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booly

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    Is there a historical precedent or tv series that mirrors whats going on in the States right now? Besides Handmaids Tale?

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  • Along the same lines, from the same writer/creator, Armando Iannucci, there's The Death of Stalin. The absurdity of how the inner circle navigated the politics around Stalin, including after his death, is hilarious but also a good look at how these power dynamics work in an authoritarian, despotic government.

    Or also from Iannucci, Avenue 5, which basically is set in the future where all of this political nonsense continues, and is in the background of a comedy about a space cruise ship.

  • Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots

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  • Everyone has their own reasons. If you disagree with their management, then you should celebrate other people choosing to leave, even if for different reasons than your own.

  • Florida's Plan to Replace Migrant Workers With Children Falls Apart

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  • How you gonna keep them down on the farm factory (after they've seen Paris a school library stocked with books)?

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  • I don't brush anything under the rug. I actively shared the Tweet that started this hole BS.

    I get that. But my point is that you can't claim that Proton's CEO is acting independently of the Proton corporation itself when Proton's official corporate accounts chimed in on his side on this.

    Both of the American parties are a shitshow

    Not on antitrust. The Biden administration was one of the strongest advocates for consumers on antitrust issues we've seen since Robert Bork convinced Reagan to tear it all down.

    Anyone who says otherwise is trying to lie to the American public about it, and should be called out for actively advocating for false MAGA propaganda. Andy Yen did it, and Proton agreed with it.

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  • Proton didn't decide anything, Andy Yen posted ONE tweet and then doubled down on it with the Proton Reddit account which was deleted.

    How are you going to say that Proton didn't say anything and then acknowledge that the official Proton social media accounts were making statements like this:

    Until corporate Dems are thrown out, the reality is that Republicans remain more likely to tackle Big Tech abuses

    That's the context you keep brushing under the rug. The official Proton position is not just that Trump made a good choice, on this one thing, it's that you should vote for Republicans over Democrats.

    Yes, it was official corporate Proton position to delete that comment. But it was the official Proton position to make that comment in the first place.

  • OpenAI abandons plan to become a for-profit company

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  • OpenAI’s commercial entity

    They should never be allowed to call this a "non-profit"

    They never did. The nonprofit parent owned shares in a for-profit subsidiary, which was structured in a way that investors in the for-profit subsidiary could never control the company (the nonprofit would own a controlling share) and had their gains capped at 100x.

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  • Andy Yen went out of his way to criticize Democrats on antitrust, which is how you can tell it's actually a pro-Trump position unsupported by the actual facts.

    I like Gail Slater. She's possibly the best choice among people who Trump likes, to head DOJ's Antitrust Division. She has bipartisan bona fides.

    But to say that Democrats, after 4 years of Lina Khan leading the FTC, and a bunch of the reforms that the Biden FTC and DOJ made to merger standards and their willingness to sue/seek big penalties for antitrust violations, aren't more serious than Republicans about reining in big tech consolidation and about stronger enforcement of antitrust principles, completely flips around the history and is a bad faith argument.

    Andy Yen could've praised Gail Slater, and that would be that. Instead, he took a post by Trump that didn't even mention Democrats, and made it about how the Democrats are bad on taking on big tech. That's the problem everyone had with it.

  • ‘60 Minutes’ Thumbs Its Nose at Trump With Scathing Segment

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  • school gun team

    This fucking country, man.

  • Getting old sucks.

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  • Oh wow, windows! I don't think I can afford this place.

  • Getting old sucks.

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  • Relatively speaking? Appliances are cheaper than they were before.

    Here's a Sears catalog from 1991. Appliances are at the end, past page 800 or so. Stoves are $400 or $500. Washer is $400, and a dryer is $300.

    By official inflation numbers, things are about 2.3x as expensive now as in late 1991.

    Median rent, the rent that the average person was paying, was around $450. Median rent today is about $1500, more than 3 times as much.

    Today, a stove that looks like one of those things in the 1991 catalog costs about $500, maybe $600. Washing machines cost about the same. That's only a 25-50% increase, when overall prices have increased by 130% and rents have increased by 200% since 1991.

    So yeah, when a stove was worth a whole month's rent, it was comparatively a bigger deal than today, when a stove is worth less than half a month's rent.

    The same is broadly true of furniture and other home goods, too: prices have gone up slower than inflation, so in theory we could store more stuff in our cramped homes.

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    Exit the Dragon: Judge strikes down legal complaint for having a purple dragon fursona watermarked on every page

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  • It's not a dismissal. It was stricken, with the option to refile the exact same substance in a new format.

    And this kind of stuff happens all the time, like when someone forgets to attach a table of contents, a certificate of compliance, a certificate of word count, an incorrect word count, improperly formatted documents, etc.

    This is a pretty common response to improper format, like certain courts that require a particular font, a particular page size, a particular spacing requirement, etc. Those usually have a written rule the court can point to and say "hey follow local rule so and so" and just make them re-file.

    It's a little bit less common where someone violates an unwritten rule, and the court comes in and says "cmon you should've known better." But it happens.

  • TIL- The idea of how much you can afford to buy with your income is called “real income.” And if real income falls, that’s called a recession.

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  • Beef is a bad example. It used to be cheaper than chicken and similar to pork, but the real cost of that land use policy that would allow such grazing in the west, and then the subsidies that make factory farm feedlots possible, wasn't properly borne by the ranchers themselves. Today's cost of beef is a better reflection of the true cost of raising that meat, that inefficiently.

    If you do the same analysis with chicken or pork, you'll find that we can and do afford to eat a lot more of those particular meats than we used to.

    I fully expect beef to go like tuna, and slowly become a luxury item only for the rich within my lifetime. That is more of a trend with beef itself than broader trends in inflation generally.

  • TIL- The idea of how much you can afford to buy with your income is called “real income.” And if real income falls, that’s called a recession.

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  • Housing, education, and healthcare costs have grown much faster than inflation.

    Food, energy, cars, appliances and home goods, furniture, apparel, and other durable goods have generally grown slower than inflation, at least between 1980 and 2020. Much of the last 5 years of inflation, though have eaten away at some of those gains of the previous 30-40 years in those categories.

    Electronics, technology, entertainment, most services have generally gone down in price.

    So the basket of what we buy is different, with different ratios. A time traveler from the 80's would be shocked to learn just how many ready made rotisserie chickens or pizzas you could buy for the wage equivalent to one hour of warehouse work, or how many big screen TVs you'd need to pay the average monthly rent for a 1-bedroom apartment. Plane tickets between New York and LA are basically cheaper than one month's rent in the cheapest possible home you can find in either of those cities. The ratios are all different than before.

    But with housing costs high, it kind of puts all of the effort into that single basket. When it used to be that 1/3 your income could comfortably go into housing costs, now in many cities it's closer to half, even for people up the income scale, because the rest of life beyond having a roof over your head is just cheaper in comparison to that very basic need for shelter.

  • TIL- The idea of how much you can afford to buy with your income is called “real income.” And if real income falls, that’s called a recession.

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  • GDI is supposed to be basically equivalent to GDP, so it's not a better number to use. Sometimes the numbers diverge (see here for a discussion of this issue in 2022) because they use different methodologies to determine the number, but that's usually a sign that some kind of measurement is off, not that there's some kind of actual divergence in the true numbers of what they purport to measure.

    And we moved away from Gross National Product/Income to Gross Domestic Product/Income because it was a better look at the domestic economy. We care more about the production/income within national borders rather than the production/income of a particular nation's residents.

  • 'Just say yes': Trump begs reporter to accept that doctored photo is real

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  • Seriously. It's like looking at a map of a battle and assuming the arrows are actual terrain features.

  • Trump admin lied about why 4-year-old US citizen with cancer was deported: lawyers

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  • Their tattoos?

  • Maryland Sen. Van Hollen says he finally met with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia

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  • It's good to remember that Trump's entire MO is to never concede.

    It's also true that there are internal factions fighting for power and influence, that often results in incoherent flip flopping. Constant external pressure on the administration intensifies the internet discord, and is also worth doing for that reason.

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  • The biggest news out of this meeting is that Sen. Van Hollen reports that Abrego Garcia was transferred out of CECOT to another prison last week:

    Van Hollen said Abrego Garcia said he had been “traumatized” by being at El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, and fearful of detainees in other cell blocks “who called out to him and taunted him in various ways.”

    Abrego Garcia said he was transferred last week to a different detention center with better conditions, but still had no ability to communicate with anyone outside the facility, the senator said.

    The public pressure on this is working. The mere fact that Bukele felt the need to try to stage a photo op by the swimming pool of a luxury hotel means that he cares about appearances. Let's keep the pressure on.

  • Maryland Sen. Van Hollen says he finally met with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia

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