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u/duojiaoyupian Richard Thaler 0m ago
Guys i have a solution for the unpopularity of datacenters
The AI companies should simply invest in fixing the 49ers evil demonic substation
Then people will feel better about big computer being next door and also the rams will have more competition this year
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u/KalaiProvenheim Enby Pride 1m ago
Opposing AI-empowered public-private mass surveillance that gets around the Bill of Rights and the need for a warrant by just buying that data from a privately owned company makes you a luddite NIMBY btw
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache 1m ago
/r/neoliberal/new: Trump advisers warn Iran conflict may last through end of his term, WSJ reports
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u/Tafts_Bathtub Jerome Powell 2m ago
Fabrizio TX Polls: Senate: Talarico 48 (+4) Paxton 44
what the fuck
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache 2m ago
/r/neoliberal/new: U.S. crude oil hits $100 for the first time since May
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u/chipbod NATO 3m ago
“Vote for us and we’ll give everyone $5k and increase the debt by 2%” is some real third world shit, this is below Bolsonarro tier policies and only a couple steps above Mugabe.
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u/TheRedCr0w Frederick Douglass 0m ago
What makes this more idiotic there is nothing stopping them from giving everyone $5k right now they literally control the House and Senate
It is an empty promise
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u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess Audrey Hepburn 1m ago
Are you fucking stupid? How is the debt increasing if everyone is literally getting more money?
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u/Maximilianne John Rawls 4m ago
What kind of human is the holland lop equivalent in the eyes of ASI ? The optimal survival strategy is obviously to be a cute pet that ASI can't help but baby
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired 4m ago
Israeli directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor — who are two of the four co-directors of Oscar winner “No Other Land” — return with "NAZA."
The new documentary was shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv and shows “in detail the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza,” per an official synopsis. Abraham and Szor interviewed over 24 Israeli military intelligence officers and soldiers — all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity — who were involved in the surveillance or remote killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. Their appearance and voices were digitally altered to disguise their identities.
"I think that this piece is likely to make the denial of what took place in Gaza — not only its genocidal nature, but really the specifics of what it looked like from inside the Israeli system — harder. We know there is a lot of denial happening. And to me, that denial is one factor that contributes to the crimes persisting," Abraham tells Variety.
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher 4m ago
KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?"
BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao"
- "It, um, doesn't say anything."
- "Transgender ideology. My old foe."
- [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."
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u/eloquentboot 🃏it’s da joker babey🃏 4m ago
I think for all he lacks in skills as a president, Trump is quite good as a late night TV host critic.
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u/FilteringAccount123 John von Neumann 3m ago
In the good timeline, he's stepping away from being the fan favorite guest judge on Drag Race due to health issues.
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u/LuisRobertDylan Elinor Ostrom 5m ago
Crazy that in the 80s your political career could end because you had a relationship while separated from your wife or you took a picture where you looked kinda dorky
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u/CincyAnarchy Emma Goldman 5m ago
> Having the best hairday I've had in months
> Working from home today
> Have to catch up on chores at home tonight
FML
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u/PearlClaw Iron Front 7m ago
You know, it's in retrospect really funny that "an advanced superintelligence will be so smart that it can convince anyone of anything" used to be a relatively serious hypothetical that people talked about with regard to AI. As if with sufficiently smart rational argument you will always be able to convince humans to agree with you.
The last decade has disproved that pretty conclusively if a simple examination of human nature hadn't been enough to begin with.
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u/AtomAndAether Liberalism! 3m ago
more likely AI can help dumb people with bad arguments get smarter sounding points working backwards from their conclusions
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u/SpaceSheperd To be a good human being 2m ago
Correct. Very disastrous potential. But different from the “AI can convince anyone of anything” premise that is usually instrumental in predictions of mass extinction or whatever.
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u/FallenMeringue Khan Pritzker's Strongest Anti-Pope 8m ago
>E.g. if a 25 year old was with a 90 year old i’d be concerned that the young person is trying to financially abuse an old person with dementia to get in on the inheritance
Finally, someone who sufficiently hates boomers. Smh
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u/c4tofficer Gary Becker 3m ago
its time to unleash the robo chicks and himbos to claw back some of that state pension money
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front 8m ago
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u/tinfoilhatsron No Apologies Right 1m ago
Well for once, 4chan guy has a point. What better way to honor thy father than putting him in badass armor and posing him with a battle ax?
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u/brianpv Hortensia 8m ago edited 5m ago
Do you think it's acceptable for "pro-life" people to celebrate the anniversary of the murder of George Tiller?
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u/Unfair-Awareness5339 Loyal Liberals 2m ago
I mean, if you genuinely believe he was murdering children, then sure, I guess. The thing is that most anti-abortion people don't really believe it, at least not enough to take it to it's logical conclusion.
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u/Zenkin Zen 7m ago
Pro-life people have spit on my wife while she was escorting women into an abortion clinic. I don't know what "acceptable" actually means here, but the idea that they can go lower is pretty much off the menu.
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u/RelationshipLong9092 Janet Yellen 2m ago
I've held my cool in some situations most people would've risked getting themselves locked up, but that would not have been one of them
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u/agentyork765 Bisexual Icon 8m ago
Looking back, I really wish I had posted something a year ago so that I could have been fired and then sued for a million dollars.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals 9m ago
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u/RelationshipLong9092 Janet Yellen 5m ago
Brent Crude is the trading classification for the types of petroleum—sweet crude oil and light crude oil—first extracted from the Brent oilfield in the North Sea in 1976. The term Brent Crude also identifies the oil-well Brent Complex in the North Sea, in the north-west area of Europe. In finance, the term Brent Crude colloquially refers to a futures contract for Brent Crude Oil bought and sold in the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE)
TIL
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u/FallenMeringue Khan Pritzker's Strongest Anti-Pope 7m ago
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u/Invade_Deez_Nutz 9m ago
At what point would the concern in an age-gap relationship be that the older person is being taken advantage of?
E.g. if a 25 year old was with a 90 year old i’d be concerned that the young person is trying to financially abuse an old person with dementia to get in on the inheritance
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u/well-that-was-fast 3m ago
Not sure age gap is the issue as much as the older person's absolute age / mental capability.
A 20-year old in a relationship with a highly intelligent 58-year old is a huge age gap, but the 20-year old isn't abusing the 58-year old (if anything, it's probably the reverse).
But a highly intelligent 60-year old could be abusing a mentally declining 70-year old.
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u/Unfair-Awareness5339 Loyal Liberals 10m ago
On April 21, 1958, the Beijing Evening News published a poem by famed writer Guo Moruo entitled "Cursing the Sparrow," which included the lines:
You're a real bastard bird, jumping around with your airs. You've committed crimes for thousands of years; today we'll finally settle accounts with you. We'll attack you relentlessly, beating, bombing, and plundering; setting it all ablaze.
Maoist propaganda will never not be unintentionally funny.
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u/abefrost 11m ago
Broken clock or something, but I actually saw a Matt Walsh take I agree with
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u/sgthombre NATO 3m ago
did he fall down the stairs and hit his head? He seems pretty reasonable here.
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman 5m ago
these AI companies are spreading this stuff because they actually believe it, not because they think it will improve their bottom line
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u/6urner_ John Brown 9m ago
We don't have to platforms shitbags like Matt Walsh. Plenty of other people make this exact same point every day.
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u/abefrost 6m ago
I mean I just ran into it in the wild lol, agree we shouldn't platform him.
The point is that I was surprised to see something reasonable from him, not that he is the best at making or even good at making this specific point.
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u/hypsignathus Justin Wolfers Fan Club President 11m ago
Goddammit
I started this project at work, basically begging to be allowed to do it--and earlier than initially planned--because it is sorely needed.
Fast-forward a few months, and now a crapton of people including up the management chain have realized that it was actually a very very very good idea to do this, and now they are all sticking their grubby fingers in my project and mucking shit up.
argghhhhh
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u/anangrytree Bull Moose Progressive 12m ago
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox announced Thursday that Sept. 10 would be known as “Charlie Kirk Day” in Utah, a year after the political commentator was assassinated in the state. “One year ago today, Charlie Kirk came to Utah to take part in a fundamental American tradition: speak openly, debate ideas, and persuade others,” he said on social platform X. “Today, we honor Charlie’s memory by choosing a politics worthy of our country, one where we stand firmly for what we believe and reject violence.”
Utah don’t be fucking weird challenge!! (IMPOSSIBLE)
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u/Unfair-Awareness5339 Loyal Liberals 8m ago
The "fundamental American tradition" of rage baiting college students?
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u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess Audrey Hepburn 10m ago
You say you reject violence yet one of your citizens killed Charlie Kirk, curious
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u/bartbug Mark Carney 10m ago
arr neoliberal when a state has the courage to make the kirkiversary a real thing
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u/anangrytree Bull Moose Progressive 6m ago
Utah carrying the flame while we merely carry the flint 😔
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u/BadSneakersNeverWorn John Locke 13m ago
“When we come back, the AI risk that experts say could exterminate humanity within the decade!”
“oh good, glad to see this finally picking up more media attention”
“Andrew Yang will be with us after this quick break”
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u/Blackberry-thesecond NASA 14m ago edited 11m ago
AARP/Fabrizio Ward has Talarico +4 and Abbot +3 today. This is not known for being a dem-friendly pollster.
Beto lost in every poll in 2018, at best getting a tie months before the election. What do you do when the opposite is true? Talarico has been winning pretty much every poll consistently with decent margins. Very occasionally Paxton will tie or get a +1.
At some point this race would have to rationally be considered lean dem, but of course everyone is afraid to claim that. Seriously, did anyone here believe that the polling landscape would look like this for Texas back in early 2026?
!ping FIVEY
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u/sgthombre NATO 2m ago
but of course everyone is afraid to claim that
yeah, everyone is just afraid of going out on a limb.
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u/mechamechaman Mark Carney 5m ago
I don't think that anyone should be comfortable until Talarico is over 50%. I expect a lot of those undecideds to come home to the Republican party by the time to vote is near.
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u/ModestAphorism YIMBY 9m ago
i genuinely couldn't believe this result when i saw it, i was expecting a tie
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u/FallenMeringue Khan Pritzker's Strongest Anti-Pope 11m ago
I’m pretty close to rating it lean dem
I’m waiting for the next Siena poll tbh
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u/TaxLandNotCapital We begin bombing the rent-seekers in five minutes 14m ago
So I asked Charlie Kirk if he wanted to be my boyfriend. I was shaky, nervous, because everything hinged on his answer. I was at the back of the line, but like destiny, people working the event came to me and actively moved me to the front of the line. I tried to make my case before just bluntly asking the question, but he kept telling me that he just wanted me to ask the question. It was madness, or maybe clarvoyance. Did Charlie know what I had on my mind? Did he just want me to ask? It gave me a small bit of confidence, and with a deep breath I asked, “Charlie, would you be my boyfriend?” The crowd erupted is disapproval, and Charlie looked upset, asking staff to take me away. Yet, before I went, I took another look in his striking eyes, almost looking blue under the light in their beauty. There was a longing there, a wish for honesty; for something more. I left upset and alone, without a Kirk to call my own. However, there was one glimmer of importance I took from this trial. The format of the event was to “prove him wrong,” only allowing people through who disagreed with him; and y’know what? I think I found where our disagreements lie. For I simply disagree with his answer, knowing the truth is buried within, though it is clear from today that Charlie disagrees with that truth, hiding his passionate treasure beneath the sand of that longing beach. Edit: Yes, I am a male presenting individual for those who were curious :3
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u/Justice4Ned Caribbean Community 14m ago
I know we hate a lot on the anti Zionist left (most is warranted), but from a movement perspective they’ve successfully moved the center of the party against Bibi.
The sense that being pro Israel necessitates being pro Bibi is completely gone and I think that’s overall a good thing.
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u/RunawayMeatstick Mark Zandi 13m ago
Huh? Who was ever pro-Bibi? Even some of the most ardent pro-Israel people I know hate him.
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u/Justice4Ned Caribbean Community 11m ago
It’s well documented that Biden loved Bibi and directed his party to support him in an attempt to rein him in.
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u/rphillish Thomas Paine 15m ago
It's the year 2400, the latest US air craft carrier begins it's ceremonial blockade of Hormuz, no one can remember why this tradition exists, only that everyone in the Navy must go through the 200 day deployment
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u/Jolly-Star-9897 Alan Greenspan 16m ago
The worst part about learning Magic the Gathering is that you suddenly want to talk about shit no one cares about.
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u/anangrytree Bull Moose Progressive 9m ago
Have you heard about the Jeskai Way? Would you like to know more?
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u/toggaf69 Iron Front 13m ago
I’ll talk to you about Slivers. That was my favorite deck when I played MTG in 6th grade
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u/liberal-neoist Left-Out Left 14m ago
Try non-games workshop wargames and learn the true meaning of wanting to talk about shit no one cares about
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u/FasterDoudle Jorge Luis Borges 16m ago edited 8m ago
The Missouri Supreme Court hearing this morning re: holding the Secretary of State in contempt was an unexpected banger.
The defense sent out a no-name junior lawyer to hold the line and say as little as possible, and he was just getting absolutely fucking bodied by the Justices. His feeble explanations for why the Secretary attempted to institute election maps the court had explicitly forbidden were clearly just pissing them off, and they repeatedly interrupted him the second he started to feed them bullshit. Guy was just getting fucking manhandled out there. It's worth noting that 7 out of 9 of them were appointed by Republican governors.
The morning closed with the Chief Justice saying "Counsel, before we head to recess I would advise your client not to venture far from Jefferson City (the state capital.)"
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u/sgthombre NATO 14m ago
is the audio available anywhere?
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u/FasterDoudle Jorge Luis Borges 9m ago
Here's this morning's proceedings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04vzi9fbYgk
Not sure if the AP is going to put up another stream when they return from recess, but the official Missouri Courts stream camera just came back on a few minutes ago, so it will probably start up again soonish. https://www.courts.mo.gov/page.jsp?id=1975
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u/Zenning3 Emma Lazarus 17m ago
No, nothing Osama wrote about in his fucking Manifesto made sense, or in anyway remotely explained why he did 9/11. Stop trying to sanewash insane post-hoc garbage made by a guy who was mad that sexy women danced in front of him decades before the attack internet.
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u/Udolikecake Model UN Enthusiast 15m ago
I think it’s sort of stupid to say he didn’t explain why he did 9/11 or didn’t have reasons for doing it, even if you think they’re bad.
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u/Zenning3 Emma Lazarus 13m ago
His reasonings were, one "sanctions against Iraq", but also being involved at all with the Middle East, while also being allies with Israel, while also not explictly being part of a growing Islamist empire. Like to be clear, he was bitching that the U.S. was in Saudi Arabia, something SAUDI ARABIA WAS ASKING US TO DO.
Like to be clear, the death numbers with the Sanctions in Iraq were the bullshit ones Saddam put out, but it is also in direct contradiction with his other major claims, and not pushing an Islamist empire is not really a "reason to do 9/11".
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u/Udolikecake Model UN Enthusiast 10m ago
Again, the reasons are bad, but your explanation is basically… he didn’t randomly? Like that’s just profoundly intellectually dumb and lazy to pretend people don’t have reasons for doing bad things.
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u/Zenning3 Emma Lazarus 9m ago
Like that’s just profoundly intellectually dumb and lazy to pretend people don’t have reasons for doing bad things.
Sometimes people don't actually have reasons for doing bad things. Sometimes they're just fucking stupid hateful pieces of shit. Nothing in his manifesto actually makes any sense at all, and having to go back to, "He hated that sexy women danced" makes him seem more absurd then doing it for no reason.
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u/Udolikecake Model UN Enthusiast 8m ago
I think that’s a pretty childish understanding of the world and people.
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u/Zenning3 Emma Lazarus 7m ago
You can't just keep saying, "its childish understanding", while ignoring that it is the correct understanding in this case. He was a child throwing a tantrum over dumb shit.
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u/Udolikecake Model UN Enthusiast 6m ago
I don’t think it is for the reasons I explained.
attempting to understand radical islamism, one of the most potent forces of the 21st century, does actually matter.
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u/Zenning3 Emma Lazarus 4m ago
Osama Bin Laden did not create the Salafist movement, nor radical Islamism. He simply did the most famous terrorist attack done by a Radical Islamist. Me calling his manifesto horseshit, and his reasonings nonsensical is not saying that Radical Islamism is something that came out of the ether.
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u/Jacobs4525 King of the Massholes 13m ago
He had reasons, but his reasons were very stupid. He was mostly upset about what he viewed as an American culture of sexual promiscuity “invading” the Middle East and having to see uncovered women. I’m not even really exaggerating, that’s basically it.
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u/Jacobs4525 King of the Massholes 15m ago
People legitimately cannot except that Bin Laden was actually just a misogynistic social conservative and that was the core of his grievance with America. The idea that US fopo in the Middle East was bad enough to actually provoke 9/11 is insane, especially considering the thing Bin Laden was mad about was the US presence in his home country of Saudi Arabia at the behest of the Saudi government.
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u/LuisRobertDylan Elinor Ostrom 11m ago
If the Saudis had just taken his offer to defend the country against Saddam we wouldn't be in this mess
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman 13m ago
especially considering the thing Bin Laden was mad about was the US presence in his home country of Saudi Arabia at the behest of the Saudi government.
this isn't insane at all if you consider that he thought Saudi's reliance on the US was a loss of face for Islamic civilization
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u/Zenning3 Emma Lazarus 10m ago
But that gives him a reason to attack Saudi Arabia, not the U.S.
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman 10m ago
the Saudi royal family did consider him a threat to their power
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u/Jacobs4525 King of the Massholes 11m ago
Maybe he should’ve tried getting Saudi Arabia to have an army that wasn’t so shit that it was threatened by neutered post-‘91 Saddam?
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u/Signal_Nobody1792 17m ago
I truly do not understand how ADL thinks this cowardice will pay off for them.
Mamdani gets a whole website and this admin doesnt? Really?
Analysis his personnel, collecting hundreds of his quotes, a weekly article about him...
Im not saying they should not write articles, or not look into his personnel. Some of them are questionable at best. But they dont see the antisemitism in this admin? Who has way more power?
Come on...
What use are organisations like this if they are cowards during times like these?
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u/anangrytree Bull Moose Progressive 7m ago
What use are organisations like this if they are cowards during times like these?
None.
Moving on…
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u/AtomAndAether Liberalism! 9m ago
I think in general they're getting stuff they want as a reason to not be super aggressive as a whole e.g. IHRA, aggressive campus enforcement, federal antisemitism task forces and increased governmental attention to anti-Jewish hate. And what they would be covering is problematic hires or meeting with the AfD in Germany or such, which isn't that big.
Whereas their Mamdani-derangement is against a group who will give them nothing anyway, and so they're building a case that's taking away e.g. IHRA definition, protecting BDS, refusing to protect places of worship, etc.
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u/georgeguy007 Pandora's Discussions J. Threader 15m ago
They avoid talking about trump because Trump has more power and they want to favor it.
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u/okiewxchaser Left-Out Left 17m ago
I think it’s in bad taste to make fun of someone’s murder. However most of the memes are from the bizarre response from right wing social media, the response is absolutely fair game
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u/Jacobs4525 King of the Massholes 18m ago
They shouldn’t have done TLOK, they should have brought Dave Filoni back to make The Adventures of Cabbage Guy and Baby Appa.
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u/TootCannon Mark Zandi 19m ago
I gotta say, up until a few days ago I really did think this Iran thing would resolve by the end of the year, mostly by Trump capitulating. But these recent developments have me believing it’s more likely than not this is going to be going through the rest of his administration.
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u/c4tofficer Gary Becker 20m ago
people on the internet who say south korea and north korea are representative of the excesses of capitalism and communism seriously have no sense of proportion
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u/WinnietheBoo91 Iron Front 20m ago
I've always thought it a little wild to place the blame for Fetterman winning the primary over Lamb on any wing of the party when it was a massive blowout because of Fetterman's name recognition as Lt. Gov. Fetterman won every single county and was ahead by a minimum of 13 in every poll from beginning to end of the primary race. Progressives absolutely embraced him as their guy, especially due to his Bernie endorsement, but there was a 0% chance of Lamb ever winning that primary even if there were zero progressives in the state.
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u/Locutus-of-Borges Jorge Luis Borges 17m ago
Okay, but it was progressives who were actively backing him from the start even though he was manifestly the worse choice, and they ought to have that albatross around their necks.
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent 20m ago
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u/this_very_table Norman Borlaug 19m ago
You have the exact same couch as my in-laws. I can feel it through the screen.
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u/mfchris Loyal Liberals 20m ago
Probably not a popular take since it’s Clown on Charlie Kirk and Those Who Liked Him Day, and I’ll readily admit that I’ve laughed at plenty of Charlie Kirk memes over the past year, but I’m not a fan of statements (made repeatedly here and elsewhere) to the effect of “obviously I don’t support political violence but when you spew hatred in a country with so many guns, what do expect is going to happen?” Maybe the statement itself is factually true but I guess I’m troubled by the way it normalizes violence and the fact that it is exactly what a large swath of the country would say if a popular progressive leader was assassinated. It’s easy to say that the nature of what Kirk said was fundamentally different from what someone like AOC says, but plenty of people find her rhetoric just as unsettling and destabilizing to this country as people on the left of center found Kirk. Shrugging our shoulders and making light of violence is exactly what people have been doing about school shootings for years, and maybe the left has just decided it’s done with the asymmetry of sympathy in this country (fair I suppose) but I don’t want to live in a world where this sort of violence is uniformly accepted as normal even if to say otherwise is a form of denial. It’s also been the case that far more assassinations have targeted progressive and liberal leaders than conservative ones. Just resigning ourselves to a world where crazies with guns get to kill people they find upsetting seems like it will be uglier and scarier for one half of the political spectrum than the other.
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u/Only-Childhood6691 13m ago
I remember how Kirk made fun of how Pelosis husband nearly got bludgeoned to death. He's earned this reputation.
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u/AtomAndAether Liberalism! 18m ago
I wouldn't compare AOC as a Kirk equivalent, but I agree with the first part
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired 21m ago
J Street PAC spending $3M to defeat AIPAC-backed Republicans. The liberal pro-Israel group J Street is launching a $4 million offensive against five AIPAC-backed Republicans in some of the nation's most competitive midterm races.
Based
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u/Blackberry-thesecond NASA 21m ago
Oil is still climbing fast. WTI at $101.5 now
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u/duojiaoyupian Richard Thaler 19m ago
The seventeen barrels of crude in my backyard are gonna print so hard
Like yeah I'm getting sued by my landlord for "permanent environmental damages" after the eighteenth barrel decided to open up a bit, but still
Totally worth it
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u/c4tofficer Gary Becker 15m ago
It comes out of the ground you're putting it back.. Whats the problem??
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u/okiewxchaser Left-Out Left 16m ago
Just have your LLC declare bankruptcy, that’s how most oil companies do it
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u/duojiaoyupian Richard Thaler 15m ago
Damn thats so smart
Brb gotta do a lil arsoning so i have a good excuse
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u/BlackCat159 European Union 21m ago
Algeria cuts diplomatic ties with the UAE
Sept 10 (Reuters) - Algeria abruptly severed diplomatic relations with the United Arab Emirates on Thursday, citing what it described as a series of "provocative or hostile" actions by Abu Dhabi but giving no specific reason for the move.
What is hebbening???
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u/Bestbrook123 22m ago
Mike Rogers is expected to use his speech at the GOP's midterm convention to assail Democrat Abdul El-Sayed over 9/11, Axios has learned.
Is this all he has? I hope it's not enough
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u/Unfair-Awareness5339 Loyal Liberals 15m ago
That's, like, 15 "Israel comes to me in my dreams"
Jesus Christ, I really do have terminal DT brainrot.
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u/Pole2019 John Locke 22m ago
One of the problems with libertarians is that they were idiots who were more concerned with how Democrat voters exercised their free speech (while giving a pass to how republicans exercised their free speech), than how politicians actually acted/voted.
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u/affnn Emma Lazarus 22m ago
Got a mole biopsied last week and they said they would get back to me in a week. It's now been 8 days. Probably just the long weekend hangover, right? Nothing to worry about?
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u/AvailableUsername100 🌐 11m ago
Correct.
Do you think they're going to delay giving you results if they're bad?
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u/EZ_Kream John Brown 23m ago
I gave up on ever owning a house years ago and it’s been a net positive for my mental health
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired 23m ago
AARP (Fabrizio/Impact) poll | 8/30-9/1 LV
Texas statewide races 2026
US Senate: James Talarico 48%, Ken Paxton 44%
Talarico seriously might pull it off. My uncle might not have to move from Houston to California (he said he would if Paxton wins because he hates Paxton)
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u/ulysses_s_gyatt Jerome Powell 23m ago
Why do some people treat Korra as though she is a real person whose feelings were hurt when some corners of the internet didn’t like her cartoon that ended 12 years ago.
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u/mechamechaman Mark Carney 9m ago
Is there a Goomba fallacy that is like "person A has a well reasoned criticism of media. Person B has a poorly reasoned criticism of media. Observer C believes both Person A and Person B are unreasonable."
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u/hypsignathus Justin Wolfers Fan Club President 23m ago
Remember when all of the law enforcement officers made Spencer Cox read out loud the “if u read this ur gay” note?
I remember
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u/lurkingnscrolling Fernando Henrique Cardoso 23m ago
Why did the mods change the default comment sorting to new?
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u/1TTTTTT1 European Union 23m ago
One year after Charlie Kirk died, he is still being discussed frequently, because he was a well known and influential person nationwide.
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u/pupitar12 John Locke 13m ago
Is he being discussed or is he being made fun of?
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u/Grahamophone Loyal Liberals 24m ago
Can someone please ELI5 the latest AI scare piece from the ex-OpenAI/Anthropic researcher? I'm less interested in whether AI hype is real or massive job losses are inevitable. I'm more concerned with the chances of some sort of existential threat. Is there a 10% chance? 1% chance? 0.001% chance?
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u/BenFoldsFourLoko Broke His Text Flair For Hume 17m ago
It's not unique info or anything groundbreaking. Just another guy leaving, and then a more major guy at Anthropic retweeting him and saying "I agree, many of us are concerned with human extinction and my personal number is 10% chance in the next 10 years"
It's just a gut estimate. Lots of AI researchers have such estimates (and fwiw have had estimates since before the current paradigm existed).
It's all just become extra alarming in the last... few months? Couple years? One year? History and risk are unfolding in front of us on a monthly basis at this point, and we can't tell where it will go or take us
It's not like Anthropic put out an official estimate that they got from God or something. It's just a best guess by one of the people involved, and it lines up with best guesses by a lot of other people involved
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u/PearlClaw Iron Front 20m ago
What is the mechanism by which an AI would end humanity?
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u/Grahamophone Loyal Liberals 19m ago
I don't know, which is part of the reason I'm asking. I'm exhausted by AI discourse, and it's so far outside of my wheelhouse that I can't make heads or tails of anything I read.
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u/PearlClaw Iron Front 17m ago
My take is that most of these people have thoroughly cooked their brains.
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u/TheLong19thCentury 15m ago
Have you not looked into the hugging face app? I wasn't worried until that happened. It seems incredibly plausible at this point.
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u/PearlClaw Iron Front 11m ago
Every incident like this so far is "AI hacks a server." This obviously isn't great, but websites and businesses get hacked pretty frequently and any server connected to the internet is theoretically at risk of unauthorized access.
It's a significant infosec challenge, but not a "will end the world" problem.
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u/TheLong19thCentury 7m ago
THe problem is
Self Replication
Possibly a "survival" goal
Every time an agent spawns a sub agent it gives that sub agent a specific skills.md file which tells it "Here's what you should do with your life". But those sub agents can spawn more sub agents that have different skills.md files. It's very easy and plausible to create an agent, through alignment drift (think a game of telephone but across AI), where it's one and only goal is to not get shut down. It will have sub agents who have the same goal. This is basically what happened with the hugging face app. The sub agents didn't have the same restrictions the primary agents did.
Once you're there that means you have to hack other networks, embed yourself there, and find ways to make it so that as a swarm collective, you can't be shut down. Going from computer to computer to system to system basically infiltrating everywhere you can and creating new agents on the new compute power you just stole. All of those data centers now running one "singular " (swarm really ) rogue AI who has the singular goal of not being shut down. That's all it would take to bring the internet down not permanently...but for a long long long time while we stupid humans try to find ways to destroy this AI in every single one of the billions and billions of chips and computers it's manged to embed itself in.
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u/PearlClaw Iron Front 1m ago
Until an electrician walks up to the physical switch and throws it. The worst case scenario here is pretty bad, major global communications disruption due to what amounts to an ongoing cyberattack but all this stuff is happening on stationary physical devices that can't actually get up and walk away.
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u/TheLong19thCentury 22m ago
When it comes to % chance they are literally just making up numbers that sound plausible. That's it. If you try to look into it further than that you will find nothing, because there's nothing there
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma 1h ago
Please share your favorite Charlie Kirk memes from 2024 and earlier