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If this were to happen, who would get the highest viewership ratings?

Ok for your other questions

Zelensky was disrespectful in many ways. He’s only still in this fight because of the US. He knew damn well why he was flown to Washington this time. Trump wants the ceasefire. He should be thankful for what he’s getting instead of confrontational. He is owed absolutely nothing.

> When considering your answer, if you had children, would you be proud of them if they behaved this way?

If they were genuinely wanting peace, yes. If it was theatrics with bad intent, no.

> Why should the U.S. stop aiding Ukraine?

First and foremost, I don’t want war. I don’t want to contribute weapons to send people to die pointlessly.

Second, even if you’re pro war, the United States has crumbling infrastructure, massive debt, and plenty of people who have paid taxes that themselves need help. We are not in a position to be pouring billions of dollars to non citizens at this point in time.

> who mistakenly believed that appeasement (note that “peace” is a root word) would stop Germany from further territorial invasions?

I don’t think you can point to that story and automatically prove that that’s what this is. Sure it’s a great lesson on what to watch for but it’s also a great story line for war hawks.

> do you believe Trump’s and Vance’s behavior was appropriate for their appointed roles (as leaders and heads of state)?

From the perspective of transparency, what more could you ask for? We saw passion for making a peace deal. But peace is not everybody’s priority.

This conflict has not been solved in decades of closed room talks. Why would anybody think that’s the way to keep going?

It’s quite simple: Trump wants peace. Zelensky is in the position of the beggar and was disrespectful. Zelensky should accept a ceasefire and work toward peace and the US should stop giving them money and resources immediately.

And the reason for my meta comment about HN is because honestly I’m dismayed and disappointed with what this place has turned into. There is only room for one opinion now. And sadly, peace is not the opinion. “Trump want peace. Trump bad. Peace bad.”

He’s entitled to be livid. But beggars can’t be choosers. And he’s in the position of the beggar.

I, for one, don’t want to keep dumping money on him throwing his citizens into the meat grinder.

Because what we need is less transparency! /s

Your prompt is non-sense. Maybe try to form your thoughts a bit better and try again?

You have no problems with wasteful spending of tax payers money?

Are you willing to live with the fact that you may be wrong and she’s right?

I left Vanguard over their decision to restrict investments into Bitcoin and moved to Fidelity. I view investment platforms as tools to express and communicate my investing theses. I do not want to be censored and unable to express my investment theses by a paternal company that “knows better” than me.

Reddit started off libertarian in its early days and has since gone radically far left. And similarly, HN has slowly drifted further and further left.

%-wise there are just fewer libertarian-minded people here these days.

Money based on violence.

> BTC was "advertised" as either the money of the future, which it is not

You keep casually dismissing it as money. Give it about 2 years and you’ll realize you were incredibly wrong about this take. Between country adoption, lightning, infrastructure, integrations - bitcoin is already there now but it will become undeniable in roughly 2 years time.

You can onboard to Bitcoin with $10 in USD and use it to buy groceries.

Bitcoin is the only sound money in existence. It will slowly devour fiat currency over time and humanity will benefit.

There are quite a few similarities to the fall of monarchies.

> we are becoming less tolerant

This is partly true. But also - life is too short. There isn’t enough time in the day to engage socially with people you don’t have a connection with.

> "your body, my choice"

The sad thing is you could be referencing the left with Covid vaccines or the right with abortion.

Source?

You’ve been lied to.

> tesla bulls

I’m not a Tesla financial speculator.

Consider the effort it would take a normal individual to prove how well their cars FSD works for them. Now consider how somebody with no investment in the technology stands to benefit from that level of effort. That’s ridiculous. If you’re curious about the technology, go spend time with it. That’s a better way to gather data. And then you don’t have to troll forums calling people liars.

Open discussion and sharing different experiences with technology is “annoying noise” to you but not to me. Slamming technology that works great for others should receive no counter points and become an echo chamber or what?

It’s the counter-point to the “it doesn’t work for me” posts. Are you okay with those ones?

You can believe what you want to believe. It works fantastic for me whether you believe it or not.

I do wonder if people who have wildly different experiences than I have are living in a part of the country that, for one reason or another, Tesla FSD does not yet do as well in.

Completely agree. It’s very strange. But honestly it’s their loss. FSD is fantastic.

I can second this experience. I rarely touch the wheel anymore. I’d say I’m 98% FSD. I take over in school zones, parking lots, and complex construction.

Is it possible you have a lemon? Genuine question. I’ve had nothing but positive experiences with FSD for the last several months and many thousands of miles.

That sucks that you had that negative experience. I’ve driven thousands of miles in FSD and love it. Could not imagine going back. I rarely need to intervene and when I do it’s not because the car did something dangerous. There are just times I’d rather take over due to cyclists, road construction, etc.

Overtime rates are not worth being interrupted during time off. I’d rather lose out on money and have my precious time.

> turn the screws on our employees

This is gross..

> I also started looking into every legal protection I had available to me in my jurisdiction.

But so is this. I’d rather quit some crappy place than rely on legal protections.

> “I … love to be interrupted”

Can you elaborate on this?