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The right was also calling to cancel people back then. They've just gotten more flagrant now. I'm not sure you can even call it hypocrisy since they don't even pretend to have principles besides whatever Trump wants. The government is blackmailing private companies now. I don't watch Kimmel but looking up stories his comments didn't seem at all offensive, please tell me what I missed.

Isnt dynamic scoping a bit similar to Dependency Injection? Maybe there's a form of it that could be useful. Like explicit dynamic scopes?

They don't. They get elected president despite committing crimes

If we had laws Trump would be in jail. If we respected immigration laws Trump would be in jail. Since he he's in the white house I don't think we can saw the US takes following the law very seriously

Yes it was them following the law and being unbiased.

Many of the people involved in prosecuting them are Republicans. Trump is the most corrupt president we've ever had and many of his allies are similarly corrupt.

These days they know they just have to follow the maga line to get out of jail free. The Attorney General of Texas was so ridiculously corrupt he was about to be impeached by Texas Republicans but then he just claimed it was a witchhunt against maga got Trump on his side and suddenly impeachment was cancelled and he's polling a win in the next Senate primary.

Also Trump supported an attempted violent coup in addition to things like telling the Georgia Secretary of State to find him votes after the voting.

Trump has been described as a threat to democracy by many leading conservatives and Republicans. Many of them have had their careers ended and been slandered by former associates despite being conservative who had dedicated decades to the party while Trump doesn't care about ideology or party or outcomes only himself.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/22/politics/trump-fascist-john-k... Trump's former chief of Staff General John Kelly

> in a series of interviews published Tuesday, saying the former president fits “into the general definition of fascist” and that he spoke of the loyalty of Hitler’s Nazi generals.

> He also confirmed to The Atlantic that Trump had said he wished his military personnel showed him the same deference Adolf Hitler’s Nazi generals showed the German dictator during World War II, and recounted the moment.

> Do you mean Bismarck’s generals?’” Kelly told The Atlantic he’d asked Trump. He added, “I mean, I knew he didn’t know who Bismarck was, or about the Franco-Prussian War. I said, ‘Do you mean the kaiser’s generals? Surely you can’t mean Hitler’s generals?’ And he said, ‘Yeah, yeah, Hitler’s generals.’ I explained to him that Rommel had to commit suicide after taking part in a plot against Hitler

It's not

Democrats believe that unions help keep wages high and are good for the economy.

If Musk wasn't anti union he probably would have been invited. I say probably because of Teslas issues with racial discrimination

The counterpoint is that there is no rational or sane defense of Trump. The rest of the media criticized Biden plenty, arguably way too much in their attempts to be seen as neutral. Meanwhile there is almost nothing good about Trump. So if they write like 90% stories that seem to be against Trump it means they're biased towards Trump.

Almost regardless of political positions it's hard to argue Trump is fit or qualified to be president. He is openly corrupt, persuing an economic policy the vast majority of Conservative economists think is idiotic, and has called our veterans losers. Has never held any other government post has no knowledge of government policies and worse doesn't care to learn. Even though his ignorance is causing a lot of damage including to his voters he doesn't seem to care to learn about how any policy stuff works.

To counter that you need media like Fox or worse OAN/News Max to put out propaganda because it's impossible for even the most partisan person to defend him if they're an honest and thoughtful person

I'm not sure America had that sort of cult thing pre Trump. JFK was pretty popular as was Regan but even they weren't the same. You guys do have a vote of no confidence which theoretically is easier to pull off then impeachment (majority vote)

Policy difference not partisan squables or payback for supporting his opponents. Most Democrats feel Unions are important to help workers (union and nonunion) earn more.

That's because of the amount of content which keeps increasing. Even outsourcing to low cost countries it wouldn't be cheap to hire thousands or tens of thousands of people to review cases. Still you need to have humans in there somewhere.

Good. We should be praising Google for that decision. That made many bad ones but that seems obviously good and saved a number of lives

I don't think software has ever worked "well".

Nice. I was just looking at how to copy the python version of the barebones ruby agent https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43984860. I found sw-llm and tried to find how to pass it tools but was having difficulty finding it in the docs

Elon campaigned for the German far right party which basically everyone including Germans conservative party regards as fascist. It's not a far left thing to oppose that

Anyone who is actually paying attention is worried. Not because it's likely, it would be absolutely rediculous. But then again many things Trump has done are obviously stupid and absolutely rediculous. Like the tarrifs. Or threatening to annex Canada. That's no laughing matter.

I failed to see how there's anything abusive about it. And it's not a marriage. Marriages can be ended. Generally most countries don't have exit clauses. Secession and splitting are freak events that usually only happen under extreme circumstances. Trying to do something if not nearly enough to slow down climate change is a terrible justification for leaving Canada

How is it ridiculous? Climate change is very bad. Limiting oil exploration seems very reasonable

I would not support it. I'm skeptical that many Americans would either. Would be clearly illegal and might encourage separatism in other places like the US

Higher education is what made America rich and powerful and influential. Many immigrants who come to these schools stay there. Many others form positive links between their counties and the US. International students pay more and therefore subsidize American students. Kicking them out would likely increase the price, which is not a huge deal with Harvard but would be incredibly damaging if say he did this to all universities including state ones

Besides this is just Trump abusing and violating the law to go after his enemies. It could be anyone next including you. Impartial rule of law is one of the core aspects of a liberal democracy. It's one of the reasons we are better then corrupt Dictatorships. It's like Nixon but worse and more open. What we need is Trump and maga to be knocked down many pegs before they destroy our country (please remember you live here in the place Trump is destroying)

Yeah people like shiny rocks. Luckily we switched to a more stable system after the great depression. Although with this major tarrifs war who knows maybe Trump will decide to really collapse us economy and switch to the gold syatem

Median home prices have risen. Home prices have gotten out of control due to limits on supply that's one of the main factors of inflation. Cars today are very different then cars back then and come with more features. The dollar is what we use for currency and the measurement of inflation is well defined (even if there can be good faith argument of which inflation works better especially when comparing long term) meanwhile gold is just shiny rocks

Henry Ford had about 200Billiin adjusted for inflation around that time. Not quite as high as a couple of guys today but not that far off

Poe's law strikes again. Is this supposed to be a parody of goldbugs or do you seriously think Americans were that much richer in 1945? Without a wink we don't know

There are definitely some c++ features that some people have been clamoring for for over a decade

Pattern matching for one(although to be fair that's been in rust from the start)

its not design by committee its design by Pull request It doesn't have a central https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_dictator_for_life like python used to so people suggest and implement features as a group, with code counting for a lot (although theoretical issues with safety/design also matter) as opposed to companies arguing for their pet features endlessly without much difference. Look at how long it takes C++ to get any new features.

Yes it does. Paying for a land delegating work to locals is one of the most common patterns for federal action.

Pork is good. Pork helps grease the wheels of government, it helps things pass and helps facilitate compromise.

You are allowed to be against waste a lot of things that people claim are waste aren't. A lot of things are relatively insignificant compared to the size of the full budget. More communication with parents on how to prevent infant deaths seems like a cheap and worthwhile thing to do rather then waste. Maybe you should have picked something else

> There 86 domains names starting with "www" in the .va zone,[6] with many more email-only subdomains.

https://www.vatican.va/siti_va/index_va_en.htm

This seems incredibly unlikely https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abduction_of_Shin_Sang-ok_an...

> To defend themselves should they ever escape North Korea, Choi and Shin decided to sneak in a tape recorder to their conversations with Kim Jong Il so they would have proof that they did not willingly leave the South. In one conversation recorded on October 19, 1983, Kim spoke openly about his plot to kidnap Shin and Choi to upgrade North Korea's film industry. He told Shin and Choi that it would be best if they spoke to the press saying that they came to North Korea voluntarily.[3] Shin and Choi attended a press conference on April 12, 1984, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia where they said they were in North Korea by their own choosing.

Yes us Americans just say kiwis instead of kiwifruits. Not too many kiwi birds or New Zealanders in the states so there's not much confusion