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  • lol yeah, I am going on two months at least

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  • I am not saying that. I am saying that if you take a really rich person and and really poor person, and switch their places, then there’s no guarantee that anything effectively changes about society because innate self preservation tendencies enables us to make similar rational decisions. Systems need to counteract these self preservation tendencies because often times these tendencies can be ruinous to the system they benefit from. Look at everything happening now, for example

  • The problem isn’t billionaires per se, the problem is not taxing people at higher income levels enough. People with higher incomes will do the rational thing and work towards self-preservation. It’s up to governments to work towards social stability, which is the point of civilization. It’s up to people to hold their governments accountable via democratic action. This model works in a lot of instances, but maligned processes can make it fail.

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  • Aw I am sure sweaty loved her back >.<

  • That’s not true because a lot of election protection work in the U.S. comes from the Democrats

  • I am not saying I agree with the article, but I am trying to understand the psychology behind why elections are razor thin even when the Republican candidate is immensely incompetent and unqualified. I think this support is from consistent and strong messaging, which the Dems can lack. Ultimately people want to feel safe against the unknown, economic or otherwise. I am saying the Dems can be stronger about that messaging, I am not saying the Dems need to become autocratic or strongmen.

  • Hard disagree, I’ll die on this hill 🤷‍♀️

  • Republicans are just setting the groundwork for their terrorism by having their minority faction believe these lies. If Republican policies appealed to the majority of the population, the party wouldn’t need to cheat or lie.

  • The garbage bag is for trick and treaters

  • they have written some objectively good songs

    That’s a strong no

  • 26 people can’t handle the truth

  • My guess is Biden meant Trump donors given Biden has always been friendly to Republican voters from the general public, there was an example of that recently.

    Though wtf, why is Biden saying this such an issue and Trump literally said he’s going to send military against “enemies of the state”. Such bullshit double standards

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  • I think it depends, if something is reporting on legislative action then a press release is not propaganda. If the press release is just making promises without mentioning specific acts or laws or legislation, then it is propaganda.

  • It goes right over Ohnoacreek

  • People who are the butt of such jokes have an innate tendency to agree and pretend it’s not about them because they’re one of the good ones. It’s sad but that’s basically the same thing happening with the white people the Nazis deemed weren’t pure enough, or the whites the early US settlers used to hate on. In another time, JD Vance would have been too Irish to be Trumps VP. That’s what this whole ideology is based on, there’s no fixed in group, the out group target is always changing.

  • The 1% don’t want to pay taxes or fair wages, somebody else’s race isn’t what’s causing that.

    The culture war is all bullshit and distraction, the only thing that matters is taxing the richest and putting that money towards creating less fragile and sustainable communities and economies.

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  • The only cringe I think is real when someone does something entitled, like “let me speak to your manager” type stuff. I hate the term Karen, tho

  • In a way he’s right, but it depends! If you take even a common example like Chat GPT or the native object detection used in iPhone cameras, you’d see that there’s a lot of cool stuff already enabled by our current way of building these tools. The limitation right now, I think, is reacting to new information or scenarios which a model isn’t trained on, which is where all the current systems break. Humans do well in new scenarios based on their cognitive flexibility, and at least I am unaware of a good framework for instilling cognitive flexibility in machines.