What’s the deal with the ‘zz’?
This is the letters on Russian tanks in Ukraine. Sign of marauders and thieves.
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greenhearth commented on Trump pardons convicted Binance founder wsj.com/finance/currencie... · Posted by u/cowboyscott
greenhearth commented on Where's the AI design Renaissance? learnui.design/blog/where... · Posted by u/tobr
That's not what "renaissance" means
It's basically television^1000. TV was also constantly criticized for reducing critical thinking skills and championing mediocrity. Douglas Adams put it best of course: "the future is the same old stuff with faster cars"
> France is in trouble because people don't want to face the math.
I disagree, a lot of people here are quite aware that we are in very difficult financial situation, from all side of the political spectrum. The main issue is that there is a very big disagreement on how to solve it (i.e how/who to tax more, and where to cut spending). And with a fragmented national assembly, everything is at a deadlock right now.
Just redistribute the resources, cap prices and let the economy prop up itself. The rich have to give it up for sake of stability and greater good. I'm sure they will understand lol
> Louisiana's secretary of state announced last week that officials identified 79 likely noncitizens who had voted in at least one election since the 1980s, after running nearly all of the state's 2.9 million registered voters through SAVE.
For scale: extrapolating (badly) to the whole US registered voting population (~175 million) = ~5,000 "likely noncitizens" who voted at least once since 1980.
I'm curious what the numbers are after they've confirmed the accuracy of the results (not just "likely noncitizens).
The numbers will be the same they ever were, as compiled by the usual statistics in place for decades: completely insignificant.
greenhearth commented on What were the earliest laws like? worldhistory.substack.com... · Posted by u/crescit_eundo
My unwavering belief is that laws are not, and never have been, about "justice". The government is interested in its own survival, from the individual (reelection, lifetime monarchy, etc.) to the complete entity (both parties in the US almost invariably increase the government size).
Law is like that joke that parents don't want fairness; they want silence. The law wants a cooperative public, and will do (first) the minimum necessary to achieve that ("I'm tough on crime!!!"), and (second) whatever is in its own interest (speed traps, licensing as revenue, etc.).
Only with a cooperative public can the government afford to pursue survival and growth. If bread and circuses are enough, you'll get circuses and bread! If not, maybe public regulation and security theater is needed.
I'm not saying all politics is heartlessly unconcerned with the common good, but that the public's perception of the common good is more important to the law.
Laws are many things and one of those things is a concern for justice. As far as self-perpetuation of the state, yes this is how a state operates, this is the nature of it. As for "the government," what is it? It's not a monolithic thing that you can just point your finger to. It depends on the nature and character of the citizens and the established customs of the nation, of which laws are a part. If we're talking about ancient Mesopotamia, then this is probably a tyrannical aspect. But there are many types of governments and constitutions. This dismissive attitude for "the government" is really not a practical, and even kind of a juvenile mentality.
greenhearth commented on The Silicon Valley push to breed super-babies washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/ironyman
What's the point of these superbabies if their brains are going to be full of plastic anyway?
The obtuseness and the soullessness of the user excited by this trick is what is most sad about this situation. "Look at me, I'm a cartoon!" speaks of the arrested development and some kind of a consciousness stunted by some autistic juvenescence prevalent in modern people. This pupa is really excited about living, I suppose.
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