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Software Developer, TTRPG enjoyer, Political Opinion haver. He/him.

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So, I exist at the other place, as well.

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@MakeUSAVAT @MattBruenig Flat payroll taxes are also regressive when total income is considered, despite being flat over labor income, since non-labor income as share of total income is correlated with total income.

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@StatisticUrban @CameronCorduroy No, they saved no money because the goal wasn’t saving money, that was just just a lie to provide cover for the exfiltration and abuse of data.

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@JThesomething @jackbrady1010 They benefit from the acquired company being responsible for the debt the PE investors incurred to buy the company, because it limits the downside risk in case the company fails; it also makes it more likely the company WILL fail, but apparently that’s less important.

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@jackbrady1010 “They let the company assume hundreds of millions, or even billions in debt,”

They didn’t let the company assume debt, they structured deals so that the debt from buying the company ended up assigned to the company. But Amazon was a big part of why they were even on the market.

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@nonManifold @Strife212 @lux LLMs are deterministic software. When using nonzero temperature they incorporate a pseudorandomness, but that’s still deterministic, and common implementations batch concurrent requests in ways which can influence each other, but that’s just more complex, not nondeterministic.

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@Strife212 @lux Yeah, so basically its an argument that humans are a magical component of the universe not governed by deterministic natural laws (since, otherwise, human thinking would be a process that could be replicated with deterministic software of adequate complexity.)

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@squirrelghoul @DeathMetalV National Veterans and Military Families Month is November.

National Military Appreciation Month is May.

Within those are also three separate holidays honoring aspects of military service; Armed Forces Day and Memorial Day in May, and Veterans Day in November.

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@QBetterscope @SankarasLawyer They “operate like they have a Marx handbook” mostly because everything Marx wrote about capitalist exploitation was simply documenting what was already established practice when he wrote it. No one ever needed to read Marx to do it.

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@JessPected In every opposition to a concrete existing heirarchy there are a mix of people opposed to heirarchy and people who are just upset they aren’t at the pinnacle of the existing heirarchy.

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@QBetterscope @SankarasLawyer Almost none of them read Marx, heck they like to praise Smith but its fairly clear that they haven’t read him either.

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@hecubian_devil “they should literally offer euthanasia as an option.”

I feel like this either itself falls victim to the task initiation problem, or has even worse problems if they decide to provide active assistance to overcome that risk...

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@falseroxy Fat supermarket blueberries have very weak flavor, I assume diluted down by water content, there is more in some of the smaller ones, and when they are cooked down.

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@docofgork @HalfTangible @Trutown 2/2 Still, the contrast with Luke being “hidden” in the most obvious possible place, along with being openly the nephew of his actual aunt and uncle and son of Anakin Skywalker, while Leia gets both a privileged life and a non-obvious location and a cover story is fun, so...

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@docofgork @HalfTangible @Trutown 1/ If you change nothing other than making Naboo Alderaan, that still works: with a new queen already when she was born, she could easily have been raised as a Princess on her home planet without being with her (dead) mother.

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@ok_post_guy Technically, its tax avoidance rather than evasion, the difference being that the rules are set up to allow this exploit by the rich rather than it being breaking the rules by concealing income, but, yeah.

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@Hypernaut_ @SINKPlSSER The reason for the increasing horrific traffic accidents is more people using giant pickups or SUVs for the role of cars, which auto manufacturers spent a lot of money to encourage specifically because they were at one point outside of coverage of car efficiency and safety rules.

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@TurnCARed2028 @MichaelFKane @Jekred The end of the “solar system” can mean different things; I think the range is around a 1.5-2 light day diameter for the heliosphere and a 3-5 light-year diameter for the Oort cloud.

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@fangboy_xxx @poe_collector 2/2 “lived experience” in that context has a legitimate value and point. But, yeah, it definitely sometimes turns into a cover for doing essentially the same kind of thing on turbo with one’s own biases, and ignoring anything that doesn’t fit confirmation bias.

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@fangboy_xxx @poe_collector 1/ There’s a very real problem that “study” conducted by members of doninant/oppressive groups often incorporates bias into design, data gathering, filtering, and interpretation that reinforces power structure and dismisses the reality faced by oppressed groups, and appeal to

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@TickleMeElmoOG @Romy_Holland True for both women and men, though the exact mix of biological and social contributors to why it is true are different for each.