The way the law is being enforced now, this should be an entirely legitimate argument. A snowball’s chance in hell though that it holds up without a legal team like OpenAI has.

I think Leavitt is picturing all the propaganda she can spin out of this

Yeah in all the libraries I’ve been to the standard policy is usually no food, no drinks except water. Maybe it’s the soda lobby which wouldn’t tolerate discrimination between water and soda?

Thanks for the interesting read!

My condolences on the state of the US food industry as a whole, and dairy in particular. As a European who loves their cheeses, it saddens me how a product that’s not cheap but accessible can be gatekept economically like that in the US.

Don’t be hard on yourself about it though, to me this is a systemic failure. You clearly did your research, even though the “cheese platter” available to you is small and mostly gross ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ .

If you’re looking for a hobby though: making cheese yourself doesn’t require any expensive stuff except milk (and in some cases time). You may have come across making mozzarella at home, which you can do in a day. But other cheese is possible too: apparently you can make a young cheese with yoghurt as the culture which starts fermentation!

The problem there is that getting him to pay would set an example. Billionaires can’t be seen to be coerced by the state into doing anything. That would show they are not untouchable, and would probably destroy the apathy from the general public which keeps them in power.

In Europe you would have to call them cakesticks

My guess is they’ll ship them off to Israel as soon as consequences are a real possibility. People accused of pedophilia often do the same thing and get away with it.

This kind of border agent is why I won’t be travelling to the US anytime soon. If this person was that bad in 2000, imagine what they’re like with the power to send you to a concentration camp if you look at them the wrong way.

Can’t wait for the day Satya Nadella gets fired, hopefully it will happen when the AI bubble bursts

We should be vigilant about the root ideology behind the correct view though. MTG doesn’t like Israel because the supremacist state they’re building happens to claim it’s for Jewish people. Leftists should argue against Israel from a broader principle against supremacist states in general. We can try to leverage the fact that MTG (and Tucker Carlson) are able to break the mainstream narrative of unconditional support for Israel, but we should never give credibility to anyone who comes to that view out of anti-semitism.

Wero is owned by European big banks. That’s a slight improvement over US multinationals, but in an ideal world I would like my payment processor to be non-profit and owned by the people.

More specifically late-stage capitalism. This is a classic example of rent-seeking by a capitalist who has cornered a market.

Now that’s class solidarity!

That rate of exploitation is pretty wild though, $2/hr while earning hundreds for the employer. Most capitalists begin uncontrollably salivating just thinking about that.

This is a power thing though, the closest we have/had in terms of rate of exploitation was silicon valley software engineers. They got basically free everything to distract them from how much they were being exploited. If working circumstances were worse, they would have demanded higher pay or quit, because they could afford to.

As the article notes, in the Philippines that is not the power dynamic at all. These are already among the highest paying jobs, and I doubt these workers are in a position to bargain for better. There are too many people willing to take their job, either in their own country, or in other impoverished countries.

Yes, because:

• a small apartment is more comfortable when you have other spaces where you can exist for free

• in our increasingly isolated society we need more spaces for serendipitous socializing

It does tie into affordability though, because the lack of third spaces is in itself an indication of an over-exploited real-estate market. A third space is almost by definition not maximally exploited, because you’re allowing non-paying patrons to take space which could be used by paying ones. Allowing non-paying patrons is only a moral question up to some point, after that it’s just the market forcing the choice between more exploitation or bankruptcy.

I guess they don’t think it’s in their interest to spend a bunch of money convincing oil-addicted USians to buy EV’s. Kind of makes sense, there’s a lot of other markets with way more existing demand for EVs.

The police works in part at the behest of that senator, he deserves all of the blame.

Yes, and he’s such a great communicator as well. In those few paragraphs he packs arguments to convince people ranging from idealist liberals to cynical leftists.

In other news: water is wet, and the only good kind of fascist is a dead fascist.

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