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HN ownership is complicit. They've been censoring everything "political" recently, as it becomes harder and harder to rationalize this regime's exactions. Used to be that such links would show up in the front page of /active daily, now there can be weeks without any passing by.

For owning a home, this would be a duty for everyone else to build you a home, satisfying your requirements. One thing everyone agrees on is that other people do NOT have the right to force you to work. But that is the only way governments would be able to guarantee a right like this.

That's not how it works. The state isn't forcing doctors and nurse to cure you, it's collecting taxes from everyone to pay willing doctors and nurses to cure the population. Similarly, they could hire construction workers or buy homes and provide them for the general population.

Notice how when it comes to the interests of Capital, suddenly regulations or NIMBYs are rendered powerless. Building homes and infrastructure? Impossible. Building datacenters that will be obsolete in 4 years and abandoned just to fuel a speculation bubble? Yessir! Immediately, sir!

(1) is a negative liberty: freedom from being forced to eat a certain diet. (2) is a positive liberty: actual ability to eat a certain diet. Western society is still mostly blind to the latter type of liberty.

Similarly, everyone is free to own a home, but ensuring everyone has the means to actually do so is just not something politicians will even talk about, and is often labelled as "communist" or some other kind of thought-terminating label. Everyone is free, some people are just freer than others.

Yeah, I noticed. I had Claude write a quick JS script for me a few days ago, it then tried to use Bun to run it. When it couldn't find it, it tried to install it with `sudo pacman`. I had to fucking tell it to use Node instead.

A human voice is just a marker that some effort and care went into the making of this video. With AI voices, it's lazy slop more often than not.

The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

Reminds me of that time Netflix made fun of its customers that watched bad Christmas movies over and over. It's in poor taste.

Insider trading as a service. They're not even pretending not to do it, utterly shameless.

Spaghetti Will Smith was funny, this only inspires disgust in me: a clear downgrade. We're just getting deeper in the uncanny valley, with no end in sight.

Visual effects went through this same development issues as the industry matured.

The difference is intent. Watching an old movie, the effects are obviously janky and far from seamless, but the authors had intent and the imperfections are understandable. When an AI jumbles a basic walk animation, it's just weird and soulless. The prompter just didn't want to spend any time doing actual work, so used this slop as a stand-in, when better techniques exists.

It's not a kernel either, 1.3M LoCs is ludicrous.

Because the American Empire is extracting massive amounts of wealth from these places. Feeding the children there is the barest of decencies. Even from a purely strategic POV, it makes these places more likely to turn away from the US and toward others, more reliable "partners".

That's because dofm is conflating general literacy with the political class'. There are still very smart people around, but they're no longer the face of elections. As they said, decades of glorifying dimwits will do that.

That's because dofm is conflating general literacy with the political class'. There are still very smart people around, but they're no longer the face of elections.

In France there's this law that cheating on any official exam gets you a 5 year ban on any other official exams. That includes finals, but also the exam to get the driver's license, among others.

Vice signalling? Like buying a Tesla in 2026, when competitors are better and cheaper in every conceivable way. They want to support the sigheiling drug addict moron.

What's the centrist position on climate change? The 2020 election? Vaccines? The right is objectively wrong on this subjects, while the left is objectively right. Any LLM worth their salt would not bothside these topics and just give the left's position, as that is the only one agreeing with material reality. In that, being a centrist just makes you less trustworthy.

Yes it fucking is, when everyone on the right is insisting this is normal and fine.

It's pretty funny. Isn't this guy doing daily blood tests?

I mean, white evangelicals largely sided with Trump last year, so I don't know how cleanly you can separate Christianity (as it currently exists in the USA) from MAGA populism and what policies the movement favors.

I mean, it only feels weird if you missed Kalshi becoming a CNN partner 6 months ago. Media is entirely captured by capital, so I wasn't even surprised when they did that.

https://news.kalshi.com/p/kalshi-cnn-prediction-market-partn...

I disagree with your assessment, the ban wasn't undone because of secularism. In fact, this prediction market craze was embraced by the right almost instantly, which is the side currently most favored by Christians.

I say all this because the WSJ is defending this generational theft by arguing that people are being "financially savvy" when people seek independence ultimately and this is simply a product of the affordability crisis and declining real wages. It's asinine.

Indeed. There's this common trope in modern journalim of pretending that these financial moves are pure results of personal choices and nothing else. So, tweens going back to their parents is them "being financially savvy". Americans spending more on groceries and rent rather than other goods and services is them "adopting new consumer preferences".

It's always chosen, never suffered. Once you start seeing it, you notice it everywhere.

Indeed, that's been part of their strategy ever since Reagan's.

And the sources he gives in the video's description are really bad.

How I long for an Esperanto-speaking Europe...

Yeah, for the GOP. Just listen to """centrist""" democrats for 10 minutes: these people don't care al all about winning. They don't care that a pedophile oligarch is doing irreversible damage to the union, day after day. In fact, they spend more time and energy fighting the left-wing instead of the right, because they, progressives, are an actual threat to their business model of getting paid handsomely for losing to fascists and letting them do what they want.

So no. Got it.

Not what you call a liberal. Do you have any actual arguments?

The problem with this is that many people come here to only have children (anchor children) and abuse the system.

Racist lie, provide proof that this is an actual significant issue.