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there is no significant ideologically liberal population in this country. the democrats are a center right party representing the interests of the urban educated professional class

the idea that any significant portion of americans are ideological in any real sense is laughable, much less that they are liberal. we don't have an ideologically oriented system, it's all about tribal identities and cultural allegiances

the uk is just not a serious country

a lot of ai maximalists view themselves as Big Ideas people. their great obstacle in life is the creatives who refuse to quickly and cheaply create their vision.

as with many things it doesn't matter if it's really going to happen. it only matters if it is sufficiently credible to their fragile egos.

look i don't mean to rain on your parade but you don't need a nefarious evil to explain why people are ignorant and hateful. it's the default state of humans and the one they will return to just as soon as any force contrary abates

one of the reasons queer people tend to extremes is that coming out is a microcosm of the broader minority experience of polite liberals meaning nothing they say.

when friends and family evaporate with no more threat than who you are, one knows they will never stand up for others when it costs them anything at all

if nothing else the utter recklessness, ignorance, and incompetence of the current admin's government shredding tells me they have no idea how fragile and vulnerable they really are

it is abundantly clear that europe needs to remilitarize. it's totally unclear whether it can

i cannot fathom why it struggled more with 10x10 than 11x10 or why which digit is first seems to matter

i am begging right wingers to realize foreign aid is indirect support of our defense industry

we actually need to keep production lines going above and beyond active wartime use because otherwise we forget how. one of the cheapest ways to do that is offer to pay for foreign countries to buy our defense output (which then makes it better for them to buy more)

it's boring, but the biggest danger the new admin poses isn't that they'll destroy democracy, it's that they'll torpedo the bond markets and send the world into a depression

i have a heap of healthy worries about what this admin is doing to institutions, but that's small peanuts to compared to the amount of the world that depends on us government debt to grease the wheels of global commerce

anyway, made whole branzinis with potatoes and olives

one common error is leftists assuming their level of acceptable ideological discord is similar to that of rightists

so $900/hr for this model. just a little more expensive than people. add on what investors expect for margins in tech (~75%) and we're up to a very normal $1600/hr

imagine being so insecure that you need to believe you are in the top 80,000 people in the world lmao

90% of the top .001% are insane, interested only in some obscure insect, don't care about money at all, or are already self-employed

seems europeans missed that the "spend what you're supposed to on defense" was the american position of eight years ago. that deal is gone already. that's not a valid bargaining chip when america now feels that the anti-deterrent effect of european non-spending has already come due

at this point, increased defense spending is in the narrow self interest of europe. europe will need to offer something that actually directly benefits america, not just promise not to be a freeloader quite so much