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sgregnt commented on Driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes cnn.com/2025/05/01/busine... · Posted by u/harambae

monkaiju · 8 months ago

So instead of improve their conditions we just fire them? Sure that won't have any negative repercussions...

That's even assuming this is actually remotely profitable compared to just using humans. Like a lot of this sort of automation it probably isn't, and it's true purpose is to be used as a threat against workers so they'll be even more "compelled to work without sleep to finish routes with tight deadlines"

sgregnt · 8 months ago

What kind of comment is that? You can open your own company and pay as much as you want and create whatever condition you want for the workers.

sgregnt commented on Mark Zuckerberg says social media is over newyorker.com/culture/inf... · Posted by u/FinnLobsien

Twirrim · 8 months ago

Likewise, Facebook has become spectacularly useless for me. I've missed important moments in friend's lives for several days because Facebook has decided that shoving random fan pages and adverts are what I actually want to see.

A friend's dad died and I didn't know for 5 days. He was busy dealing with everything that comes with such a major life event, posted it to facebook assuming that would be an effective way to communicate it.

sgregnt · 8 months ago

I see posts from my friends all the time. Most of the post in my feed are from friends or groups I follow.

sgregnt commented on How the U.S. became a science superpower steveblank.com/2025/04/15... · Posted by u/groseje

grafmax · 8 months ago

The idea that the free market will self-correct and optimize outcomes is a well-documented fantasy. Markets don’t account for externalities, they concentrate wealth (and therefore political power), and they routinely underprovide merit goods like education, healthcare, and basic research (things that benefit society broadly but aren’t immediately profitable).

As for how to address budget issues, the solution is simple: tax the rich.

sgregnt · 8 months ago

>The idea that the free market will self-correct and optimize outcomes is a well-documented fantasy.

Could you share some sources to back this up? At least a sources to back up at least a few case studies would be curious. I'm interested in economics and never have been aware that free market self-correction is a well documented fantasy and would love to understand where is your claim coming from.

sgregnt commented on Leaked data reveals Israeli govt campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts on Meta dropsitenews.com/p/leaked... · Posted by u/jbegley

bawolff · 8 months ago

The missing part of this article: are the requests valid? Are they actually incitements to terrorism and violence or is it just a clamp down on criticism? The headline of the article implies the latter but the body does not provide any evidence for that.

Like there is a war going on, a pretty nasty one at that. I would expect there to be quite a lot of incitement to violence related to that. I would expect the israeli government to be mostly concerned with incitements of violence against its citizens. In the context of this conflict i would expect such incitements to be mostly be made by the demographics cited in the article due to the nature of the conflict. The article seems like it could be entirely consistent with take downs being used appropriately. It needs more then this to prove its headline.

Heck, from this post we dont even know relative numbers. How does this compare against take down requests from other groups?

sgregnt · 8 months ago

From the lost of countries and knowing how rampant antisemitism is in these countries I suspect majority of the request are valid and express support and urge for terrorism.

sgregnt commented on U.S. pauses all military aid to Ukraine wsj.com/politics/national... · Posted by u/ZeroCool2u

arunabha · 10 months ago

It would be one thing if there was a clear policy and adherence to it. In that case, you could discuss and reason in good faith. However there is no such indication that this decision is based on a considered policy.

Trump's supporters would say that this is a result of not wanting the US being involved in foreign conflicts. That is a laudable goal, however that is not what is happening here. From the article

> On Friday, the administration said it was sending Israel nearly $3 billion in new weapons, including more than 35,000 new 2,000 pound bombs, invoking an emergency rule under U.S. arms control laws.

This just makes it look like a petty tantrum at best and a wilful desire to cleave our relationship with Europe at worst.

Yes, we can all argue that Europe needs to be less dependent on the US, however what's on the other side of that is not pretty for the United States. Our ability to have the world's de facto reserve currency and hence our ability to sustain debt loads way in excess of usual is largely dependent on the US being the world's cop and sole superpower.

A truly multipolar world might be good for the world, but it's certainly not going to be good for the United States.

sgregnt · 10 months ago

Israel is paying for this weapons by its own money.

sgregnt commented on Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting bbc.com/news/live/c625ex2... · Posted by u/yakkomajuri

kombine · 10 months ago

This is a petty excuse. We just witnessed how USA tried to force Zelensky (who is in a much worse position than Israel) to sign a deal, and he refused. Israel voting this way falls in line with who they are.

sgregnt · 10 months ago

Who said this is smart?

sgregnt commented on Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting bbc.com/news/live/c625ex2... · Posted by u/yakkomajuri

GMoromisato · 10 months ago

This feels good, but will ultimately fail.

Russia will respond with either strategic bombing of Kyiv or tactical nukes. And then what do we do? Nuke Moscow? Send NATO troops in? More sanctions?

Russia knows that we are not going to blow up the world to save Ukraine, which means escalation always ends with us backing down.

sgregnt · 10 months ago

Tactically nukes are useless BTW, and you give tactical nukes to ukraine in this case.

sgregnt commented on Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting bbc.com/news/live/c625ex2... · Posted by u/yakkomajuri

padjo · 10 months ago

Russia is not going to use nukes.

sgregnt · 10 months ago

Russia is more likely to use nukes against US if Russia wins in Ukraine.

sgregnt commented on Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting bbc.com/news/live/c625ex2... · Posted by u/yakkomajuri

samename · 10 months ago

I think the heart of the matter that I haven’t seen discussed yet is: Who’s going to pay for it? The current administration is cutting expenses across the board. There’s a lot of talk about the deficit and defense spending. I don’t see much appetite in the US to keep sending blank checks to Ukraine. Hence, the minerals deal: this was to recoup costs.

Of course, it would be great if defending democracy was free. However, with politicians already talking about cutting Medicaid spending, it was only a matter of time until defense spending came under scrutiny

sgregnt · 10 months ago

Sending money to Ukraine saves US money. The equipment that Russia is losing means the US does not need to maintain as much military as before and fpr the cost of 90B US can permanently save maybe 30% of its mil budget going forward, especially is Russia clearly looses. One more year of support to Ikrain would destroy most of gerund Russian equipment and set it back for years.

sgregnt commented on No one is disrupting banks – at least not the big ones popularfintech.com/p/no-o... · Posted by u/kazanins

losteric · a year ago

What are you talking about? We can wear gold, make weapons out of iron, cups out of copper… coins have both a fiat face value and real tangible value (the “floor”).

Bitcoin has no intrinsic value. It’s entirely belief.

That’s not a bad thing. MLMs can be very profitable, some turn into multi-generational institutions of faith.

I own bitcoin because it’s like buying a share of the Mormon church early on. Absolutely, do it! But comparing it with gold? Come on, be real.

sgregnt · a year ago

Bitcoin physical value is that, one way or the other, billions of humans got atoms in their brains, arrange in such a way that they recognize bitcoins, and have a certain understanding of it's setup... this is a lot of atoms, and is no small fit.