don’t you guys have better consumer protections?

eh, kinda think strapping a monitor to your face just isn’t the future movies seem to think it should be

you know they developed the iPod touch in secrete because they feared that if Steve saw the ugly prototype, he’d shitcan the project?

The people who are getting real mad over Republican voters don’t really care that Rs and Ds have the same foreign policy. The frontier of empire is coming home, but acknowledging that would mean acknowledging we export suffering.

that’s what Archive Of Our Own is for

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random people who happen to vote for a Republican or a Democrat aren’t to blame, sure

but the actual Republicans and Democrats; the representatives, the party functionaries, the people who’s checks are signed by the RNC or the DNC? Those people certainly deserve some blame.

it’s funny that .zip is a domain, yes. I can’t imagine it gets used for anything other than email scams

everone knows you join instances based on how funny the @ is, duh

The stated goal of the US State Department is to drag out the conflict for as long as possible. Years ago, Boris Johnson threatened to cut Ukraine out of financial markets if Zelenskyy held peace talks with Russia.

There’s a group that wants as much suffering as possible out of this war. But it’s not the people who recognize that being the proxy in a struggle between the US and Russia is only going to hurt the people of Ukraine.

you can get 100x gains by optimizing your code rather than throwing endless compute at your model

woah, that sounds dangerously close to saying this is all just developing computer software. Don’t you know we’re trying to build God???

It’s easier to sell people on the idea of a new technology or system that doesn’t have any historical precedent. All you have to do is list the potential upsides.

Something like a school or a workplace training programme, those are known quantities. There’s a whole bunch of historical and currently-existing projects anyone can look at to gauge the cost. Your pitch has to be somewhat realistic compared to those, or it’s gonna sound really suspect.

People said the same thing about not having kings

depends. lotta places pump you full of toxic preservatives so you can have a pretty corpse at the funeral. Then all those chemicals get buried in the ground 🫠

We already know the NSA is keeping tabs on everyone

yeah. Honestly, I don’t think it’s that unreasonable to look at the system we have and conclude that it doesn’t make that much of a difference.

I mean, it does and people should vote… but it would be really really nice to have a parliamentary system.

Isn’t it more like 30/30/40?

But that’s clearly not the only option. They assumed the public backlash would be in their favor and it was. Now they get to keep on making money, which is the best outcome for them.

If I wanna get my propaganda from more than one world power, that’s my right under the first amendment. Or it was.

I miss the behind the scenes footage

I mean, there’s no reason it can’t be bundled with shows on the streaming platforms, but they just don’t