toomanyrichies
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Comment · 4 days ago
Criticizing the Israeli government’s policies is not the same thing as saying anything about Jews. Plenty of Jews, in Israel and outside it, make the same criticisms. Treating the two as one thing makes both conversations worse.
Comment · 5 days ago
> In a response to Musk on Sunday, Ukrainian presidential adviser Serhiy Beskrestnov said: “It’s very strange that Elon Musk doesn’t know about the restrictions on Starlink in Ukraine.”
> “Starlink does not work over Russian territory,” he said in a post on Telegram. “So we PHYSICALLY CANNOT USE COMMERCIAL STARLINK for deep strikes and mid-range strikes.” [1]
1. https://www.nbcnews.com/world/ukraine/elon-musk-spacex-close...
Comment · 19 days ago
> Anthropic seems like the most "moral" AI company
This seems like praising someone for being the cleanest miner in the coal mine.
Comment · 22 days ago
> Astonishing that this guy isn't polling at 0%.
As an American, I agree. The unfortunate reality is that this kind of thing will continue until his supporters love things like the rule of law, checks on presidential power, and basic decency more than they hate "woke".
Comment · 1 month ago
> Adrenaline chasing is addictive behavior
Gambling disorder is a recognized diagnosis in both the DSM-5 [1] and the WHO's ICD-11 [2], with a $14 billion annual social cost [3] in the US alone. Show me the equivalent DSM entry and social cost for "skydiving addiction".
The word "addiction" has an actual clinical meaning. It's not just vibes. The person has lost control over the behavior, and they keep doing it despite harm. There's no "Skydivers Anonymous".
With gambling, spouses and kids lose savings, debts don't get paid, and the public bears the cost of the ER visits in the headline. Gambling externalizes the costs in a way that skydiving doesn't. That’s the difference.
> Yes they do.
An injured skydiver is a net loss for a skydiving company: insurance, lawsuits, lost business, bad press. You gave no evidence for how they'd profit. You just said "Yes they do". Cue Hitchens's Razor: what can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
1. https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/gambling-disord...
2. https://icd.who.int/browse/2025-01/mms/en#1041487064
3. https://www.ncpgambling.org/help-treatment/faqs-what-is-prob...
Comment · 1 month ago
This is a terrible analogy. Skydiving isn't addictive, the risk falls on the participant, and a skydiving company doesn't make more money from the customers it hurts.
Gambling apps get a large share of their revenue from the small group of users who can't stop. Meanwhile they cap the bets of people who win too much, so arguing that "betting is just entertainment in a free market" is false on its face. These are predatory companies and they should absolutely be regulated as such.
Comment · 1 month ago
Consider the possibility that your brain chemistry is different from that of other people, and that this could affect the level of responsibility people bring to bear here.
Comment · 1 month ago
Reading someone's words as written isn't being "too literal". With a blog post, as with this thread, it's actually the only thing there is to go on.
Comment · 1 month ago
Drawing conclusions is fine, if they're traceable to something on the page. This one started with "always" and "all day," which aren't in the post, and when that was pointed out it moved to the author's mentality. I can assign anyone any mentality I want, and it's impossible to prove me wrong.