FaceDeer

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[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 10 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Even now I routinely get hammered with downvotes when I say "Harris wasn't a good candidate."

I mean, elections are how you judge whether a candidate is a good candidate. We have an objective measure of how good a candidate she was. It wasn't very.

I'm not sure what better candidate the Democrats could have fielded by the time Biden withdrew, but that just shows that Biden waited way too late to drop out.

The Democrats are masters at pulling defeat from the jaws of victory.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

As some kind of mystic deer-creature, fuck this guy.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 42 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Even if some form of manipulation or shenanigans pushed Trump over the edge, it couldn't have done that if it hadn't been close to begin with. It shouldn't have been close.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 2 points 7 months ago

I read a proposal a while back for using the Yellowstone magma chamber for geothermal power generation. It's not currently in danger of erupting as a supervolcano, but the paper worked the numbers and showed that it would actually be feasable with realistic engineering to tap enough heat from the magma chamber to literally "defuse" it if it actually came to that. And turn a profit while doing so.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 6 points 7 months ago

Americans use those so it's already accounted for.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The fact that Anna's Archive is accepting additional datasets as "payment" makes me comfortable that they're not in this for the money but rather for ideological reasons.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 31 points 7 months ago

Guess we've finally reached the moment where letting the giant intellectual property cartels monopolize human culture is going to cause serious economic side effects for other big corporations rather than simply screwing over the general public.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 3 points 7 months ago

There are more things going on in the world than the United States. Countries can focus on more than one issue at a time.

Besides, if the US goes the "tariff everyone! Yay isolationism!" Route then the rest of the world doesn't need to do anything. The US will have defeated itself for them.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io -1 points 7 months ago (3 children)

You said:

In a world United against the US, there's no war the US can wage effectively.

What about the wars that the rest of the world wage?

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io -1 points 7 months ago (5 children)

You appear to be saying that only the US starts wars? That's not the case.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But that can't be true, they voted for Trump.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 4 points 7 months ago

Presumably they require you to post a video of yourself writing out the entire novel to get it.

So wait for the video AIs to get a little better, then yes.

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