srav.bsky.social
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the trick is to never get that big
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but not being able to read their expression so just turning it up and hoping for the best
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toast bread in a pan. or hash browns
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appeals to "first they came for..." will win nothing and no one, because we are a materially oriented culture totally alienated from the idea that civil society exists, much less that there are principles undergirding it
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the idea that any significant portion of americans are ideological in any real sense is laughable, much less that they are liberal. we don't have an ideologically oriented system, it's all about tribal identities and cultural allegiances
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what if i told you military industry is a perfect case for subsidized domestic industry and reliable jobs
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the peace dividend really has ruined them
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"we're so back"
ma'am you have had three mimosas
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holy moly that's intense
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some lakes are seasonally salty, so
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each oven is it's own beast. what are you doing right now?
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good color on that crust
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just don't end up being the anglican government
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why stop at 2?
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i still question why so many small government people think it's important for official documents to record sex
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agreed. the problem is that traditional democrats and republicans have managed to please very few people. in operating the civil service, the democrats are owned by corporate interests and do a poor job
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i think civilians tend to not understand how much time the most competent civil servants spend working around incompetents and redundant contractors. i'm not suggesting that it is broadly believed that doge is effective in fighting it, but many feel something ought to be done
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many can't see that ai is shit because (1) they've never cultivated a sense of taste distinct from marketing and hype and (2) this is as close as they've ever come to making something
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as with many things it doesn't matter if it's really going to happen. it only matters if it is sufficiently credible to their fragile egos.
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the problems of this age are not what we have added, it's what we have taken away. the relations and modes of relation between people which no longer prevail upon we weak creatures to be something more
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the minority experience is to be a type of luxury or cultural statement piece. a thing which stands for moral success and material comfort when actual righteousness and security are lacking
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when friends and family evaporate with no more threat than who you are, one knows they will never stand up for others when it costs them anything at all
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honestly kind of wild to see people who hide behind the law flout it and open the door for people held back by law to fuck up their shit
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the internet feels like an estuary that got developed for chemical plants
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high rent cities have a lot of working homeless, no doubt
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i feel like the way to turn money into improving the lives of homeless is to employ them, not the children of elites working at NGOs
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a lot of scifi books have an internet that's been destroyed by rogue ai, but i didn't picture this
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people do keep saying they should play to the middle
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i've no idea what european leaders can really do to convince young people into dying for the true beneficiaries of the state: corporate interests and retirees
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ah so i'm illiterate. still don't know why either should be true though
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to be clear i don't think there is any level of malfunctioning that will stop widespread adoption of ai
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well yes. why would one do anything for themselves which is not their salaried job?
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it's really as simple as they imagined they wouldn't be the subject of oppression. in their mind there can be a fascist government they heroically oppose but also there's still brunch
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people have said for a while that the uk is a poor country with some rich people, but it's been true of the entire capitalist west for decades
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people will really call themselves nationalists but refuse to even read the words "defense economics"
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we actually need to keep production lines going above and beyond active wartime use because otherwise we forget how. one of the cheapest ways to do that is offer to pay for foreign countries to buy our defense output (which then makes it better for them to buy more)