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Vegas64

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  1. While not that extreme and I joke, but I have become definitely more progressive on certain things in my old age. Namely marijuana legalization is 100% a no-brainer and billionaires and late stage capitalism is a scourge. I'm an agrieved middle class guy who is seeing the light that we are being squeezed and wrung out. "bled of every dollar and left an empty husk" as you so eloquently stated. It's we (99%) who have the leverage and grievances. It's they (1%) who should be changing for us. Fitting that today is Festivus, I guess.
  2. Vegas64 replied to Derka's topic in Cloak Room
    Isn't this the screaming red flag of a capital K, K-shaped economy?
  3. Worse still because the team around him cannot shoot the 3 with any consistency when Max Christie and Naji Marshall go from ice in veins to ice cold.
  4. I'm morphing into a delusional progressive in my old age. Sue me!
  5. But it raises the question, when looking at wage and income and life inequality, why can we NOT use income-based or wealth-based relative pricing to help the poor and be more fair to the wealthy? It's the opposite of the day fine system in european countries where your speeding ticket is relative to your worth and ability to pay. It handicaps it to your wealth and makes it more fair. I get this is different but also has shades of the same idea but goes further in that it might actually help to subsidize good and healthy food for the poor based on the "overpay" of the "what can a banana cost, 10 dollars?" crowd.
  6. Taxation of the middle class, as it stands today, is thinly veiled theft. Leave the 98% alone. Tax the billionaires. Full stop.
  7. NOW we are getting to some interesting cocktail party conversation (and I still gag everytime this thread is bumped and I see the title "Lost Generation" and it not being a Hemingway or Post-WWII expat literary community reference).
  8. I would say they chose poorly.
  9. I've literally never used carplay. Sorry I'm an ancient human being. You'll be sad when we are gone.
  10. I think he means the human error was in accidently including it in his post at all (it must have been a fat finger situation or it was somehow copy/pasted from the phone when he posted)? Or maybe he was posting on surly and driving which would be insane to me lol
  11. Humans. AI. Nothing is 100% perfect, I guess. lol
  12. The only way I've ever heard that term previously is when people would talk about "heritage indian firms" in the context of tech consulting (e.g. Infosys or Tech Mahendra, etc.)
  13. I know you aren't asking me, but I would hazard a guess: - He works at a good law firm. - There are a TON of crappy law schools. Tier 3 and 4 level rankings nationally. - The majority of the racial/ethical minorities that make up your stat come from the law schools that accept anyone with a BA from any schools and arent generally competitive. A lot of the aforementioned are first generation college students who probably didn't go to prestige undergrad. - The recruiting of a top law firm still targets top targets (undergrads) which still over-represent white (but probably now skew more women).
  14. I get the old AI hallucinated meme but I don't understand the GPS and 4 mins to drive 1.4 miles on a route. It looks pretty basic to me.
  15. Here is something fascinating from a TIL tidbit from AI lore. The whole reason there is an AI wars at all (OpenAI, Google, Meta, Grok) and not just Google AI and a bunch of midgets, is because of Elon Musk and his infamous pettiness. Because the company he invested in (DeepMind) spurned him (and Zuck) and took less money to be bought by Google, Sam Altman and Elon spun up a company (OpenAI) to get back at the betrayal he felt by Larry Page who he thought was his homeboy up until then (and whom he accidentally made aware of when showing a Breakout video on a private plan). Elon's cache was able to poach a handful of great AI researchers from Google who up until that point had every AI expert in the world (and if you follow their coaching tree makes up every AI company we talk about today) and it's suggested that without Elon's involvement and recruiting (remember Elon in 2014/2015 was still a golden child and hadn't turned heel) Google would have ran away with it. Fascinating.
  16. Who wants to tell him? lol
  17. Wow. With as basic and common of a use case that is and with literally hundreds of companies doing this succesfully, I'm not sure I'd want to publicly admit this or go on record to let the world know I'm incompetent.
  18. Anglicizing is a thing that goes as far back in America to the Ellis Island Jews, Irish and Italian mass immigration era, nothing new there. Some might argue it's cultural assimiliation and adaptation and resilience, others might argue it's racism and assualt for not letting people bring their whole self to work. I've always subscribed to the quaint philosophy of "Mind My Own Darn Business", personally.
  19. Why would they kill the golden goose? The one thing that people love and applaud and is guaranteed engagement farming to be shared? Dumb move IMO
  20. That's a great analogy.
  21. Was there not a Christmas joke swap this year?
  22. It's funny you mention CRT because I had that thought as well reading this. I came to the conclusion that the reason it was such a bogeyman was actually prescient and strategically deft by the party of the aggrieved white man. CRT was a tiny interdisciplinary framework found almost entirely in the ivory tower of academia and had zero to do with anything else, but to hear the aggreived white man tell it, it was everywhere and all at once. But the genius was to kill it as an infant in the crib before it got full grown and then you had to address the conclusions that reframe everything. If my cynical interpretation is true (and I think you are agreeing with me) then it actually was politically savvy to demonize, isolate and eliminate CRT while it was being sold as "just an academic framework and just an honesty interpretation of history, nothing to fear for the aggrieved white man." which might not have been entirely the truth.
  23. And so THIS finally gets to the heart of the extrapolation or the political point I think Bozo was trying to grasp with. We, as society and politics, can meet these aggrieved white males where they are with a measure of empathy and understanding and gracefully bring them into the big tent but it doesn't help when you have others take the position of that being just another example of the white man being coddled and privileged and helped in a way that no minority or marginalized group ever got. But also we shouldn't be surprised when to your point the white male group who feels they got the rug pulled out from underneath them doesn't just accept it and deal with the new reality but instead chooses to try and fight back and win back the ground (privilege) they've perceived to have lost (though they never really had it).
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