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Who the hell wants a ceramic donut?

I believe you lot call them “lorries”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain

Who the fuck names a girl “Brett”? Johnny Cash?

Even David Byrne can’t compete with this!

Tag yourself I’m the “Toilets” bar on the bar graph

I think it’s an ironic restating of the position the previous person was presenting, but not necessarily contradictory

Someone is ripping off

I’m not saying people should assassinate more right wingers. But I am saying they’d have a harder time doing this shit if there was a new one every week…

I think it’s potentially instructive here to take a look at the 34th Congress of the United States. The new party that year was an upstart abolitionist party that called itself the Republican Party, you might have heard of it. In that Congress, the (brand-new as of 1854) Republican Party started with 7 and finished with 11 senators in its column, versus 0 and 1 House representatives at the start and end, respectively. Maybe the times are different enough that this isn’t the right approach, but the way the Dems have utterly failed to tune into the attitudes of their own voting base puts them in a very bad historical position by my reckoning, so there just might be an opening.

You give a vague, hand-wavy effort to justify the data centers as inevitable, but crypto mining has existed for a decade and a half, and it’s AI dudes building these massive data centers, not crypto bros.

Here’s a hint for you as to why: crypto mining is a literal zero-sum game (but it is similar to AI in one way: the revenue is nowhere remotely near enough to pay back the capital outlay within the equipment’s useful lifetime).

In other words, it’s not rational economics driving this shit, it’s HYPE. Hype generated by the likes of YOU.

What I’ve already explained to you, and you ignored, is that these data centres would be built regardless of whether AI existed or not

The Once-ler: ‘The things that you do are completely un-good.’ Yeah? But if I didn’t do them, then someone else WOULD!

This is all generally true, but it won’t shake out quite this cleanly in reality. People like me, who have quality health insurance subsidized by their employers, will likely see an increase in overall cost of healthcare, which will be balanced out by many less-privileged people seeing a decrease, and sometimes a large one. Also, healthy people who do not currently have health insurance will necessarily be paying more than previously. Of course, they’ll then have health insurance, so over time they will come out ahead, but it might be hard to make that clear to them.

I’m not trying to argue against M4A here, but I think leftists and more progressive libs have a tendency to underestimate the scale of the healthcare issue, and I think that breeds skepticism among those we need to get on board with the policy if it’s ever going to be enacted. Being upfront about what it will take to make it happen, I think, helps people see a policy proposal as more credible.

It does have to. The US spends about $5 trillion per year in healthcare, whereas they intentionally pushed the military budget up to $1 trillion this year just because it sounded cool to Trump. Experts say we could maybe reduce the total healthcare costs to $4 trillion per year over time by improving healthcare efficiency once we have a single-payer system, but the fact remains that taxes will have to go up for most people if we want to actually institute M4A.

Edit: the $5T figure, like the related $4T one, is actually several years old, now that I think about it; it’s probably closer to $6T now.

That happened to me with Firefox, link worked in chrome though

Better than Yea like mine

This shit is so fucking grim. Nobody who has any choice in the matter has been going out on the water in this area for a while.

These fucks love to wrap themselves in the flag but even if you accept “American ideals” at face value there’s no fucking justification for this shit to be found there. Just pure racist cruelty, completely unadulterated.

…this isn’t even the first funnyman to get shitcanned for not toeing the line…

Methinks the war criminal doth protest too much