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No it's not, the current regime is very open about how excited they are about getting that oil and very hand wavy about everything else.

It would be ridiculous to argue that the current regime has any genuine concerns or interest about democracy, drug trafficking (even just pardoned one), or the legitimacy of Venezuela's government.

That very good reason's name? Manufacturing Consent. Iraq WMDs 2.0 brought to you by Mr No New Wars.

> probably rightfully

Surely we're all old enough to know that's an obvious lie. The US government probably doesn't know or care if Maduro is a dictator, they're just here for the oil.

> hard time following through positions logically,

Spoken like a person who either doesn't know or doesn't care that current anti-abortion policies in several red states have women scared to get pregnant, despite wanting to do so voluntarily, because doctors are refusing life saving procedures on the mother if the state can possibly perceive it as abortion, leading to many scenarios of live births to dead mothers, including one case of a corpse being artificially kept alive for weeks for the sake of the baby.

The abortion laws of most blue states are already a rational compromise (still a very conservative leaning one) between the practical rights of women and the religious beliefs of far right totalitarians.

If I say yes, are we going to start building high speed rail?

2010 is the year I personally go with. I could be too young to realize it actually started in 2005.

Either way, "no longer trying" is how I would describe the US leadership over the last 2 (or more!) decades.

Common sense would say that if you're writing a long message, you should draft it in a better editor than a chat program.

Also fed up with skyrocketing rent and food greedflation...

Enough about Trump, this thread is about Mamdani.

TIL that giving book buyers the choice between the classic uncensored version of a book and a revised version of a book with blatant antisemitism removed, a choice provided by a book publisher, is an example of the Democrats being almost as bad as Republicans.

> Larger numbers of people are rising up against the CCP and recent events are becoming more and more frequent.

Do you have a source on that, preferably one that's not quoting a cult like the chinese version of scientology, not uploading daily china-will-collaspse-soon videos, not a tankie, or other random type of propaganda/fanboy outlet?

There is definitely a type of famine going on in the US right now, 40 million are struggling with food insecurity. There is also a crises of healthy food being unaffordable, so people are essentially eating 2x their daily calories while getting 0.5x their daily nutrients. Then there are multiple political decisions that have already been made this year that will result in various forms of crop loss (migrants scared to show up at work) and disease outbreak (RFKJr's raw milk). The results of which are likely to impact food prices. The people who are hit hardest by this will already have been hit the hardest by greedflation in rent.

No, the problem is when the markets are freer than the people.

Interesting that they pick transpeople to have a phobia over, considering the fact is you're far more likely to be assaulted in the bathroom by a cis man, transvestigator, republican, Christian, or ICE agent than a transwoman.

Are they actually contrarians or are they people who were looking deeply into the topic and noticed both a bubble and an opportunity?

I forgot what SCP-055 was, but I do remember it was the one that really hooked me into the SCP world.

> This leads the platform to publish dodgy stories from the right, with the appearance that they are just as valid as high-fact reporting from the left or the center.

Sadly, this is downstream of mainstream news itself. I think if Ground News attempted to truly solve this problem, the right would condemn Ground News as "fake news" or controlled by Soros like they do Wikipedia.

I'm looking to be skeptical of Ground News, because almost all YouTube sponsors are scams, and we remember Honey was recently exposed as a scam, but this isn't enough to convince me.

What's really the difference between union guys playing a little bit of cards on the boss's dime and the boss paying you poverty wages so he can upgrade to a bigger yacht? might as well pick the option that's going to have your back.

> I've heard of doctors refusing to recommend weight loss to their patients for fear of being accused of "body shaming".

I've literally never heard of this, in fact I've heard hundreds of stories about doctors refusing to put any effort into giving people a real diagnosis if they're even the slightest bit overweight.

Probably would have been much better under communism for the last 30 years, if you want to go by comparing China's last 30 years of growth and prosperity and comparing that to my state's last 30 years of stagnation and methlabsperity.

You could probably find 10 separate videos of "public safety officers" assaulting innocent people by shooting them with rubber bullets for no discernible reason or by trampling them with horses (also for no discernible reason), and that's only from the last 2 days.

Every odd frame will be click bait, every even frame will be an ad.

It would be nice if you could download some minified-for-LLM doc file that gave the LLM the public interface of the lib(s) you were using.

> One person’s freedom fighter is another person’s terrorist.

Lol no, not even close. One person was asked nicely to wear masks and lock down and offered massive PPP loans, the other is resisting federal storm troopers kidnapping people at their place of work who are being sent to overseas concentration camps with their constitutional right to due process being violated.

It's a great example of Move Fast and Break Things applied to government.

> Its quite simple, Gender studies research has a massive negative ROI when you account for the increased surgeries, medication, therapy, and funeral expenses that it causes, promotes, "normalizes" or otherwise makes more common.

That's a lot of words when you could have just said that you're against individualism and personal freedom.

A clock that's 5 seconds, 5 minutes, or 5 hours ahead, or counts an hour as 61 minutes, is still more useful than a clock that does not move it's hands at all.

> You could say the same thing about tulip bulbs or any other famous bubble. Lots of smart people with no stake get sucked in.

While I agree with the skepticism, what specifically is the stake here? Most code assists have usable plans in the $10-$20 range. The investors are apparently taking a much bigger risk than the consumer would be in a case like this.

Aside from the horror stories about people spending $100 in one day of API tokens for at best meh results, of course.

"I forgot to put a lock on my front door and got broken into. Twice."

wow great security advice, maybe add another pro tip like "look out the front window when you vibe drive your car".

Low Poly is a market signal for not-filled-with-microtranactions in addition to nostalgia. Plus, a tiny indie dev team who is passionate (not greedy) can do a coherent art design around low poly, whereas anything higher might 100x the work/budget required to make the game look like it's not a salad of random disjointed asset packs.