Voting rights are never about who has the right to vote, they’re always about who has the right to win and who has the right to rule.
Milei's crypto faceplant is a timely reminder that these guys can be defeated. The Tech Fascist project depends heavily on crypto. Our wannabe Silicon Valley overlords need their fake digital money to build a parallel financial system that can finance parallel forms of government. But they are building their dystopian dream on a scammy, shaky foundation that's bound to collapse sooner rather than later.
When a bad man has the advantage, cruelty and outrage are the consequences. —William Marshal
I was a reluctant convert but captured by the many layers, the hints at revelation, and a sound that I did not so much enjoy as I felt compelled to understand. Every track was a disheveled history of music. And armed with an array of sonics, Chuck D came forward and revealed a new level of Knowledge.
Put simply, if you selected the correct door initially (which happens 1/3 of the time), you shouldn’t switch when you’re offered the chance. If you chose the wrong door initially (which happens 2/3 of the time), you should switch.
This basic decision tree proves two things: the probability isn’t 50–50, and you’re better off if you always switch.
Hungary’s key lesson is you don’t protect democracy by talking about democracy — you protect democracy by protecting people. Only a democracy that works for the people is sustainable.
To be abundantly clear, as it stands, OpenAI currently spends $2.35 to make $1.
yes, the existence of dipshits is indeed unfixable, but building arrays of Dipshit Accelerators that allow a small number of bad actors to build destructive empires defended by Dipshit Armies is a choice. The refusal to genuinely remodel that machinery when its harms first appear is another choice.
The word 'amethyst' means 'not drunk' – a-methys – and ancient Romans and Greeks believed it could let you drink without getting drunk.
Tolerance is not a moral absolute; it is a peace treaty. Tolerance is a social norm because it allows different people to live side-by-side without being at each other’s throats. It means that we accept that people may be different from us, in their customs, in their behavior, in their dress, in their sex lives, and that if this doesn’t directly affect our lives, it is none of our business. But the model of a peace treaty differs from the model of a moral precept in one simple way: the protection of a peace treaty only extends to those willing to abide by its terms. It is an agreement to live in peace, not an agreement to be peaceful no matter the conduct of others. A peace treaty is not a suicide pact.