reliabilityguy

I am not informed enough about AfDs platform to judge.

My comment was more about how the US media/english-speaking media describes non-left parties. All the populists on the left side of the spectrum are “left wing”, but their political counterparts are always “far” right.

Today anything that is not left is labeled as far right in the media.

I think journalists have to realize that crying wolf always stops working when you need it the most.

> I have a general tendency to know things. I think it has something to do with my brain.

Your brain can predict future?

> But also, I read about how this tech works. Have you? If so, how are you possibly still confused about this?

I think that in 1900s there were a lot of people that were saying the same things you are saying about brothers Wright and their inventions. And yet, if there is demand and value in specific things people will find a way to make it work cost effectively and at scale.

> that they’re completely infeasible technology, and even if not, then this certainly ain’t the way to do it.

How do you know?

> It is very impressive engineering, just not very useful or ever going to result in any viable product.

How do you know?

Sounds like another “640K ought to be enough for anybody”.

Why does it matter? Did you ask the same question in 2007-8 when the first Waymo cars were on the streets for testing?

No.

It’s a cool concept car, and very impressive engineering. I don’t get why people hate on it so much.

Out of curiosity, what’s wrong with photos? Do you mean the one on the Mac or the iOS version?

But there is “elsewhere”. You can buy directly from the manufacturer.

I do not get the complaint. People shop at Amazon because they see the value Amazon provides: easy returns, free and fast shipping, etc.

Costco is a membership club, and AFAIK these have different rules.

> Amazon pays $20/hour because most people don't have the mental constitution to put up with it. It's pretty dull.

And Walmart gets away with $14 because Walmart is intellectually stimulating?

> How often do you buy stuff online?

At least 3-4 times a week, ranging from groceries to various household items, like water filters and what not.

I mean, different people have different behavioral patterns and preferences, if Amazon is not for you, it’s fine. It definitely works for me and saves me a lot of time.

Amazon delivers next day or the same day many of the items if you have Prime.

I tried many times to order something directly, and most of the time it’s the same price and longer shipping. So, for me in terms of convenience Amazon wins.

> All that weight needs power to get into motion

I doubt that modern SUV is heavier.

> More importantly, when will the common folk stop delegating critical thinking to these corporations?

When were the times when people didn’t outsource the critical thinking to others?

> He still won because of the issues he was campaigning on which are important for the people.

Well, it's easier to blame his win on other factors than to acknowledge this. Hell, Trump gained like 20+ points in some of NYC boroughs.

Sure, or I can rephrase it a bit:

“ The campaign funds can of course be used on wedge issues that don't actually relate to <put your issue here>”

See? And we are back to square one.

PS moreover, democrats had spent way more money in the past presidential campaign than republicans. So, clearly money is not the only factor here.

>It's give him a slight bump up and Harris a slight push down

You can literally make the same argument about any other issue X, from transgender issue, gay marriage, taxes, covid, etc., etc.

> No one voted for Trump

Plenty of muslims from Michigan voted for Trump, some even made it to the news regretting their votes. You can easily find a variety of news articles from different outlets about this.

>That's ridiculous. The uncommitted movement and pro-Palestinians in general were very clear that they were not voting for Harris because she refused to back away from Biden's genocidal and pro-Israel policies.

What is ridiculous is to think that "pro-Palestinians" are a monolithic body that voted and thought exactly like you. First of all, even among the "pro-Palestinians" the opinions on what does it mean to be "pro-Palestinians" range from one extreme to the other, and second, it is ridiculous, in my opinion, to assume that Arabs and muslims did not vote for Trump at all despite his pro-Israeli stance.

I do not think that Arabs in Michigan voted against her because of Israel. I think people make their votes based on the variety of factors, and not a single one.

No, I’m not buying this argument at all. I think most voters are not single issue voters as you make them to be. Democratic Party on average advocates for pretty progressive values compared to those held by a typical middle eastern person, e.g., gay marriage, abortion, etc. For me it’s easier to believe that they weighted the issue of supporting Israel vs progressive social causes and decided based on that not to support democratic nominee.

The must-win bloc voted against Kamala knowing that it will help to elect even worse candidate w.r.t. relationship with Israel?

> Nothing incongruent there.

Doesn’t look this way to me. If Israeli lobby is so powerful to make sure that Trump is elected, then why stop there?

It seems to me that it’s always easier to blame someone for failures than to do an actual post mortem.

> The Israeli lobby poured a lot of money into his campaign after 10-7

Israeli lobby has enough money to elect Trump but not to change perception of Israel?

Can it be that Trump won because the public was fed up by the previous administration?

WaPo, NYT, The Atlantic, NPR, and many others.

I am confused. Are you ashamed of “our” crimes (I’m not who the “our” refers to), and this is why you are fine with the atrocities done by Houthis?

> Just because something can be done doesn't make it good for the society.

In this case the consequences will make people to elect a better government next time and try better ideas. Democracy at work.

> That goes well beyond simply making sure that people are able to care for themselves.

I am not sure in understand the issue, if Japanese want this, what’s the problem?

> ACA?

How’s ACA hard-hitting on corporations?

The 15/20 rules is what resulted in recorder profits in health insurance business, how’s this anti-corporate?

HBM is a stack of DRAMs, so there is no “instead”.