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There are people who unironically get upset at the harms caused by IP laws who also unironically get upset at the fact that AI runs afoul of them and I find that very funny.

This is dumb on so many levels. Supermarkets already run on razor thin margins, so all this will do is raise prices for everything to adjust for the discount, resulting in everyone feeling forced to use self checkout to not feel ripped off. If you hate using self checkout, this is terrible.

Some people, if you ever suggest that people exist that are bad with money, will simply assume that you hate poor people for some reason. I guess we're supposed to pretend the people in crippling debt despite making 6 figures because they live above their means don't exist.

I must be too out of touch regarding whatever terminally online moral panic this is. What is wrong with delivery robots, exactly?

Yeah I'm sure a skin cream will do that /s

How is Microsoft so bad at making an OS but so good at making dev tools?

It's really not that hard to believe the following all at the same time. If you struggle with this, you got some other shit going on you need to deal with: 1) Antisemitism is wrong. Islamophobia is also wrong. 2) Israel does some fucked up shit. Hamas is also terrible.

A lot of discourse here boils down to "leftists getting mad at normie libs for fighting fascism because they deeply need the solution to fascism to be 'the revolution' and the normie libs are ruining that"

Seeing KDE on an ARM handheld is weird.

Corporations are made up of people, though. The whole legal fiction of "corporations are people" exists to ensure that Constitutional rights of PEOPLE can't be violated simply because they were acting within a corporate context.

I'm sure the people who refused to vote for Kamala Harris "because of Palestine" are patting themselves on the back. How many dead people is your egotistical feeling of moral purity worth?

I see that the BlueSky leftists are moving onto "It's not just the bourgeoisie but the petit bourgeoisie who are the problem" phase.

FYI, I'm only gonna read your gift article if I don't have to create an account to see it. Otherwise, they are just asking for payment in data and a new target for spam.

Gotta love the little whataboutism at the end here. Was a good post until that last part. One can criticize more than one thing at the same time, and doing so does not imply they are *equally* bad.

I'm pretty sure it's a roughly 50/50 split between men and women.

People will literally die before admitting they were wrong. That's how powerful ego is.

this was early enough that it was very insightful and is now sort of transparently true if you think the gizmo isn't useful you're ignoring most major software project and all computer security professionals, you basically have to spit on expertise as a concept

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People that seem to live in a liminal space between irony and sincerity do so because they are terrified of the vulnerability that comes with sincerity.

Seems like a problem a friendly male student could fix with their fist pretty quickly. And those glasses seem to be both expensive and trivial to break.

When people with no morals express moral outrage, it's best to just ignore them.

It's historical and predictable is what it is.

the fact that "rare books" often means "rare texts" is a policy outcome of our copyright law and it doesn't need to be that way

If the AI water issue were real, it'd be easy to go to people's homes that were actually affected by the normal operational water draw of a data center. Instead, MPU always chooses: 1) Places polluted by construction 2) Protestors without data centers nearby 3) Pecan farmers It's been over a year

Putting aside his overdramatic commentary, is he broadly wrong? For anxiety and fear in particular, treatment is typically exposure to the thing so that you can rack up experiences with it that do not result in harm, reorienting your subconscious.

This treating of racism as like a taint that permanently scars an institution irredeemably is, I hope, what people are talking about dispensing with when they shit on Woke 1.0. Would be unobjectionable if presented merely as a history of racism in the rock music genre instead of saying "defined"

Finally got a photo of the groundhog that patrols my neighborhood.

It is a moral failure to see a country slide into fascism and have no emotional reaction to that fact, to regard it is neutral background noise, to not really care. It indicates a broken character.

The question is if that perspective is true or not, though. If it's not, the core issue fix is to find out why people think that it is, not "let's start the new communist revolution"

There are two separate dimensions that people here and elsewhere keep conflating: 1) Willingness to fight fascism. 2) Position on the left-right political compass.

I do eat meat but I try to eat less of it and avoid certain animals because I do think vegans have a bit of a point. But I still think PETA is absurd and stupid and does a lot of damage to their own (alleged) agenda.

I don't in fact think the Democrats need to cater to a minority of political radicals in order to take a bold stance against fascism, and if you do, I immediately suspect you're one of the political radicals in question.

So much confusion is caused by people using the word "rights" to mean both legal rights and moral rights and waffling between the two without ever clearly drawing the distinction and indicating which one they mean.

I don't know if it counts as "niche" but it certainly gets people upset at you online, but I think it's wrong to dance on the graves of the dead even if they were bad people.

One thing you can see in the latest Stancil blowup is that a sizable share of this website thinks that good intentions are the only thing that matter in policymaking, and expressing skepticism that a policy will really work as intended is equivalent to stealing food from the poor.

I think AI is useful and I use it in places where it is useful.

Just one up her and say the government should just give the food away instead of charging for it, and if she objects, claim she doesn't understand that people need to eat.

IMO this election is less Talarico vs Paxton and more Talarico vs "Vote R No Matter Who".

I think he kind of has a point, despite being a complete prick. Imagine if your computer, or printer, or any other tool morally assessed what you were using it for and denied you access. That's a pretty dystopic outcome liberals should want to avoid.

1) This is precisely why anyone of public note should not even engage with Fuentes. It encourages others to do the same. Hunter was wrong to do this interview. 2) You're scum for platforming this Nazi fuck in a positive light.

Horseshoe theory is undefeated

It was the first time, and last time, we ever met

Kratom and its effects is a great argument *against* the libertarian idea that such substances should be sold as freely as bread, napkins, etc. rather than heavily regulated with mandated warnings and sold by specific businesses that indicate to the user exactly what they are getting into.

A roll of pennies should be called "a stack of Lincolns"

Exhibit 376 that it's a moral panic. Comparing light industrial buildings occupying a tiny percentage of the overall available land to the dust bowl.