@Alonso_GD okay but you can stream things for free. Buying netflix is a wealth signal for poor people and an 'idw bother with anything' from rich people.
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This is why streaming services have famously reduced their prices, not added stream quality tiers below HD and not added ads. The free market makes sure that if they all raise their prices a new streaming service will enter an-…
Wait. [checks notes]
No… no no no no, noooooo
Tushar@Tusharufo2
In a free market, I can’t sell bread at 100× the normal price. Competitors will undercut me, and even if I buy them out, new ones will keep entering. That cycle never ends. Predatory pricing fails because the moment I raise prices, customers leave. Cartels fail because members cheat and new entrants break in. The only reliable way to maintain a monopoly is through the state. By trading favors with politicians, I can use government power to block competitors under the guise of regulation, public safety, or national interest. In reality, those rules exist to protect cronies like me. This can only happen publicly when the government passes regulations, because regulations are the public face of cronyism. Thus contrary to what dumb socialists think, solution is to protest and ask removal of regulations not billionaires and capitalism itself.
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I remember "school is the ur-authoritarian Taylorist institution that conditions people to be obedient factory workers" was a lefty talking point when I was growing up but now internet lefties glaze American public schools purely because a chunk of millennial lefties are teachers
Milan Busk@KarolusWangus
This meme explains like 75% of right wing politics btw.
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@Foiblaet @yurihustle meh it helps a bunch if your razor doesn't have the vitamin e gel they end up putting on the disposable ones
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@yurihustle shaving creams a fucking scam it doesn’t do anything
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Welp.
The verdict is in from the first country to “let it rip”, and it’s not looking good.
Ralf Wittenbrink@RWittenbrink
Eurostat: Die Anzahl gesunder Lebensjahre bei Geburt ist in Schweden von 73,3 Jahre im Jahr 2019 auf 66,2 Jahre im Jahr 2023 gesunken (Vergleich: Deutschland 66,3 -> 62,5 Jahre, EU 64,6 -> 63,1 Jahre). ec.europa.eu/eurostat/datab…
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*shoulders mk18 and flips it off safe*
MA'AM DROP THE BLACK LIPSTICK! PUT YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR WHERE I CAN SEE THEM AND WALK BACKWARDS SLOWLY! NOBODY HAS TO GET HURT
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@carl_feynman @RedBedDread some bacteriophages just hang out in the host dna and then explode out when there's a mass die off caused by harmful bacteria(and then they explode the harmful bac)
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@RedBedDread Maybe! It sure looks like a virus protein coat, but it doesn't surround genetic material capable of reproducing. All its DNA is in the nucleus. The RNA it does have is fairly short and squiggly, so it's probably a mechanical part rather than genetic.
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Today I learned about "vaults". A cellular organelle that comprises about 0.1% of our body protein, and we don't know what it does. Even weirder, they've engineered mice with no vaults, and they seem to be fine. Why does evolution keep vaults around? Why are they in most animals, fungi and plants, but not in insects? Mysteries on every side...
News from Science@NewsfromScience
Leonard Rome’s lab discovered an odd, abundant component of cells in the 1980s—and he’s still trying to figure out what it does. Learn more: scim.ag/4gOvrbG #ScienceMagArchives
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@Grand_handsomer Once you realize how stupid this is you might actually give it to them lmao
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In thirty years Twitter historians will teach us all about how it was actually a black woman who invented it
Breaking911@Breaking911
High school student Mia Heller, 18, has reportedly invented a water filter capable of removing up to 95.5% of microplastics.
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Cyberpunk future: A Chinese app at meow.camera where automated stray cat feeder stations are continuously monitored on the internet. At this one ("TA- Mint Ice Sugar House") there is a tablet playing old cartoons. In the cartoon, a tablet advertises cat snacks.
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the annual social cost of cancer and auto accidents are very roughly equivalent
imagine a new cancer drug came out that reduced mortality by 90% across *every* cancer
And the AMA aggressively lobbied against it because of its potential suppressive impact on hospital visits and surgeries...
That is the unions wrt to autonomous robotaxis right now.
Kane 謝凱堯@kane
Waymo is so good at saving lives that if it were a new drug in trial, it would hit the bar for being unblinded and made immediately available to the control group for ethical reasons. @MorePerfectUS would prefer to keep killing pedestrians.
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@clockworkwhale "But Yud's latest papal encyclical clearly says" fuck you fuck you fuck you nothing works the way you think x.com/St_Rev/status/…
St. Rev. Dr. Rev ⏭️☯️🏴😻@St_Rev
@rhobotmeat Yudkowsky influenced Moskovitz who put a bajillion dollars into various front orgs and advertising campaigns that helped create slopulist anti-AI outrage.
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@ptichushka first principles is when guys want to pretend they're just so smart that they don't need any domain knowledge
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I think Ayn Rand and Heinlein both make the point that totalitarian systems don't filter out compromised people, rather they insist that everyone in the power structure be compromised, precisely so that they can be disposed of when it becomes convenient.
New York Post@nypost
Influencer's husband threatens Eric Swalwell after he allegedly bombarded her with nudes and turned up at her house trib.al/ViaN3h5
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A significant fraction of the population spends most of its free time looking for socially safe targets that it can abuse, terrorize, rob, rape and murder while feeling like a good person. Moskovitz and Yudkowsky served up AI to these people. Great job, very moral.
“paula”@paularambles
i didn’t realize how bad it was until i saw this comment section on instagram
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What exactly is the negative consequences of routinely eating twice the daily maximum reccomended salt intake?
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@Green_Paraclete Most people in the "caring professions" are nobodies looking for a quick fix of validation by being seen to help the victimized and the lesser. If you as the cared-for violate that schema they take it as almost a narcissistic injury and they make up reasons to persecute you.
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I think most schoolteachers are poor quality people. They're stressed because they can't organize themselves properly. They probably have never studied correctly in their lives. They couldn't hack it and now lord over children and take their dissatifaction out on them. See, I couldn't hack it, but I want to make it so that the children I care for can hack it. Isn't that the point of being a teacher? We should strive to lessen the burden that students may carry in the future.
Slumdog_Chillionaire@SlumRNA_Dog
My third grade teacher told my parents to put me on Ritalin because I was bored out of my mind in her class. My mom told her to get her hormones checked. Your children’s school teachers WILL discriminate against them for not being a girl.
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Call me crazy, I think Noam Chomsky being replaced with Hasan Piker is bad for the long-term intellectual prospects of the American left.
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