It feels kind of hopeless now that we’d ever get something that feels so “radical”, but I’d like to remind people that 80+ hour work weeks without overtime used to be the norm before unions got us the 40 hour work week. It feels inevitable and hopeless until the moment we get that breakthrough, then it becomes the new norm.
I wonder what effects this will have with all these antitrust suits happening right as AI is ramping up, but before any of them have got any real foothold. Maybe Alexa will never get a brain and instead AI assistants will be seeded by the breakups or startups untarnished by the end stages of their shareholders parasitizing value?
Now I want to see his reaction when people start breaking out the guillotines because his ilk have made peaceful resolution impossible.
Gates is a weird figure - I don’t think he’s actually evil (nowadays), because evil implies malicious intent. Rather, he unintentionally commits evil actions (those which harm people and if committed with full understanding would be unambiguously evil) as a result of his own personal extremely warped values. The guy thinks patent law is the highest moral good, so the millions of people who don’t get vaccinated as a result are either forgotten about or a necessary sacrifice for the societal good of protecting patents (which he might justify as making these sorts of innovations possible in the first place - demonstrably incorrect, but good luck getting him to listen to anyone who might tell him that).
tl;dr you can’t be evil by human standards if you have alien blue and orange morality.
They’re innovating how to make the smallest, least significant tweaks to their chemical formulas to extend patents another 20 years.
Doesn’t this just make Trump’s case worse? He was under strict limits of what he could say on social media lest he “accidentally” intimidate witnesses, but he’s still culpable if his cronies do it for him.
Genuine question, because my liberal dad didn’t understand what I meant when I asked - isn’t a deductible basically just another tactic for the insurance company to further weasel out of its responsibilities? I’m pretty sure the deductible of the insurance I get through my job is higher than I already pay them yearly. If my expenses are lower than that, I’ve basically given them ~$1500 for doing literally nothing. I may as well just pay out of pocket, but I can’t since insurance fucked the system for the uninsured.
The problem is focus. This is a bit like a building flooding and breaking out the mop while gallons are still pouring in - you’ll need that mop eventually, but right now there are much more important things that need your attention.
Reminds me of TERFs/FARTs saying the “science” agrees with them (ie “lies we tell to children so they understand the basics”), meanwhile every actual geneticist, doctor, etc is like “keep that word out of your lying gullet”
It always seems to be projection with conservatives, it’s very strange
I’m not questioning the legitimacy of the indictment, I’m wondering why it took so long to indict such a serious offense. Even the Republican senators were in danger, so I don’t get why neither party pushed for it harder.
Why did it take 3 years to indict him?
Cop ticketing him even though he “likes feeding the homeless” is exactly why “ACAB”. It doesn’t matter how good a person you are, as a cop if you do your job perfectly and follow the rules of the system, you’re still harming people.
With issues like global warming, they’re ultimately the ones stuck footing the bill while their grandparent’s generation pours gasoline on the fire.
I guess “checks and balances” means nothing, then. What happens when congress passes laws to regulate them and they just say “nuh uh that’s unconstitutional” when it’s obviously and demonstrably not?
Biden has been such a confusing figure for me. On the one hand he’s supported some horrible things (“fund the police”, continued border camps/deportation, strike breaking, etc) but on the other hand he’s managed to organize some enormous, desperately needed legislation that’s both boring and rarely reported and I only heard about when my sister (a senator’s aid) told us about it:
But all I ever hear about is “sleepy Joe” being incompetent and tripping over his words. Dude needs to fire his PR team, because as much as I disagree with him he’s actually really successful at the sort of boring political and financial administration that politics needs to be. Meanwhile, Trump’s been building his cult and will probably win 2024, roll back all that progress, start a mini-holocaust for LGBTQIA+, and become “benevolent” dictator-president for life because Biden isn’t “sexy” enough.
We can’t patch the holes in the boat, let alone stop the weirdos drilling the holes. We’re too busy scooping the water out by the bucketful
Isn’t a large part of their trouble that NATO is supplying Ukraine?
While I appreciate the sentiment, such a law would be far too rigid to work in practice. What happens if we get into another world war? Military spending goes up by necessity, but then so does education and the military budget has a much lower ceiling than it would otherwise.
It’s important to be aware of their opinions because they quickly become policy and rhetoric while Dems do damage control and fail to fix the underlying issues Reps exploit. In this case, having an instance where they directly contradict their own “sleepy Joe” narrative can help deconstruct the beliefs of family members who have fallen for it.