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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

No, we just don't mislabel foreign brain drain as American exceptionalism.

[–] [email protected] 106 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (5 children)

The US isn't innovating jack shit.

The US just created a massively polarized and unequal society so that when a country creates a new brilliant researcher or innovation, an American company can buy them out.

Basically, the insane poverty and lack of government services that the average American experiences gives them enough cash to buy up innovative people, companies, and competitors.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 17 hours ago (13 children)

Some people don't seem to realize that Black Mirror is not a deep exploration of how far technology can go, but a deep exploration of how far the writers' anxiety and pessimism can go.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

That's not what democracy is.

Democracy is simply a system of government where leaders are voted on instead of inheriting their title or gaining it through physical force and coercion.

The original form of democracy had slavery, and excluded women and non-land owners, the word simply distinguishes which mechanism brings someone to power, it doesn't inherently imply fairness or free choice.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

So many options that amount to more than just a shape tool.

If I wanted to learn some arcane bullshit to draw a circle Id just learn C++.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

What a waste of time. Both the article and the researchers.

Literally by the time their research was published, it was using irrelevant models, on top of the fact that, yeah, that's how LLMs work. That would be obvious from 5m of using them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

While I generally agree, I have seen the argument that grass will grow in thin soil where crops will not, so you can theoretically turn land that's unusable for crops into being usable for producing beef...

But that was more of a land use argument than an environmental one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

This literal entire comment chain is about how the article's foreign policy criticism of Bernie is that he endorsed Kamala, and she didn't do enough to stop the Palestinian genocide.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Oh please do go ahead and tell me how much Trump is doing to stop that.

Oh what's that? Nothing?

Are you saying that it was fucking obvious everyone should vote for and endorse Kamala?

Jesus fucking Christ, anyone who didn't support Kamala was dumb as fuck. Full stop. If your criticism of Bernie was that he supported the obvious lesser of two evils then maybe you deserve the president you got.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (4 children)

I honestly cannot fathom how CN is such a pile of garbage. Does anyone understand why they can't do the basic things that rail owners do, every single day, all over the world?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I've used easydns forever. It's cheap, Canadian, been around since 1998.

https://easydns.com/

 

I can't be the only reddit migrant who often instinctually goes to a given community by typing /r/community, only to be 404d. If the /r/ path isn't being used for anything else, is it possible to have it dynamically redirect to /c/ instead?

 

The federal New Democrats backed Conservative demands Wednesday that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau take part in a televised "emergency meeting" on carbon pricing with Canada's premiers.

The federal carbon price is not the "be-all, end-all" of climate policy, and New Democrats are open to alternative plans presented by premiers, NDP environment critic Laurel Collins said Wednesday.

 
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