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Downmodding me instead of providing counterarguments demonstrates that you're incapable of refuting my points but you're not open-minded enough to agree with them. I guess ideology doesn't wander off easily.

Yeah this is a straight-up lie. Zitron goes out of his way to show - using OpenAI's own leaked financials that inference is not profitable. Nobody of repute is claiming otherwise, and the hyperscalers, OpenAI, and Anthropic have said mum about it because they know it's not profitable.

Even Torsten Slok, lead economist for Apollo Capital, has shown in black and white that inference is not profitable.

Every one of these countries with its own quirks, rules, laws, tariffs...

I thought Uber's whole thing is that they find loopholes to avoid following the rules.

I'm not very familiar with DHH, so he may have said and done some truly horrific things, but the author of this "viral blog post" lost me from the start:

In “As I remember London,” he voiced support for ethnically cleansing London of minorities.

I believe I read that article a while ago and wanted to read it again because I don't remember it calling for ethnic cleansing. After reading it very carefully looking for any direct or indirect calls for ethnic cleansing, I came up short. Never at any point in the article did DHH state that ethnic cleansing was a valid solution. As a matter of fact, he directly recognizes that it's not clear how they can undo the erosion of British culture in Britain:

I really feel for the Brits because it's not obvious how they get themselves out of this pickle.

The whole article seems to maintain the tone of a cautionary tale with the message "this is why you don't let erosion of your culture happen in the first place - because it's virtually impossible to recover".

Similarly, the author of the blog post claims:

In “Wolves, sheep, and gypsies,” he called for the ethnic cleansing of Romani people across Europe, comparing them to wolves.

However, after reading that article, he never called for any ethnic cleansing, especially not "across Europe", as he never mentioned any place in Europe outside of Denmark. As a matter of fact, his horrible solution to the problem was for the Romanis to make use of the shelters Denmark provides:

Copenhagen is the Danish capital. It's repeatedly been named the safest city in the world in recent years. Partly because it didn't tolerate vagrants and homeless people taking over public spaces (as has happened in so many American cities). Previously, police would tell someone they couldn't sleep or camp in the city, and they could go to one of the city-run shelters. But now that this is considered too cruel(?!), the native inhabitants of the city instead have to deal with literal shit on their way to the metro.

With all of that said, he may have stated or done some other things that are indefensible of which I'm currently not aware. But the way that "viral blog post" grossly mischaracterized the tone of the articles is emblematic of why people on the far-left are often seen almost as equally divorced from reality as people on the far-right.

In the US, I vote for a candidate that shares my views on important matters. I think you're in a Parliamentary nation, so you would vote for the party that shares your views. In either place, we can vote the party in power out of office. In China... Maybe there is a non CCP person or party you can vote for in a particular election, but since there are no opposition parties, it doesn't matter. That giant legislature meets annually to hear reports and approve what Xi says to approve. You can't vote the CCP out, the Constitution says so. You can't vote to change the rules to something Xi disagrees with, the Constitution says so. The legislature can't pass a law that the CCP leadership does not approve of, the Constitution says so. The legislature appears to have control over who gets appointed to the higher offices, but in practice they are only ever given one option.

The military and police have more seats in their legislature than any non-CCP party. More than the top 4 combined. Let me repeat that in case you missed it, it's pretty damn important. THE MILITARY has almost 10% of the legislative seats! Non CCP parties combined have consistently held about 14% since the body was formed.

I know that where you live, neither the military nor the police hold ANY seats in parliament. The idea is absurd in the West, where the military is under civilian control.

It is a thin facade of democracy, and I don't know why you, an intelligent person, isn't seeing through it.

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How long have these panels been available? How long have the regulations for home solar been in place?

It has been nine months since UL established safety criteria and certification programs. After Utah had already said, explicitly, that people could use them without approval from the power company. That, I will agree needs legislative action. Utilities may balk at it.

I'm fine with them establishing safety standards. I'm fine with them establishing a compromise with the power companies that mean the utility doesn't have to pay for power coming from these. I'm not fine with the attitude that legislators need to grant permission to their employers (it could be I read too much into the headline though). I'm not fine with the attitude that people need to be saved from themselves. I'm just not fine with that much authoritarianism - which is exactly what that attitude is.

A strawman would be me asserting beliefs for you and then attacking them. I didn't assert anything, I asked about a belief I was pretty sure we shared. You said I thought free speech should be limited. That's verging on a strawman argument, but I'm taking it as a mistaken inference.

From a perspective of International Relations realism (realpolitik), where nations exist in an amoral Hobbesian landscape, China is doing the sensible thing. They would be foolish not to try and influence our policies to their benefit. We would be foolish if we didn't do the same to them. We would also be foolish to allow them to do it to us.

Seriously? You're just f-ing with me now, right?

Speaking from experience there?

Fake IDs have improved. Hertz will always see a lot of out-of-state (and out-of-nation) licenses, which are harder to visually verify.

Why they'd feel the need to keep the scans in a database, I do not know. Seems unnecessary and didn't do them any favors.

Looks like standard ID verification to me. Yes, both of those places care about age, but Hertz at least is more interested in the license being valid, as they are going to deal with out-of-state licenses (harder to detect a fake) on a daily basis.

The only thing these idiots did wrong is they forgot to get law enforcement to pay for the service- then its just policing!

No later than 2006. When the person of the year was "You".

Steak N Shake is good stuff. The one near me does great business. Haven't seen a Friendly's since I left New York. Don't think I've ever heard of Giordano's.

The Hooters near me appears to be closed. It isn't boarded up, but there are never any cars there. I go to the Applebee's next door sometimes, and it's dead in there. Managers bussing tables, supply problems, handful of customers... Seems to be spiraling downwards.