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Godric

@ Godric @lemmy.world

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  • According to Timett, Son Of Timett, it's very cleary Tyrion. Smh my head, kids these days

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    MIT AI expert warns automating Gen Z entry-level jobs could backfire—and cost companies their future workforce

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  • Read Not optimize shareholder value

  • Supreme Court Deals a Death Blow to the Voting Rights Act | The “now-completed demolition” of the law could take us back to the Jim Crow era.

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  • Thank god the Dems aren't in power, that'll show them!

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    TIL about Detroit Electric

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  • Nah buddy, 30's design is where it's at, look at this thing:

  • Randy Bobandy

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  • Randy, why dont you go eat a cheeseburger, you basketball eatin walrus motherfucker?

    Randy, don't play me like some kinda sucka, dawg, maf'ks with guts like that are not off the cheeseburgers, maf'ks with guts like that are ON the cheeseburgers

  • TIL that for the average price of a car in the US, you could buy 5 cars in China

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  • 100% agree, I too could get a car with no speed and range for cheap. Why compare that with something decent, and then brag about price?

  • TIL that for the average price of a car in the US, you could buy 5 cars in China

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  • "I'm ignorant of foreign cultures"

  • TIL that for the average price of a car in the US, you could buy 5 cars in China

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  • 10 seconds on Google shows 3 under $25k, and 9 under $26k. I spent longer typing this comment than finding cheap cars XD

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    db0 is actual nazis?

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  • You're defending "Kill all Zionists", and then accusing people who say "mass murder is evil" of being Zionists. Now, you're playing dumb, pretending you haven't a clue where I'mcoming from. If you want an apology, ask your education system.

    We're here in the weeds because you've successfully managed to change the topic to semantics of a position you've assigned me, rather than the actual issue of neonazis sucessfully coopting Anarchist thought. Bravo, you've used the alt-right playbook sucessfully.

  • TIL that for the average price of a car in the US, you could buy 5 cars in China

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  • US average income being 6x China's was my first thought too, but then I got so fucking angry at how they fudge the numbers they're looking at for the headline.

  • TIL that for the average price of a car in the US, you could buy 5 cars in China

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  • Income comparisons aside, what the fuck is this "journalism"???

    The average new car in the ‌U.S. in March had a list price of $51,456, according to Kelley Blue Book.

    In China, there are more than 200 battery-powered models, including hybrids, for sale at less than the equivalent of $25,000, according to DCar, an information and trading platform.

    Reuters compiled a list of the five best-selling electric vehicles in China that start under $12,000 using ​DCar data.

    Did they deliberately only look at the cheapest cars to compare to the average American car in order to get their headline? Like I could buy 10 shitboxes from the junkyard for the average price of a new car, but that doesn't mean much.

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    db0 is actual nazis?

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  • Hmmm, when I say "calling for mass murder sounds evil", what do you think? Rub those three brain cells together and see if you might be able to infer how I feel about the ethnic cleansing in Gaza and Lebanon.

    I didn't know not adding a paragraph of explanation to the basic take "don't fucking murder people en-mass" made it controversial. TIL.

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    db0 is actual nazis?

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  • "Calling for the mass murder of anyone sounds pretty evil"

    "You sound like you like murder, are you someone we want to murder?"

    Y'all can take your black flags and go, too many of you didn't paint over the red and white nearly well enough.

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  • The screenshot itself is unverifiable, but,

    If it:

    Looks like a Nazi talking point

    Sounds like a Nazi talking point

    Feels like a Nazi talking point

    It's probably a Nazi talking point.

    These assholes using the word "Zionist" instead of "Jew" for the group of people they want to kill is Groucho-Glasses level of disguise.

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  • GTFO, so-called "Anarchists" are only distinguishable from unabashed Neonazis by the weak-ass euphemism "Zionist" instead of "Jew"

    "Kill all Zionists" is a daily talking point on some instances. You're either a useful idiot too lost in the sauce to realize how you've been duped, or part of the "crew".

  • Magic: The Gathering Arena Team Unionizes At Wizards of the Coast

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  • Missed out on calling themselves the Wizard's Union, smh

  • What's old is new again.

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  • Palantir posts manifesto lamenting post-war “neutering” of Nazi Germany

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  • Good on Truthout for linking the actual source! Here's the list:

    @PalantirTech Because we get asked a lot.

    The Technological Republic, in brief.

    1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.
    2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.
    3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.
    4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.
    5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.
    6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.
    7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way.
    8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive.
    9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret.
    10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed.
    11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.
    12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin.
    13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet.
    14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war.
    15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia.
    16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn.
    17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives.
    18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within.
    19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all.
    20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim.
    21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.
    22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?

  • It's hip to be square

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  • In all fairness, the same buddy that introduced me to Top Gear literally could not point out the British Isles on a map. I hinted "Isles, British Isles, think islands!" aaand... he pointed to Greece.

    Guy designes engines now, so some folks are just hyperspecialized!