Good to see more of this out here. Harsh criticism of everyone that makes mistakes only serves to ensure that no one will ever change or take responsibility.

Quick, let’s give more money to megacorps and business our way out of it! That’ll fix it!

I signed it, but I don’t expect Doug Ford to have the sense to do what’s right for Ontario given what’s he’s already done so far.

Putin’s his master and handler. If the United States throws the high ground away and starts gobbling up neighbouring nations, it becomes that much easier to say “the West does it too”.

Building off this a bit, I think the reason why it bothers me so much isn’t just because it’s distracting, it also has this unintended toxic effect of tying the value of what someone’s saying directly to their appearance. It’s exhausting watching new generations of people re-equate truth and beauty again and again in ever more insidious and pervasive ways with new technology.

I want to like this person’s reporting, but I just can’t get over the urge to reach through the screen and push her out of the way so I can actually see what the fuck she’s talking about.

Seriously, I get that there’s tons of pressure to standout in visual platforms by highlighting yourself in your work, but I’d still like her content even if her face wasn’t constantly in it.

It wouldn’t surprise me if we found out that the problems Boeing is having aren’t unique to them.

“American fascism is entirely due to Russian operatives and trolls” is laughable because of how hard it glosses over the steps you have taken to ensure fascism in your own country.

I’m not American, and it’s not fascist thinking to point out the fact that Russia is literally running a fascist playbook to encourage aligned fascism globally.

Pointing that out isn’t meant to excuse the existence of fascists within the US; if anything, its about the idea that there are fascists to work with in every country, and they’re coordinating their efforts.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Democracy_Union

The difference between the US and Russia is there are still people like the head of the FTC trying to curtail corporate power however they can. Russia only does it to enforce loyalty amongst its oligarchs.

This idea that Russia is both too weak to win a war against Ukraine but also strong enough to covertly topple the world’s foremost superpowers is honestly fascist thinking.

The too weak/strong argument is fallacious in this instance because the dimensions we’re comparing aren’t equivalent. A nation that heavily invests in intelligence and asymmetric warfare at the expense of conventional warfare capabilities will be strong in the former and weak in the latter. In Ukraine’s case, Russia thought they were strong in both and found out that they weren’t quite as capable as they had led themselves to believe. That’s why we’re seeing them ramp up the tactics as described in the article.

Once Trump pulls the plug on Ukraine’s funding and access to US intelligence systems, they’ll fall to Russia because they won’t have enough of either capability to win a war of attrition with a larger, richer state.

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False equivalence.

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Maybe a skill-testing question for account sign ups?

Unless you can generate a magnetic field around the planet sufficiently powerful enough to prevent solar radiation from blasting the atmosphere away, it wouldn’t change anything.

Mars needs a molten iron core or something like it to be terraformed for any meaningful length of time.

I guess all those delicious faces have what leopards crave.

A friendly reminder that “mongoloid” is a racist pejorative, and that the government of Mongolia literally ran a campaign decades ago to get people to stop doing it.

Appeasement just means more lebensraum.

We need to stop pretending that nuclear armament is an excuse to trample other countries with this childish crap.

Cut their internet and declare their currency holdings forfeit. Ban all travel to Russia. Force all companies to divest their holdings in Russia. Eject them from the UN.

Force them to live alone and if China joins in, then start ramping up production and give 'em the same treatment.

These fucking business children just can’t wait to stop being told “no” by developers, even if “no” is usually more of a statement of fact driven by the nature of the problem or its lack of feasibility.

So let’s get AI to shit on them as proof that we know they’re just wasting our time and money!

And people wonder why CEOs are getting shot. It’s the same problem in every industry; the genuine few who actually get it are being followed by waves of fakers that think the numbers are all that matters and that everyone is a replaceable cog, and shit like Muhu.ai is just another pile of stolen homework, badly reinterpreted and used to ill effect so that this guy can call himself a CEO.

Sucks that you had to deal with this during the holidays, but it’s good to know people like you won’t just let this slide.

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