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OldWoodFrame

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  • Another 122.88TB SSD just launched and this one comes from an obscure Chinese startup you've probably never encountered

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  • Haha OK op thinking it was a scam is not racist, calling it "a core value in their society" is a bit racist.

  • Elon Musk says xAI has acquired X in deal that values social media site at $33 billion

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  • Market cap of Twitter was $41B, Musk overpaid at $44B,

    Fidelity valued it at $9.4B late last year.

    xAI paid $33B for it this year.

    So this is a significantly worse overpay.

  • The brittleness of white billionaires

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  • South Africa, so well known for being racist against white South African emerald mine heirs.

  • 'People Will Not Forget': Fury as Schumer Caves to Trump-Musk Destruction

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  • Sure, so they don't have power right now. Republicans control both houses of Congress and the presidency. Blame the voters who wanted this scenario if you don't like it.

    Schumer is playing the long game trying to get power back at the midterms.

  • 'People Will Not Forget': Fury as Schumer Caves to Trump-Musk Destruction

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  • The fascists will do what they want either way. They only use laws when it is convenient for them to do so.

    If that's your actual stance, then none of what Schumer or any Democrat does, matters at all.

    What the fascists wanted was to be legitimized by bipartisan support of their bill. They wanted the Democrats to consent in advance. To take the next small step willingly.

    In what world is this the thing that matters? You're really saying fascists would do whatever they want regardless of all laws or institutions, but...not really, the one man holding them back was Chuck Schumer, minority leader in the Senate.

    Chuck Schumer has handed the country over to the fascists in exchange for nothing because he serves the same billionaires.

    I see how you're getting here, he does fund raise from Democratic billionaires, but the Internet Leftist urge to just dismiss anyone with any political power as not ideologically pure enough and thus the enemy puts such a small ceiling on the movement in terms of actual political results. Nothing to do with this comment thread it's just something that annoys me.

    There wasn't a sudden realization from Schumer that flipped his opposition on Wednesday to his support on Thursday. That was his obvious cover to try to hide the billionaires he serves. Don't fall for it.

    He flipped overnight, ok. What's the more likely scenario, he got some overnight polling that showed people were going to blame the Democrats for the shutdown so he switched out of political necessity, or he...secretly agreed with the Republicans the whole time but decided to pretend to oppose it for exactly one day for no reason.

    Whoever controls the messaging can blame the other party for the shutdown. Democrats don't bother to even have a narrative let alone control one.

    Voters are not dumb, they just don't all agree with you politically. They blamed Congressional Republicans in the Ted Cruz shutdown over Obamacare, and they blamed Trump in the shutdown over the Wall. Because those are the people who caused it. In this case, it would be the Democrats forcing a shutdown.

  • history rhymes, or something

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  • Given enough time, we were always going to have right wing authoritarians back in power.

    But call me an idealist, I didn't think it would be actual Nazi sympathizers. Thought the brand was appropriately tarnished what with the Holocaust.

  • 'People Will Not Forget': Fury as Schumer Caves to Trump-Musk Destruction

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  • Whoever shuts down the government, loses. Republicans can't just veto the bill or not pass a budget. But they CAN pass something Democrats don't like and then blame Democrats for shutting down the government if they filibuster it. And voters WOULD blame Democrats, because they would be the party blocking the bill.

    Run through the logic, after they stop this budget. Trump does whatever he wants while people blame Democrats, and eventually the Democrats cave and pass it anyway after allowing irreperable harm and harming their ability to take back the House in 2026, or they cave by letting Trump whatever he wants indefinitely.

  • This was from 2017.

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  • This is the second time Donald Trump has been elected with full control of both the House and Senate. It is not surprising that an old man in the same scenario would behave the same.

  • To make America great, Donald Trump is undoing its greatness as global stock markets fall

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  • Stock market won't be abolished. So I guess you gotta hope for 1 outta 2

  • Bernie Sanders Rejects Carville’s Advice for ‘Strategic Political Retreat’ for Democrats: ‘Been Playing Dead For Too Many Years’ Already

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  • After the 2016 election, until the 2024 election, the Democrats won every election of every National political body except the House in 2022. It was a solid run electorally.

    You can complain about what those political bodies accomplished, but not that they didn't win.

  • Pardon????

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  • We are 5 years to the day from the last pre-Covid event I went to, a baby shower. People from NYC were there too and I spent the next two weeks worried they somehow infected my clothes or something that was going to get me later because we had no idea how it spread.

  • Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks

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  • If you need 50% more person-hours, hire 50% more people.

  • so, this is how it ends

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  • I saw something like this in the documentary Mark Wahlburg film The Happening.

  • Democrats Appear Paralyzed. Bernie Sanders Is Not.

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  • (Bernie Sanders caucuses with Democrats)

  • Designed by men, for men: Why sex with robots does not have appeal among women

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  • I want to know what the state of the art AI sex robot is right now. Because they have those realistic-ish sex dolls, and some pretty advanced LLMs that can chat conversationally, and longer term memory is starting to get into the LLM repertoire so your bot can remember things about you and reference them later.

    I feel like we're 3-5 years away from a high end AI prostitute startup becoming huge.

  • Border czar whines it’s been ‘hard’ to find undocumented immigrants

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  • The reason sanctuary cities exist is because law enforcement in those cities needs community buy-in to help solve other more important crimes. A witness to a murder or a victim of domestic violence might not come forward if they are undocumented and might get deported for talking to the police.

    No way to really track it because by definition they're going unreported but I can only imagine what kind of horror show is going unreported due to these raids.

  • I'm Back!

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  • He doesn't call himself God until the gospel of John which was written later than the others. Pretty sure the historical Jesus wouldn't be claiming to be God at all. That's just something that happens with religions over time.

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  • He would also be saying it in Aramaic as an illiterate builder (stone worker being more likely than carpenter but the Greek word translates generically).

    And there were a lot of early groups (Marcion and all the groups we call Gnostic) who took Jesus' teachings to mean God from the Old Testament was an evil demiurge God and Jesus' teachings were to overcome the material world.

    With how Christian teachings have coalesced into the Trinity etc it would be really interesting to hear what the historical man himself was actually saying.

  • Dems Reportedly Angry That Progressives Are Pushing Them to Act Like an Opposition Party.

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  • Progressives have even less power. You want them to all resign and retire?