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- Wed May 15, 2024 11:46 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
- Replies: 736
- Views: 138534
Re: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
PS There are other explanations for preferring a fascist or similar: being misguided, misinformed, short-sighted, opportunistic among others.
- Wed May 15, 2024 9:03 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Elections in various countries
- Replies: 1099
- Views: 610108
Re: Elections in various countries
As far as I can tell, there are still no major (i.e. 1%+ vote) far right political parties in Ireland. The far right seems to still be a riot footnote in Ireland.
- Wed May 15, 2024 9:00 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
- Replies: 736
- Views: 138534
Re: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
@Torco: The main point is not whether the US is a hegemon or an empire, the main point is what are the policies and what are the consequences? You mentioned trade unions. Biden supports trade unions more than any US president ever has while Trump opposes them. Those policies would influence those of...
- Sun May 12, 2024 1:14 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
- Replies: 736
- Views: 138534
Re: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
it's common for people to think they're rulers are good: a lot of being a ruler is convincing the ruled that you're good, after all. A multipolar world would be one with an increased amount of violence as the various poles jockey for position with one another. I really hope I don't have to convince...
- Thu May 09, 2024 9:37 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1436
- Views: 447299
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
I think Travis's point, which I agree with, is about which way to vote, not about discrediting protests.
- Wed May 01, 2024 10:32 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1436
- Views: 447299
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
Exactly, we need to consider what the alternative is. Realistically the only remotely probable alternatives to the US presidential election are Trump being president and Biden being president, the latter being clearly better on not just foreign policy but also environment, democracy, and more or les...
- Wed May 01, 2024 4:19 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1436
- Views: 447299
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
In any case, social security does not take from the old to give to the young, notably retirement. I argue that a good role of a state: improves the conditions of the citizens and inhabitants, notably the most vulnerable, while encouraging virtue i.e. positive behaviour and discouraging vice i.e. ne...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 10:04 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3735
- Views: 454505
Re: Random Thread
It's now been about ten years since I bought the first handful of DVDs that eventually grew into a fairly large de facto DVD collection. I say "de facto" because I never set out to collect DVDs, the way people set out to collect sports cards or action figures. I just thought it would be n...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 9:53 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1436
- Views: 447299
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
No. Socialism, like welfare, is when you take money from the old and the rich to give it to the young and the poor, which is a ghastly inversion of the true purpose of government: taking money from the young and the poor to give it to the old and the rich. I got a check in the mail from the governo...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 8:54 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1436
- Views: 447299
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
The Democratic Party is run by crypt-keepers (Pelosi), cops (Harris), and cowards (Pelosi and Harris). As far as their West-Wing-soaked brains are concerned, Biden is doing a great job. If Trump wins again, they'll be the last ones to see it coming. If Trump wins again, it'll be like the first time...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 8:51 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1436
- Views: 447299
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
Are Americans that interested in socialism? No. Socialism, like welfare, is when you take money from the old and the rich to give it to the young and the poor, which is a ghastly inversion of the true purpose of government: taking money from the young and the poor to give it to the old and the rich...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 8:21 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Elections in various countries
- Replies: 1099
- Views: 610108
Re: Elections in various countries
I as member of LFI went to a Glucksmann meeting and prefer his position on Ukraine, more coherently in favour of human rights and not blaming NATO for Putin.
- Tue Jan 16, 2024 11:13 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3735
- Views: 454505
Re: Random Thread
Finally, how clean we should be is deeply affected by culture and climate. You can keep pretty clean with just water and no soap, but your fellow sedentary apes may screw up their noses at you. Another interesting issue in its own right. Everyone here presumably agrees that body odor stinks whereas...
- Sat Nov 25, 2023 9:04 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Elections in various countries
- Replies: 1099
- Views: 610108
- Sat Nov 25, 2023 9:02 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
- Replies: 666
- Views: 754824
Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
After I had a very productive and successful (by my standards) day yesterday, I got a lot less stuff done today, mostly because I couldn't think of much to do in the first place - I had mostly done what I wanted to get done yesterday. (I'm not from the US, so there's no big holiday today here.) May...
- Wed Nov 22, 2023 9:38 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1943
- Views: 15030518
Re: Venting thread
Over the past month, youtube has changed their policies to ban adblockers. At first it merely pressured me to ditch the adblocker but now it refuses to show videos at all. Unfortunately that means my main source of video and even music has disappeared. Perhaps it's for the best as I have been tryin...
- Wed Nov 22, 2023 9:35 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Elections in various countries
- Replies: 1099
- Views: 610108
Re: Elections in various countries
PS I wager a slight lead for Greens-Labour, who will probably form a government with NSC and VVD.
- Wed Nov 22, 2023 9:29 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4725
- Views: 2077232
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
You are surely right. The main reason for grouping British English together is just a variation on 1° assuming one language = one country, which so far from the truth of 7000 languages for 200 countries and 2° lack of general knowledge, in linguistics as in other domains. It's like when people are s...
- Sun Nov 12, 2023 8:15 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Elections in various countries
- Replies: 1099
- Views: 610108
Re: Elections in various countries
Heck, the Democrats are now possibly more left-wing than ever, given their active siding with unions. Moosetache's whole argument rests on characterising the current political system as blackmail which does not convince me. It's certainly preferable to getting raided and paying tribute to avoid furt...
- Sun Nov 12, 2023 8:07 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4725
- Views: 2077232
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
Some sorts of "modern" transcriptions do not seem right to me, such as ones which transcribe /iː/ and /uː/ as "[ɪj]" and "[ʉw]"; of course, this is because in the dialect here these are the pure monopythongs i and [y~ʉ~u]. Well, of course, these ‘modern transcriptions’...