WildPalmTree @ WildPalmTree @lemmy.world

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At least it would help if you didn't oscillate between the two. Less evil, more evil, less evil, more evil. Pick less evil each time!

And when they are no longer wise?

Despot means you have absolute power. It doesn't mean you use it badly. It just means you have the potential to.

Sometimes. And when they dont, there is no one to stop them. It's the age old problem of a wise despot. Just dressed in different clothes.

Me: Please let me know how many homeless people each church would need to host to help all the homeless people

ChatGPT: Each church in the United States would need to host approximately 1.87 homeless people to accommodate all the homeless individuals in the country.

That is truly absurd!

Say hello to the light cone.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_cone

If true, I wish I could give you more than my sad one up-vote.

So... YouTube Premium.

Agreed. Check it out.

Multitask. Listen to a podcast AND do what you are doing now. Can't be many people that sit down, focus and say "I'll now listen to a podcast and do nothing else".

Always was.

All very true but missing one point. Most (all?) current "regular currency" is fiat (let it be done) with no backing except tax payments and government spending. Sure, that's not nothing but it's also not so much something.

Crypto, as fiat currency, has the value people ascribe to it. If it can be traded for goods and/or services, it has value. What value? Only time will tell.

Maybe "begs a question" but not "begs the question".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question

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Sharpener or edge-straightener?

I'm sure many people will tell you the same: not voting for Biden is the equivalent of voting for Trump. Play it out in your minds eye; explaining to your children why you voted for Trump.

Short but to the point comment: at 22, you have more than 10 years to have children. Probably closer to 20. Release yourself from the invisible trap you are in.

I was just waiting for the n900 whining so that I could join in. Damn, I miss my n900. It had flaws but for its time, it was amazing. With a good CPU, I'd buy it today in a heartbeat.

It served its purpose though. It created a union.

It did make sense, but I understand why it might not seem like it to "modern Americans". In fact, it's quite an interesting mental challenge of putting yourself in someone else's shoes.

We have a similar issue today in the EU. Do we base it one "one country, one vote" or on "one person, one vote"? Both sides of the argument is valid. Why would small countries join if they give up complete independence to the giants? I imagine the situation was very similar when the US was formed.

I think the flaw in the US system is they failed to forsee that states (or rather, people) would see themselves as one country and not a collection of countries. There should have been a time limit on the discrepancy of voting power.

Sure, for a hundred years, a state is where your loyalty, your feeling of self, your center is at. But as time moves on, you are less an Ohioian and more of s USian. Similarly, I would hope, you are less of a German and more of an EUian.

Neither blocks seem to have taken this into consideration but it makes it none the less true. Future generations paying the price for previous. Yada yada....

Used to be true. See countries affecting populations in foreign countries. Propaganda is not local.