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Why bother banning speech? In a world where your political allies will ruin the speakers life, laws are unnecessary and give away the goat.

Thanks for this - learned a bunch. Also good to see others worried about this stuff instead of pretending it’s all great

It’s a class of thing without a name that’s the next step in ORMs.

BRICS org doesn’t actually mean or do anything, and as should always be mentioned:

- India and China fucking hate each other and engage in frequent deadly border skirmishes

- Same with Iran and Saudi but without the border

- Egypt and Ethiopia are dick inches from a war, and not backing down

Maybe BRICS org can help fix some of that but unlikely. More likely this will go the way of the African Union, CARICOM, and ECOWAS - aka a lot of noise but no material change

pg_typed and it’s not even close

Yeah same. Labeling isn’t the same as the ridiculous cake cases they keep bringing.

Going to say the unsaid here: Why tf are Ethiopians trying to enter Saudi from Yemen (an active war zone) for economic reasons? Ethiopia has it's shit together! It's becoming one of Africa's success stories!

It feels like there's a growing sentiment of "you can just move anywhere you want, there's no reason to try to fix where you are, if you can make a bit more money somewhere just move there, you have a right to." That might fly in Sweden but it absolutely is not true about 90% of the world, and the people that enforce those norms aren't always going to be friendly.

Saudi doesn't give a shit about HRW, and they don't give a shit about Twitter outrage. Neither does Myanmar, or China, etc. You cannot just force your way into these places because you don't want to make it work in your homeland (which, again, is booming economically: https://www.afdb.org/en/countries/east-africa/ethiopia/ethio...)

Obviously, no one should be murdered for trying to cross a border. That doesn't mean you won't be - and the growing amount of migration means this will keep happening. Particularly when it's "choice migration" - these aren't people going to Kenya or Djibouti.

What drives all this Euro cope though? The entirety of the internet shits on the USA, at all times, and the few times that people point out it's unwarranted the Euros completely break down.

It's almost crybullying at this point.

Maybe they’ll stop telling us how stupid we are for our provincial American choices soon.

Maybe these stupid policies are the reason we built the modern world.

So give it to them, via enforcement.

The world is incomparably better than pre-capitalism. Yes, the healthcare system in the USA sucks. Doesn’t invalidate the rest of the thing.

They filed in Manhattan in particular for very good reason - the venue is extremely good at huge, complex bankruptcies like this. It's non-trivial to unwind these financial obligations, and is really only done in NYC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bankruptcy_Court...

This is actually a great question! The United States bankruptcy court in the Southern District of New York is the best equipped place to manage a massive bankruptcy, likely on Earth. Every complex case you've heard of is managed there. It's a huge reason for NYC's success, and they know what they're doing.

If you need to wind down your car dealership, do it in Guangzhou or Monterry or wherever you happen to be. If you need to unwind GM or Enron, you'll do it in the Southern District Court.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bankruptcy_Court...

I can’t get it to, got prompts?

Man these comment section is angry.

They literally say they neuter the model, and there's a number of writeups on how to neuter your model. Of course they neuter it in a way that matches the current SF zeitgeist. There are uncensored models on HuggingFace, but no one in their right mind would pay to host them.

Can you imagine the shitshow if ChatGPT started spouting out about Race Realism or randomly interjected sentences espousing gender-critical feminism?

Why is this flagged?

If we would let capitalists build instead of pretending that housing just appears magically, we’d have a better world.

Investment funds state in filings that they buy properties in NIMBY areas because the local policies protect their investment.

So far, 1 comment and it's apologia.

Step 1 to fixing your problems is to admitting they exist, and that they're your fault.

State here means nation, which is what the US states originally were. It can also mean "the apparatus of state" - the government.

I'm glad to see others say this. Canada is more or less a PR front for the tar sands.

That free college for enby First Nations students? The new Montreal REM? Don't ask how they're paid for.

China and India regularly have border skirmishes. Brazil and SA are barely holding together as countries.

India? Sure, but it’s also a nation of vegetarians with an environmental streak. I think they’ll get it together just fine.

Has enormous coal mines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powder_River_Basin

Remember that this is a policy choice: we chose to enrich Boomers who own houses, at the expense of these people.

We could build more homes on golf courses, we could build affordable housing, we could build up, we could get rid of parking mandates. All of that would cost The Boomer, and so is forbidden.

Good lesson to be learned here about the impact of working around the edges vs. addressing your adversaries head on

Not everyone’s opinion is equal. Sometimes, for the good of a democracy, people should be told who they can vote for.

There’s also never been a blowback to this. /s

Massive uptick in illegal migration after the Northern Triangle fell apart

The lab leak theory was not being touted by the Black people who beat up Asians in droves the last 3 years. The idea that it was Trumpists was a conspiracy theory not borne out by stats

New Orleans should probably worry about its murder rate instead of land politics in the Middle East.

From BDS? 0.001%

Broke college student boycotting you doesn’t do much

There isn't a "split control issue," the split control setup is fundamental to the way the Airbus control schema works. Changing it would be a non-starter.