wait times” line was always bullshit. Many of us live in other countries, and we almost never have long wait times. That’s reality. The end.
You can believe us, as we tell you about our lives, or you can believe a scam artist who’s getting rich while watching you get sick and die.
- Comment on ‘A maelstrom of his own making’: how Ed Sheeran’s tour turned into a full-blown culture war 1 week ago:
Wait a second. That’s all he did? Nonsense. The whole story exists because he booted Macklemore… Turns out he was slightly active in supporting genocide.
- Comment on .🤨. 1 week ago:
It does not work well as toilet paper. But in a a pinch give it a try. Consider your ass warned, though.
- Comment on Citizens United was never about helping people 2 weeks ago:
If corporations are people, we should lock them up for crimes. We should charge personal income tax, charge for social security, and give them the death penalty for murder.
- Comment on Boy Breakfast 3 weeks ago:
Holy fuck this is brilliant.
- Comment on Why does most of the world use WhatsApp as their messaging app rather than RCS/SMS? 3 weeks ago:
The question is historical but posed as a tech choice. Convenience is the answer now.
- Comment on Employers ditching health coverage 3 weeks ago:
Which Democrats? You did not clarify, and it matters, especially when you are using defeatist rhetoric…
- Comment on Rich ppl live longer 4 weeks ago:
Health care. Not insurance. Care.
- Comment on currently busy 😅 4 weeks ago:
… Well, uh, you can say nearly anything and they’ll go away.
- Comment on Interesting movie detail you've never noticed 4 weeks ago:
Many of us noticed that detail at the time, but it’s important to bring it up whenever we deal with inhumane fuckfaces.
- Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 5 weeks ago:
Who makes their bed, anyway? I cannot think of a reason to do so.
- Comment on Play games with your neighbor to sink even lower! Canada rules! 5 weeks ago:
Also the US voting system disenfranchises minorites disproportionately and uses the electoral college, which is anti-democratic (i.e., non swing state district votes affect nothing)… So it’s not simply a matter of shitty voter choices. Those happened in coordination with other shit.
- Comment on They call me the problem solver 5 weeks ago:
My friend says that for decades they thought the objective was to arrive at the precise time. Eventually they changed mental approaches. It was an interesting experience.
- Comment on tbh as a Canadian, I deplore the current US federal administration and basically the entire GOP, but I still admire the US Constitution and those who fight for it 5 weeks ago:
A piece of paper is just a piece of paper. Lots of pretty ones out there.
- Comment on Is a web browser using another scripting language feasible? 1 month ago:
Says many people. What problem are you solving? Do millions of people agree that it needs to be solved in this way? … If you don’t know, or they don’t, then it’s a no-go except for fun (which is fun).
- Comment on How do people easily find out that I'm an easy to pick up on? 1 month ago:
We need more information. What industry? Can you give us concrete examples? Are bosses in on this? What kind of projects? … I’m afraid right now we just don’t have a clear picture of anything.
Your goal sounds good, but I’m wondering if you tried the obvious things: tell them to STFU, and/or of course escalate if they don’t. It might not work, but it might.
- Comment on Centrists have such a Hard Choice. 1 month ago:
Of course you are one of them, right?
- Comment on Take-Two CEO Says We'll All Be Streaming Our Games In 3 Years 1 month ago:
Or maybe fewer of us will game, of course. If you kill quality you kill your customer base.
- Comment on BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just introduced the Guaranteed Paid Vacation Act — a bill to guarantee at least two weeks of paid vacation to every full-time worker in America. Over 90 other members of Cong… 1 month ago:
Except for people with contracts or unions, lol.
- Comment on We can save Social Security. Scrap the Cap! 1 month ago:
And tax the ultra rich. If your net worth is over ten million, regardless of your income, you should be contributing big bucks to social security and federal taxes.
- Comment on A cow is more likely to kill you than a shark 1 month ago:
You can say that but I remember Fukushima. The damage causes by the Fukushima meltdown cost more than the power company’s total profits in Japan over the previous 40 years.
So keep telling me that nuclear is safe, and I’ll keep pointing to the damage it is guaranteed to cause. Low risk high consequence situations are the hardest to regulate. And you’re risking your entire city, all at once, everything in it.
But look, the real question is what new sources to build. Current sources will stay online for years or decades. For new production, the cheapest by far is solar, followed by wind, as long as the externalities are dumped back on the utilities. Also, home solar means the utilities can’t price gouge you.
- Comment on surprised they have employees and not just agents 1 month ago:
Yeah I don’t believe that. We all knew AI was a giant fucking bubble the entire time. You want to tell me the software developers themselves were somehow oblivious? … OK, that theoretically possible.
- Comment on Just got arrested for a supposed DWI even though I blew a 0.0000000. Don't cops need to read your Miranda rights to you? I asked for a blood or hair follicle test and I was denied. WTH is happening? 2 months ago:
In some states if you refuse a field sobriety test before they arrest you, you could lose your driver’s license, potentially.
But once they’ve arrested you, I don’t know of any state that would require the field sobriety test. Some states would require a regular test which would be done at the station or the hospital. Field sobriety tests are not reliable, so the cops are going to want to do a proper test that is more reliable. But whether these latter tests are required depends on the situation. And it’s possible that the cops will get a court order requiring you to take one anyway, should you refuse.
In other words, field sobriety tests are designed to establish probable cause so that they can arrest you. But they aren’t designed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that you’re DUI.
- Comment on Beware Beans! 2 months ago:
Beans did not steal anything. The chicken always belonged to Beans, though you were unaware of that basic fact.
- Comment on Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due to massive AI spending 2 months ago:
Web search was the last big innovative thing they did. The other good shit since was bought up, lol, easier to buy than innovative. Capitalists hate competing because they might lose.
- Comment on this absolute bullshit from reddit 2 months ago:
And the garbage finished taking itself out. Wonderful.
- Comment on Someone should really develop this idea 2 months ago:
Define “village”. Lol, seriously though. What exactly do you mean? I’ve seen hundreds of ultra local train lines in my life.
- Comment on Someone should really develop this idea 2 months ago:
Well yeah, of course there’s no way to build more train tracks. Can’t be helped, oh well, tough luck.
- Comment on Goodnight mum *shakes hand* 2 months ago:
Lol the folks are high too … That’s why they shake back.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Alex Karp predicts he will get 20x richer from AI—but middle-class workers will get left behind 2 months ago:
What’s ironic is that he’s making a sales pitch for society outlawing his job. He’s telling us that he’s not worthy of being a member of our society as clearly as he can, but he doesn’t even realize it.
Because look if AI is going to make everyone’s life go to hell then all we need to do is change our governments and change the laws and get rid of those evil pieces of s*** who destroyed our society. In the end it really is that simple. Which doesn’t make it easy.
But actually it’s all a bubble so it’s not going to happen anyway.