The only way this happens is through strong policy on tax havens, fair wealth redistribution and making it easy for workers to unionize.
The only way to make this kind of policy come to life is to get money out of politics as much as possible: hard limits on campaign funds and contributions. Having more money than you opponents shouldn't give you an advantage.
You do realize he'll get a presidential pardon the minute Trump is reelected don't you?
They have a conscience, they have empathy, it's just that they only do for their friends, families or people in their social circles.
Most people act like this. There are people working in terrible conditions in Bangladesh or China to create stuff the western countries buy at Walmart, forever 21, Amazon... Where's the empathy for them? Where's the empathy for the guy that lost his job 6 months ago and has been sleeping in a tent since, and only got 75 cents after 2 hours of panhandling?
Individually, we can't help everyone so we often look the other way. That doesn't make us psychopaths.
Furthermore, saying rich people have mental illness frames the problem as a psychological one when in reality it is a socio-economic problem that requires a political solution.
And the hell of it is that the ruling class is so far gone in corruption and shallow self-interest - so sincerely deeply mentally ill - that they don't recognize that ultimately they're working against their own interests
I come across this sort of comment more and more - the fact that sociopath billionaires extending their influence to the political and judicial system are, in fact, mentally ill.
Believe me, they're not.
They know very well what they are doing. It's just that their wealth isolates them from the consequences of it. They don't care about healthcare, climate change, education, unemployment, because that's for the 95% to worry about. They are rich enough to don't give a fuck, and they feel safe doing so.
I don't trust Reddit anymore, and to my knowledge Mozilla has always put user rights before corporate greed. Also Mozilla is a sort of non profit. So you're gonna need more than anecdotes to change my mind.
La stratégie de la gauche, qui consiste à se poser comme la voix de la raison en réaction à l'extrémisme des partis de droite (qui réussissent très bien à canaliser la colère des électeurs) est une stratégie perdante. Les électeurs frustrés veulent le changement et ne croient plus au statu quo. Tant que la gauche hésite à adopter des politiques plus fortes, elle sera associée au passé; mais en politique il faut faire rêver à l'avenir.
Yeah every store values client loyalty, but pretending companies (e.g. Walmart for crissakes) want to be loyal to their customers should disqualify you from being called an "industry analyst".
In any constituency there are undecided voters who don't know who they'll vote for until election day. Since the US is a two party system I suppose they are a huge factor in the end result even though there might not be too many of them.
I'm not sure "secretly" is the right word here.
Israel and the US share a lot of Intel and military technologies.
I'm not saying that the US shouldn't ditch Israel - they should, but they need to undo a few ties first. People here expect it done in a few weeks and that won't happen.
The Lawyers: "Noooo Mr. Musk, don't sign those!"
Elon: "Fuck it man, I'm buying Twitter, yolo"
I think the most interesting thing in this article is the fact that some concepts central to semantics (analogy, connotation) or psychology (bias) kind of emerge naturally in multi layered neural networks of sufficient size. Also that it can sound like different personalities (overconfident, secretive, delusional) if you manipulate the weight or the proximity of features. I'd like to see the same kind of study but for midjourney...
But I'm really fucking tired of hearing about things we're not trying to do because we'll probably fail. There's value in the failure, in the attempt.
Trump was impeached (twice) by democrats who knew it wouldn't be enough to remove him from office.
I'm pro-Palestine, I think what Israel is doing in Gaza is definitely a genocide, but seriously, what do you think would happen from a geopolitical standpoint if Biden said "yeah, I think the ICC is right, please stop this genocide Bibi"? The US can't afford to lose Israel as an ally so it needs to be subtle.
You are either ignorant or trolling, and in any case you bring no argument to this discussion.
I dunno, what do you think about this whole thing?
Sheriff says he is ‘ashamed’ after five of his former deputies plead guilty to torture of two Black men
A Mississippi sheriff said he was “ashamed” and apologized after five of his former deputies pleaded guilty to charges related to the torture of two Black men.
