If you were in the trolley problem and the trolley was headed towards a million people, I can imagine you opting not to pull the lever to switch it to a single person because you won’t act unless there’s a perfect option with zero casualties.
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The party whose Supreme Court justices were responsible for all gay rights advancements, always vote to protect abortion rights, passed Obamacare to helps millions of Americans out, vs. a Republican party that has done literally everything in their power to empower their largest donors, and more recently has existed for the sole purpose of enriching the Trump family?
If you can’t see the difference between the two then you’re either being willfully obtuse or you’re a subversive agent for the GOP. My money is on the latter honestly.
You realize every country has border patrol, right? Spending money on your border patrol agency isn’t inherently evil. Denmark is one of the most “socialist” countries in the world, but they also have one of the strictest border policies.
ICE under Obama was very different to ICE under Trump.
Weird how all these anti-Democrats think that the only competitive left party in the US failing will somehow lead to the Republicans relinquishing power instead of consolidating it.
Russia had two or three fair elections after the fall of the Soviet Union, until Putin came into power and now he “wins” every election with 98% of the vote.
But I’m sure if the Democratic Party disappeared tomorrow then somehow Republicans would just give up their power. Lol.
Bleys@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Texas lawmakers failed to pass a bill to improve local disaster warning systems this year10·1 day agoHow could a representative from a place colloquially referred to as “Flash Flood Alley” have known that it would [checks notes] flood?
Bleys@lemmy.worldto PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•'There are no plans to drop support for SteamOS': The Finals devs commit to Steam Deck and Linux players despite new kernel-level anti-cheatEnglish61·1 day agoThey paid them one time to use their voices for AI generation, which is a sketchy practice notwithstanding the fact it makes the voices sound unnatural and is effectively just an excuse to not pay workers.
Bleys@lemmy.worldto PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•'There are no plans to drop support for SteamOS': The Finals devs commit to Steam Deck and Linux players despite new kernel-level anti-cheatEnglish62·2 days agoBased
Use AI instead of paying voice actors
That’s a pass from me, dog
Bleys@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Netherlands: 18 year old Ryan al-Najjar was tied up, beaten, and drowned by her father and brothers for being too WesternizedEnglish83·4 days agoWhat is whataboutism, Alex?
Bleys@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•Does it count twice if I raise them both?1114·12 days agoRepublicans: categorically awful on every single issue
Democrats: Not that
Babies: waaaah I want a competitive party that matches my opinions on every single issue
Find me one major party in the entire world that matches your personal ideals 100%. Spoiler: it doesn’t exist, unless you happen to be a king or dictator of an authoritarian state.
Two party systems means you have two parties with distinct ethics, and one party winning consistently means the country’s ethics will shift over time in the favor of that winning party. So keep spite voting against Democrats and see where that gets you.
Edit: you know why the Democrats are similar to Republicans on so many issues? Because Republicans keep winning elections.
Bleys@lemmy.worldto Progressive Politics@lemmy.world•Gríma Wormtongue, aka Alex Karp CEO of Palantir, Spills The Plan 10 Months Ago39·20 days agoDefine win because I’m pretty sure it doesn’t mean what you think it means.
The only tactic with “almost instant” results would be the US just nuking everything, which A. is definitely not a “win” by any definition, and B. is an insanely irresponsible assumption that there wouldn’t be substantial collateral damage and that’s if you were inhumane enough to ignore the lives of everyone living in the targeted countries to begin with.
Or somehow do you think the US could win a conventional war against three separate countries “almost instantly”, after it took 2 decades to make absolutely no lasting changes in Afghanistan? In which case just lol.
Bring on the snacks
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DXY measures the US dollar against every other currency. So if the US dollar in isolation had a bunch of inflation (e.g. because the US government printed a ton of money), then that would be reflected in DXY.
But if every major currency printed a ton of money at the same time, then DXY would not change because it’s only relative to other currencies.
So it doesn’t calculate inflation directly, but it’s generally correlated with it.
SPY is up 3% YTD while DXY (which measures the value of a dollar) is down 9% YTD. If you own shares of SPY, then you hold them in dollars, so the real change in value of your stock is [share price] x 1.03 x 0.91, which translates to being down over 6%.
BUT not only is your investment value down, if you live in the US you presumably get paid in dollars as well. Which means you’ve gotten a 9% pay cut since the start of the year.
Bleys@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Walmart’s Billionaire Heiress Buys Full-Page Ad Urging People To ‘Mobilize’ At June 14 Anti-Trump Protests14·28 days agoThere are a lot of Walmart heirs, and even collectively I doubt they own enough shares to control the company at this point.
Bleys@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logicEnglish61·28 days agoThe underlying neural network tech is the same as what the best chess AIs (AlphaZero, Leela) use. The problem is, as you said, that ChatGPT is designed specifically as an LLM so it’s been optimized strictly to write semi-coherent text first, and then any problem solving beyond that is ancillary. Which should say a lot about how inconsistent ChatGPT is at solving problems, given that it’s not actually optimized for any specific use cases.
And the other guy is way too thin to be Trump
Canada sends its regards
Bleys@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Walz Calls on Dems to ‘Bully the S**t’ Out of Trump or Risk Becoming ‘Roadkill’1·1 month agoHey bro I already know you aren’t succeeding in life, being this terminally mad online is definitely not the hallmark of someone whose got it figured out.
I was just trying to help you out. Looks like you’ll just have to keep suffering tho.
Lol bro, go ahead and don’t vote then. Maybe if we let the GOP win all three branches uncontested for the next century and they dismantle education, gerrymander or just outright remove fair elections, and kill the planet with climate change, then people will feel really bad and adopt your politics. It’s worked so many times in the past.
Also there’s a difference between valid criticisms of the Democratic Party and this post which is demonizing them on the same level as the GOP simply because Democrats spent money on their border patrol. As if Obama or Biden were the ones who introduced Alligator Alcatraz.