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  • Yes, Einstein had to flee Nazi Germany. And yes, I'm not too sure about the last part of the quote either. Dark times are to come I guess - and probably not just for the US but for the whole democratic world.

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  • The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.

    Albert Einstein

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    Non US citizens, what's the weirdest thing about USA elections, compared to elections in your country?

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  • The PACs. I think this practice should be considered blatant corruption in any democratic system as it enables large corporations and wealthy individuals to predetermine which candidate or party has even the slightest chance in elections. In my home country, of course, there are private political funds as well but those are not nearly as important in our system as there is solid public funding for political parties based on past election results. I might be wrong but I always thought that the insane amount of private money that fuels US elections boils down to the US being a plutocracy rather than a democracy.

  • Student was punished for using AI—then his parents sued teacher and administrators

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  • This reminds me of a story a friend who is a teacher recently told me: One of his students was so nervous during an oral exam that he could barely form a complete sentence. So the friend of mine, in consultation with the exam board, gave the poor guy a second chance on the same day - that didn't go particularly well either, but was enough to pass. The parents of the nervous student sued because this procedure did not comply with the examination regulations. They won and managed to get the exam repeated a third time - the examination board stayed unchanged. You can perhaps imagine how this went for the student, who was understandably all the more nervous the third time around. In the end, he didn't graduate, not because the examiners were vindictive, but because they had to grade the student purely based on his performance which wasn't good enough because the poor guy couldn't get a coherent sentence together again. If his parents hadn't sued, he would have graduated.

  • Amazon cloud boss says employees unhappy with 5-day office mandate can leave

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  • Absolutely right. But the thing is that many so-called leaders will no longer have a raison d'être if there are no more unnecessary meetings and all that fuss. Many of them do nothing all day but sit in meetings, achieve nothing and still feel very important. That's the misery of the world of work: it's not usually the best who get into management positions, it's not the most qualified and certainly not the ones who work the hardest. It's the most unscrupulous, those who pass off the work of others as their own, people who would never achieve anything on their own or in a small company that can't afford to waste salaries on froth-mongers. LinkedIn makes it clear how this all works, I think: there, too, it is not the competent people who really understand their work who have the most success, it is the busybodies, the networkers and narcissists. If the competent people set the tone, there would be no discussion about office duties in an IT company. It's only held on to so that managers can live out their fantasies of omnipotence and post nonsense on LinkedIn.

  • Amazon cloud boss says employees unhappy with 5-day office mandate can leave

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  • Don't clog the toilets. It's not the c-suites who have to clean that up.

  • Kamala Harris shares full Trump clip after accusing Fox News of editing

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  • Yes, years before he became president.

  • Kamala Harris Not the Favorite in Any Battleground State—Odds Markets

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  • Probably elon

  • Elon Musk gives $75m to pro-Trump group, putting him among the largest Republican donors

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  • Dear US citizens, your system is broken.

  • What were you wrong about for a long time? How did you realize you were wrong?

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  • I know that I know nothing, said Socrates thousands of years ago. So I'd say it's beyond clever to teach yourself things and learn from your experiences. That is very smart in my book.

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  • It could easily have been the same for me, as my father is a Protestant pastor. Fortunately, my family has always been very tolerant and open-minded. That's how my parents brought me up, for which I'm still very grateful to them today. It's good to hear that you've found your own path, which certainly wasn't easy. Respect, my friend.

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  • I'm sorry. I hope you are alright.

  • What were you wrong about for a long time? How did you realize you were wrong?

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  • Again: Til

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  • Tesla's Beer-Serving Optimus Robot Was Controlled by a Human the Whole Time

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  • I guess Amazon's Mechanical Turk can rebrand now.

  • Trapped

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  • M.C. Escher would appreciate this.

  • Harris and Trump neck-and-neck in polls with early voting under way

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  • I meant federal prison of course. But hey, maybe he robbed a liquor store as well in the meantime. Who knows with this guy.

  • Harris and Trump neck-and-neck in polls with early voting under way

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  • Yup, he'd be in jail instead.

  • Tim Walz gets bigger polling boost than JD Vance after VP debate

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  • I just watched the debate. It's true that Vance is better than Trump when it comes to rhetoric, but that's not difficult. The sad thing is that many people seem to only care about how someone says something and not at all about what someone says.

  • Tim Walz gets bigger polling boost than JD Vance after VP debate

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  • I haven't seen the debate yet (cause time difference). I expect one guy spewing mostly hate and some made up stuff and one guy trying to make any sense of what his opponent says and try to fact check at least some of that. No substantial debate about anything actually important but an all American show as usual. I'm looking forward to that.