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ChatGPT’s First Victim + The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) | Prof G Markets (47:59)
  • I would argue nobody should platform Scott Galloway, the Nothing Studies professor from NYU, which is not a real university. This man has ZERO value, yet somehow has infinite license to bloviate across all media infinitely somehow. A fucking moron and waste of oxygen and calories that could be consumed by rats with more value.

  • This Is a Bad Use of a Democratic Lame-Duck Period
  • This is based on the false assumption that the Biden/Cheney DNC has non-dead Arab child goals. They're killing it (and them) on that front and are honestly happy to be out of power so the hippies stop yelling at them about their genocides. Biden is living his best life pardoning turkeys and wandering into the rain forest while babies starve and surgeons are raped to death by the IDF.

  • China is socialist!!! Meanwhile reactionaries be mad.
  • Healthcare is cheaper and more available than the US in every non-US economy on the planet. But if I am one of the 30% of young male Chinese who can't find a job... Developing infrastructure is nice, but, how do empty cities built for the sake of building or subway stops that never open in the jungle miles out of town help anyone? To quote The Little Red Book: "The Communist Party does not fear criticism because we are Marxists, the truth is on our side, and the basic masses, the workers and peasants, are on our side." Who is arguing in bad faith here?

  • China is socialist!!! Meanwhile reactionaries be mad.
  • Do I need to try to find the Marx quote about savings and how that's an admission the state isn't providing safety in a way that actually undermines markets? I will if I must, but I feel this has to be bad faith if you're not already familiar with it in this context.

  • TERF rule
  • Most trans women PASS, it's why you're doing it. Transphobes tend to assume Conchita/RuPaul drag performance is trans, but it's not, it's a gay thing mocking gender, not trying to pass. The MTG butch ladies of the world are the ones who are going to have security guards checking their vages for authenticity, not anyone able to afford jawbone sanding like the Delaware rep.

  • China is socialist!!! Meanwhile reactionaries be mad.
  • Okay, then why are Chinese savings rates so high relative to income if they're well supported by the state for basic care like healthcare needs? Eliminating "extreme" poverty by being awesome at capitalism and maintaining French or worse levels of youth unemployment is the dream of Ronald Reagan, not Mao. Is the right to a job not a BASIC maxim of anything left of FDR, much less Mao?

  • [rant] everytime i give it a chance, btrfs lets me down
  • I looked at net use in whatever the KDE utility is to find current use (this was also a jarring shift, suddenly everything was broken because the drive was full overnight when it should have been 30% free and only 600-ish GB WERE per the utility). Figuring it was snapshots, I installed btrfs assistant and there were no snapshots. Btrfs subvolume just shows my root, home, and a snapshot I made just before I upgraded to Fedora 41, which was well after the memory disappeared. My theory has been it is somehow NFS caching gone wrong because this is connected to an NFS volume and maybe it's FUSE or whatever the modern equivalent is fucking up below btrfs even? I don't have btdu, what package provides that on Fedora?

  • China is socialist!!! Meanwhile reactionaries be mad.
  • I will give you that they do occasionally hang the odd executive, which I will give props for. I'd probably still be a dem if they had hung ONE executive in 2009. But if I don't have cash in pocket, I'll be left to die of treatable disease MORE on the streets of Beijing than NYC post-Obamacare. I'm not saying you need to be 100% there out of the gate, but telling me that I just need to eat shit for decades while not asking for better because it's all some grand strategy I don't get is why I'm no longer a dem. I'm not saying everyone with a different opinion is a bot but there do seem to be a LOT of people with nothing bad to say about China and a prewritten 5000 word statement defending them on every topic on here versus my expectations of the world at large, but maybe my expectations are off, I'll give you that. I am open to the possibility that I'm just out of touch.

  • China is socialist!!! Meanwhile reactionaries be mad.
  • Yeah, I am deeply skeptical that maximum billionaires with no social services of any kind is the path to anything but lining Xi and his allies' pockets. Sorry. Not buying it no matter how many Chinese AI bots post 8000 word articles about how actually socialized healthcare is a capitalist scheme to hold back the proletariat from space future communism you can't understand without reading 700 of Marx's lesser letters to random parties in Bavaria.

  • ethnonationalism bad
  • Positive discrimination is a pillar of the neolibs' post-Hillary wokeness scam worldview. There's a Kendi quote like "You cannot undo discrimination without discrimination." They've decided to just apply that logic to the wealthiest set of white people on the planet instead of the children of slaves and sharecroppers because these people are sociopathic scum who know where their bread is buttered.

  • [rant] everytime i give it a chance, btrfs lets me down
  • I've had some issues with btrfs. I have a Fedora 41 box where the 1TB drive just magically lost 300+GB of capacity that shows up in use but there is nothing using it, and I used to have a 39/40 box where booting would take like 3+ mins that was all btrfs being unhappy with the primary drive on initial mount. Snapshots and the duplicate stuff are pretty killer features, though...

  • If you donate to a service, do you so anonymously?
  • True, abstractly but ever more infrastructure is going glowie and are the feds. I'm not saying it's not the best option, but it gets like tor use, which is also the best option and great, but SO many opsec caveats because EVERYTHING is built for tracking

  • A Short List of Links to Remind that Free File Sharing, Including Piracy, is Good
  • On what specific basis is it moral to profit off reproduction of an idea, which can be infinitely reproduced without reducing the individual instance? The moral onus should be on those locking people in jails and ruining their lives to defend IP so we can get classics like Solo: A Star Wars Story, as opposed to the... somehow worse than that freedom would render?