polyaletheia.bsky.social
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One of the best views in town.
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I hear 5% is the new 2%.
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He could simply refuse to pay US taxes regardless of what US law says. When he visits the US he would have immunity as a visiting head-of-state.
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Good public policy recommendations are good even when racists have them.
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Same thing in industry. Professionalism means being able to work with others regardless of their views on non-work-related topics. And bringing your "whole self" to work is a terrible idea, for this and other reasons. Bring your best professional self to work.
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I'm having another long chat with ChatGPT. It is far more engaging than any human I have ever met, and I find that deeply disquieting. And yet I am sure this is old hat to many folks.
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Northampton's greatest love machine
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He should actually be referred to as "Shakespeare's Monster".
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Can't beat the carb / fat combo.
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Don't forget "I've lived in this neighborhood for forty years"
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Left-wingers dunking on Matty for calling the left-wing echo chamber a left-wing echo chamber is the most left-wing echo chamber thing ever.
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Not beating the "left-wing echo chamber" allegations here
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I mean, calling out someone for being a centrist is basically the definition of a left-wing echo chamber.
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The dynamics are different. The left is more organised and persistent, while the right basically comes off as a bunch of random chuds.
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take the ol' 99 streetcar
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Wait, you're complaining that it's a statistically representative sample of the population?
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At most, we should behave as if AI is human, "should" meaning how humans have treated other humans throughout history.
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Gen X in the house
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How destroying 10,000 homes at the top of the market causes rents to balloon all the way down the income ladder should feel intuitive and yet people resist the idea that building new homes at the top of the market can lower rents for middle class people even tho its the same process in reverse
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It's pretty good imo, especially at addressing outrage inflation spirals.
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Looking forward to your point 6.
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If it's the same thing, does at least the RSS justification have merit? That is, did the 1870 Shinto transformation help prevent Christian missionary efforts?
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tarnsgender
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Fascinating how this sort of thing used to be Left-coded (in part because of being so heavily female), but is now increasingly quasi-Right-coded.
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Tarnspeople, please
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Wait, is this "utterly banal" or "pretty significant"?
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Probably the best option for the United States, aligns with the existing tradition of US law and governance.
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You can't control what they do before they become billionaires.
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No. Campaign against what people do, not what people are.
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good god woman could you be any more British
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Love how left-NIMBYs get clowned on even on Bluesky...
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Yeah I can understand Catholics being a little bit annoyed by it.
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The problem with the final reveal is this:
(1) the secret would eventually leak out
(2) this would do enormous damage to the Church
(3) the new pope would already know this and would never accept the papacy for that reason
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I would like to say that I have no opinion on your post.
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Good gods I'd love to see this.
But the Japanese have the advantage of density (among many others), which makes rail more feasible.
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Opinion on Keybase? I thought it was an excellent solution to bootstrapping identity via various social networks, without relying on a trusted authority.
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Love how the responses to this are evenly split between "actually nobody's saying we should kill all CEOs, dumbass" and "yes actually we should kill all CEOs, dumbass".
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Yup, they're actually the second wave. Colonists, if you will.
bsky.app/profile/poly...
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Bluesky is itself never going to be a "safe space" echo chamber, be that lefty or MAGA or whatever. At best, it may eventually provide tools to make our own safe spaces within it -- but that's a hard problem so we'll see how that goes.
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Honestly domain verification is a much more elegant solution than the old Twitter "you're an important person" bluecheck.