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  • Progressive politics has been infiltrated by Zionist lobbyists from the Harry Truman days. Much more so than Republicans.

    LBJ was a democrat who accepted the USS Liberty, while Reagan was the one who actually stopped the carnage in Lebanon, calling it a Holocaust.

    Believe it or not, but Trump is actually less beholden to Israel than Biden. Trump and Republicans are actually more beholden to Saudi-Arabia, which is why MBS could quite easily get them to stop the Gaza genocide.

    As to why, it's mostly due to the Holocaust narrative and the idea that Palestine was empty and Jews needed a homeland.

    Younger progressives know better, but this propaganda was immensely effective in the past among liberals and progressives.

    Today, it's mostly money and the influence they have in the party through people like Schumer, Blinken, etc.

    Look how AIPAC recently primaried Cori Bush, Jamaal Bowman. And a few years ago they also primaried a progressive Jewish (!) congressman who was critical of the apartheid.

  • If the EU and Japan can align their legislation, that brings a lot of critical mass to the free world. Which can avoid Big Tech dominance over our technology.

    If the UK, Canada and Australia also join, then perfect.

    And fuck it, let China join in too.

  • Indeed, but the way the math for expansion works is that there is something called a Hubble horizon and that makes it impossible to ever reach the edge, since it is moving away from us faster than light. (The limit doesn't apply to the expansion of space-time).

    Quite a nifty solution by the Supreme Programmer to avoid us hitting the limits of the simulation. I couldn't have designed it better.

  • That's how they always do it.

    It's usually terrorism, sometimes treason. But there is always an unproven accusation of some heinous crime, which is why most people will just accept it, because "it only affects the criminals". And it is also how they motivate their henchmen to do the dirty work.

    Communists and Jews in Nazi-Germany were accused of causing millions of Germans to die in WW1 and of causing poverty in the depression through exploitation. And this is why the Nazi henchmen worked diligently to get rid of the Jews, because they had lost family members in WW1 and lived through Depression poverty and they wanted to help their country become great again by getting rid of all the undesirables.

  • The gunk is just compacted dust from the desk surfaces.

    Perhaps a bit gross, but it's mostly stuff you're breathing in daily, just now visible due to being compacted.

    Super gross to me would imply something like bodily fluids or other biohazard.

    Am I missing something?

  • If that email needs to go to a client or stakeholder, then our culture won't accept just the prompt.

    Where it really shines is translation, transcription and coding.

    Programmers can easily double their productivity and increase the quality of their code, tests and documentation while reducing bugs.

    Translation is basically perfect. Human translators aren't needed. At most they can review, but it's basically errorless, so they won't really change the outcome.

    Transcribing meetings also works very well. No typos or grammar errors, only sometimes issues with acronyms and technical terms, but those are easy to spot and correct.

  • I believe it was an angry constituent who got evicted and decided it was his fault.

    I don't think the guy even knew it was Passover or that Shapiro is Jewish.

    But I am sure our beloved media will give us the straight story soon.

    I am just sick and tired that every time someone Jewish hits their toe on a table, it's somehow worse than if it was a non-Jewish person because of scary antisemitism.

    Like no, times are shitty, we are living in angry and violent times. That's bad enough, but let's not make everything about race.

    Two people tried to assault Trump. A CEO got killed and nobody makes those things about race.

    What is racial are the Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims and immigrants getting targeted and locked up without due process. Minorities being fired from their job.

  • I am not convinced it would, TBH.

    If people don't want to buy the cars, then the production line will eventually have to stop, permanently. And you get zero compensation for lost revenue.

    If a production line is hit and has to close, then insurance will compensate part of the damage and after a few days or weeks you can be up and running again.

  • It is definitely here to stay, but the hype of AGI being just around the corner is definitely not believable. And a lot of the billions being invested in AI will never return a profit.

    AI is already a commodity. People will be paying $10/month at max for general AI. Whether Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Llama, ChatGPT, copilot or Deepseek. People will just have one cheap plan that covers anything an ordinary person would need. Most people might even limit themselves to free plans supported by advertisements.

    These companies aren't going to be able to extract revenues in the $20-$100/month from the general population, which is what they need to recoup their investments.

    Specialized implementations for law firms, medical field, etc will be able to charge more per seat, but their user base will be small. And even they will face stiff competition.

    I do believe AI can mostly solve quite a few of the problems of an aging society, by making the smaller pool of workers significantly more productive. But it will not be able to fully replace humans any time soon.

    It's kinda like email or the web. You can make money using these technologies, but by itself it's not a big money maker.

  • The other guy already said that we do, but to elaborate.

    For your reading pleasure:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succession_of_the_Roman_Empire#European_Union

    And my take is that the age of empires ended with the British empire, or the Soviet Union if you consider that a continuation of the Russian empire.

    The US empire, China and the EU operate differently from the olden day Empires. And I consider the EU model to be the template that will eventually dominate in our future.

    Being a single country all alone like Ukraine or Taiwan or even the UK just isn't going to be sustainable. Nations will need to form unions to achieve critical mass against big countries and other unions.

    Few countries will want to go fully towards a USA style federal union, so EU style is probably the model that will eventually dominate the world.

  • Agreed. Algorithms, bots and fake news work together to create and perpetuate harmful narratives.

    I think the DMA has the right idea and it should be extended. Any platform with a large user base should be heavily regulated and controlled.

    We can still have mostly unregulated and uncensored free speech on small platforms, since those aren't harmful for our democracy.