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yuckyon American IQ scores have rapidly dropped, proving the 'Reverse Flynn effect'

Why would the government care if you're left or right, as long as you are a faithful consumer.

yuckyon Whole Foods closes San Francisco flagship after one year, citing worker safety

  > he had finally started focusing on violent crime instead of, “quality of life” crime like shoplifting and vandalism.

Why not both?

yuckyon Whole Foods closes San Francisco flagship after one year, citing worker safety

Worked in New York.

yuckyon The Tyranny of Science over Mothers

  > this disregard for the English language is truly despicable. You ought to be ashamed.

I mean, you brought race into it and implied I would care more if it happened to a white woman. That is the textbook definition of race-baiting. Both of your examples knew they were pregnant and abused drugs that killed the fetus. And both happened before Roe was overturned. So is there a point you're trying to make somewhere?

  > Says who? Some prosecutor?

The law, which is written by legislators democratically elected by the populace of the area they serve. That's how democracy works. If you think giving meth or valium to a baby or a developing fetus is a woman's prerogative, then I'm not sure there is any point in this discussion.

  > If a man takes a Valium, he won't be charged with anything.

Neither will a woman. Now if she is breastfeeding or pregnant that is a different story because it is no longer just her consuming the drug. She is no longer just endangering herself at that point. If a man endangers a child he will be charged as well. And in fact men face far heavier sentences in the legal system than women do. [0]

[0] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/women-arent-always-sent...

yuckyon Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut It All Down

  > Tell the world you will stop development until alignment is figured out.

Oh alignment was figured out already, look at who is on the board of OpenAI and the connections they have to US intelligence.

yuckyon Pentagon, Justice Dept investigate as secret military documents appear online

This is a tremendously naïve take on the situation.

yuckyon I did the math. SF is 2.6x more dangerous per sq mi than any other US city

Everybody knows it's safer to live in the country, but that's not the argument he's making. He's saying it's also safer to live in any other city. I don't know if it's a great methodology though, going per sq mile.

yuckyon Twitter won’t allow retweeting tweets linking to Substack

Talk about a bad faith argument. Nobody took away NY Times blue check except themselves when they refused to pay for the subscription like everyone else. Just like they won't let me view their articles without a subscription, so they should understand how that works as well as anybody.

yuckyon America is back in the factory business

A garment district holds no strategic value, so that wouldn't necessarily carry over to manufacturing.

yuckyon Twitter won’t allow retweeting tweets linking to Substack

Shady sourcing = the actual laptop and the contents which later proved to be 100% correct. Also, Zerohedge was banned for quite awhile for the same thing.

yuckyon I wish GPT4 had never happened

You want to increase depression, this is how you do it.

People need shit to do, and as much as we lie to ourselves that everyone is a budding artist who if only freed from the bounds of work would create the worlds next masterpiece - that is just not reality. Most people would actually sit around getting high/drunk, playing video games, watching porn and being miserable.

yuckyon I wish GPT4 had never happened

  > companies can potentially produce 10 times as many products/services

How exactly is that a good thing? We already consume too much, now we will have 10x as much to consume? Unlikely that demand for "the things" goes up 10x, which means the value will drop.

yuckyon Twitter won’t allow retweeting tweets linking to Substack

They banned NY Post for reporting on Hunter Biden's laptop and the contents showing "10% for the big guy" in reference to his father getting kickbacks on some shady Ukrainian and Chinese deals that Hunter facilitated.

yuckyon Obamacare Created Big Medicine

  > despite the fact that their bill was basically Romneycare.

Romneycare was a plan built for one particular state, one of the main problems with the ACA was trying to replicate that state-based plan across 50 states that all have various systems.

yuckyon NSA created online cybersecurity course with 100s of classes

  > Millions of innocent civilians in the middle east aren't as happy about it though.

yuckyon Twitter won’t allow retweeting tweets linking to Substack

So it's no different than it was before, so what's the problem?

yuckyon Twitter won’t allow retweeting tweets linking to Substack

I think most people against censorship are still against it. I just find it ironic that the people who supported censorship before are now up in arms.

yuckyon Twitter won’t allow retweeting tweets linking to Substack

I'm old enough to remember when we were told Twitter isn't the government so this isn't a free speech issue and if people don't like it they can build their own platform and blah blah blah..

Does that still hold now?

yuckyon Twitter won’t allow retweeting tweets linking to Substack

As we've heard millions of times before when the shoe was on the other foot, this is not a free speech issue. Even more so now that Twitter is a private company.

yuckyon NPR won’t tweet from NPR until Twitter removes false “state-affiliated” label

Someone else mentioned this, but there are a couple million government employees, a change in Administration doesn't really impact that in any meaningful way because the federal government is absolutely massive. NPR does have a bias towards the US-centric neoliberal order, regardless of which party is in power. In that sense, it is at least partially funded by government and parroting pro-US government messaging.

It's nowhere on the level of some countries but it's not exactly an independent media outlet and we shouldn't pretend it is.

yuckyon Column: US money supply falling at fastest rate since 1930s

Can you elaborate?

yuckyon Dang is going to have 65,535 karma points soon

I disagree with this completely. I've been spanked a couple times by dang and it was warranted both times. And although I felt I was correct in what I posted, the tone wasn't right for this place, hence the warnings. That sort of thing is precisely why HN hasn't become Reddit-like.

yuckyon Japan Breaks with U.S. Allies, Buys Russian Oil at Prices Above Cap

  > I'm sure Trump's blatant attempts to do so as confirmed by several members of his own administration are particularly outrageous to you. Strange that you didn't mention it.

Yes, a bunch of Trump's dealings are outrageous to me. One of the many reasons I didn't vote for him, he's a con artist. That doesn't change anything with the shady dealings, coercion and outright bribery that Biden has been involved in as VP and now as President.

yuckyon Donald Trump Under Arrest

Bail is designed to ensure you show back up for proceedings, and to protect the community if you present a danger to others. If you don't present a danger to others and you aren't running anywhere, then personal recognizance makes sense. It's an imperfect system but the solution is to give personal recognizance bail to more people not fewer.

yuckyon Japan Breaks with U.S. Allies, Buys Russian Oil at Prices Above Cap

You didn't answer the question. We promised to give a billion dollars, then threatened to withhold it if they didn't do what we wanted. That is not a gift or a donation, that makes it a bribe. That was also a clear example of coercion - and it was done by our current President who was VP at the time.

I'm sure you were well aware of this and many other examples and yet you are on here pretending we don't use those tactics in Ukraine. Why?

yuckyon Japan Breaks with U.S. Allies, Buys Russian Oil at Prices Above Cap

So which one is this an example of - not coercion or not bribery? Or not both:

https://www.wsj.com/video/opinion-joe-biden-forced-ukraine-t...

yuckyon The Mullvad Browser

  > Unreliant on Chrome?

Correct, completely forked from Chromium (not Chrome) and in separate development. Brave continues to roll out superior features while the rest of the Chromium world lags.

yuckyon Japan Breaks with U.S. Allies, Buys Russian Oil at Prices Above Cap

  > What do you think diplomats do?

Well, large parts of our diplomatic corps tend to foment and finance coup's around the world. We're pretty smart about it though, first we bring in the NGO's like The National Endowment for Democracy (and many others) which act as an outsourced part of our CIA, then we apply pressure from within. Our playbook is pretty well known by now.

Or wait, how many coups do you think the US has actually been involved in since WWII?

Then again, the fact that you claim the US uses no coercion means you're probably trolling and I fell for it, so well played.

yuckyon Sign the Small Software Business Coalition Letter to Congress

Remember when people were cheering that the Biden Administration added 87,000 new IRS agents. Surprise surprise..

yuckyon The Mullvad Browser

Brave is a separate fork and completely unreliant on Chrome. It also is the most privacy-focused browser so it's the opposite of "tracking-supported software".