5456 pts · September 28, 2013
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Yes. The title even says it's old news.
> Earlier this week [February 2018], Matthew Gardner of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy reported that Amazon, which recorded $5.6 billion in profits in 2017, paid zero in federal taxes, thanks to “various tax credits and tax breaks for executive stock options.”This is a TNR editorial from March 1, 2018, at which time (quoting their CNN hyperlink) "Apple is leading the race" at $910 billion and "Amazon [is] also nipping at the heels of Apple and Google" at $730 billion.
The shortened URL in the screenshot still works. It's a TNR editorial from March 2018.
if they can convict a white, male, allegedly wealthy ex-president for campaign finance fraud after using campaign money to pay someone to sign an NDA about a personal affair, they could go after _anyone_ who has used campaign money to pay someone to sign an NDA about a personal affair!The people are finally waking up to this assault on our democratic RIGHT to pay off our mistresses with political campaign contributions.
I don't think that's downvote-worthy, but I disagree with it. What we call Generative AI, by its very nature, cannot imagine, communicate, learn, or create something new. It is a linear algebra recombination of patterns from existing art, weighted by word association. It could be done legally, it could be done ethically, it could even, used consciously by a human making a point, be interesting. But it can never by itself be creative.I do _also_ hate the hacks pumping out slop with it, though.
it's not just education, a lot of the time it's infrastructure. when the garbage truck hasn't come by in a month, where do you throw your stuff?sometimes not even disposal helps because the trash ends up in landfills which then periodically flood, releasing the trash back into the river.a lot of infrastructure investment is needed, money these regions often don't have, and even when they have it it's often lost to corruption or spent on things even more acutely needed than garbage collection
right? horrible way to ruint a perfectly good pair of shoes
when all you have is a (central bank interest rate), everything looks like a (supply of money problem)
stronger doesn't imply lactose tolerance. maybe all that super extra power was all powered by the cheese farts
And the flipside of that same harm is that they muddy the stats of actual antisemitism, which is still a very real problem. Cast a huge shadow of doubt over that reporting, inviting everyone to disbelieve it. These people hurt what they allege is "their own" side in more ways than one.
Yeah, I agree. The rise of social media, the skyrocketing levels of precarity along with increasing rates of exploitation (so there's money _out there_ but it's all flowing up) has pushed a lot of people into one of the few sectors there's always been a demand for, sex work. And demand has been skyrocketing too, with the increasing atomization of people and commodification of our time and relationships. But if you think OnlyFans is a CAUSE of that and not a SYMPTOM, I'd call you delusional.
I sympathise with seeing the very real harms it does and wanting to push it down. But if you fight against OnlyFans but not against the use of sex in Hollywood and advertising, against patriarchal and misogynistic social forces from the Tates to the evangelical school boards pushing abstinence-only sex ed (to preserve what they preach as the "only real value" of a woman, her virginal purity), you end up fighting only the autonomy, not the sexualization.
Sexploitation has infested our society for as long as we've had mass media. As long as there's money to be made sexualizing people, especially women, they will be sexualized. The only thing new about OnlyFans is that people often enter it with a higher degree of autonomy (so that they can be only impersonally exploited by a tech platform instead of personally exploited by a pimp or director).
there was an officer-involved pepper spraying
Well yeah. The problem with antivaxxers isn't that they're standing up to authority. The problem is that they're wrong, and so reach an incorrect conclusion on what's the right thing, or else that their moral system is so far removed from most peoples' that they can be considered evil.
No one needs to instruct them to be aggressive and violent. It's a natural part of their training and their toolbox. These horrendous films coming out of the protests are police when they're acting _restrained_.(Well, they act more restrained when there's a teenager with a rifle running around gunning down kids, or when it's Zionists attacking pro-Palestinian protestors, or when there are neo-Nazis blocking the streets. But that's for different reasons.)
Of course I think you _should_ vote for Biden, but fine, don't. But whatever you do, don't stop fighting, and fight in ways that can change things. Keep protesting. Show up for actual progressives in primaries, and vote downballot during elections. Even if you want to blank your presidential vote (or vote third-party, but I repeat myself), you need anti-genocide people in the House, the Senate, your state, your city...Even if you can't bear to vote Biden, don't let that keep you home.
I guess it depends on what meaning you attach to the term. I agree that it's very obvious most of the media coverage is operating in the very classical, anti-dissent, pro-business, pro-status-quo Manufacturing Consent sense. I get the feeling the above poster used it in a more narrow sense, in what the political machinery is trying to inject into the conversation to control the long-term narrative. Which is NOT how the word is typically used, but it's also a very important process to look at.
Worth noting for the downvoters - these things are NOT as mutually exclusive as they might seem on their face. The media is carrying the momentum of decades of pro-Israeli (and for that matter, anti-protest and pro-policing) policy. Meanwhile, the administration is also laying the groundwork for a possible shift in US-Israeli relations. These are not one force, they're a multitude of forces that often seem to work in alignment. This is one of those moments where you can see the wheels in motion.
one of those quotes that kept getting thrown around at uni was "higher education is learning more and more about less and less until you know absolutely everything about nothing"
That's the problem with a terrorism - by definition, they are part of the civilian population. Let's see this from the state's perspective. You can kill _a terrorist_, but there are only two ways to stop _terrorism_ - remove the conditions that cause it and _then_ either negotiate with or destroy the remaining members, or destroy in whole the civilian demographic it comes from.Israel has only ever worsened the conditions terrorism springs from. The only other way it can "win" is genocide.
Nothing wrong with liking how they look. I think they're fascinating from a technological perspective.I'm just also terrified of what they'll do to our collective ability to talk about and appreciate art - is that an interesting decision by a human hand, a genuine mistake, or a meaningless artifact by an unthinking algorithm? Nothing can be taken at face value.
Nah, if this were only about the money, more ultrarich fuckers would be in favour of things that improve The Economy broadly, like well run public infrastructure, widely available preventative healthcare, and cheap, low-emissions green energy. They want power, over you. The money is, at most, a means to that end, and past a point it's not even that, just an abstract number that indirectly affects their prestige level and how much the media will fawn at their feet.
It IS an important difference, but it still feels so fucked up. Me and my friend rock up to you - my friend punches you in the face. When you try to punch him back, I catch the blow before it hits him. He punches you again. You try to punch him again, and I catch the swing again. Yeah, I haven't taken a single blow. But you'll excuse every involved party for thinking I'm still partly responsible for the aggressive actions of my friend.
it's for certain people
He didn't hate the gays for religious reasons, he hated the gays for secular reasons. Pinky promise.
Hey now, be nice. Of the ballerinas I've met, several of them have been far better at containing the immense rage they carry.Of course, this man can't even blame the shoes.
From the wikipedia article YOU linked: > These weight-sensations originate from contact with supporting floors, seats, beds, scales, and the like.I'm not sure what point you're making with the laser. Obviously you'll experience a difference in "gravity" if the plane you're in goes into free-fall, just like you can see that something is black. But it matters that free-fall is the absence of forces, just like it matters that black is the absence of light. It helps inform our view of the world.
Yes. The title even says it's old news.
> Earlier this week [February 2018], Matthew Gardner of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy reported that Amazon, which recorded $5.6 billion in profits in 2017, paid zero in federal taxes, thanks to “various tax credits and tax breaks for executive stock options.”
This is a TNR editorial from March 1, 2018, at which time (quoting their CNN hyperlink) "Apple is leading the race" at $910 billion and "Amazon [is] also nipping at the heels of Apple and Google" at $730 billion.
The shortened URL in the screenshot still works. It's a TNR editorial from March 2018.
if they can convict a white, male, allegedly wealthy ex-president for campaign finance fraud after using campaign money to pay someone to sign an NDA about a personal affair, they could go after _anyone_ who has used campaign money to pay someone to sign an NDA about a personal affair!
The people are finally waking up to this assault on our democratic RIGHT to pay off our mistresses with political campaign contributions.
I don't think that's downvote-worthy, but I disagree with it. What we call Generative AI, by its very nature, cannot imagine, communicate, learn, or create something new. It is a linear algebra recombination of patterns from existing art, weighted by word association. It could be done legally, it could be done ethically, it could even, used consciously by a human making a point, be interesting. But it can never by itself be creative.
I do _also_ hate the hacks pumping out slop with it, though.
it's not just education, a lot of the time it's infrastructure. when the garbage truck hasn't come by in a month, where do you throw your stuff?
sometimes not even disposal helps because the trash ends up in landfills which then periodically flood, releasing the trash back into the river.
a lot of infrastructure investment is needed, money these regions often don't have, and even when they have it it's often lost to corruption or spent on things even more acutely needed than garbage collection
right? horrible way to ruint a perfectly good pair of shoes
when all you have is a (central bank interest rate), everything looks like a (supply of money problem)
stronger doesn't imply lactose tolerance. maybe all that super extra power was all powered by the cheese farts
And the flipside of that same harm is that they muddy the stats of actual antisemitism, which is still a very real problem. Cast a huge shadow of doubt over that reporting, inviting everyone to disbelieve it. These people hurt what they allege is "their own" side in more ways than one.
Yeah, I agree. The rise of social media, the skyrocketing levels of precarity along with increasing rates of exploitation (so there's money _out there_ but it's all flowing up) has pushed a lot of people into one of the few sectors there's always been a demand for, sex work. And demand has been skyrocketing too, with the increasing atomization of people and commodification of our time and relationships. But if you think OnlyFans is a CAUSE of that and not a SYMPTOM, I'd call you delusional.
I sympathise with seeing the very real harms it does and wanting to push it down. But if you fight against OnlyFans but not against the use of sex in Hollywood and advertising, against patriarchal and misogynistic social forces from the Tates to the evangelical school boards pushing abstinence-only sex ed (to preserve what they preach as the "only real value" of a woman, her virginal purity), you end up fighting only the autonomy, not the sexualization.
Sexploitation has infested our society for as long as we've had mass media. As long as there's money to be made sexualizing people, especially women, they will be sexualized. The only thing new about OnlyFans is that people often enter it with a higher degree of autonomy (so that they can be only impersonally exploited by a tech platform instead of personally exploited by a pimp or director).
there was an officer-involved pepper spraying
Well yeah. The problem with antivaxxers isn't that they're standing up to authority. The problem is that they're wrong, and so reach an incorrect conclusion on what's the right thing, or else that their moral system is so far removed from most peoples' that they can be considered evil.
No one needs to instruct them to be aggressive and violent. It's a natural part of their training and their toolbox. These horrendous films coming out of the protests are police when they're acting _restrained_.
(Well, they act more restrained when there's a teenager with a rifle running around gunning down kids, or when it's Zionists attacking pro-Palestinian protestors, or when there are neo-Nazis blocking the streets. But that's for different reasons.)
Of course I think you _should_ vote for Biden, but fine, don't. But whatever you do, don't stop fighting, and fight in ways that can change things. Keep protesting. Show up for actual progressives in primaries, and vote downballot during elections. Even if you want to blank your presidential vote (or vote third-party, but I repeat myself), you need anti-genocide people in the House, the Senate, your state, your city...
Even if you can't bear to vote Biden, don't let that keep you home.
I guess it depends on what meaning you attach to the term. I agree that it's very obvious most of the media coverage is operating in the very classical, anti-dissent, pro-business, pro-status-quo Manufacturing Consent sense.
I get the feeling the above poster used it in a more narrow sense, in what the political machinery is trying to inject into the conversation to control the long-term narrative. Which is NOT how the word is typically used, but it's also a very important process to look at.
Worth noting for the downvoters - these things are NOT as mutually exclusive as they might seem on their face. The media is carrying the momentum of decades of pro-Israeli (and for that matter, anti-protest and pro-policing) policy. Meanwhile, the administration is also laying the groundwork for a possible shift in US-Israeli relations. These are not one force, they're a multitude of forces that often seem to work in alignment. This is one of those moments where you can see the wheels in motion.
one of those quotes that kept getting thrown around at uni was "higher education is learning more and more about less and less until you know absolutely everything about nothing"
That's the problem with a terrorism - by definition, they are part of the civilian population. Let's see this from the state's perspective. You can kill _a terrorist_, but there are only two ways to stop _terrorism_ - remove the conditions that cause it and _then_ either negotiate with or destroy the remaining members, or destroy in whole the civilian demographic it comes from.
Israel has only ever worsened the conditions terrorism springs from. The only other way it can "win" is genocide.
Nothing wrong with liking how they look. I think they're fascinating from a technological perspective.
I'm just also terrified of what they'll do to our collective ability to talk about and appreciate art - is that an interesting decision by a human hand, a genuine mistake, or a meaningless artifact by an unthinking algorithm? Nothing can be taken at face value.
Nah, if this were only about the money, more ultrarich fuckers would be in favour of things that improve The Economy broadly, like well run public infrastructure, widely available preventative healthcare, and cheap, low-emissions green energy. They want power, over you. The money is, at most, a means to that end, and past a point it's not even that, just an abstract number that indirectly affects their prestige level and how much the media will fawn at their feet.
It IS an important difference, but it still feels so fucked up. Me and my friend rock up to you - my friend punches you in the face. When you try to punch him back, I catch the blow before it hits him. He punches you again. You try to punch him again, and I catch the swing again.
Yeah, I haven't taken a single blow. But you'll excuse every involved party for thinking I'm still partly responsible for the aggressive actions of my friend.
it's for certain people
He didn't hate the gays for religious reasons, he hated the gays for secular reasons. Pinky promise.
Hey now, be nice. Of the ballerinas I've met, several of them have been far better at containing the immense rage they carry.
Of course, this man can't even blame the shoes.
From the wikipedia article YOU linked: > These weight-sensations originate from contact with supporting floors, seats, beds, scales, and the like.
I'm not sure what point you're making with the laser. Obviously you'll experience a difference in "gravity" if the plane you're in goes into free-fall, just like you can see that something is black. But it matters that free-fall is the absence of forces, just like it matters that black is the absence of light. It helps inform our view of the world.