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  • Does it get windy in New York City?

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  • Yes, it absolutely gets windy in NYC.

    Remember that Manhattan is laid out in a very regular grid. This is equally useful if you are a poetic zepher of wind or a becaped superhero, as these long passages make it really easy to (traffic allowing) rush forward at full speed and little chance of hitting a wall.

  • Owning dogs and cats should require a test

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  • You're posting growth as if it were an inherent good, instead of a surefire recipe for future catastrophe.

    My assertion against the correctness of "growth is good" is the finite size of earth. I'd like to hear your assertion for that theorum's correctness.

  • Owning dogs and cats should require a test

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  • "not EVERY nation on the planet is so overpopulated they cannot support themselves!" is a hell of a rationale to encourage generally increasing birthrates.

  • Owning dogs and cats should require a test

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  • That's a... "suspect" belief.

    Earth has a finite amount of surface area and each human life requires several thousand calories of food energy and several million liters of oxygen each year. If the global population is not allowed to stabilize peacefully it will stabilize chaotically and likely catastrophically.

    Neither arguing for a future breakdown of civilization nor a preferential increase in one nation or ethnicity seem like reasonable positions.

  • How much more progressive are European views as compared to progressives in America?

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  • Political parties are creations of the electoral and governmental systems in the nations they exist in

    "Most European nations" is an imprecise way of saying "dominant parlimentary unicameral legislatures". To use the UK as an example, all sovereign power is asserted by the lower democratically elected chamber of parliment. Neither the house of lords nor the king counter the assembled majority of parliment,.who from its own members appoint those who direct the government day to day. While there is a sub-national distinction, these are essentially creations of parliment and have no inherent power on their own.

    Since the only thing that matters in national UK politics is parliament, all of the political energy is focused there.

    In the United States this is not at all the case.. national power is split as I described before, and a similar pattern repeats at the state level with distinct difectly-elected legislators and executives. The national government was historically a creation of the states, and each state has substantial ability to act in defiance of congress's preferences.

    Since there are so many different things that matter, the value of a third or fourth party is dramatically reduced. When minor parties start to win elections on their own, the major parties either adapt or die quickly. (I have remarked elsewhere that in American politics "there is no prize for second place", and a worthwhile collolary here would be "and there are so many games to play.")

    You are technically correct in that if God came down and reworked all of the USA into distinct european-style nations with separate languages we would likely have similar party arrangements, with both the Democrats and the Republicans splitting into multiple parties. But if God also remade Europe into a single USA-style mega-nation made up of states with similar governments who shared a single first-language, European parties would likely congeal until there are only two.

    As a practical matter, of course, neither is not a useful observations. And simplified observations of the differences between "Europe" and the USA like "the USA is far to the right of Europe" were part of what led the UK to devolve into a place where you can be threatened to silence for accurately describing a rich transphobe.

  • How much more progressive are European views as compared to progressives in America?

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  • Your analysis completely ignores the impact of the US Senate's wonky "cloture" rule, which is a compromise from the prior practice of the US Senate filibuster.

    As depicted in way too many movies, the filibuster let any single senator (or small team or senators) essentially veto any piece of legislation by putting the whole thing to a halt. The modern rule instead (in essence) requires any act.of Congress to clear a 60% vote threshold in the Senate.

    There hasn't been a time in my entire life when the modern democratic party held the presidency, a majority in the house, and 3/5ths of the Senate. (Clinton had a party with segregation-era racists still in power; Obama had "blue dogs" who were nearly Republican, and Biden had a coal baron and a green party scam artist in the Senate )

  • General Motors’ ‘Eyes-Off’ System Begs the Question: What Happens When Cars Go "AI"?

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  • Self-driving cars that can safely navigate traffic with pedestrians and human-driven automobiles are literally one of the marquee uses of machine learning.

    They're closer to "AI" than chatbots and image fuzzlers ever will be.

  • Every person should be given a free mandatory psychological evaluation once a year

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  • A high-stakes "pass or lose freedom" test is the absolute dumbest idea anyone could attempt right now. If you do this in the UK, being trans or anti-israel will fail you. If you do this in the USA, not being "MAGA" will be enough.

    Universal health care with some form of applicable sabbatical / vacation / recuperation leave will fix most of the problems you note. A real UBI would fix most of the rest.

  • The protests in the USA are useless

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  • If the GOP didn't give a shit, they would simply ignore the rallies. Not spend several weeks futilely trying to brand them as "hate America" rallies or posting diarrhea-bomber AI slop.

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  • GoG actually implements something the rich tool* behind steam once said: "piracy is a customer service issue."

    Broadly speaking, folk only private games for three reasons: either the DRM limits how they can play their game, they don't want to make such a purchase sight unseen, or they haven't the funds to purchase the games they want.

    There's very little that will turn the third type into paying customers, but the first and second can be converted by some combination of.the straight removal of DRM and a generous return policy.

    It's also worth noting that pirates of all three groups will on occasion make a game purchase, due to a desire to support an especially liked game or studio or behavior.

  • Why are children always portrayed as the epitome of "innocence", when a lot of kids are evil af and bully their peers, and name-calling runs rampant in schools?

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  • Because "innocent" and "good" are not synonyms.

  • When did Cash for Chritianity become a thing? When even Jesus the son of god wouldn't stand for it in a church? If they preach why don't they practice from the bible?

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  • Jesus was the word of God. As understood by most denominations, Jesus of Nazareth WAS God born as a man, and Jesus rules in Heaven now. (But it gets confusing after that, and agreement drops off.)

    Going just off my memory, Jesus said about five things about money:

    • He chased for-profit money changers out of the temple, who were in effect stealing from the temple and parishioners by insisting a gift of goods or other currencies had to be converted.
    • He answered a question about if His followers should give taxes to Rome by pointing that Ceasar's face was on the coin,.and that they should "render to God what was God's, and render to Ceasar what was Ceasar's"
    • He extolled a poor woman's gift of a few coins as a greater gift than the numerically larger gift from others,.since it was a larger share of the woman's wealth.
    • He marked that one cannot "serve two masters" and could either seek wealth for its own sake or serve heaven, but not both.
    • When a rich man asked what it would take for said rich man to enter Heaven, Jesus told him "sell everything you have and follow me," at which the rich guy went away sad.

    There may well be others, but at no point in the gospels did Jesus forbid commerce or currency, or suggest that it was somehow improper to pool money together to fund a common house of worship.

    Some modern self-described Christians are very money focused, to an extent that I'd argue they've abandoned.thr gospels like the rich man in that last bit.. But Jesus wasn't ever explicitly against cash.

  • When did Cash for Chritianity become a thing? When even Jesus the son of god wouldn't stand for it in a church? If they preach why don't they practice from the bible?

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  • Martin Luther was more than 1000 years after the start of Christianity. Heck, he may have been 1000 years from the conversion of Rome.

  • Insuranace is a joke

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  • To be salty: you seem kinda bad at math.

    2019 was.six years ago, not "basically ten". Which wouldnt matter, if the rest of your post didn't have such "if the raise put me in the next tax bracket I'd actually lose money" energy.

    Car insurance is typically for the market value of your car as-s. Not the price for a car from the same model year that has a dealer's warranty behind it.

    Or to put it another way: insurance should pay out the amount you could get if you sold your car, not the cost to buy another similar car.

    Now, there are insurance companies that will sell you "replacement cost" insurance, but this always means they're charging a higher premium than they otherwise would.

    And you're absolutely right that insurance companies categorically suck. Auto insurance is actually the friendliest one that regularly has to pay out. Health insurance is even worse.

    (Sorry for being so salty.)

  • If the Nürnberg process had to happen today, we d just feed the documents to chatgpt, and ask it to generate the accusatory speech

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  • LLMs are only about as useful in law practice as a uber-caffinated non-lawyer. The things simply don't know the law, and any argument it may create should be checked with the same thoroughness that a lawyer would give that of a associate who was revealed to have had super early-onset dementia.

    If you're in the situation of going to court and are thinking of trusting the advice you get from a LLM, dont. You'd be better off appearing "pro se" with advice from the sovereign citizen movement.

    (I mean, so long as you don't try that admiralty court / all-caps pseudo-corp bullshit. The law is written in a keyword-less syntax with a case-insensitive parser. )

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    Is it true that if you receive this message, the owner of the number is dead?

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  • It was the message for when the phone service was disconnected. While this often happens after the person dies, it could have also meant they were away for an extended time. (Such as "I'm going to stay with my daughter for a few weeks after the birth of my grandchild.)

    Absent other explanations, though, death is a probable explanation.for a grandmother's phone being disconnected.

    (Note that "poor with no money" is also possible, since phones cost money.)

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    YSK:What happens to college towns after peak 18-year-old?

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  • Because, unlike oil, humans are a renewable resource.

    Like, oil, however, too many of us is unsustainable.

  • California’s “anti-discrimination,” “antisemitism prevention” bill: A bipartisan assault on democratic rights and public education

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  • How so, exactly?

    https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB715/2025

    I dont see anything in the bill that isn't "if already-unlawful speech occurs, here are additional steps you need to take."

    Whether or not you feel that discrimination should be protected speech or not, this bill doesn't seem to much change the status quo.

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    Do you feel AI is going to be as bad as the movies say?

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  • AI will likely be similar to Asimov's robot series, but just a bit grittier.

    • Useful almost-human thing we don't know if it's a person or not
    • Ubiquitous and relatively harmless
    • Winds up killing millions if we put it in charge.