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Sometimes a project is largely whimsy and I don't think that's a bad thing. People don't "seriously" use 9front either, it kinda exists because there's a group of people who just want to make a unique thing.

I do somewhat agree on the beta label issue, but I would just put up a ymmv warning label and call it a day.

From what I understand about the Texas facility, SpaceX has also not honored their agreements regarding protected wildlife zones in the area. Damage from explosions is understandable, but they apparently not taken sufficient precautions to protect the surrounding area from their regular operations.

Western culture is hierarchical, hierarchy isn't inherently Western. Lots of cultures do it.

Oh I see. I guess that's one way of looking at it. I tend to favor appropriation because it simplifies the accounting. You don't need equal outcomes exactly, you just ensure that everyone has their basic needs met and the ability to improve themselves. Historical context matters, but the issue tends to boil down social instability due to repeated displacement (redlining, gentrification). Allow people get rooted into a place and they'll build whatever they need to flourish.

Yeah I guess we're talking about different things. Thanks for clarifying.

I think we're talking about different things then.

Nobody is asking for equal result. Equity means sharing the rewards of productivity, instead of allowing a group of people who do nothing get rich off of other people's hard work. That's fair.

Doing good work should be rewarded!

Ranked choice voting allows for instant run off elections. Should have a similar effect without requiring a full redo of the election.

Could you expand on that? My concept of fairness is pretty congruent with equity.

For context, states within 100mi of Salt Lake City are:

- Wyoming

- Idaho

100mi doesn't get you into the population center of either state. the western US is BIG, really you're talking like 1k miles to get anywhere that's meaningfully different from utah. Depending on where you live in utah, that might not get you out of the state either.

everyone is different, even if I'm biking/walking everywhere and working outside, I still need to work myself to exhaustion if I want to get any sleep. I currently train muay thai, but even when I was young and doing yard work for a living I still trained with my friends and played sports. heck, growing up my life was american football training during the day and after school, regular football a couple of times a week with friends, running around for fun, and then doing heavy yard work at home and at neighbor's houses on weekends.

Not that your's isn't valid, some people (like me) have a big surplus of energy that needs to go somewhere and sometimes the best available outlet is lifting weights.

Do the stats back up your anecdote? iirc Tesla autopilot has some bad failure cases

Yeah idk why they're so intent on doing this migration it seems silly and wasteful and bad for their image.

That's the idea!

Like I said, there are representation issues because money is speech which gives the rich extra say in policy. So it's not exactly that simple, because of the anti-democratic pro-rich bias in our legislative system, but we'll get there.

You misunderstand, I don't hate rich people, I want them to be accountable to a democratic system of governance aka paying their owed tax.

It's not about the special treatment, its about being equal under the law.

Tax loopholes which result in a lower effective tax rate. Lesser accountability for crimes. Ability to break any law which is penalized only with fines.

Do you really not know what rich people can get away with in the US?

Really paying taxes is fine, we have representation issues to fix, but we all gotta pay our fair share.

imo the problem is the special treatment of rich people and the way it encourages middle income people to act like temporarily embarrassed oligarchs instead of citizens of a republic.

Then the word you're looking for is likely Han, Chinese is only a nationality, not an ethnicity.

They're moving to Azure and had to fix up Azure first to be stable enough for GH to even consider moving.

I'm guessing its a combo of Azure still not being stable enough and a byproduct of trying to move an entire company's operations from a physical DC into a cloud while its running.

They wouldn't have to "invent a crime", circumventing state interests in strategic technology is likely already illegal.

What's the accountability mechanism here? Make a big fuss online and hope the bad press outweighs the negligence?

I mean, sure, but at a certain point negligent incompetence is directly harmful and the motives or lack thereof are just context.

Big agree, at a certain point a company is big enough that their impact has to be managed democratically. I don't have an issue with effective leaders, the problem is that we reward a certain kind of success with transferable credits that don't necessarily align with people's actual talents or skills.

I want skilled institutional investors who have a track records of making smart bets. I don't want a random person who happened to get lucky in business dictating investment policy for substantial parts of the economy. I want accountability for abuses and mismanagement.

I know China gets a bad rep, but their bird cage market economy seems a lot more stable and predictable than this wild west pyramid scheme stuff we do in the US. Maybe there are advantages for some people in our model, but I really dislike the part where we consistently reward amoral grifters.

I think addressing climate change is more of a policy issue. I think most people are onboard with addressing climate change (modulo some cranks who are open to idea that the earth is flat and oil company ceos ig). It just doesn't translate into policy due to corruption.

Everyone else on the planet is doing just fine our policymakers are just pretending like climate change isn't real. We could be investing in and subsidizing proven methods like mass transit, renewable energy, &c. Nobody has to be coerced for this to happen. Unless like getting less subsidies because fossil fuels need to get their externalities priced in is coercion lmao

They disabled the mirrors feature because they didn't want a bunch of accounts mirroring large repos and doing nothing else.

Forgejo does support mirrors, just not codeberg.

Due to the extremely competitive nature of the US economy, a lot of people have to choose between career success (having money) and starting a family (which is expensive). I know a lot of women who want to have a family, but have struggled to get to a comfortable economic position where they can actually do it. Compounded by the wage stagnation, which makes it hard for most people to support a family on a single income. We have hollowed out our third spaces, so its difficult for people to relax and socialize. Even vibing ends up being a kind of competition because of the high costs. Not to mention the perverse incentives in the housing market.

None of this is conducive to starting a family.

Wasn't it like a surreally peaceful dissolution?

I keep wondering when the west will get tired of having kings and they keep surprising me. I assume humanity get to The Culture eventually, but I'm starting to doubt that Americans will be leading the way on that front.

But maybe Altmans AI will break out and do it for us.

Isn't the problem that Altman and his peers are calling the shots here? We could use robots to work less and spend more time enjoying life, but we can only imagine being crushed under a boot and starving.