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Comment Re:Make it stop (Score 2) 80

Most countries don't have nuclear weapons and seem to be doing okay.

Ukraine, for example. A nuclear state attacked them, and Ukraine is winning. Of course Russia didn't nuke Ukraine, because that would be suicide. Similarly, if Ukraine had kept and maintained its nuclear weapons, it wouldn't have used them, because that would have been suicide.

I was thinking mostly of the naval vessels, but yeah, Ukraine has allies with both. Or, is a vassal to countries with both, depending on how you want to look at it.

Comment Re:Actual California Voter here. (Score 1) 281

Yes. Everyone who thinks it's great spending other people's money should remember you are other people too.

But ... but ... I'm me! I express the correct opinions on social media! I genuflect to whatever group is oppressed this week! I offer a pinch of incense to the emperor!

I'm not the "other people" they'll take money from ... right???

Comment Re:taxing unrealized gains is problematic (Score 1) 281

They have no problem taking out loans on unrealized assets so if they are worth it to the banks, they can pay taxes on them.

Be careful of this kind of rhetoric.

Billionaire trickle-down-fuck-YOU-pay-for-it-pleb economics will ensure retired homeowners on a fixed income end up losing their homes, because tax the shit out of those 'urealized gains' called home equity..

Yes, exactly.

They never stop with "billionaires". That's not where the money is, not enough of it. It's going to be you; your house, your 401K, etc.

"That's one for you, nineteen for me ... taxman!" -- noted, er, right-wingers, The Beatles, lol

Comment Re:Everyone knows Meta = Facebook (Score 1) 65

> Meta doesn't really know how to do anything else with any skill.

They don't know how to do Facebook very well either: it's been pretty much stagnant and enshittified to death for the past 22 years, and it feels like a forum for greying people whose greying friends haven't bothered to move on either, or to get the date of the next annual meeting of the bridge club.

Comment Oh yeah, Shutterstock... (Score 1) 19

one of those companies whose sole purpose seems to be annoying you by slapping their name as a watermark on a generic image you'd like to use in a meme, and force to spend 10 seconds finding somewhere else because you were never going to pay a stupid company to remove their mark on a bad picture you can find everywhere.

I wonder how those companies still exist, let alone make any money.

Anyway, the modern way to use copyrighted photos for free is to ask stable diffusion to regenerate it, because the AI companies have done all the data stealing for you and repackaged the stolen data into "models" you can use for free.

Comment Re:How about at least... (Score 1) 99

Donald Trump (wants to fleece the public with worthless AI stock), Bernie Sanders (mistakenly believes the AI hype and wants to seize the means of production) And Sam Altman(wants to fleece the public with worthless AI stock).

TFTFY.


If they really believed in AI, do you really think they would share any of the proceeds with you?

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