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Hegar

@ Hegar @fedia.io

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Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.

  • Singularity for me but not for thee

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  • Increasing wealth has only ever been observed to fuel greater inequality.

    I don't see any evidence that the value that increasing automation is bringing will be distributed more evenly.

    We produce enough food for everyone and still let people starve - equal access to AI is even harder to justify than equal access to food.

  • Trump rejects Fox News invite to debate Harris in late October

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  • I believe it. The stories about him being deeply affected seemed plausible.

    I suspect that the psychological effects of being nearly killed would operate below the level of self-introspection. Like trauma just happens and changes your behavior, whether you're very self aware or a senile narcissist.

  • Trump rejects Fox News invite to debate Harris in late October

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  • Did fox just offer him the friendliest possible venue for a massive media event, days before the election, and he turned it down?

    I presumed the plan was to either let the harris campaign say no to fox so trump could call her a coward, or get a friendly venue to hammer whatever comey-esque hillary's emails nonsense russia cooks up this time.

    Does trump turning this down seem like yet another own goal to anyone else? Or have I been underestimating how much the debate hurt him?

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    Here is one. Why do people find it more acceptable to act like they do online but not in person. Is it truly because you’re not face to face or is it really because at your core that’s the real you.

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  • I'm a hard determinist, so I'd disagree with the "you choose" part, but basically I agree.

    You are whoever you are in the moment, there's no fake self to hide behind and no real self lurking unrealized.

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    Here is one. Why do people find it more acceptable to act like they do online but not in person. Is it truly because you’re not face to face or is it really because at your core that’s the real you.

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  • There's no core real you, no true deep down self.

    We're social mammals and the immediate social situation were in is one of the many factors that determine our behavior from moment to moment.

  • What's something you did once but won't do again?

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  • Go running.

    You know when you build something up in your head to be really awful, then you try it and it's exactly that awful?

  • Xi and Mao replace Jesus and Mary in Chinese churches

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  • This is the most appropriate response possible. The non-sequitor in the middle makes exactly as much sense as everything that happens in a church.

  • Minnesota GOP Senate candidate: ‘The bad guys won in WWII’

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  • Apologies.

    But if being a violent expansionist makes the axis bad (which it obviously does) then the allies are clearly just less bad in this particular situation rather than actually good, since all the allied powers have extensive histories of violent expansionism.

  • Minnesota GOP Senate candidate: ‘The bad guys won in WWII’

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  • I don't think it's fair to characterize global colonialist powers like Britain, France, or the US as not violent expansionists.

  • Minnesota GOP Senate candidate: ‘The bad guys won in WWII’

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  • I'm Jewish, I'm very aware that the side running brutal racist internment camps was meaningfully less bad than the side running brutal genocidal death camps. Neither qualify as good.

  • Minnesota GOP Senate candidate: ‘The bad guys won in WWII’

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  • Sure, there are no good guys in any war, since the good guys are never the ones with guns killing each other.

    But the more genocidal death camps you have, the bigger a baddy you are. It's not that difficult to understand.

  • Uncommitted movement: Trump remains biggest threat, not Democrats

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  • White House has absolutely zero control over an immediate and permanent cease fire, or lifting the Gaza blockade, that's all on Israel

    The white house has plenty of influence over israel, they've just chosen to green light the genocide and netanyahu's regional escalation against the advice of our own experts.

    An arms embargo would empower anti-netanyahu voices in israel who could point to his mismanaging of israel's most important bilateral. It would reduce the rate and kind of weapons the idf could bring to bear against civilians, saving lives.

  • Combating Misinformation Runs Deeper Than Swatting Away ‘Fake News’

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  • Some people love to dry hump strangers on a crowded bus or train, is that more like it?

    I have to admit I don't understand what connection this has with paying for music apps.

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  • I'm pretty sure if you're paying for it, that's not love.

  • Starlink kit found amid wreckage of Russian drone

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  • Didnt we already know that elon opened starlink to the russians? I thought he announced after that call with putin?

  • Childless GOP candidate borrows family for weird photo shoot

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  • Yep. Pence is the one with lady blinders, like a horse, to protect him from seeing things that might scare and confuse him.

  • Project 2025 Wants to Eliminate the Agency That Warned Us About Hurricane Helene

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  • My understanding is that a lot of the big agribusiness is structured as a monopsony - all the people farming a particular crop have only one big Ag company they all have to sell their produce to and that company sets the price low enough that the farmers doing the actual growing for Big Ag are still getting screwed.

  • Project 2025 Wants to Eliminate the Agency That Warned Us About Hurricane Helene

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  • Exactly. That's a service that some rich people could be making profit on and here we are just giving it away for the collective good of our society. Won't someone think of (financially screwing over) the farmers?