If China wants to do research, great. The more research gets done, the better.

Worth mentioning that the tiny minority has gotten a lot more noisy lately (approximately from when smartphones became common. Another Eternal September, etc).

It's hard to know because they hide statistics when they look bad. They are motivated at all levels of government to hide things that make them look bad. We do have some things though:

https://www.bbc.com/news/artic...
https://gulfnews.com/world/asi...
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/20...

On their own dime by continuously making things worse for everyone in the entire country until people are struggling so hard they will work 100 hours a week struggling to get access to one of those few senior developer positions that grant them the bare minimum necessities we have been taking for granted the last 60 years.

It's like that old meme poster about the pyramids. Never underestimate what you can accomplish with an endless supply of cheap disposable labor.

But nobody here is buying it. His friends and family were all maga and they all said he was a good kid meeting he was maga too.

All of the memes he shared were right-wing memes and that Trump costume was a reference to Nick Fuentes' memes.

Facts don't care about your feelings. The right wing encourages violence and when you encourage violence it's random and can pop off anytime at anyone.

The left wing figured that out ages ago and figured out that violence is useless if you want to do anything worthwhile so we stopped.

Violence is explicitly the domain of the right wing. This makes sense because effective violence requires command structures and the right wing is obsessed with command structures.

Your side prefers taking orders

Extremist right-wing men and women wanted to kill Muslims and dipshit liberals reacted to that by defending Islam accidentally because it's difficult for a lot of people distinguish between Muslims and Islam.

On the other hand the same extremists depend Islam when it comes to religious apologetics.

Doesn't matter what the religion is and nobody will ever attack the religion on the merits of the religion because as soon as start handing out to do that it's going to get used against your religion too.

So we don't attack the truth claims of Islam rather we focus on its use in the promotion of violence. We also conveniently forget the Christianity did the exact same thing for thousands of years before we stopped letting Christians do that.

Sure you can. It's pretty easy actually. You just use common signal tracking tools to find where it's coming from and kill anyone you find.

Once you give your country over to religious lunatics who are willing and able and happy to use violence anything becomes possible.

It would be nice if America had figured that out last year. Sometime before November.

Means graphics from 2012 with a handful of new lighting effects and sub 60 FPS on $4,000 worth of hardware...

I mean Jesus Randy just use UE 4 and call it a day. We didn't need realistic sunlight in borderlands.

Why would I pay somebody to work fewer hours if I don't have to?

Plus anyone who is still working 996 is going to be super pissed off at anyone working three days a week.

Americans do engage in class warfare only it's just the lower classes to do it and they only fight each other.

I don't see us getting over the deep cultural conditioning that tells you the moment you see somebody happier than you that you're supposed to get angry at that person for being happy instead of upset at the system keeping you miserable.

Of people who aren't experts complaining about experts doing their thing. You know damn well us nerds would have a fit if somebody went off on one of our little interests.

The data is consistent. That's what matters. You use data to make predictions. If the data is off but off at a consistent and predictable amount then you can predict that and take action accordingly.

This thing where everybody thinks they can just will their preferred universe into existence and ignore reality is something dictators and fascists have been pushing for pretty much forever.

It doesn't work. Sooner or later reality always wins in the end and reality has a well-known liberal bias.

He was killed by maga. The kid wasn't attacked by Charlie Kirk. The kid was radicalized by right wingers in right-wing spaces. The memes of the kids shared are pipeline memes. Their little bits of nastiness that look apolitical but are designed to lure disaffected young men into right-wing extremism.

It's part of a cult called gryoper and for the sake of your own mental stability I recommend you don't look that up.

What we have with Charlie Kirk is something called stochastic terrorism. It's terrorism created by throwing out a constant stream of undirected incitement to violence.

You never actually call for violence with stochastic terrorism you just constantly hint at it.

There is usually a Target but because you never directly go after the target what can and in the case of Charlie Kirk did happen is that when one of the mentally ill people you are trying to trigger into terrorism pops off that person can go after anyone.

The right wing normally would let this go once they figure it out that the kid wasn't a minority they could attack but they are hoping to trigger more stochastic terrorism so they can do a crackdown and maybe install Trump as president for Life after suspending elections.

The problem the right wing is having is the centrists and left wing just won't do violence. It's just not in us anymore if it ever was.

So what they are doing is trying to get their own side to commit random acts of violence because we won't.

For anyone who doesn't have hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars to buy security that is of course incredibly dangerous because by covering this shooter so much they are encouraging copycats and those copycats are likely to go after right wing personalities because that's where the attention is. But these people get paid a lot of money to create violence so they're willing to take the risk.

The Republican party has consistently cut enforcement on elite ultra rich people but made it a point to make sure there was still enforcement for regular slobs like you and me.

It's like the old saying goes, fascism requires an in group that the law protects but does not bind and in out group that the law binds but does not protect.

Lots of people who are in the out group seem to be under the mistaken impression that they are in the in group

thats why they keep getting investor money to literally burn: people in the valley bubble think that is representative of the world, when they are .1%

but unlike uber, who benefited from it first, this cannot even scale with infinite money

remember when they cried the nyt lawsuit was forcing them to store and collect user prompts? lol. anyway here's the analysis of all users prompts.

It's a problem that shows up because managers don't know what their employees are doing.

The solution is to require managers to do actual work with 20% of their time (or even 10% might be enough). If they can't do it, then they aren't qualified to manage in the industry.