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Reality eventually catches up to everybody, no matter how strong the cult; the Devil always overplays his hand.
The question is are we willing to buck up and start writing the rules for a game that beats whatever MAGA is playing? Or are we just going to whine cynically that everything is awful and there’s no hope and we’re all doomed?
Taiwan will scuttle their microchip fabs before letting China take over. Unless China have infiltrated and taken over the fabs and secured them from destruction, there’s far less economic value in invading Taiwan.
It looks like China is only a couple years away from building completely in-country fabs competitive with Taiwan. If that’s the case, then Taiwan using the economic value of their microchip fabs as a defense may very soon come to an end.
Imagine accidentally admitting in the subtext of your post that your understanding of leftism is that it’s inherently authoritarian.
You mean that shaping society to fit some narrow, preconceived notion of utopia by any means necessary somehow involves coercion by force? What a shocking surprise! /s
There’s a very good reason why Horseshoe Theory is verboten in those circles.
Trump wants his name to be remembered, so I want a future where we fix the problems that he exposed in our system, and then we do our best to completely forget him.
A miniscule, radically optimistic part of me wants to believe that he’s viscerally aware of his own miserable fate and is intentionally acting as a villain to ultimately unify the country. I’m not holding my breath, but it’s a small source of hope.
I see what you did there…
Are we sure he wasn’t just rigging the coin-toss in the most obvious way possible?
I want a patch. Heck, I’d settle for a sticker.
The only reason why memory might get repurposed is because the demand for AI has collapsed. The bubble that’s most likely to burst is a financial bubble, and is unlikely to reduce the demand for AI from users… So I wouldn’t count on it.
It’s also gonna confuse people worried about AI slop…
Yeah! Those poors shouldn’t enjoy partaking in a uniquely American holiday custom with an enormous outpouring of charity! /s
My family was intermittently on food stamps when I was growing up, and during those years my parents always found a free (or steeply discounted) turkey, and food banks always had enough fresh potatoes, onions, etc. to feed everybody. We barely spent any money, and it was an occasion to bond as a family as we all chipped in to prepare for the big meal. There’s really only so much poultry, potato, and reconstituted stale bread that you can eat in one sitting. The rest fed our family for weeks on leftovers.
If you want to target a holiday for “wasteful consumerism” maybe try American Christmas. But, even then, I’ve got a story for you…
True, but there’s gotta be a line between “controversially unpopular” and “truly deranged (and therefore also unpopular).”
(not so) fun fact: tinnitus can cause chronic depression and anxiety! Ask me how I know …
As others have already said: take breaks. It’s really easy (speaking from experience) to “get used” to a volume level that’s way too loud, ESPECIALLY if using isolating or noise-cancelling headphones.
Part of how your brain determines if something is too loud is its contrast with the environment. Yelling at the top of your lungs sounds a lot louder in a quiet library than it does in the middle of a live concert. Taking a break both recalibrates your sense of loudness and gives your ears a rest.
If you can afford decent “reference” or “studio” headphones, you’ll enjoy the same music at MUCH quieter levels than cheaper or lower-quality headphones. They are designed to be used for long periods of time by professional audio engineers and musicians, who are notoriously protective of their hearing and perfectionistic about even the most subtle of sounds.
Although I was a broke college student and couldn’t afford hardly anything they talked about, I learned a ton scrolling through audiophile forums like Head-Fi ( https://www.head-fi.org/forums/ ). Now I’m less broke, but somehow equipment envy and window-shopping just feels more right than spending way too much money on something I probably don’t have the time to enjoy anymore… Such is life.
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Or the courts will find some way to single out CA’s map; like the fact that they even had a public referendum makes it illegal … Maybe that’s a bit cynical, but that’s where I’m at these days.
Boosting morale and rallying people around common values is absolutely capital-L leadership. A good leader strives towards greatness. A poor leader merely avoids ruin (only to run into it anyways).
I’m accused of being a witch
Witch? Nah. Sealion? Yah.
lol this thread is off the rails and should probably get modded
My summary of the conversation so far: @[email protected] offered evidence of some (supposedly controversial) event. @[email protected] rejected it outright without offering any competing evidence. Both are, according to the other, somehow a variety of fascist bootlicker. The shitposting aura is weak; too serious.
If you want to skip the editorial fluff and just skip to Paul Krugman’s post: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/too-cruel-too-soon
Because we voted a criminal into office and let him take control like a king. Laws, like the Hatch Act, are optional.
Read the article.