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That's not a campaign donation, this is straight up a gift to show loyalty to the new guy, after he won the election. But that's not the only thing, for just one more example, look at Zuckerberg getting on Joe Rogan weeks after the election to praise "masculine energy", wearing a ridiculous haircut and necklace, just to pander to the Right.

Sadly, not really. That's really underestimating the capacity of religions and their followers to weather and rationalize away new facts that directly contradict their myths and cosmology. If Christianity was able to survive Evolution and the Big Bang, discovering a few cells on Europa won't even make a dent.

Spot on, that's the big flaw in liberalism. It's never an issue with the system, only communists reason in systems. No, it's just that the guy in charge is bad, and if we could get someone better there, everything would turn out fine.

Let's disregard that ever since Reagan, no president was ever able to slow the runaway financialisation of capitalism, or the concentration of wealth into fewer and fewer hands. Capital has known no major blowbacks in many decades, and it's never been so powerful before.

Adam Smith never believed in an "invisible hand". He uses the concept to disparage the fantasy of "self-regulating" free markets. Even before capitalism did we understand that markets needed rules and regulations, it took centuries of propaganda and of demonizing the opposition as "luddites", then "communists" to convince the majority that we needed to abolish all rules for the economy to flourish.

A deregulated market is terrible for the environment, the economy and pretty much everyone and everything. It only gives more relative wealth (and power) to the oligarchs, who then lord over us unopposed.

I love learning about an alleged "uproar" in my own country from a BBC link shared on HN.

Can't wait for a competitor to release a similar product so I can try it out!

And it's so stupid honestly. Why is this making them queasy, but not the slaughterhouses, the industrial farms, the cattle pumped with antibiotics to prevent infections from the open wounds inflicted by their terrible environment, etc. I'd take cells grown in a vat over dead animals everyday.

This is such a stupid line, it makes me wonder if this article just wasn't paid for by a meat industry lobby. Meat industry who we know for a fact is already putting a lot of energy into fighting alternatives, like impossible meat.

No, Americans don't actually fear their government. Republicans are very much pro-ICE and in favor of expanded police budget (that is used for mass surveillance). And it's the same thing in Europe, the right has always been pro-surveillance and policing. They're just too stupid to understand that you can't only police your political enemies and racial minorities: surveillance impacts everyone.

Mamdani is very much the exception that confirms the rule. And ever since he's been inaugurated, he's been turned into a boogeyman by the right, successively called a "communist", then an "islamist", and often both.

And even in his own party, the dominant """moderate""" branch does everything it can to hide his success and popularity, from fear that the electorate would wake up to how utterly corrupt and ineffective the DMC is.

They knew that tons of other PACs and democracy-hating billionaires like Bill Ackman had their back. Cuomo spent $65 (!!!) per vote received, while Mamdani was at $15.

Just shows the power of being a politician that actually cares.

> How are the "wealthier ... stealing [our] money"?

Wages not catching up with inflation? Everything getting more expensive? The BBB giving massive tax cuts to the rich, while cutting government programs (which are a form of redistribution)?

> We get to choose

Up to a point, and it's naive to think that people are getting poorer only because of bad personal choices. The younger generations not being able to afford homes isn't because they're all bad with their finances. Treating housing as a speculation vehicle instead of an essential commodity is a political choice, and it was made by a political class completely permeated by moneyed interests.

Look, you don't even need to know about the "how". The gini index is getting worse, billionaires are turning into trillionaires while public infrastructure and social services are crumbling. It's natural, and correct, to connect the dots.

> You'll own nothing and be happy

That was said first at the World Economic Forum in Davos, in what many people consider the heart of modern capitalism.

Capitalism says nothing about your right to own stuff, it is only concerned with putting the means of production into private hands. And indeed, most humans alive today have nothing to their name, and the entire economic apparatus belongs to a tiny minority that functionally owns the world, and doesn't have to answer to anyone.

Georgism is a tax policy, not a full ideology. It can't be implemented under capitalism, because the capitalists would never allow it. And it would ve redundant under working socialism.

Garbage like this is why I'm never going back to a proprietary OS. I remember being unable to kill Cortana on Windows (it would automatically restart itself) being the last straw.

And it should be noted that "déluge" is more often than not used to refere to the biblical flood, not just any flood.

There's this idea in leftist thought, that in the end capital only ends up growing its relative power over labourers. Trump's policies, Climate Change, they all make everyone worse off in the absolute, but they end up giving capital more relative power over the rest of us.

His oldest repository was updated in 2011. Looks like he's been there a long time.

That's just not true. Distressed and turnaround investing represent less than 20% of PE acquisitions [0].

[0] https://www.ey.com/en_us/insights/private-equity/pulse

Nothing a few bills slipped to republican and "moderate" democratic senators won't fix!

It's like everything else, natural languages have some redundancy so you can understand the other party even when you failed to catch ~10% of they were saying. A binary gender, like in French, is one more bit of information. German also has neutral, so one more trit.

I don't care how much you were or were not involved with the README, no one is reading through all that. If you can't be arsed to, at the very least, write the prose around your project, why should we devote any time engaging with it?

> I use LLMs in my toolchain, same as I also use compilers. In fact, I use the LLMs to generate end-to-end test suites, and the test running is automated as well.

Yeah, I could see that.

I'm no expert in geopolitics, but to me the relation between a nuclearized Iran and Saudi Arabia could become like that of North and South Koreas: tense but ultimately passive.

Yeah, and surely they also wrote the 131KB unreadable-wall-of-text README themselves.

That's like 1/9th Moby Dick, to put into perspective.

As someone that has no stakes in the oil industry, I would describe fracking as deeply anti-social.

NK possessing nukes is the reason there hasn't been a war in the region for so long. Which gives a "good" model for Iran to follow. I'm not happy that NK has nukes, or that Iran is trying to get them, but you have to admit that while the US exists as it is, they are the only way for a nation to protect itself from constant wars and invasions. I would be willing to bet that Iran getting nukes would paradoxically make the Middle East much safer: the US and their allies would be forced to leave it alone, which in turn would shrink the anti-US sentiment in the long term, which would cut into the ranks of terrorist cells, etc.

That's the rule the old geezers at the Academy insist on. But then you have idiotic situations where everyone is using "le" for e.g. the COVID virus, while Academicians cry about the D meaning "Disease", which is feminine, making it "la COVID" in their book. As for all languages, the most important rule is that usage prevails. And that's something we in France still have a hard time integrating into public discourse.

Similar sketch by the Onion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPfVkuPmpc8

You were correct to dismiss pizza gate, as it was completely unfounded and pure right wing fantasy about satanist democrats eating babies in a basement.

Now that we have an actual conspiracy involving the elites of the world in a child sex trafficking ring, the people previously pushing the pizza gate narrative are nowhere to be found. They can't accept that their guy was Epstein's best friend for decades and the second most cited name in the files (after Epstein himself).

Haven't seen a single republican distance themselves from Trump because of his deep ties with Epstein.

> The sort of people who make these threats are invariably very left wing, and they have a long history of using violence against anyone they view to be doing harm to their protected classes.

The overwhelming majority of political violence in this country comes from the right [0].

You are trying to fearmonger by weaving a narrative that includes the mafia and antifa, a narrative that doesn't fit the events described in TFA. There is no credible threat of violence, at most the guy will use his platform to bad-mouth her buisness (questionable, I'll concede). Antifa doesn't throw bricks at coffee shops because they used AI.

[0] https://www.csis.org/analysis/left-wing-terrorism-and-politi...

It's not cancel culture to bad-mouth a business and refuse them your patronage.

People are vocal about what they feel passionate about, and a world where they weren't or couldn't sounds hellish to me. How would society ever progress? We'd still have "whites only" restaurants in that world.

Not saying that justifies all anger targeted at business owners, but a blanket "criticism bad" stance is a bit silly. You have to make an actual argument as to why you think the anti-AI crowd is misguided in this case.

Full original conversation:

> Guy: Unfortunately if you won't change it I will be sharing it with the community

> Guy: I've love to support you in getting it remade ethically for cheap but if you're not willing to I'm going to let other artists know

> Guy: I understand you didn't know at the time, that's ok. That's why I'm trying to help

> Guy: I'll give you a day to think about it and I'll get you some names and prices of people who could either make a new poster or write up the board for you

> Owner: I have been attacked enough because of this. Disrespected and defeated how people bombarded me with mean comments and DMs. Many have unfollowed me. Go ahead and share if that's what makes you happy.

That's "the threat" the article is referring to. Incredibly bad framing, if you hadn't read the conversation you'd think the guy would have threatened to send armed goons, instead he's telling her he'll give the coffee shop bad press in a local image board.

Not saying I approve, but it's nowhere near as bad as the people who went off on the title alone think it is.