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I wish I had your faith in Republican self-preservation, or at least their ability to understand their own interests.
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Recessions follow Republicans like flies chasing death
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And if an org really can’t function at all with a 30% reduction, then that’s the answer to the question. But it doesn’t do any good to respond to a a dichotomous question like this with a third choice that is impossible.
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I agree with your point in the abstract, but it assumes a competent, benevolent administration which we very obviously do not have. The administration is not going to honor contracts unless they’re forced to do so by a court, and even then that’s iffy. They *might* honor a reduced contract.
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As far as billionaires go, I like him, but the argument that “he already pays $X taxes” misses the point. It’s not enough that billionaires pay “a lot” (relative to an ordinary tax burden), people should pay more in tax relative to their wealth and/or income until we can stop the gap from widening.
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This should be pretty obvious, but the current party in power is not going to tax the fucking billionaires under any circumstances. The choice is between a 100% reduction and a 30% reduction, not 0% vs 100%.
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Presumably more than the 100% reduction, which is the only other alternative. Ffs… 🤦♂️
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That was just a fantastic read 👏
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Greg KH is a voice of reason downthread: lore.kernel.org/rust-for-lin...
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I thought he did make a few valid points about poorly communicated governance stuff, but the implication that he and a few other maintainers would leave if Rust lands is … strange considering the massive queue of people who would love to contribute to Linux with Rust.
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My husband takes an oral cancer drug. The insurance company wanted a $1500. copay. We get it from Cost Plus Drugs for $130. per month. We would be destitute without it.
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I guess my point is that AI is weird and you shouldn’t judge its capabilities from a single chat. I *hope* it‘s pretty overrated if only to give our civilization more time to adapt, FWIW.
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I probably agree, but it’s worth noting that sometimes it makes some fundamentally bad assumption and then locks that in for the duration of the session. If you start a fresh chat session and don’t ask it the thing that caused it to make the bad assumption, it will often do better.