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aidan ,

That sounds like a joke from the doctor that the patient missed

aidan ,

To be fair, the service they provide isn’t hosting the videos, it’s making them, which I assume costs a bit more

aidan ,

To be fair, the service they provide isn’t hosting the videos, it’s making them, which I assume costs a bit more

aidan ,

Yeah but megaupload was legit but was still shutdown despite being massive

aidan ,

Yeah uh no. that’s not the whole story, Mega is a new company, the difference is it’s encrypted so the theory was they’d have no way to scan for pirated content. Mega was also seized people think, it’s unclear who or what currently opperates it. And Kim Dotcom’s extradition case is ongoing.

aidan ,

Yeah uh no. that’s not the whole story, Mega is a new company, the difference is it’s encrypted so the theory was they’d have no way to scan for pirated content. Mega was also seized people think, it’s unclear who or what currently opperates it. And Kim Dotcom’s extradition case is ongoing.

aidan ,

eh some of it is good, I personally wouldn’t want to just watched licensed shows from 50 years ago

aidan ,

Yeah, imo it was also a bit more difficult then. But yeah as others said, the licensing was hard too

aidan ,

The service they provide (from a perspective external to obligatory capitalism) is less about making them, but providing a framework by which people engaged in artistic expression and development get paid and permitted to survive.

If it is art that other people value then that framework already existed(and there are many others who created similar tools for it) so I don’t see it as particularly valuable.

Contrast the space program, which is why memory foam (the material) is in the public domain, as is a fuckton of electronics and computer technologies.

There is a compelling argument that tens of billions of dollars being used productively to research anything would have at least some useful results. Memory foam, cordless drills, etc could have been developed much more cheaply than the Apollo program, GPS is extremely valuable, but Apollo wasn’t a necessary precursor to geostationary orbit.

aidan ,

From Wikipedia on Vincent Van Gogh: Van Gogh’s work began to attract critical artistic attention in the last year of his life. After his death, Van Gogh’s art and life story captured public imagination as an emblem of misunderstood genius

I don’t really understand how this follows from what I said.

For every $1 spent on the moonshots, we got $14. Feel free to look for other investments, but big science really has proven itself.

Do you have a source for that? (And what that claim actually means), afterall, plenty of “essential” inventions in the modern day(including the base of modern rocketry) came from weapons development- does that make war a good investment? (Of course its not 1-to-1 because war is destructive, but my point is putting a lot of effort and smart people into almost anything will lead to a lot of innovation)

aidan ,

Movie star isn’t supposed to be a dream job that makes you fabulously rich, but a decent living.

I mean, supposed to according to who?

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But, tbh, that’s just some guys opinion

aidan ,

That’s rather dismissive.

I don’t mean it that way.

Are you saying that the notion that wealth disparity is bad is just some guy’s opinion,

This is true yes, but back to the original topic

or that you’re not supposed to be able to get rich being a movie star (or a private equity investor, or a hedge fund manager, or a California gold miner)?

This yes. I am saying nobody has any authority to assert what is or isn’t supposed to be highly paid, but it is fair to believe nobody should be highly paid.

Usually when people are vague and terse, I assume they’re losing interest in the conversation. It’s okay to walk away.

I really do genuinely appreciate the consideration, I’m fine right now, but thank you regardless!

aidan ,

I don’t think he ever said anything about family values

aidan ,

compassionate left

aidan ,

Yes they would have been justified if their impression was right, but it wasn’t

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and the jury

aidan ,

Something like a cited source might help and receive actual conversation

what. you’re asking me to give a source for a negative. do you expect me to chronicle every word he’s ever said to show he never said the words family values. will you do the same to confirm what I said?

being a member of the “Proud boys”

this statement is untrue and I do have a source for it, or as best as you can get for proving a negative.

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what? there are plenty of right-wing atheists, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, etc

aidan ,

There are plenty of right wing atheists…

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  1. Why do they have to be prominent?
  2. Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Hayek, and many more
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Ok? Also, source?

aidan ,

wdym?

aidan ,

I disagree, even mass serial killers should be tolerated, they shouldn’t be executed. Even the people I most strongly disagree are still human.

aidan ,

I disagree, even mass serial killers should be tolerated, they shouldn’t be executed. Even the people I most strongly disagree are still human.

Also, how is Rittenhouse racist?

aidan ,

The author of the article really doesn’t matter when the quote is true…

aidan ,

The author of the article really doesn’t matter when the quote is true…

aidan ,

You claimed being right wing was limited to something unrelated to it. 2 responses because I didn’t know if one was uploaded because of crappy internet. But sure continue to believe a conspiracy about everyone who disagrees with you.

aidan ,

this seems to say 27% of non-religious people lean republican Not exactly as rare as albinos

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Or maybe it’s just who I thought of? I think it’s fair to even say Trump is effectively agnostic even if he wouldn’t admit it

aidan ,

Its who I thought of, because its (at least for Friedman, not Ayn Rand) who I align with more(somewhat) on the right. I am an agnostic and pretty right-wing(by my own definition)

aidan ,

I mean, feel free to check my own comments if you want

aidan ,

Imo, religion having any correlation with being a bit more right wing is a historical coincidence, right wing economics was in the 18th and 19th century often tied to less religious people.

Prosecutors say Alec Baldwin was ‘engaged in horseplay’ with gun before fatal shooting (www.theguardian.com)

Fewer than three weeks before actor Alec Baldwin is due to go on trial in Santa Fe, New Mexico, prosecutors have said that he “engaged in horseplay with the revolver”, including firing a blank round at a crew member on the set of Rust before the tragic accident occurred....

aidan ,

an actor is pointing a real gun at a cameraperson who is holding the camera, which is precisely what happened here.

which proves it I not safe? yes that’s the point, something dangerous was done, maybe normalized in the industry but still dangerous. a boom or tripod can always be used to not have someone behind the camera on the other end of a gun

aidan ,

Yes, and instead of shooting at each other people can shoot at the ground and then just make really mean facial expressions at each other. Or we can just take guns out of tv and movies altogether. Or they can use squirt guns and people can use their imagination.

I love strawmanning something nobody said, it’s not dishonest at all.

the use of guns isn’t where I would start since injury or death from guns is extremely rare in Hollywood.

A rare risk, that’s easy to avoid. why not just avoid it when possible? A camera operator rarely needs to be in front of a gun, so try to avoid it when it’s not absolutely necessary? This seems like basic risk minimization

aidan ,

insightful response

ChatGPT Answers Programming Questions Incorrectly 52% of the Time: Study (gizmodo.com)

The research from Purdue University, first spotted by news outlet Futurism, was presented earlier this month at the Computer-Human Interaction Conference in Hawaii and looked at 517 programming questions on Stack Overflow that were then fed to ChatGPT....

aidan ,

It can, it also sometimes can’t unless you ask it “could it be x answer”

aidan ,

If your intention is to scare people who didn’t sign up for it iirc that is assault.

aidan ,

Nixon Foundation has been posting edits of him on their Youtube channel, tons of pro-Nixon comments

aidan ,

IMO you should change it when its deceptive clickbait

aidan ,

Headline is just a lie, its not banned

aidan ,

You saved the day right? Oh no that is just the start, since the round fired was a 7.62x51mm NATO (there is no “rubber” round for this firearm) it went straight through the torso of that protester with a box knife and into and then back out of at least a few other people

High angle means it would likely go into the ground. Also could use hollow point though, I don’t know if police use hollow point on rifles.

aidan ,

Where this type of lending is less frequent, like mobile homes, prices haven’t risen as much. But as that lending has gotten more common, they’re starting to.

aidan ,

if it wasn’t for privatized insurance mucking the whole thing up

Insurance companies aren’t saints, but their whole goal is to keep costs for themselves low so they can pocket the premiums. A lot of factors go into driving up health care costs, this is nowhere near all of them but to name a few: AMA keeping residency slots low to control supply of doctors and keep wages high, high educational cost meaning doctors require higher pay, long education needed(high lead time on new medical staff, doctors have some of the longest educational time in the US of anywhere in the world), intellectual property law enforcing drug monopolies, extremely expensive FDA approval process, (?)expensive FDA certification of some equipment(this I’m not entirely sure about- but I suspect its the case), Certificate of Need laws restricting competition in some areas.

Everyone always jumps to defense spending which is not the problem. Defense spending creates hundreds of thousands of well paying jobs to American citizens. The large majority of the money used to produce military goods goes back into the economy.

Sorry to say Keynesian economics died.

Other than that, the first part of your comment is right.

aidan ,

Just a risk of mysterious death and missing organs if you complain about abuse

aidan ,

The AMA doesn’t directly control it, what it does do is lobby congress to limit it. The AMA actually is the reason the cap was put in place in 1997. Doctor administrators are also often AMA members/supporters/in some capacity bound to the AMA, so they often don’t explore other sources of funding than government for expanding residency capacity.

aidan ,

I’m talking about inflation adjusted price

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Education went up in cost because nothing was stopping it from going up and everything else is so broken it took the place for it.

Well yeah, that’s my point? Why do you think their customers are able to pay any amount? Because they’re taking government loans.

Healthcare went up because insurance companies. They are a useless middlemen.

How did insurance companies increase the cost of healthcare when their goal is to decrease it so they can profit more?

Cars really haven’t gone up that much.

New and used cars definitely haven’t gone down in price despite increased mechanization, improved shipping, etc. But yeah out of these things they have the lowest infinite free money behind them.

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