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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I assume he thinks this will win over more Gen Z than it will lose him Boomers, and no one will ever hold him to this promise anyway.

[–] [email protected] 176 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (10 children)

Countries ranked in descending order by number of school shootings from 2009-2018:

  • United States: 288
  • Mexico: 8
  • South Africa: 6
  • Afghanistan: 3
  • Brazil, Canada, France: 2
  • Azerbaijan, China, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Kenya, Russia, Turkey: 1

One of these is not like the others. This isn't exactly a fact of life in other parts of the world.

Source

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

People just don't want to believe that China can win at capitalism because it undermines all their internal narratives around the innovation power of liberalism. I say this as someone who does not personally like China and its authoritarianism.

The fact of the matter is with a population of nearly 1.5 billion people, you're statistically guaranteed to have enormous pools of talent to draw on. Even a relatively modest per capita investment in education, focused on key objectives and funneled into the portion of the talent pool that they've managed to identify, will be able to yield massive innovation.

A lot of people will suffer under this authoritarianism. The people from these talent pools will be exploited and burnt out at a young age. This is already happening in China. But as a nation, it will be able to position itself extremely well technologically and economically, and this is a reality the rest of the world needs to be prepared to deal with.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Which is exactly the position that the Rust for Linux devs have understood and accepted for themselves, and yet they still get yelled at (literally, in public, on recordings) by C Linux devs for existing.

Oh and they get snidely told that introducing the Rust language must be a mistake because suggestions to introduce other languages to the kernel turned out to be mistakes and obviously Rust is the same as all those other languages according to C developers who, by their own admission, have never used or learned anything about Rust beyond a superficial glance at some of its syntax (again this was recorded from a public event).

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

This is very insulting, Dr. Doom is an intelligent and effective ruler, please do not draw such an unfair comparison between him and Musk. Fictional character feelings matter.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

It sure worked out positively for her Walz pick.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I actually remember her being a standout at the debates until Tulsi Gabbard managed to latch onto a line of attack that hurt her credibility as the progressive candidate that she was presenting herself as. Shortly after that traction was lost I think she saw the writing on the wall and exited gracefully, which obviously worked in her favor because it made it easy for Biden to tap her for VP.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

PG&E was literally the villain in the real life Erin Brockovich story.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I really can't feel bad for these women that get involved with jackass conservative men. There were plenty of signals that they either ignored or saw as green flags. For her to be in her position is either extreme negligence or sheer karma, probably the latter.

But I feel very bad for any children that land in that position. They did nothing to deserve what they're going through.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The best way to draw a conclusion is to stop taking estrogen and keep playing until his estrogen level is back to what it was previously and see if there was any correlating loss of ranking.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It worked for Trump, why not for others? 🤷‍♂️

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