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As someone who hates the government and the megacorps, I loathe statements like the OPs because there are so many legit and real reasons to hate shit before we come up with "KFC do…

So you know how like, "the government" and "private citizens" aren't the same thing, right? Like there are different obligations for both? You do know and understand this, correct?…

Since people seem to be disagreeing with a fact: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/1862/ https://academic.oup.com/policing/article-abstract/6/4/418/1... https://www.sciencedirect.…

You, uh, you're not from New Jersey are you? I promise you, we're not giving away land around here.

so I hedged with "anytime soon" (we'll call it 5 years?) and also robot food production is not "AI" as "AI" is generally considered to be software (and the hardware that runs it I …

McDonald's is perfectly fine food, depending on the problem you're solving for. If it's nutrition, you can do that. If it's affordability, you can probably do that. If it's availab…

...that doesn't solve the actual problem, as all that guarantees is new officials. You need another step which is electing officials that are willing/able to enact policy change on…

"defend itself from tyranny". Burner, the tyranny is in the room and the 2A bootlickers all signed up to enforce it. Please show me the country higher on the global freedom index w…

Finding out the battle plan for your opponent and finding ways to attack their strongest points is absolutely valuable in public policy debate. I'd rather have this information ava…

As someone who originally comes from a field that cannot be consumed by AI anytime soon (food service. AI can't actually be eaten) it's insane watching tech-dorks think "nobody act…

The irony here being that Netflix is currently in a massive layout to build a studio in NJ (like, 20 minutes from the old Bell Labs). Almost feels like giving that troll the finger…

https://discoveratlanta.com/stories/things-to-do/atlantas-ma... Atlanta did a lot of the big ones.

Whatever the conclusion of "is ICE the correct agency for..." the answer is no. But you use the brownshirts for things regular civil servants would gum up with protests and procedu…

Why would you wonder that: https://polymarket.com/event/will-the-2026-midterm-elections... Of course they are.

Okay, if you just want to have a conversation with yourself I can see myself out as you addressed literally none of what I said and went off on some affordability tangent about hou…

We created an extrajudicial prison outside of our borders to house "prisoners too dangerous for the normal court system", created an entirely new surveillance police force, and exp…

1- Costs of operating an larger house are higher than a smaller house 2- Yearly maintenance of a new house is cheaper than an older house (older the house, the greater this gets) 3…

Sadly, many people just want to be highly trusted in society (whilst themselves fearing most of the rest of it). It's why we flirt with/fall face first into authoritarianism every …

I can, we're living in it. Now imagine a world in which cops served the masses.

Seriously. I'm as left wing as you can go and I still think that voting is useful to influence the system while building a critical mass of people willing to break the wheel. Sayin…

>>English majors seem to have banded together to crown only the most inaccessible and politically charged authors as worthy of attention Tell me you're an Engineer/don't hang out w…

The article references "England has Shakespeare (1600s), Spain has Certantes (1600s) Russia has Pushkin (1800s)" whom I assume are intended as their nations' versions. You going to…

laughs in Melville

Since nobody seems to want to do it, I'll throw Kurk Vonnegut out. We're a satire of a nation and he's our greatest satirist (sorry Sam Clemmens, you're too earnest, even when tell…

As the saying goes: A few bad apples spoil the bunch. It's a rotten profession.