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At least in theory, our governments are voted in place exactly by us. Trump voters loved his ideas and he's implementing them now, yay success. Also industrial pollution is fueled …

Once you are a trillionaire or getting there, personal safety can be bought even without receiving future payments.

> the general ambient groove of reggae or blues This, like elevator or contact center waiting music, has very little to do with "music" itself. It's just something to signal the wa…

Are your numbers (which I haven't seen) include the headcount of the makers of their outsourced parts?

The "iron law of oligarchy" (Robert Michels) says that any large organizations will be controlled by a small organized leadership - so the organized minority will control it.

Reality check: the workers never control the means of production. Not even in communist states, not even in China. On paper? Sure, paper is forgiving. But the oligarchy, either by …

Funny how subsidies to megacorps and tax exemptions are never "wealth transfer" just daily business.

I don't think the OP or anyone else here or in the study tried the argument that China was a real democracy. We're strictly checking the economy and its system here, and yes the pa…

You mean 60% have still not discovered :q!

"I will kill you now since you're dying anyway so just hand me all your money"

Maybe you - as in, whoever says that - should go first talk to them, because I don't know any disabled people wanting AI (data set of one).

"If I had asked the customers what they wanted, they would have asked for a faster horse." Henry Ford, about the resistance to a paradigm change.

Why should a contact form mean complex functionality? You can do it in plain HTML, even - is that complex already? Because validation? Like that (Google, it's you) address checking…

I carry groceries and sometimes (rarely) do my short commute - 30 minutes electric instead of 50 minutes in PT. Vacations by car are maybe twice a year (I always prefer PT) and the…

ICE arguments: 1. debatable, today it's definitely not (I don't discuss imaginary situations). 2. I don't care, I don't drive thousand km. 3. and when I do, I do highway stops anyw…

Data set of one: yes I would. I despise the stink of fumes. And generally, I see zero advantages of gas over EV - also the other way around - a car is a car, costs some, takes you …

I don't think driving around the country is the main selling point of a car, at least not around here. Huge commutes by car are not a usual thing in my environment, au contrary, I …

For me as a user, not having notifications or having a way to easily block them is a boon. No site is sending me right now notifications, and I have yet to meet one where I'd even …

Or they tasked a frontier AI with it.

But what is the point of this discussion? That we deny a possible burst because we stand to lose personally? Or is it, we believe it could burst because reasons?

I didn't watch any movies in the last years so no. The misconception being, they would all equally suck.

Some of my favourite movies are German - Das Boot, or Lola rennt. Also series, like Dark.

I have no idea what you mean, because I also feel dubbing in Germany comes out pretty much right. Mouth is moving (mostly) in sync, even. I can compare with other countries where I…

Arguably the average Hollywood productions aren't culturally stellar either, but I digress. To me what did it was having a kid in the kindergarten/school and everything related to …

Why are we even thinking about "fairness" in this context? It's not like we read every book in the world, in order to be fair to all authors. Or all genres, all qualities, all equa…