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  • How I view my heritage

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  • The Chinese families bit is most likely a reference to widespread, problematic family dynamics stemming from shared social pressures in China. Just in living memory, a household might have gone through: a revolution, the cultural revolution, famine, rapid urbanization, one child policy, economic booms, economic bubbles, etc...

    That will leave any family pretty fucked up, though it may not be universally bad (hence, only the middle of the horse). In the future, we'll probably see similar echoes of trauma from the USA's current historical flashpoint.

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  • It's more likely that Steam leans into the "Steam[Device] Verified ✅/❌" labeling. If anything, that makes navigating the marketplace much easier for a mid-performance buyer. They've already done it with steam deck, it's a good angle to pressure both devs and consumers into their device.

    People buying this won't be "daily driving" their pc in any sense. I think the idea is unlock steam's library (and marketplace) the massive casual phone/tablet crowd. If I didn't already have a dedicated gaming PC I would definitely be interested.

  • what's a cool gift? (like an infinity mirror)

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  • No clue, but the frosted looks easier to read to me

  • what's a cool gift? (like an infinity mirror)

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    TIL: Young Men Ages 18–29 are Turning Right-Wing and Women of the Same Age Turning Left-Wing

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  • The down votes on your comment are a head scratcher. No matter what you as a parent (or even young men commenting in this thread) say, that perspective is shouted down as manosphere brainwash propaganda.

    It's almost like retrograde toxic masculinity. Vulnerable young dudes trying to explain why left messaging makes them uncomfortable are being told to man up/grow up/get over it.

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  • I don't disagree that the absurdly well funded and targeted indoctrination campaign is the reason for right wing success. But I think even without that influence you'd still get a generation of "apolitical" or left-skeptic men. That was always going to be the result of any attack against the patriarchy. The inability of progressives to predict that and keep them from going farther right was a massive blunder.

    Edit: This is why progressive campaigns à la Mamdani or Bernie have been incredibly popular. Inclusive policies couched alongside clear economic benefits have always been the way to capture universal support. The neo-lib Democratic establishment thought they could have their cake and eat it too by cutting out the troublesome economic half.

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    TIL: Young Men Ages 18–29 are Turning Right-Wing and Women of the Same Age Turning Left-Wing

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  • In some sense, yes and that's part of the problem. Not sure if you often talk to anyone <25 years old, but as you get older it becomes pretty obvious that they're just not mentally or emotionally mature. It's not their fault, the human physiology makes early life an extended formative period. They're generally not good with nuance or introspection, that's just how it is.

    Take a girl and a boy into Twitter in the 2010s and they're going to a wide array of diverse and complex viewpoints. The girl is immersed in #MeToo-style solidarity and relatively simple to digest slogans (pregnancy is scary and the left is pro choice, the left is pushing against toxic beauty culture, the left wants me educated and more than a housewife, etc...).

    None of can really resonate the same with the boy. In fact, hyperbolic or nuanced slogans fly right over his undeveloped frontal lobe or even backfire (all men are bastards?, black lives matter?, who got cancelled for what?, no means no![usually?], etc...). That doesn't force him into being a shitty conservative adult, but it definitely affects his politics in the same way that too-early exposure to porn affects someone's adult sexual attitudes.

    People scoff at the concept of treating men with "kid gloves", but forget that the public internet includes kids. Dismantling the patriarchy is messy and difficult stuff, doing that in front of a generation of impressionable boys is how you end up with the graphs in the article. We're just now seeing the first social media age repurcussions, but now imagine some younger voters where MAGA politics is the status quo...

  • 'Bleak picture' for Republicans as Democrats make gains in deep-red districts: report

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  • 'Bleak picture' for Republicans as Democrats make gains in deep-red districts: report

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  • 'Bleak picture' for Republicans as Democrats make gains in deep-red districts: report

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  • Damn didn't know I was an LLM? Thanks for the heads up, good discussion

  • 'Bleak picture' for Republicans as Democrats make gains in deep-red districts: report

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  • Being a doomer is bad if you're stating theories as facts while giving no supporting evidence. For example:

    • Why would withdrawn international relations result in right wing voting? Isn't it more likely to fuel populist voting (not strongly attached to regressive or progressive policies)? What historical trends are you looking at? Just pasting the American flag onto the Weimar Republic based on vibes?
    • What makes you think the polling is temporary? Putting aside the topic of fair elections, voters who have been subjected to this administration's chaos and are consistently polling negatively will turn on their heads and lick boots because of... Saber rattling? A weak passport? An (even more) destroyed economy? 300 million cases of Stockholm Syndrome? I'm really scratching my head here...
    • 1% by what metric? The collapse will drag out for 100 years? Wealth? The USA will be using stone age tools by the end of it? Population? Deaths? Quality of life? Deportations?... It surely can get worse but 99% in almost any metric is absurd.

    I can't even agree or disagree with you because your comments are so shallow that they can't hold up to a discussion; ergo bad.

  • Dems eye new way to shake up 2028 primaries: ranked-choice voting

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  • I mean, what would you suggest instead? Some system where a simple plurality can elect your fringe candidate? We could give the seat to whatever candidate Passes the Post First?

    What you're describing has nothing to do with the voting system. If your candidate is so far to the fringe that they can't overcome the gravity of the primary center then they should probably be in their own party. If the voting public wouldn't rank them above all other weak moderates in the general then that's a problem with your electorate and election funding rules.

  • Exclusive: AOC says Hakeem Jeffries primary challenge not a "good idea"

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  • More contrived rage bait about one of the handful prominent elected officials with something approximating a progressive platform. Spinning an uninformed reaction and one offhand remark into a full headline and story.

    I guess par for the course when you consider that the Axios is majority owned by Cox Enterprises who, at a glance, donated at 70% for Republicans and the rest to establishment Dems.

    Democrats might be a controlled opposition, but it helps to paint real opposition with the same controlled narrative.

  • Cloudflare went down today and took half of the internet with it. How does one company have that much impact? Do you think that's concerning?

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  • I mean, companies avoiding self hosting isn't just about being cheap. Cloudflare/AWS might cost $100 per mo and only have 95% uptime but you know what you're getting. Self hosting inherently introduces risk.

    That 5k machine might pay for itself in half a year OR it might self destruct in 3 months. The man hours and downtime needed to unfuck that mess might cost more than multiple years of flaky cloud hosting. Alternatively, a change in data retention regulation requires hardware redundency, then next month the revenue stream from that hardware drys up and you're stuck holding a $10k loss instead of canceling a $100 payment.

  • The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing"

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    Male Drivers Sue Uber and Lyft Over Women-Only Ride-Hailing

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  • Is there a race that is statistically more violent then the others?

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    ...White supremacists use this argument verbatim against certain ethnicities. It's literally the poster child for statistic-fluffed racism.

    Do I have to link the meme or are going to figure this out on your own?...

  • Lawmakers float a nationwide basic income experiment that would cover the cost of a 2-bedroom apartment

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  • Lawmakers float a nationwide basic income experiment that would cover the cost of a 2-bedroom apartment

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  • What I don't get is the assumption that a fixed stipend of currency will provide for basic necessities.

    If the society was committed to universal housing, food and healthcare access then just make that the stated goal and get those funds involved directly in housing/food/healthcare. Just giving someone $1000 doesn't stop their landlord from increasing rent by $900 to match; a government owned housing alternative does.

  • Lawmakers float a nationwide basic income experiment that would cover the cost of a 2-bedroom apartment

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  • Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I read somewhere a long while back that UBI is a non-solution to wealth inequality. IIRC if you don't also radically change the rest of the regressive tax structures then the supply of cash still gets funneled upward. Most of the hype is from PR and the inherent good vibes of getting a check in the mail.