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Nick
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The commodification and financialisation of housing is totally against the common good. This neoliberal crap must be stamped out. Where your children lay their heads should not be an exercise in greed.
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@PAstynome Shocking that when you kill anyone who disagrees with you it fosters a captive culture of agreement
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Say what you want about Mao and I agree that he’s incredibly ruthless but he did keep his promises to his people. Their grandchildren and great-grandchildren are living in a better society and the country is something they can be proud of. It’s why people largely forgive him.
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@schizorepublica @jawannnbackup You’re clearly not white stop LARPing
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while we’re on the topic of mexico, i’m tired of pretending that mexican food is spectacular. okay so you put ground beef with some melted “cheese” on top, you want a fucking michelin star? it’s all the same too: a tortilla with shit inside they just fold it in different ways and call it different names. “no no no dees ees taco not burrito because burrito go allll the way around, taco we leave space at top.” nigga.
white girls be like “oh but i do love me some guacamole 🤌🤌🤌” okay wanna know who else can take an avocado and smush it? a fucking chimp? a deer? a bear? if any animal in the woods can make your prized signature dish i don’t want to hear about how delectable mexican food is. like beans bro??? get real.
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what the fuck is happening on instagram reels
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@isaiah_bb If you’re paying $4k a month for child care that isn’t even your kid anymore you’re just paying child support to their real parent who actually spends time with em lol
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The economics of making 6 figures and living paycheck to paycheck never made any sense to me until I had a baby and started paying $4000 a month for childcare in Brooklyn.
daeveningglow@InlandCaGuy
Look, I believe the "paycheck to paycheck" data if it means "spending too much to save anything" without any context on whether that's being done for good consumption decisions or bad ones.
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@squidfgc I am privileged bro. I have a decent enough job and a beautiful family. It’s not about putting people down. It’s about recognizing what you have. Some people are being crushed by life right now. It’s about seeing that we have good things and consider those who aren’t and don’t.
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@nickwithfries @uwukko Why do yall never consider that ppl can save money 😭😭. Being able to save $50 a paycheck is not some extreme privilege. You're privilege to have internet and enough time to cry on twitter about meaningless stuff. Why dont you call out that privilege
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@GivingTree_cg It hits them harder but it’s still better than their income dropping to near zero
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@nickwithfries @captgouda24 The paper is saying that the most vulnerable are also getting taxed for the increase, and disproportionately so.
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This is a really subtle paper. Forget about employment — will the minimum wage redistribute? Much less than you think — the minimum wage increases the price of goods bought by the poor, and many minimum wage employees aren’t poor! 1/
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@sporadica @ThuleanFuturist Y’all are the ones disconnected from divinity. You think what’s holy is only expressed through the human form? Even the most fundamental chemical expressions show the true face of god. A computer working an algorithm can be just as divine as any brain.
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@ThuleanFuturist when all you have is a hammer (secular atheism and a comp sci degree) everything is a nail
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i will die on this hill: the brain IS NOT a “biological computer”
and even if it were, the sheer scale of it still dwarfs modern LLMs - something on the order of 500 quadrillion “parameters” in the central nervous system
Yuchen Jin@Yuchenj_UW
Ilya Sutskever, in his speech at UToronto 2 days ago: "The day will come when AI will do all the things we can do." "The reason is the brain is a biological computer, so why can't the digital computer do the same things?" It's funny that we are debating if AI can "truly think" or give "the illusion of thinking", as if our biological brain is superior or fundamentally different from a digital brain.
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funny cultural quirk to come out of sicario a decade after its release:
every terminally online right wing militant guy is obsessed with jeffrey donovan’s “operator with nerd glasses” character
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@aditya_baradwaj Ultimately we organize society around what is best for people not what is most productive. It might be more productive to force everyone to work 90 hour weeks but it would violate their human rights. IP violates expression rights and so it’s a no-go even if it is productive.
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@aditya_baradwaj There are many incentives to discover and build things without IP. Fame or benefit to society are strong motivators. Look at the open source software community as an example. Discoverer also has a strong market advantage even without any protections.
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being pro-piracy because "information should be free" is actually smoothbrain thinking
just because the marginal cost of copying/transmitting information is zero doesn't mean we shouldn't construct robust markets for IP
many valuable types of information are hard to discover, but easy to transmit and verify (e.g. novel drugs, mathematical theorems, etc)
if people aren't incentivized to discover this information, it simply won't happen
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Fundamentally this right here is the conflict in America. There are those who want consistent annual growth and those who want to live in peace. Infinite growth is the mindset of cancerous infection and it’s antithetical to the concept of prosperous living.
Rapid Response 47@RapidResponse47
HASSETT: "If we get 3% growth, then that increases revenue by $4T, which is WAY more than the deficit increase that CBO estimates for the cost of the bill. So, this bill by itself is going to reduce the deficit, but we're also coming after spending BIG with rescissions packages."
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@moultano The oligarchs are the ones getting paid $10 billion dollars to not build the train. You need to think about this more.
Sometimes a house just falls down but sometimes it’s termites. Our house has termites. They’re easy to deal with as long as we admit they’re here and act.
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Nobody, not even the oligarchs, wants the government to spend 10 billion on a train and not get a train.
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Why can't these people conceive of process, law, and institutions decaying without it being anyone's fault?
David Sirota@davidsirota
If you look out at the current world in which corporations & billionaires control everything & the left has no power & yet you’re insisting the problem isn’t oligarchy, then it’s a good bet your whole life theory of career ascension is to placate oligarchs who pay speaking fees.
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@krishnanrohit Tech is forced on us. Most kids are given smartphones and computers whether they want them or not. Workers don’t have the choice to give up smartphones and computers because they are required for modern jobs.
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This is wrong in several ways. A few:
- silicon valley isn't a monolith, there is no They
- instantaneous communication is a miracle, as with computation
- tech isn't forced on us, we choose to use it as consumers
Tyler Austin Harper@Tyler_A_Harper
It is wild that anyone can look at the last three decades of Silicon Valley history — the promises we were sold about phones or social media, what we got instead — and still look at AI and believe: “This time will be different! They’re giving us Good Thing rather than Bad Thing.”
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