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  • Modern problems require modern solutions

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  • I'm honestly slightly confused by this response. Any business type will end up with some that do well, open more locations and get some manner of central office. It'll inevitably be some manner of corporation because that just how we structure any business beyond small. The daycare is where the kids go and the office their handles local stuff like contact forms and medical notes, and corporate office handles billing and such.

    Like, yeah it's weird for something as personal as childcare to be a franchise, but no one gets too worked up about corporate pharmacies and that's literally trusting a stranger giving you a bottle of drugs to eat not to hand you the poison they keep a few feet over.

    It's weird and kinda dystopian, but I'm confused by the shock.

  • Borrowing money against their stuff to get more stuff to borrow money...

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  • https://budgetlab.yale.edu/research/buy-borrow-die-options-reforming-tax-treatment-borrowing-against-appreciated-assets

    It's actually a real thing.

    Since taxes are paid when an asset is sold, not when it goes up in value, your net worth goes up with no tax liability change. When you die, the purchase price for tax purposes resets. Now the inheritor sells the assets. Since the sale price is essentially the same as the taxation price, there's no taxes.You're borrowing today's money against tomorrow's value and taking the difference out of your death messing with taxes to free up the value.From a financial perspective the time horizon for return doesn't matter, only that the return is balanced against the time. From that perspective, the people giving the loan have no reason to really care since it makes them look good and they'll at least not be working there when and if it goes wrong.

  • Obvious "AI" slop trying to garner sympathy for fascist paramilitary invaders. Do not fall for generated propaganda. Learn to tell the difference.

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  • I'm assuming you're ignorant. There was a supreme Court ruling that they don't need probable cause, and can detain people based on skin color, and then the head of ice said "yes, we're just stopping people who look Hispanic and if they can't show proof of citizenship we assume they're undocumented".

    invade via the mexican border

    Dial down the racism there Willy, I'm already convinced. You don't have to go all lugenpresse on me.

    For visas: they aren't waiting for expiration, but I was more referring to you going from "eesh, they could be better" to "they should have fucking expected to get locked in a cage without trial for invading our land, dirty mud bloods".

    Ah, I see you haven't watched the video of the fucker walking in front of the car that was turning away from him, walking into the hood, then walking over out of danger and shooting her in the face several times.I'm assuming you saw the video of them disarming that man, clearing the gun from the scene and then shooting him in the back several times?It's why all ice agents are trash in my book. Shut the agency down and deny them all pay. Fuckers get no sympathy.

    If you have seen them, I honestly hope you never find joy in your sad little life you disgusting little troll.

  • Obvious "AI" slop trying to garner sympathy for fascist paramilitary invaders. Do not fall for generated propaganda. Learn to tell the difference.

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  • ... What do you think happened at Nuremberg that the Nuremberg special would be a bad thing? It was a trial.When this all goes down I hope asshats like you get a fair fucking trial and your names are written in the history books as fucking assholes.

    "Oh well, the law says that technically we can pen people up in chain link fenced enclosures without bedding, so that means that they deserve it. And that's okay even without a trial, but because the cop though you looked too brown, because I'm okay with immigration arrests based on ethnicity. I'm also unwilling to address the contradiction of 'crime gets a trial, but these criminals shouldn't' because of definitely not racist reasons. " - this is why you're a fascist.Remember, the SS was just enforcing the law to deal with a problematic population and people who wanted to "trans the kids".

    You backed down from visa overstay being something we should think about how we handle to "deserves being locked in an open air cage" in like... Zero time whatsoever.

    What side is the side of tolerance and peace now?

    Sure as shit ain't the one defending shooting mothers in the face and locking children in cages.

    you insulted me multiple times

    You noticed? I'm shocked. I was so subtle. Maybe I was distracted by your talk of my execution.

  • Obvious "AI" slop trying to garner sympathy for fascist paramilitary invaders. Do not fall for generated propaganda. Learn to tell the difference.

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  • No, it's not a crime. The law is exceptionally clear: it's a violation of the terms of the visa, not a crime.If it were a crime they would be entitled to an individual trial by jury. So if you think it's a crime, then ice is flagrantly violating their constitutional rights to a trial.

    I don't care that you don't know what a concentration camp is. That doesn't change what they are.Comparison to a Nazi death camp only serves to make "open air cages without blankets, medicine or adequate hygiene" sound better by comparison.

    fascist because that's not what we are

    I don't think everyone who disagrees with me a fascist, but that doesn't mean they don't exist, nor does it mean you're not a fascist either. Try reading what a fascist is, as opposed to thinking about how the word makes you feel.

    what you're seeing now isn't similar in any way, Trump has followed every law

    Read a book.

    Speaking about execution, he would've executed you if he was the fascist dictator that you think he is

    Wow. Fuck you with your death threats. I hope you get the Nuremberg special. Do you think Hitler was executing people for dissent right out the gate? Or did he build up to it?

  • Obvious "AI" slop trying to garner sympathy for fascist paramilitary invaders. Do not fall for generated propaganda. Learn to tell the difference.

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  • Pro tip: "illegal" isn't a description of a person. Most of the people being targeted haven't committed a crime in any sense of the word. Entering the country legally and then having your visa revoked isn't a crime. Most people in the country without visas entered legally. It's why you see ice targeting citizenship exams and places where people go to renew their documents: it's easier to fill your quota if you revoke the visa of someone following the rules. They're not against illegal immigration, they're just against immigration by brown people.

    Second, you don't know what a concentration camp is. What you described is a concentration camp and you just prefer the newspeak. They are being used for the detainment of large numbers of people who haven't been convicted of a crime, purportedly of a single demographic and predominantly from one ethnic group. Thats what a concentration camp is.

    Finally, why on earth would I respect them or you? Fuck you for bringing the Holocaust into this. It's vastly more insulting to forget the lessons they died for than it is to draw a comparison to their killers.

    The world would be a better place if the Germans had killed Hitler at the first hint of despotism, not sat around just because he was fairly elected.

  • Is Windows FOSS now?

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  • That's not what that research document says. Pretty early on it talks about rote mechanical processes with no human input. By the logic they employ there's no difference between LLM code and a photographer using Photoshop.

  • Two different people

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  • Not to totally detract from the point of what you're saying, which is totally correct, but... All of everything seems to keep stepping over that it's not just influential on American music, but it is American music. That they keep framing parts of our culture as somehow not shows that it's just racism.

    Puerto Rico has been part of the US longer than Oklahoma, new Mexico, Arizona, Alaska, or Hawaii. Puerto Rican culture is more American than whatever weird nonsense they have in Oklahoma.

  • Why do they turn Federation into a dystopia?

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  • And significantly, if you needed someone to actually do a job that wasn't made obsolete by the removal of material scarcity you'd need to find a way to make it meaningfully enticing to them. Material scarcity is the driver for so much suckage that it's almost mind boggling how much would change if we even made a significant dent on it.

  • Why do they turn Federation into a dystopia?

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  • Waste and trash also aren't an issue because of the aforementioned replicators. Waste and trash become the food. Energy is cheap, next to free, and about as clean as can be.Why would you live in squalor when you can just as easily push a button and teleport the trash and grime into the nothing?Education is cheap and easy because we have both plenty of educated people, and sentient AI. Same for medicine.

    It's one of the few pieces of media that has traditionally outright agreed with the spirit of what you're saying. There's no need to shit on its message that if we find the cause to work together, we have it within us to develop fully automated luxury gay space communism because we're more alike than we are different, and an exploration of those differences will bring us together.

    The difference between a post scarcity society and the good place is that it's not that there's no problems, it's that there's no significant material problems. And it's not like the entire galaxy was like that.

    Cynicism becoming conflated with realism is boring.At it's heart, the expanse was explicitly not post scarcity, so comparing it's treatment of inequality with one where those problems have been solved is silly. It's like saying the expanse is unrealistic because their spaceships are too fast, and Apollo 13 is a more realistic portrayal.

  • Brilliant, innit?

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  • Eh, there's the legal concept of someone being an agent of the company. It wasn't typically expected to take orders, nor was it tied into the order system it seems.

    In the cases where the deal had to be honored, the bot had the ability to actually generate and place an order, and that was one of the primary things it did. The two cases that come to mind are a car dealership and an airline, where you could use it to actually place a vehicle order ornto find and buy flights.As agents of the business, if they make a preposterous deal you're stuck with it.

    A distinction can be made to stores where the person who comes up and offers to help you isn't an agent of the business. They can use the sales computer to find the price, and they can look for a discount, but they can't actually adjust the order price without a manager coming over to enter a code and do it.

    In this case it sounds like someone did the equivalent of going to a best buy and talking to the person who helps you find the video games trying to get them to say something discount code-ish. Once they did, they said they wanted to redeem that coupon and threatened to sue.

    It really hinges on if it was tied to the ordering system or not.

  • European propaganda DESTROYED

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  • Well, first off he wasn't actually doing it after Celsius existed as a temperature scale. He made it a solid 18 years beforehand.Second, there are some issues. Specifically, ice freezes at 0, but it doesn't stop getting colder. So if you have a bit of ice, that doesn't tell you the temperature, just that it's below a threshold. Boiling is more convenient because liquid water can't get above 100, but you do have to consider side pressure.Fahrenheit used brine because as it freezes it forces salt out of the ice, making it more resistant to freezing. It self stabilizes its temperature, which is immensely handy.

    None of the people designing their scales envisioned that using the basic reference points for common calibration would be a thing. Just like how we don't calibrate them with brine, ice, steam or butts today, instead relying on how we marked down how electrical resistance changes as a function of temperature and then calibrated reference numbers to get the scale right.

    It's important to remember that the people in the past were largely not stupid, they simply hadn't found out something we take for granted or they had priorities that we don't.

  • I would like to go to there

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  • It's more complicated than that. It's literally that sometimes two of the exact same item last for radically different times. It's not a different design or manufacturing process, just an amorphous series of random factors lining up we call luck.

    Mean time between failures is something they do actually measure in manufacturing, and you see interesting results like what hard drive manufacturers do to increase reliability: stress test the drives until the ones destined to fail early fail, and then sell the others.

    There are things that can increase reliability, but a lot of the things that make the extreme outliers are just random, and no one documents what they were because they didn't know it was going not have an effect, good or bad.

  • European propaganda DESTROYED

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  • So you get in the bathtub with the bike pump and have the hose connected to a nozzle going out. You might need something stronger that shrinkwrap depending on what you get, but your bathtub is invariably able to handle 1 atmosphere of pressure.

  • European propaganda DESTROYED

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  • Or, hear me out: a bathtub, some shrinkwrap, a bicycle pump and so e good old fashioned grit and determination.

  • European propaganda DESTROYED

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  • I'm one of those people who knows we should standardize, bit also finds Fahrenheit just very convenient.

    Like, when people say it's 50 out, I immediately know that it's going to feel about halfway between what I know 0 and 100 feel like. No one can even put up the pretext of doing that with Celsius, because not even the most pedantic person ever bothers to tell you when it's 100 c out.

    In seriousness though, the Fahrenheit scale isn't non-sense, it's just addressing things we don't much need help with anymore. The zero point was chosen as a temperature you can create reliably without particularly sophisticated tools, and the range is so freezing and boiling are 180 degrees apart, putting them on the opposite sides of a dial.

  • European propaganda DESTROYED

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  • Ugh, I'm one of those people who will defend imperial as not being irrational, just built ad-hoc for purposes that aren't in alignment with modern ones and ... No, that's not what Fahrenheit is.

    Fahrenheit was trying to make a temperature scale that was easy to recreate to ease the calibration of thermometers. Zero is a temperature that can be created in your garage with some ice, salt and water. 100 was his best, ultimately inaccurate, attempt to measure human body temperature, since it's another easy calibration point, and from there water was defined as 32 and 212 so that they were 180 degrees apart, which would fit will on a temperature dial.Not irrational, not a comfort scale, and not in alignment with current needs.

    It's pure coincidence that it kinda lines up with comfortable outdoor temperatures in the opinion of a good chunk of a population living in the northern part of the western hemisphere.

  • ‘Sometimes You Need a Dictator,’ Trump Says Following Threats to Cancel Election

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  • First, you're assuming that most successful assassins are the unstable nutcases. It could just be that it's more memorable when the motivation is "make jodi foster love me" than "stop an expansionist imperialist who's destroying the lives of the common man".

    You're also more likely to be a lone assassin if you don't conform to social norms because social norms say not to kill people.

    The most prolific assassins are just common soldiers whose names we don't even record.

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    People are literally dependent on it

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  • Hey, let's not turn dislike for the technology into dislike for people.

    You saw someone copying and pasting back and forth between email and chatgpt, message coworkers and then work on a chart in Excel.For all you know he was using chatgpt to translate the emails, not as a prosthetic mind.

    group that all had very Indian looking names

    What does the ethnicity of who he messaged matter? If anything it lends credence to "guy used translation software for work email".

    At no point in the 3 hour flight did a conscious thought enter his mind

    completely dependent on AI. Without it their lives and careers would fall apart. This guy would pay anything for it. He cannot function without it

    That's a mighty leap to make from what you described.Saying someone else didn't have conscious thought reeks of "I'm the main character and everyone else is an NPC".

    There are people who use it. There are people who pay for it, and there are people who over use and over pay for it. That can be true and you can be upset by it without demoting people below "consciousness".

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