The best team is the one that wins and that’s why we play the game. If you knew who was best beforehand, you could just stay home.

I don’t think it’s a matter of common sense because many negative emotions are natural although they often have bad effects. It’s more a matter of values.

Discriminatory behavior tends to result in lawsuits and other legal issues. This new law is trying to reduce the liability that businesses face if they fuck over same sex married couples.

We needed a report to tell us that? Well, maybe the DNC did. Everyone else kinda always thought supporting genocide was a shit idea and a bad way to win an election.

He might want to stop breaking the law, lol.

Many people here know that “AI” as a term is pure snake oil. You aren’t actually talking about anything until you say what you think it means, or specific examples.

AI research goes back to the early 1950s. Being “against” all of that old research is kinda meaningless… So it’s your job to clarify what you mean, or not, and other users will respond accordingly.

Look, you want specifics but didn’t provide any. That’s basically manipulative. It suggests you don’t want a real answer, but you want to say you tried to find one.

Lol what terrible research. “No! The parents have no control over their children. None! Please ignore all of human history.”

The NYTimes is so bad. Strong evidence that Trump has committed sex crimes, and quite possibly to children, with some assault and battery (and maybe dead bodies) floating around, and it’s news that young voters are “disillusioned”? I would hope the reaction would be slightly stronger than mere disillusionment.

But that’s the Times. Bury the lede, underplay the crimes, repeat. Sigh.

Hahaha the joke’s on us, cuz we don’t own property, sigh.

The reason the rich borrow money is to take advantage of tax loopholes. It’s not about being reasonable or what ought to make sense. They are gaming the system, that’s it. So, how does it work?

If they have investments in the stock market, then they get taxed when they sell those. So even though the investments are usually going up in value, they don’t want to sell too often. But they still need to buy things.

So, where do they get money for living, houses, cars, travel, etc? If they get paid for working a job, their income is taxed a lot, meh. If they sell their stocks, they get taxed a little, meh. But if they get a low-interest loan, that money is not taxed.

And you might say hey, money’s gotta be paid back some day. But remember, the goal is to find the loopholes, the places and times where either you don’t pay tax or you pay much less tax. And those loopholes are all over the place. In the end, the details are just boring. Most financial scams have just enough moving parts to look amazing, but if you take an hour to figure them out, it’s nothing exciting.

Historically, taxing the ultra-rich at 90% or 95% has not stopped them from staying rich, and it also helped everyone else get more social services.

Who told you that it never works? … Checks notes … the capitalists did.

Look, the rich people wrote the laws. You think they didn’t leave loopholes for themselves? … Tax law doesn’t have to make sense.

We don’t wonder anything. If you were wondering, you never bothered to think about it for more than three minutes.

That’s a problem for the future team, not the current bosses who will give themselves golden parachutes.

Oh my friend, you believe the hype so quickly. Who told you that Biden read them? We all know told you that, Trump supporters.

What we actually know, and you will if you look it up, because you don’t need to believe me, is that the Department of Justice had the data. That’s not the same as the White House having it.

And look, your position doesn’t even make sense. Why would Biden keep everything a secret when he could have easily gotten reelected by leaking the pictures of Donald Trump alone? Of course he would have leaked those pictures, that’s just common sense. But if he didn’t have them, because the Department of Justice did not give him the pictures, then of course he would have nothing to leak.

Yes, gotta use the right words if you want to communicate effectively.

It rightly won the Hugo award, Hyperion did.

Yes of course it would hurt Google’s economic growth. That’s one of the good points. Why pay for new features that nobody wants to support a company everybody hates. Better to go FOSS and make the world a better and safer place, and also save your taxpayers a lot of money.