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donkyrf
·hace 2 meses·discuss
The percent of the US population that is foreign-born is about the same as it was before 1920.

To use your vocabulary, it is a pernicious lie to pretend that America's success from WWI through the WWII recoveries was due to immigration policies, rather than other major countries having their infrastructure destroyed and being forced to use the US as a key supplier due to rather large wars.

(and that's ignoring that US population had booms in there that meant that even though immigration was persisting, there was just a big increase in domestic births).

Though if we're going to adopt those immigration policies, perhaps we should also adopt the tax strategies, corporate regulation, and worker unions that accompanied that growth.
donkyrf
·hace 2 meses·discuss
Microsoft is the 4th largest company in the world.

There should be a long list of companies whose policies are worse than theirs.
donkyrf
·hace 2 meses·discuss
I still have a personal Touch Bar MBP, and I find it annoying.

My problem is that I lightly rest my hands on the keyboard (including the f keys), and this habit is harmless on most Macs, but inadvertently activates the Touch Bar functions.

I actually like the idea a lot, and would probably love it if it required a little more pressure to activate.
donkyrf
·hace 2 meses·discuss
Obviously so.

You're either responding to an LLM or a badly malfunctioning human.
donkyrf
·hace 2 meses·discuss
China already bans crypto. If America and Europe followed suit, the market for crypto would quickly collapse
donkyrf
·hace 2 meses·discuss
Oakland California has about 200,000 cameras if we include public and private cameras, substantially more than other cities.

It also has substantially more robberies than the average city.

What evidence do you have that these cameras are preventing crime? Why would you mistake these cameras for a solution?

It seems to me that you've tacitly acknowledged that the thing you refer to as a "solution" is ineffective at best, and does nothing at all for the specific crime you called out (mugging).
donkyrf
·hace 2 meses·discuss
those groups have a lot in common, when you look at historical implementation.

Both create an unaccountable set of elites who control the populace.
donkyrf
·hace 2 meses·discuss
Your statement is not only false, it's nonsensical.
donkyrf
·hace 2 meses·discuss
Good.

Flock cameras appeal to weak communist attitudes, where there is a desire for a "good" authoritarian government that tracks everyone... for "their own good".
donkyrf
·hace 2 meses·discuss
It's very much on purpose. To do it with a modern diesel truck you need to remove the DPF, and reprogram the ECU to run rich and to ignore the missing DPF.
donkyrf
·hace 2 meses·discuss
> I don't think it's so much aggression as it is really really terrible infrastructure.

These are separate issues. Both are real.
donkyrf
·hace 2 meses·discuss
"I won't sell at any price" reads as an invitation to make a much higher bid.

It seems silly at best to take that as a literal statement.
donkyrf
·hace 2 meses·discuss
This article might catch you up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_status_of_Taiwan
donkyrf
·hace 2 meses·discuss
China would probably be very confused that you're asserting they're not on par with Taiwan.
donkyrf
·hace 2 meses·discuss
Yes.

Obviously.
donkyrf
·hace 2 meses·discuss
Your response is _almost_ funny.

I asserted that there is very little left-wing media today, because it is far more profitable to make media intended to enrich specific individuals.

And your counter-argument was that... there is very little left-wing media today, because it has been hijacked by specific individuals who want to be enriched.

Cool.

Side note: your decision to claim that trump attacking something means it is left-wing shows both that you are completely detached from any sort of reality, and that you lack even the tiniest hint of thought.
donkyrf
·hace 2 meses·discuss
right-wing ideologies are meant to augment concentrated wealth and power, which means there are incentives for the rich and powerful to create right-wing propaganda machines.

left-wing ideologies are meant to create diffuse wealth and power, which means there's no incentive for individuals to create such propaganda machines.

This is why there are enormous amounts of right-wing media, and almost no left-wing media in America.
donkyrf
·hace 2 meses·discuss
America's right-wing has never wanted competitive free markets, and has never been represented by Adam Smith, the man who said:

"the disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments."

America's right-wing has always been about enriching the connected and the already powerful. Nothing more.
donkyrf
·hace 2 meses·discuss
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donkyrf
·hace 2 meses·discuss
BYD is, by far, the largest EV manufacturer in the world. And they've been making semis for ages.

It is not newsworthy that BYD shipped another one. They do that every 15 minutes.

So not only do I repeat that this article is not newsworthy -- but your proposed article about the company making the most electric cars in the world shipping one would _also_ not be newsworthy.