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Yet another refugee who washed up on the shore after the great Reddit disaster of 2023

  • Yep! Our president insisted that the guy literally has MS13 tattooed on his knuckles.

  • It's always looked to me that the MS123 and the words below were added my someone to explain how the pictures - the actual tattoos - mean MS13 (i.e., Marijuana = 'M' etc.)., but some people, including our president, are too stupid to recognize that.

  • All the posts I see of this have a really terrible version. It's even more obvious on a less compressed version.

  • We had already had a Trump term, we knew exactly what he is. I might give a tiny bit of credence to people who voted for him in 2016 because they believed the bullshit and then regretted voting for him. But this time, no way. And we all knew this time would be worse.

  • You might try the progressive lenses. Some people hate them, and I was worried I would, but my opthalmologist talked me into trying them and they're great.

  • Not only do I not miss it, I'm relieved that it's not here.

  • Won't surprise me if Trump pardons him then

  • Was it a state crime, or is Trump going to pardon him?

  • How the hell is that disrespectful to Jews? It's disrespectful to one half Jew: Maher.

  • I remember a long time ago noticing, while sorting by new, that posts in some communities had downvotes within seconds of being posted, so yes I think there are bots.

  • People say that, but it's much easier said than done. You can't just decide to move to a country and go. Like the US, you have to apply. Many want proof that you have a useful skill. In some cases the application is expensive.

    Also, we have kids and family. If I had to give up seeing them easily to live, I guess I would, but that thought is stressful too.

  • Right, this is a facet that a lot of people don't get. I'm also more worried about smacking my toe on a table leg than I am of death, because I'm just not at all worried about death. When the game is over, it's over.

    Not having enough money to live sounds horrible though.

  • Yes, this is it. I worked at the same aerospace company for 40 years and retired this past January. As an engineer, I had done lots of spreadsheets and analysis to make sure I had some confidence that my wife and I could live the rest of our lives without being a burden on anyone. Now, just a few months later, my 401k and IRA are in the toilet, below the worst case of my worst case analysis, the administration is working to dismantle the social security and medicaid that I haven't yet applied for, and my anxiety is through the roof.

    I've never really been anxious about death. I mean, I'm not looking forward to it and I try to live in a way that puts it off, but every life ends eventually and I'm at peace with the fact that mine isn't an exception. But what happens if I run out of money before then? How do I live? I've never been rich, but I've been super lucky to have a good enough income to feed myself and my family for 40 years. We had a couple times when unforseen issues made me worried about being able to pay our bills, but we were able to get through those times with some belt tightening. But now? I've never been so anxious in my life.

  • Cybertruck might be an exception. I'm surprised Musk hasn't made a version of the Cybertruck that can roll coal.

  • Something Bill Gates actually agrees with. He's one of the super rich who has been outspoken about the rich needing to pay more taxes.

  • Now you're moving the goalpost. You said told always replace humans and made the analogy to calculators and refrigerators. The fact is that the cast majority of generative AI in use today didn't get their content ethically.

  • The people who made calculators didn't steal anything from mathematicians in order to make them work.

  • Oh, for sure. It's not an area that I'm an expert in, but your conversation got me curious because I had heard both things, so I read a few articles. One of the interesting things is that the bit about Hitler's envoy wasn't broadly known until 2020 when the Vatican released a whole mess of documents that had been kept hidden previously. So there's maybe more reason for some people to have one impression based on what they grew up hearing, and others to have a different one based on more recent info, but even with the new info it seems nuanced.

    It's easy to fault anyone who didn't take a clear stand against Hitler from this vantage point, but it must have been hard to be a world leader facing the possibility that Hitler would be successful and you'd have to deal with his empire. Pius XII supported the allies and it's obvious he was against Hitler, but he was reluctant to be overtly vocal about it, and he even entertained the envoy, which maybe he saw as hedging his bets (we can't know exactly what he was thinking). It's for sure stained his legacy.