I was going to include a tangent on how difficult it is to shield a spacecraft from cosmic radiation, but I’ll wait for a more appropriate post. Thanks for the refresher.

Fascism? I hate to break it to you, but nearly every form of government benefits from the surveillance capabilities of computers.

Fascism : a populist political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual, that is associated with a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, and that is characterized by severe economic and social regimentation and by forcible suppression of opposition.

It just seems weird you’re focusing on the obscure governments of places like North Korea. If you are a young adult, you’re at the age where mental health issues would first occur.

…this isn’t true. He focused heavily on the working class with policies such as immigration and the reduction of overtime taxes.

These are people that would have traditionally voted Democrat. He somehow managed to swing the election without marginalizing middle and upper class voters. This is surprising; the upper classes benefit disproportionately from increased immigration.

You are overconfident. The shock and awe on Reddit when Trump won last election was palpable. After months of reading Democrat puff pieces, the users were left dazed and confused. They didn’t understand how it was physically possible.

In truth, Trump was elected because he had popular policies. He has and is continuing to makes moves that help a large swathe of the public. Democrats need to pull to the center if they want to win. They need to avoid or counter the two issues that were the focus of Republican marketing spending.

Absolutely. A good study would account for confounding variables. Even the best surgeons make mistakes that lead to death; they are only human.

…society doesn’t want to create a situation where surgeons refuse to operate for fear of making a mistake.

… comparing this surgeon’s patient survival rate to that of other surgeons should determine whether he is to blame.

If his patients are significantly more likely to die than on average, it is probably the surgeon’s fault. If he has a pristine record, on the other hand, it was probably beyond his control.

Reddit really sucks. Once you get one temporary ban, the automated system really fucks you at any point in the future.

You don’t have to trust me. The information is available on Wikipedia. You are objectively wrong. The government imposed on the south after the civil war is substantially different than the one that would have formed if the Confederacy had won.

What data? I have a hard time believing that people didn’t increase their spending in response to increased disposable income. Food especially since food stamps could only be spent on food. If you post your source, I’ll objectively review it.

When demand outstrips supply, people began bidding. A 1% difference between supply and demand leads to a more than 1% change in prices.

Any conclusions would also need to account for the impact of high unemployment benefits on domestic production. I sure as hell quit my job because of these benefits. It was a no-brainer; I more than quadrupled my disposable income overnight.

I don’t know, man. I-a single adult -recieved over $700 in food stamps for well over a year. I ran out of my saved food stamps in 2025. I was also diagnosed with COVID over the phone and received over $5000 in unemployment per month. Since this income wasn’t reflected in Medicaid’s income requirements, I got free insurance as well.

Giving this much money to low-income workers has a disproportionate impact on inflation. The skyrocketing prices of frozen meals and gourmet animal products, for example, was a direct result of the food stamps.

It helped both me and the shareholders, but it came with a long-term cost. Everyone who had a job during the pandemic paid the price.

You’re preaching to the choir. China does have a large middle and upper class, but this only because of its large overall population. Most people in China make less than $7500 per year. They don’t have much leftover after buying food and rent.

It would take a lot of Vietnamese, Cambodian, African, etc. laborers living in inhumane conditions to give the over 1 billion people in China a 1st world lifestyle. I think this is more or less the point of the Belt and Road initiative. They are competing with Europe and the United States to obtain a “low-income” workforce.

…on the bright side, AI might make it possible to remove slave labor from the equation. On the dark side, 3rd world countries that can’t afford this technology will be pretty much fucked.

Realistically, Trump hasn’t done much that negatively impacts my life. Due to a reduction of overtime tax and his executive order on marijuana, my life has marginally improved.

The only thing the Democrats have done to improve my life in the last decade was to give me a bunch of money during the pandemic, but it’s hard to say if that helped me in the long run. The resulting inflation was a pretty big catch.

If this is the reason you want a cell phone, your efforts are misplaced. Most of these sort of sex offenders are parents, relatives, or friends of the family. Those are the people your kid would need to record.

You would be more likely to protect your child by making him wear a helmet along with his seatbelt or feeding him food that doesn’t suck.

Does anyone have the entire magazine archived? I want to find out exactly where they were in computing.

…trust me on this. Even the reconstruction and Jim Crow eras weren’t equivalent to what was going on prior to the Confederacy. I know from personal experience that the south is a shithole, but you got to give them credit where it’s due.

I work an a facility next to a few fast food joints, a Japanese restaurant, an Indian restaurant, and a Chipotle. Pretty much the only restaurant we don’t order from is Chipotle.

… Chipotle is real restaurant prices for a fastfood experience.

These are first world problems. Personally, I work for a few years before taking a a couple years off. I’ve did the math, and I need like 20-30 hours to maintain my standard of living. As long as I buy a house and save a few decades of taxes, I don’t need much for a reasonable retirement. I’ll probably buy a house big enough to turn part of it into an apartment.

I see myself as Benjamin Button. I might as well take my retirement when I’m young. I’ll probably get killed in a car accident or something.

Let’s say there is a public school. I kill the principal, build a new school, hire 30% of the old school’s teachers, and completely change the rules and curriculum.

Is the new school the same as the old school?

I guess you can’t control how other people perceive you. I try to be polite, but I have to retroactively edit these sort of comments to say the “correct” gender. I am neither pro or anti trans-i don’t care-but it’s hard to instinctively write she when you internally label someone as a he.

This is an issue strictly on the internet. It’s easier not to misgender someone in real life if the transition is convincing. I worked in the service industry, and I just avoided pronouns all together if the appearance was ambiguous. It was awkward, especially for the cis-gender people who can’t control the way that they look.

We are getting better; the problem is getting too bad to ignore.

I know for a fact that the coffee I’m drinking is responsible for destroying a few sq. micrometers of rain forest, but it’s hard to stop. We would need a fascist government to impose self-control.