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That’s hardly a reasonable retort. The contents implicated Hunter Biden being used as a pay-to-play doorway to his father, who was running last cycle. Using a middle man doesn’t make it less corrupt.

When a company makes such a transition are they liable for any sort of backdated taxes/expenses they avoided as a non-profit?

Like many policies on the left, it’s easier to go with the vibes than actually look at the results and see if it’s a good idea. Rent control never works. It has been played out on every continent save Antarctica and it always leads to worse outcomes.

Did you buy your walkie talkie in a batch shipment with Hezbollah?

Can you elaborate on what makes a criticism of Islamic extremism racist?

Their neighbouring country whose southern region is run by a designated terrorist organisation? The same org that has been indiscriminately launching rockets at civilians towns for a year straight? Oh yeah Israel is definitely the terrorist you’re right XD

Let’s say for each one of these Hezbollah casualties, you replaced the pager with 4 infantry attacking them. Civilian casualties would be far higher. The fact that they couldn’t “see” the target at the time of detonation is irrelevant.

The videos I’ve seen are of the pagers exploding and someone standing less than a foot away being unscathed. Incredibly sophisticated and precise.

Not even close. Thousands of pocket bombs. Some dead civilians, and a lot of dead terrorists. Not reprehensible but a well-executed op.

Separately,

> And then we proceed to the myth of "the center", much like the myth of the "swing voter". What the US has politically is a choice between the far-right and the center-right who have completely capitulated to far-right messaging on immigration.

A gradient or spectrum always has a centre. It's less a myth and more of a mathematical property for this sort of object.

Your inability to see this centre as the centre is just you broadcasting that you're a political extremist. If you stand insanely far enough to the left I'm sure everyone looks like a Christian fundamentalist. Similarly if you stand far enough to the right everyone looks like a cat-eating illegal immigrant. It must be tough to live like this but I don't think you saying "Everyone else is conservative" bolsters your credibility the way you think it does.

> It is 100% legal and moral to seek asylum.

Where? In the first available country of safe refuge because you're fleeing political persecution or war? Yeah, I'd say that's 100% legal and moral. That's how you get from Syria to Turkiye.

Is it legal and moral to then pass through 5 or 6 countries on your way to the USA or Sweden and request "asylum" because you want to find safe refuge in the country that has the best economic opporunity (or benefits)? How about buying a plane ticket from MENA to Mexico and then claiming asylum at the US border? Certainly the Mexican gov't isn't beholden to whatever dictator you were escaping in the Middle East. Could it be you're actually just abusing the asylum system to improve your economic outlook?

Mayyybe that abuse is legal, but if you want to say it's moral you'll have to answer to the millions of people who pay money, fill out the forms, and immigrate to the US legally in search of the same opportunities. My take on it would be that cutting the line isn't moral, but maybe your values differ.

Yes, I edited the comment as I decided that criminals is too narrow. It's really a simple evaluation of whether you extract more value than you produce - which is usually true with criminals but could be expanded to include any migrant who is receiving state benefits while not making efforts to contribute going forward. Now, obviously there are exceptions and caveats but I posit there's a larger group of non-criminal migrants who are still a net-drain on the society that's supporting them.

The narrative of "If you don't like unfettered illegal immigration you're a Nazi" has really lost its stopping power. No one in the centre believes that anymore and most mainstream political parties see the problem quite clearly. What you decry as the rise of fascism is really just the decline in persuasiveness of this tired rhetoric.

Those who fail to benefit the country in which they are guests, though I'm not sure Assad would be the primary recipient.

> moving people from functional, high-productivity countries to failed states makes even less sense

Depends who you're moving.

Definitely won't be abused. It even says they can leave and come back XD. Man it must be frustrating getting this shafted as a taxpayer.

Hedging our bets XD

It makes sense over a 5-10 year time horizon. This will necessitate the formation of domestic DJI competitors, which will eventually be critical wartime infra.

Succinct and englightening - I had no knowledge of his visit to Berlin (East & West).

Sad to see Malaysia relegate itself to yet another Islamist backwater. They had so much potential.

Your data point ends at 2020. Hmm.. what could have happened that year that would have spurred businesses to decouple from China. Hmmm… cough

I suppose their main job will be making sure the diffusion models continue to produce sufficiently diverse renderings of SS squadrons ala Google.

A complete waste of taxpayer money to support a safety commission run by a lawyer from Biden's admin. Kneecapping artificial intelligence so that its worldview promotes a sufficient amount of "equity."

Are you kidding me?

Gross!

Damn. I was so excited to try Cursor and when I set it up all my plug-ins got screwed up and go to def no longer worked. I guess I’ll try again this weekend.

I really want to code with voice to text via LLM. Why am I typing any code with my hands these days?

It ain’t easy to make Elon look like the good guy these days. parabens!

You're trying to build a ground-up theory for why LLMs are bad for this sort of work. But the empirical evidence suggests they're quite good at it. Just try using it!

Do you think the video is a deep fake because you don’t like Republicans?

I think we’re witnessing a correction to the absurdity of the last 20 years.

Yep 100%. It took one experience being stuck on the street in London with my bags to never use AirBnb again. The negatives are just not worth the risk.

Old people are lonely. It’s not complicated.

Remind me who Elon has kidmapped??

I’ve had my fill of sub-human dictators conducting state-sanctioned kidnappings for ransom but here we are.