DoneWithAllThat

Yes! This seems like such a patently obvious thing that it’s amazing it needs to be said. Yes! There are national security concerns with China having detailed transportation data from other countries! Good god I feel like I’m taking crazy pills that I have to type this.

I bet if you ran the analysis for Aja you wouldn’t hear 100% perfect quantization.

FYI it’s Chesterton’s Fence, named after writer G. K. Chesterton.

This is such a remarkably silly take that I’m struggling to believe it’s being offered in good faith.

Feel free to look up the percentage of the CA tax base by 50th, 90th, 95th, 99th and 99.9th percentiles. The myth that billionaires don’t pay their fair share is just that - a myth. A lot of lower income people don’t pay any tax at all and have their state services entirely subsidized by the rest, the vast majority of which is paid by the richest 5%. Every time I see a call to tax the billionaires I know I’m hearing from a fool too partisan to look at really simple to understand numbers.

I canceled almost all streaming services this year and kept YouTube Premium, and honestly it’s the best decision I’ve ever made. Watching costs spiral out of control of just absolutely garbage is insane to witness. I cannot imagine spending hundreds of dollars a year to watch __any__ of the what is largely low effort, low budget trash barely a step beyond the crappiest reality TV. And for the rare diamond in the rough I can almost buy those separately, à la carte, and not have to give a crap when it canceled after a singe season.

I used to sort of scoff at the idea of streaming services being a bad deal, now I can’t even imagine paying for them. They’re so awful. They make me wish we had cable still!

This is a level of cope even I wouldn’t have thought reachable.

Hoka is big in the running market but that’s basically all. Same with New Balance. I think where Hoka got lucky was with the explosion of popularity of running and Nike failing to understand their need to offer a fashion running product not just a performance running product. Hoka did and reaped massive rewards as a result.

There’s sci fi novels that deal with it in just these terms. Like some folks with head out on a .99c acceleration ship and be like “okay we’ll be there in fifteen thousand years (original reference frame time)” and that’s just the scale at which the story unfolds. You just accept that when you leave on these trips that if you ever come back now it’s tens of thousands of years in the future there. Nbd

No. It is not and to claim otherwise is hyperbole. The key difference is police stopping and/or questioning people en masse without reasonable suspicion is in fact illegal unless under extreme circumstances. Simply noting everyone’s license plate is wholly legal, and more importantly for this conversation, is drastically less intrusive and qualitatively different from a so-called dragnet. You don’t get to just conflate the two scenarios to better fit your personal preferences of what is or is not legal.

I mean you don’t have to go too many layers deep here. A military running on its stomach is a truism known for centuries, and if you wanted to use cyber warfare to attack a military’s food supplies this is one of the few avenues available to you (the other being logistics).

More correct; we’ll spend a trillion dollars giving free things to people too lazy, addicted or mentally unwell to support themselves, but paying for mental hospitals and police is a bridge too far.

I’m utterly baffled what the author is talking about with regards to “toxic” output. While I agree Claude’s prose is a mess right now, he never explains what he’s talking about when he calls it toxic.

It is 100% deranged nonsense. These people have absolutely lost their minds.