Don’t fact check this but I’m pretty sure aroaces accounted for 50% of all kills in WW2

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Everyone gather round and take a close look at this specimen. Here is something very peculiar I’ve seen with the loudest ML users. They usually have a well rehearsed auth-left script with plausible talking points, but when it gets off script they show specific capitalist-coded rhetoric.

In real life, I’ve never met anyone on the left/far left who would use unemployment (especially under a capitalist-fascist hegemony) as a pejorative. The casting of unemployment as a personal failing and character flaw is a deeply capitalist narrative. The USSR, which they profess to support, widely publicized employment as a fundamental human right. It was in their Constitution!

So we have to consider: is this user dumb enough to think that furthering pro-capitalist fiction is praxis? Or are they not leftist at all, perhaps a false-flag agitant?

Ah yes, the evil liberal-capitalist climate solutions: shilling solar panels, agriculture tech, electrification, more efficient production of cement and steel

Nothing like the glorious socialist solutions of the proletariat: Chinese solar panels, Chinese agriculture tech, Chinese electrification, more efficient production of Chinese cement and steel

Turns out that every productivist ideology imagines their band-aid efficiency gains will hand wave what is essentially a growth and finite resource problem. So yeah I agree with you on some level, the free market won’t magically save us any more than an AES state market. You’re just mad because you’re hearing it from a video sponsored by the bad team

Ah yes capitalist propoganda like …scrolls most popular… Countering coronavirus disinformation, explaining vaccines and the dangers of the antivax movement, the physical limits disproving the infinite growth lie of capitalism… Yeah, there’s a lot of science fiction/fantasy topics but those are generally what gets views.

If they are pushing propoganda, they’re pretty shit at it and should probably be spending their money on manosphere podcasts instead. Honestly you should be encouraging such inefficient efforts.

This is such a stellar example of the cold war tankie mindset. Anything a capitalist funds must be evil; anything from the west is a lie; it’s my duty to counter everything coming out of their mouths; blah blah blah.

What a dumb bait question. Putting aside dubious biological pitfalls, the lived experience of men and women are drastically different and have diverged exponentially in the age of digital isolation. You are trying to draw a simple comparison between fundamentally different subjects. Even experts have trouble dissecting this, yet you think that randoms on a digital forums will generate valuable discussion with one-off snowflake opinions? Troll better

The venture star is the aerospace manifestation of the granny shot free throw in basketball. Sure it’s mathematically and mechanically optimal… but you’re still gonna look dumb using it

The plane trip is a great analogy. There’s probably plenty of data on which aircraft can fly it and, optimizations aside, you might have the option of over-fueling to be sure you can accomplish it.

With a BEV your pitiful energy limit might mean doing all those cross country calculations just to reach the other side of the state. And even then the sheer number of variables (Will I hit traffic? Will a fast charger spot be available at X? When exactly will it drop below freezing? Will my battery be conditioned at start? Does M miles of ~N mi/kWh surface streets beat M-Y miles of highway…) makes it impossible to precisely say.

You basically have to drive by feel, hence my reckoning of my car needing 1.5-2x dashboard mileage buffer for critical margin trips. I’ve personally made the exact same trip in different conditions and pulled in from as low as 3% up to 35% battery remaining.

The only solutions are way better/larger batteries, much smaller cars, or massively expanded charging infrastructure. Unfortunately nothing [affordable] in the market is addressing any of those.

Miles are a bad way to track performance because real life conditions can wildly impact BEV efficiency. I can tell you from first hand experience that towing, elevation changes, or moving at highway speeds in winter can cut per kWh efficiency in half.

And beyond that, you’re supposed to be capping your daily charge limit below 100% for battery longevity. 200 theoretical miles can turn to 160 miles and down to 70 real quick. That can get uncomfortably tight if you miss an overnight charge.

Frankly, its dumb to criticize people who expect their personal vehicle to perform reasonably well in situations where a personal vehicle should excel. Why own a car if it can’t do a round-trip weekend excursion or haul a bit of furniture?

By your logic everyone should only need a tiny moped with a rain jacket and a backpack. It’s irrational to worry about climate control or passengers or suitcases, you statistically never need them.

I’m fairly sure some spying is required by law, like the new driver cam legislation. Wonder how they’ll get past that.

Is it morally wrong to ask a bait question on a public forum?

I’d need more specifics but I don’t necessarily see any contradictions in those statements. Your gender identity could align with your sex at birth and you present as such in social situations, but you don’t want the bias that comes with Ms./Mr. (or, God forbid, Mrs.) in professional or impersonal situations.

For example, seeing Mr./Ms. somewhere on a CV or reference letter triggers ingrained patriarchal bias even with the best intentions.

On the other hand the price of not stopping the war could be even higher…

From the perspective of Putin, what could be more costly than a few million destitute veterans marching on his palace? Best bet is to neutralize that threat by burning up your country’s resources in an endless meat grinder. Maybe you’ll get lucky and coast your perma-war long enough to die an old man.

Delay crashing the plane for as long as possible and then slam it hard into the mountain to kill all the angry passengers before you parachute out.

Once the left wanted higher taxes for everyone; Gen-Z socialists demand handouts funded by billionaires

Fucking crazy take. Billionaires have been paying far less than their share for decades. A regular person might pay 33% on their annual wealth gains while billionaire accounting and tax dodging leaves them near 0%.

People “demand handouts from billionaires” because 31.7% OF ALL WEALTH IN THE USA is tied up in the personal assets of 1% of the population. There is quite literally nowhere else to get the money.

The fascists currently own that stake anyway, what’s the difference?

Nothing in the legislation reads as a bailout, the government would unilaterally take 50% stake and the associated voting power. The American public is no worse off if it doesn’t turn a profit or gets liquidated.

The bailout would happen when the conservative vultures circle. “We can’t let them fail, that would devalue the American portfolio (never mind that this bailout is 2x any value that could ever be gained back)”

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Edit: “No alternative to shipping companies” but there’s somehow an alternative to reaching millions of people all on a single platform that they’re not leaving due to social inertia. Get on a bike loser, you can’t carry a package?

You need to educate yourself or keep your mouth shut. There are plenty of people who put a lot of time and effort into optimizing political engagement and weighing the pros and cons of all avenues.

400k people tuned in live to watch a one-off stream of AOC playing Among Us on twitch. 4.8 MILLION people watched the vod and that was nowhere near “all of Twitch”.

I want to see YOUR math on building a system that can do that with any consistency and then fit that into a mayor’s budget. Show me your road map to even sniff that audience size; where is your marketing spend going? Then on top of that, show me that there’s no better way to spend that money from the political war chest; explain how not generating a few pennies for Amazon is worth cutting N community outreach/charity events.

I’ll even help you out: we have a great comparison and it’s publicly traded so we know a bit about it. Truth social has about 6 million MAU, so we’re almost reaching that AOC Among Us scale (assuming they all engage with your stream). It took something like $5-$10M to stand up and costs $60M to operate every year. They ate a $31M deficit in their first year.

If you want a mayor to shell out that kind of money as a political stunt… I guess you must love millions of big-donor dollars that finance that kind of thing.

psychosis

noun

psy·​cho·​sis sī-ˈkō-səs:

serious mental illness characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions

Example:

looking at the problem we have with Big Tech and saying “yes, this is fine!”

Absolutely nobody here is doing that. Nobody in this entire comment section has said anything close to that. Car dependant infrastructure and fossil fuels are bad but you still have to get in your car and go to work if you want to not die.

You realize there are thousands of email platforms not owned by Big Tech? You could even host your own.

Gmail is 30% of global email traffic. It doesn’t matter what platform I choose, my message is still going to end up in someone’s Gmail inbox and stolen by AI.

If I was taking that problem seriously I would at least cut out Apple, Gmail and Microsoft domains and automatically lose 84% of my mailing list. Why don’t you care about that?

Sure, why not? Again, there are thousands of alternatives. You can even host it on your own hardware.

Why not should be obvious: the NYC Mayor’s office isn’t in the market of building, hosting, operating or managing social media platforms. Full stop. That takes money, time, marketing and expertise and provides zero value to his constituents beyond performative fuzzy feelings.

If you’re so smart and righteous what’s stopping you from building your own platform for these politicians? Why the fuck should Mamdani have to do it? And make sure to build up 240 million MAU while you’re at it, this has to compete with Twitch’s reach.

LOL you don’t need a “datacenter”.

Well shit somebody call up Amazon and let them know! This genius has figured out a way to host an interactive live streaming service scalable to millions of simultaneous users from his closet.

Let me tell you about this thing called email…

See my comments above, you’re sacrificing your own privacy and feeling sanctimonious about it. Snail mail has far stronger legal and physical protections than your email.

You say that like FedEx, DHL, UPS, etc. don’t exist.

Lmfao you’re here to shit on Big Tech but don’t care about these corporate vultures?

Bro try trolling a little bit harder.

Your argument is completely psychotic.

Gonna send emails? No way, 90% of people use Gmail and you shouldn’t give Google traffic.

Stand up your own website? Well it better not be in AWS, GCP or Azure. You’re still gonna need DDOS protection and the ability to scale to hundreds of thousands of users for this event so I hope you have the money to build your own datacenter. But be sure you’re making your own ethical internet backbone. Don’t want your money going to Verizon or Sprint.

Maybe thats all a little too complicated so we’ll need to go analog. But have you ever mailed a letter? USPS is run by fascists, gotta do better. Get on a bike (can’t have those emissions!) and hand deliver your 20k political zines. But don’t put it in their mailboxes, that’s reinforcing the status quo.

The ml multi-paragraph response under this is 🤌

Got them going like a top. The tldr is always the same

“When [bad country] commits an atrocity it’s obviously because they’re mustache twirling villains. When my dictator commits an atrocity, it’s really due to complex material conditions and the state of geopolitics and capitalist counter-revolutionaries and probably the CIA and Mercury was in retrograde and the sun was in his eyes and …”