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Obama withdrew all US funds from UNESCO in 2011 as well, due to Palestine being admitted in. This isn't anything particularly noteworthy, just more capitulating to Israel, which is annoying.

Sure, a quick search unfortunately gives you result after result!

https://www.wsmv.com/2025/06/23/family-woman-murdered-nashvi...

https://nypost.com/2025/02/28/us-news/career-criminal-free-w...

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https://nypost.com/2025/01/07/us-news/nyc-sees-staggering-14...

https://nypost.com/2025/03/07/us-news/maniac-busted-for-slug...

https://nypost.com/2024/08/11/us-news/brute-charged-in-attac...

https://www.foxnews.com/us/blue-states-bail-laws-panned-poli...

I remember being in school in 2006 and being told that outside of our solar system is a "wall of fire" that we would never be able to cross.

I don't know if any of this info was speculated at that point in time, but it turns out that teacher was at least partially correct!

I would hope printer manufacturers would not ban you from printing certain items! I would never buy from any 3D printer company that did that.

Norbert is, in fact, breaking the cycle. Rock on, Ful Rod.

It's honestly one of the better ones I've tried for general questions. I saw it used in a blind competition against ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, and amongst people who didn't use LLMs frequently, it was the most favored for 4/5 questions! It's very good at sounding much more natural and less robotic than the others, imo.

The anti-eugenics guy just said he would "absolutely" murder a baby...?

Criticizing Mao is "Holocaust apologia" because killing 45,000,000 of his citizenry was just an accident?

More people died then than during the Holocaust. More people dying is objectively worse, no matter how you slice it.

This is satire, surely?

Downplaying the severity of despots like Mao by comparing them to democratically elected leaders is incredibly disrespectful to the 45,000,000 people that died as a direct result of catastrophic and coercive policies.

That's actually a genius idea in the worst way possible!

That actually checks out. If you take the median U.S. household income ($74,580) and factor in the effective tax rate (10.9%), eliminating federal income taxes would save the average household $8,167.50 per year. Subtract the $3,488.27 in extra costs from tariffs, and the net savings is still $4,679.23.

So yeah, if those numbers hold up, the median American household actually comes out ahead after everything is accounted for.

24% of the country is malnourished and 4% of children die before their 5th birthday. This feels like misaligned priorities...

https://www.globalhungerindex.org/botswana.html

Now give me the tool that lets me import my Bluesky history to X! ;)

Yes, I'm aware of that. My point was that SpaceX has said they've had to do this, and if it sounds so wacky that that's unbelievable, there are actually photos of the same thing happening with seals, so I feel very little need to doubt that SpaceX was held to the same standard if that's what they claim.

Not a "citation" as much as anecdotal evidence that dispels doubt.

Yes, when you get 49.8% of the vote and your opponent gets 48.3%, you have won the popular vote, since 49.8% is more than 48.3%.

>it involved insane things like strapping a pair of headphones onto a seal and playing rocket sounds to it

There are actual images of a seal with headphones strapped to its head online!

Hard to imagine any reasonable individual being opposed to this, regardless of politics!

Probably people who aren't miserable, antagonistic, contrarian, and argumentative!

The company I work for has been using ElevenLabs to translate hour-long programs into Spanish, French, Portuguese, Greek, German, and Chinese. We have a large international audience, so it's worked great for this purpose!

Before, we were hiring people to translate, and then hiring others to dub the audio. Now, our files are automatically translated and spoken in the voice of the actual speaker, and we just have a small Quality Control team of native speakers quickly verify the results are accurate. We've reduced costs and increased the quality of our translated media.

I have to be honest— keeping your startup in Europe is, more often than not, a recipe for failure. The regulatory burden, risk aversion, and fragmented markets make scaling nearly impossible.

Even China fosters more innovation these days. Europe feels dead in the water when it comes to innovation, aside from mandating attached water bottle caps...

The HN response to all this has actually been very strange to me. From my perspective, this presidency, and especially Musk working on DOGE, should be one of the most exciting, positive things discussed on here!

I would've thought this crowd would've loved lower taxes (more money to build things!), less regulation (less restrictions to build things!), and an unfamiliar friendliness towards the tech industry (more people to build things with!)... I'm really looking forward to building big things in this country in the next few years!

I'll call anyone I please, thank you very much!

What store isn't allowed to sell knives??

I vote for those who lie to me the most convincingly about having my family's best interest at heart, and who claim to have goals for the country that align with my values.

That's about the best any of us can do.

You cannot reason someone out of a position they haven't reasoned themselves into.

Politicians lie, constantly. All of them. Yes, even the ones you like. Saying Republicans lie and Democrats don't is practically self-propagandizing, convincing oneself of something they'd prefer to be true.

ALL politicians are equal-opportunity liars: if there's an opportunity, they will lie. Sometimes for power, sometimes for money, sometimes because they owe a favor. It's a big club, and we aren't in it.

Money, speech, press... The mafia has many avenues of control...

It astounds me that anyone is capable of sincerely believing this.

The world realizes the USA is no longer messing around, that's all. If anything, we've only gained prestige in the last couple months, we're finally getting stuff done...

Facebook/Instagram/Snapchat are not functionally owned & operated by an unfriendly foreign government that would have incentive to destabilize the USA via civil unrest by influencing our algorithms.

That is quite literally what they are for!