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MSDOS KAPITAL posted:I mean here's a question: who is benefiting from all this automation? The word "robot" quite literally comes from the Czech word for slave, or "forced labourer." The word was developed for a Czech play by Karel Capek (thought he word itself was worked out in concert with his brother Jozef), and the play is about the nature and future of automation. It's called R. U. R., Rossum's Universal Robots. Here's the core bit. R. U. R. posted:DOMIN Automation is never about anything more than reducing cost. Workers are expensive. Machines are less so. A machine might be wildly less productive than an equivalent human, but if its costs are the electricity to run it and its requirements are nil, that's what bosses are going for.
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Epic High Five posted:actually one of the ones who walked away was clearly Odo from The Dispossessed so they did just read this story, it had extremely  energy, gotta say.
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What's the over/under the Dems create another hilariously cringey video that does little past patting themselves on the back and getting to hang out with celebrities? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YttscNOoAjA
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A big flaming stink posted:just read this story, it had extremely Yeah, christ. The idea of someone responding quite directly to Ursula K. LeGuin and actually loving nailing it is... holy poo poo. Um-Helat Social Workers should be a gang tag.
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Djarum posted:It is a lot easier and politically safe to lie to these people, give them false hope then tell them the true and give them other economic options. I saw this first hand all over the country. Hell in Kentucky they have programs to retrain former coal miners to program for example and they can’t get many people there to sign up for the programs because 99% of them are straight up scams and nobody is dumb enough to waste time and money attempting to train towards something that's completely and utterly foreign to them when they know drat well they'll never be able to move to the other side of the country and get a job being a more or less still computer illiterate "software engineer". Fixed your post Djarum posted:Well in Kentucky there are a ton of different programs for a variety of different careers all of which are growing industries. For example there are nursing programs, engineering and trade skill jobs like plumbing and electricians. Boot straaaaaaps~ The problem with basically everything you just said is that "get more education" is good personal advice, and a really poo poo non-solution to a societal problem that's only thrown out there to shame others for not being as rich and successful as they are. There aren't that many white collar jobs. There never will be. Short of some sort of fully automated luxury space communism we will never live in a society where everyone can be a DoctorLawyerChemistProgrammer. The problem is less that people aren't formally educated enough and more that capital has stopped paying a living wage to the people who are doing the necessary labor for our stupid country to keep chugging along. Marxalot fucked around with this message at 13:07 on May 2, 2020 |
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"Biden being Biden" so expected some folks called it two years ago: https://twitter.com/robrousseau/status/1070006067340419072?s=19 https://twitter.com/Phylan/status/1070720619401089025?s=19 E: COVID-19 posted:Biden sees white supremacists as his buddies. That’s why he loves the GOP and wants to work with them and says once Trump is gone they’ll “snap out of it” and start bipartisan work to criminalize weed and make student debt worse for kids who go to public colleges or whatever. I hate that I can't argue more about Biden's stupid loving opinions on cannabis without sounding like a whiny stoner with nothing more important to care about. His decriminalization half measure isn't enough, it needs to be descheduled and legalized federally. And it's because his primary voting demographic still thinks it's the devil's lettuce. Joe Biden himself dropped the "gateway drug" pseudoscience line in one of his town halls during the primary. If the alternative is Trump, then okay Biden is better on this topic but again it's such a marginal difference and all of his stated policy is vague and steeped in reluctance to give up the War On Drugs that it's very obviously another EASY WIN that Dems insist on punting 4 years down the road to appease the right. Solanumai fucked around with this message at 13:13 on May 2, 2020 |
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May 2, 2020 12:59
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relax-o-vision posted:Trump is not merely "making neo-nazis happy," he is actively enfranchising them. And I'm not arguing that Biden will somehow defeat all the nazis. My argument is that willingly allowing neo-nazis to hold power is morally indefensible on its face. Biden sees white supremacists as his buddies. That’s why he loves the GOP and wants to work with them and says once Trump is gone they’ll “snap out of it” and start bipartisan work to criminalize weed and make student debt worse for kids who go to public colleges or whatever.
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Somfin posted:Yeah, christ. The idea of someone responding quite directly to Ursula K. LeGuin and actually loving nailing it is... holy poo poo. hell, im down
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Shere posted:"Biden being Biden" so expected some folks called it two years ago: This post is exactly what I needed to see after a 12hr shift. I'm loving dying lmao
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One issue that I haven't seen addressed anywhere, that seems really important to me, is voter suppression. Trump has blatantly attempted a couple of schemes to ramp that into overdrive, which seems really really bad. Is there any reason to think Biden wouldn't be way better on this issue, or any reason to think this issue isn't as important as it seems? I dont live in the US so its entirely possible im missing something obvious.
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Gentleman Baller posted:One issue that I haven't seen addressed anywhere, that seems really important to me, is voter suppression. Trump has blatantly attempted a couple of schemes to ramp that into overdrive, which seems really really bad. Is there any reason to think Biden wouldn't be way better on this issue, or any reason to think this issue isn't as important as it seems? You'd think that since voter suppression tactics typically favor republicans that the democrats themselves would support measures to diminish or alleviate the problems altogether (like ending felony disenfranchisement, making universal vote by mail required, pushing to make voting a federal holiday, etc.), but they don't push for those things collectively. Some (very, very few) do, but someone like Biden? Nah. The reasons are up to interpretation a bit. Structurally it makes sense for the establishment to restrict voters based on means (via location, time, or information) because by and large the lower classes of the body politic would support less austerity and make rich people pay more, but that may be at once too cynical and too clever for the establishment itself. It might be inertia, or the idea that all good things must come with some kind of downside because culturally we've decided that that's what mature thinking entails. e: I don't know what gymnastics lead to people like Pete Buttigieg saying we should stop sending people to jail for drug crimes, that the over punishment of crimes disproportionately effect black people, and that many people in prison shouldn't be there, but at the same time saying that felony disenfranchisement is a nonstarter. But his position is the mainstream one. 
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https://twitter.com/lawcrimenews/status/1256291992780374016The Article posted:When it was Biden and my aunt’s turn to say hello he quickly turned to me and asked how old I was. I replied with my age and he replied with the comment ‘Fourteen? You’re very well endowed for 14!’ I was confused but it was definitely weird, he looked me up and down and hovered his eyes on my chest so I had some clue [about] the notion of his comment but didn’t fully understand at the time. SimonChris fucked around with this message at 13:32 on May 2, 2020 |
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SimonChris posted:When it was Biden and my aunt’s turn to say hello he quickly turned to me and asked how old I was. I replied with my age and he replied with the comment ‘Fourteen? You’re very well endowed for 14!’ I was confused but it was definitely weird, he looked me up and down and hovered his eyes on my chest so I had some clue [about] the notion of his comment but didn’t fully understand at the time. Well that just made my skin crawl ten minutes after waking up.
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Tonetta posted:Last afternoon there was news circling around that joe was feeling up some 14 year old and saying some nasty stuff to her, but it appeared confined to right wing media. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if he did that too. 100% believable and consistent with how Biden behaves on camera  http://www.cc.com/video-clips/yfmksi/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-the-audacity-of-grope If you held a gun to my head and forced me to choose which candidate to leave one of my nieces alone with in a room for an hour it would hands down be Trump because "dude is an idiot and a racist" is at most a ten minute conversation afterwards but sexual trauma leaves scars that can last a lifetime.
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Iron Twinkie posted:If you held a gun to my head and forced me to choose which candidate to leave one of my nieces alone with in a room for an hour it would hands down be Trump because "dude is an idiot and a racist" is at most a ten minute conversation afterwards but sexual trauma leaves scars that can last a lifetime. his connections with epstein, and his barging in on nude teens for the beauty pageant indicate that he fucks kids too. just ya know, a little more privately than joe. I'd choose trump too cause he's way more verbally interactive with a 5 year old and im sure even trump doesnt go that low Shere posted:"Biden being Biden" so expected some folks called it two years ago: unfortunately the democrat playbook really is this predictable, but still pretty stunning on the accuracy
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May 2, 2020 13:39
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Shere posted:I hate that I can't argue more about Biden's stupid loving opinions on cannabis without sounding like a whiny stoner with nothing more important to care about. His decriminalization half measure isn't enough, it needs to be descheduled and legalized federally. And it's because his primary voting demographic still thinks it's the devil's lettuce. Joe Biden himself dropped the "gateway drug" pseudoscience line in one of his town halls during the primary. One of the ways Biden signals to white supremacists that he’s going to support their agenda is by saying poo poo like this about cannabis. Both Biden and the white supremacists know who the War in Drugs really targets. It’s a very important part of why Obama chose Biden as his Vice President and why Obama refused to legalize it at the federal level even though he was a stoner in high school.
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He at least adopted expunging past records (for possession) but he's still out there prattling on about the harms of weed and how it's "not* a gateway drug but it might have something to do with the other evil drugs so we can't legalize it". Whatever contortion he has to make that he can still demonize marijuana for some reason. *He's on record like four months ago saying it's uncertain if it's a gateway drug 
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May 2, 2020 14:25
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Today in D&D I learned that the moral of "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" is that the heroes are those who stayed and told themselves that offering 1% less whippings of the child gives them the moral high ground
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Shere posted:He at least adopted expunging past records (for possession) but he's still out there prattling on about the harms of weed and how it's "not a gateway drug but it might have something to do with the other evil drugs so we can't legalize it". Whatever contortion he has to make that he can still demonize marijuana for some reason. The reason is pretty clear- older people who love “tough on crime” policies will want to vote for Biden.
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Gripweed posted:At least we dodged the bullet Oh word, did Warren turn down the VP slot? That's cool
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Gripweed posted:At least we dodged the bullet And no comment from Warren on the Biden abuse. "It's not her responsibility to hold her colleagues accountable!!"
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https://twitter.com/shafieikeyvan/status/1256317800152395777 This is gonna be a bad 9 months. Imagine opening yourself to this kind of free shot. 
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I already used up my one protest vote. 
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punishedkissinger posted:And no comment from Warren on the Biden abuse. Yes but let's not be distracted from the fact that she fed her dog an entire human burrito for it's birthday, and did so by just putting the burrito on her rug inside. She didn't put it on the ground outside, or in the dog's bowl, or even on a plate. She just let the dog destroy a burrito all over her nice rug. Someone with decision making skills like that should not be leading the party.
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StratGoatCom posted:https://twitter.com/shafieikeyvan/status/1256317800152395777 Man, who could've predicted that Biden is a deeply flawed loser who will be pummeled for the next 6months. No one. Not one single person.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Oh word, did Warren turn down the VP slot? That's cool lol if warren thought she was in the vp running she'd be on live tv calling the accusers lying russian whores right now
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StratGoatCom posted:https://twitter.com/shafieikeyvan/status/1256317800152395777 That is...a very effective ad.
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That add really highlights the hypocrisy of the liberals not believing women. Those are the only ones who don't believe women. It's such a boon for trump that his voters are so incredibly stupid that they don't understand the premise of the ad is that women shouldn't be believed, but they're targeting Libbrals, liberallls! LIEBRALS!!! for the same thing that they've been saying all along. Anyway, it's gonna be one of two senile rapists in the most powerful position in the world (well, second most, not quite as good as being elected Bezos I guess). What a time to be alive.
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Gatts posted:....this is when Biden was 14 too right? hahahaha hahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
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Cpt_Obvious posted:That is...a very effective ad. it's a really strong ad and trump is gonna spend the next six months murdering him with poo poo like that. Even when he fucks up and reminds us he's also an accused rapist his campaign will just release another mashup of every time an endorser supported metoo or whatever
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Ague Proof posted:You can't shame the right with hypocrisy. It's West Wingish Have You No Shame Sir Your Fired bullshit. I don't know if that's necessarily more true of Republicans than Democrats, unless you are considering both parties right wi- Oh.
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relax-o-vision posted:It doesn't actually matter whether Biden does anything about neo-nazis. They don't see him as one of their own, unlike Trump. He doesn't represent them. Trump's mere presence in the white house is, in and of itself, the condition which enfranchises neo-nazis. relax-o-vision posted:Trump is not merely "making neo-nazis happy," he is actively enfranchising them. And I'm not arguing that Biden will somehow defeat all the nazis. My argument is that willingly allowing neo-nazis to hold power is morally indefensible on its face. relax-o-vision posted:You guys are really starting to worry me. You're implying here that nazis are motivated by legitimate economic grievances. You're tiptoeing down the path towards saying they are "very good people." Like, you're aware that Trump voters in 2016 skewed wealthier than Clinton voters? People did not become neo-nazis because they couldn't pay their student loans. It has never been about economic anxiety. It was always, always racism. Please take a hard look at what you're implying when you humanize nazis like this. 
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relax-o-vision posted:OK, so you feel it is morally acceptable to allow neo-nazis to remain in power, got it. Thank you for your candor. You might be confusing this poster with Presidential Candidate Joe Biden, who had said he will collaborate with Nazis
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punishedkissinger posted:And no comment from Warren on the Biden abuse. It's funny how all the responsibility in the Democratic party is apparently concentrated to regular-rear end people on the left whereas the people in actual positions of power are blameless angels by definition. Some serious feudal serf mentality right there.
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