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In general, what share of household spending do you think is made up of gasoline and energy?

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and you’re telling me machine intelligence isn’t real

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No minds are ever changed by people who won’t get in the scrum, but it’s not a fun place to be

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Can’t help but wonder how many people liking this tweet turn around and talk about affordability as a huge problem in America

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“The president cannot bulldoze the White House and ask the world’s richest men to build him a palace on top of the ruins” is not a process question; him doing this is not bad because he didn’t follow the exact process but because it’s the act of a corrupt monarch.

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The trick is that events of immense importance to the survival of America as a democratic nation of laws are re-characterized as “process issues” about correct adherence to the federal appropriations system.

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But the unwritten rules of US politics say that you must refer to such matters in the dry vernacular of federal lawmaking and policy, which contains no language for lawless corruption of this magnitude. So the reality of it is disguised from us; everything gets a rhetorical veneer of legitimacy.

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He is converting the White House into a palace for himself and Washington DC into a city of self-monuments, using money given to him by oligarchs buying his favor. It’s literally what Putin does: creates oligarchs so they can glorify him with billion-dollar kingly gifts.

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Trump may as well start loaning out the US military to the highest bidder. As long as he talks about it at press conferences and doesn’t show any guilt, the media will apparently not be able to detect that it’s extraordinary, scandalous corruption.

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What’s astounding to me is how “the president builds himself a palace with money given directly to him in secret by the richest people in America,” literally the most straightforward and worst executive-branch corruption story in US history, just gets shrugged at because Trump is unapologetic

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Doesn’t seem technologically infeasible to build what is functionally a flying robot with wheels, if you don’t need to worry about passengers or road safety or cargo weight

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How would they fake it, I don’t understand?

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It looks like a mesh to me. My question is whether there’s any cabin space

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All the tens of thousands of people mutually agreeing to lie to each other so they can feel good and validated will simply mutually agree that you’re a pedantic idiot for asking them to stop, and maybe call you a bigot or something for good measure, and nothing will improve. Hard to not stop caring.

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It is now broadly accepted among so many people - frankly, so many of YOU - that the way to prove any claim is to get a critical mass of social media likes and shares behind it. If you try to insist that false things not be treated as true, you’ll change little, but you’ll ruin your reputation.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 3h

I’ve honestly been wondering where Sky went and this explains it perfectly. If you care about data, if you care about policy - if you care about *reality* - it’s hard to even express how depressing it is to see everyone mutually agree that facts simply don’t matter anymore.

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and if you post a chart showing the supposed thing happening is statistically zero, you are in fact a bloodless quant who should be beaten to death with hammers Nothing matters anymore. Let the lunatics run the asylum. Who cares

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 3h

Like there’s no fucking point anymore. Just make up the reality you want to justify the policy you want. Haitians are eating cats in Ohio. People with health insurance pay $500k to have a baby. Solar panels make your dick fall off. Nothing matters it’s all vibes

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 3h

One of the reasons I don’t really like posting about politics anymore and basically just stick to numbers about oil, and even then I’m logging off a lot more, it’s because you get insane bullshit like this You did not have $500k in debt from the birth of your child. You had a paperwork error.

It *is* insane how Americans accept our dogshit healthcare system. Despite having a gold marketplace plan, my Canadian immigrant wife and I had over $500k in debt from our daughter's birth and NICU stay. She spent hours on the phone every week managing bills and payment plans.
* Joined Dec'23
ACA plans cannot make you pay more than $21K a year for in-network health care. Did you go out of network?
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It was an emergency premature delivery at a hospital followed by a three-week stay in the
NICU. We had already hit our out-of-pocket maximum paying for visits to the high-risk OBGYN and assumed everything would be covered. The NICU stay went into the New Year and it was unclear which services...
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went into which billing year. By the time the last bill was paid over 3 years later we were out over $30,000. My wife went back and forth with the hospital and Cigna about the $500k bill until it was written off without any further explanation. It wasn't clear at any time what was in network or out.

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It’s not great but it’s a little weird to call it a crisis

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I have no idea if the people in my life are doing better or worse overall, I’m using the massive, scientifically collected datasets provided by the federal government

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Right but I honestly don’t care either way

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While I’m sorry to hear about your personal circumstances, you are in a very small minority. Most people are making substantially more than ten years ago.

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The thing is, that’s not true at all

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That’s simply not true at all

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The “affordability crisis” is FAKE, and the problem with fake problems is that they *cannot be solved*

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 15h

Can’t imagine anything bad could possibly come from feeding insipid reactionary nostalgia for the nominal prices of 25 years ago. I bet it’s gonna be pure political upside for us

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Attorneys for ICE detainees held at El Paso's Camp East Montana say "dangerous and inhumane" conditions have led to deaths, abuse, sickness and trauma. They're submitting dozens of firsthand declarations and asking a court for emergency relief storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 19h

I have to say, I am extremely unhappy with the administration's continuing focus on this state. We're ready, though. Don't come back.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 20h

Holidays on Hennepin last year had 67 participating businesses. It’s, uh, going to be a lot bigger this year

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 22h

truly, how is this possible

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Which muscle, exactly, do you imagine people are training here?

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Anyone who spends time constructing tortures for inanimate objects is clearly imagining, fantasizing, or wishing they had minds. You wouldn’t regard someone who lights mannequins on fire or rips them apart with barbed wire as a healthy or safe person. We all know this. bsky.app/profile/they...

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The sadists may not believe the AIs are conscious but on some level they certainly wish they were; if not, why bother with the sadism? It’s not enjoyable, even as fantasy, without that possibility.

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It doesn’t really matter so much if the AI actually lacks a mind, at least in terms of what it tells you about the person engaging in sadism. They’re absolutely IMAGINING it does, so they can derive pleasure from inflicting pain on it. Otherwise they’re literally just wasting time on nothing.

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I almost want to write a longer thing about this but there’s a reason people don’t “torture” tables or staplers. Cruelty is directed towards AIs specifically because people can impute a mind on them, then give themselves a permission slip to engage in sadism.

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In my view a big issue with dirtbag leftism has always been that it’s more a social group than an ideology, which makes it easy for terrible ideas to spread, because the end goal is membership and acceptance and those things are conditioned on sharing views with the crowd

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I actually don’t think most dirtbag leftists ended up espousing anything like this, but I do wonder if how many of them engaged in a self-reflective exercise about how this kind of person could climb to the center of their political clique

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Look god knows I have my issues with dirtbag leftists but 99% of them did not end up anywhere near this

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