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Brown shouldn't be up there either, and I think Roy Cooper's only a few spots below. I realize that there are inherent perils in pooling money together and letting the DSCC/DCCC parcel it out as needed, but it'd be so much more efficient

God, I wish guys like this received even a fraction of the vitriol that some random trans person online espousing the same philosophy gets

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You get a lot of people saying "things are this way because the IT sector isn't unionized" and I think it's probably true that things would be better if the sector was more unionized, it also feels like this would be a sea change for any industry no matter how unionized

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But you (and many others) have said that it doesn't replace 35 man-hours out of 40? Am I getting confused here?

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Yeah, exactly. Companies already wanted to fire workers (made worse by the fact that there's a relative glut of CS degrees) and AI provides a reason, especially for managers obsessed with "leanness" and "efficiency" like so many people in tech

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From the news I've read regarding the IT sector, upper management was already trying to fire lots of people *before* e.g. Claude Code became a useful tool; AI was just a pretext, and then middle management glommed onto it like every "innovation" (real or imagined) of the past seventy years

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Ah, thanks for clarifying. As for industry-wide impacts, I think the excuse employed by businesses in the IT space is usually "we're firing because we can replace people with AI", and while they do try to do that, I think the principal reason people are being fired is the massive COVID expansion

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It really is incredible the extent to which this is all based on cruelty. Bringing a suit because Michigan is forbidding extremely cruel methods of raising hens is exactly what I would expect of the Trump administration

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This is probably a matter of opinion, but I would not personally say "making my job more annoying" is equivalent to "drastically reshaping [my life] for the worse", which is the language I take issue with. I think it's reasonable to be like "this thing is probably bad on the whole"

I think a Democratic president probably won't be stupid enough to set a bailout in motion. If Trump tries for a bailout, I'll consider it a wash, since I want to see these crooks punished but I'd also really like for the Democrats to win 8 seats in the Senate in 2028

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Saving this so I can remember to take a look 💡

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I truncated Evan's words here because of the character limit, but would you say it's "drastically reshaped [your life] for the worse"? If so, can you explain?

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I'm actually not so sure about the bailouts, given the political situation (and another issue is that a bailout wouldn't keep the companies from collapsing; it'd just give the people involved golden parachutes). Otherwise, yeah, it's not going away, so we need to think about how it can serve us

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They didn't call him Stupor Mundi for no reason 🧠

I like Evan, but it just isn't true for the vast majority of people that AI has made their life worse. It probably hasn't improved their lives very much, but it hasn't worsened them either, unless you're a translator or an artist (not very populated fields)

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I do see this argument as a little bit pointless, considering that most of these companies are not going to do well once open-source models eat more and more of their market share (it's already started, even). If you actually have criminal liability these companies will collapse (and it'll be good)

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Doing a pro-/anti-Palamas meme in this style

If Kantakouzenos was so bad, why did his History say he was a good guy? Checkmate, Palaiologoi!

Worse, the focus on the Iran war is overwhelmingly to do with affordability, which makes electoral sense, but it is a little galling considering it started with a surprise attack, and we've killed thousands of people so far

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Bizarrely enough, he did actually build the bridge and several schools. For some reason he just lied about building way more schools than he actually did, and about a ton of insignificant biographical details

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I think it's partly done out of genuine concern for their children—most parents have this—but quite a lot of it is an obsession with status (usually racialized) and future earnings, like if your kid goes to public school they'll be earning 10% less their whole life or something

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Not to put too fine a point on it, but no one can say parents weren't warned. They were. In fact, they were consistently warned by numerous teachers, professors, other educators, school principals, education specialists, etc., but the allure of "my kid is in a better school" is very strong

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Not sure if it was a typo but I support the statement regardless

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The actor. He's probably the most famous HIV denialist

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For what it's worth, the reason everything sucks shit now is like 80% because the Supreme Court spent the past 50 years making sure it would. They've struck down nearly every progressive reform and ensured that Republicans got into office at much higher rates than they would have otherwise

Will Smith also believes the same thing, fascinatingly enough

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Incidentally, this is exactly why they should be completely neutered as a branch—there's no such thing as an apolitical, un-ideological judiciary, and certainly not one with this much power. Let Congress—the most democratic branch by a mile—make laws, and let SCOTUS write advisory opinions instead

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This means you don't need to do complicated gymnastics to explain, e.g., McDonnell v. U.S. or TikTok v. Garland—you can just say "they have ideological preferences that dictate how they will rule". I would never say they're even close to as bad as the Republicans, but they're ideological, too

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There's this idea that you get in certain corners of the lawsphere, that even though the conservatives are beholden to ideology, the liberals still make good-faith efforts at interpretation. Maybe that's true, but the simpler explanation is that they're also ideological, just in a much better way

pleonasm @pleonasmical.bsky.social · 14h

If you are in a position with as much power as a SCOTUS justice, even if you are morally unimpeachable (and none of them, not even KBJ, fit this definition), you should be kept awake at night by the losses that you've taken. It is patently clear that this is not true of the current crop of libs

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pleonasm @pleonasmical.bsky.social · 14h

I get on my soapbox about this a lot, but none of the current libs on SCOTUS can even be assed to consistently write dissents in denials of certiorari for death penalty cases. Marshall and Brennan did them for like 90% of said denials during their tenures.

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pleonasm @pleonasmical.bsky.social · 15h

Four debates is a pretty crazy amount of debates for one month. I'd get two, maybe even three, but at four you're not going to get anyone watching the last one besides real political sickos

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pleonasm @pleonasmical.bsky.social · 18h

Kagan and RBG and Sotomayor just felt bad for the governor. Bob's wife was cheating on him with a tobacco magnate. It'd break even a heart of stone

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pleonasm @pleonasmical.bsky.social · 18h

To be honest I think the series (both books and show) fails to understand "power". In anything approximating reality, Cersei massacring half of King's Landing would have had her hunted down and ripped apart by a furious mob, and this does not happen because the series doesn't understand "power"

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pleonasm @pleonasmical.bsky.social · 18h

Hypatius (nephew of Anastasius) in the first category. In the second category (in no particular order): Nikephoros Logothetes, Anastasios Artemios, Romanos II, both Michael Bringas and Isaakios Komnenos

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I miss the days when Congress was able to pass laws in response to some heinous SCOTUS decision (such as Mobile v. Bolden)

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Unbelievably, this would not be considered a bribe based on SCOTUS jurisprudence; the briber would literally have to say "this is in exchange for official actions that you will commit as a result of this bribe"

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For me it was when she couldn't understand why Mirri Maz Duur killed her baby. Your khalasar literally raped and murdered hundreds of people in one attack; why would she hope that your kid would be better

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Literally the most you can say for Sotomayor and Kagan is that they didn't think gratuities should be allowed in Snyder. Congrats, guys, you think bribes after the fact are bad

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I wouldn't worry too much about it; he's said enough weird stuff that he'd get sunk immediately in a primary, and his base is currently nonexistent

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You have to ask "would they do the same if Abdul El-Sayed was not Arab" and I think the answer is "no"

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