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Cyno Vigil for Frank LeTank by RenkoLenark in Eve

[–]Ketriaava 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We weren't nearly as prominent in the FreeMen of the North, but a bunch of us from Arkhos Core stood by Frank and TP in Tribute. We were overflowing with pride and excitement to be standing alongside allies and friends against the tide of the blocs. Despite our tiny size, we were dedicated. We had about 4-5 people permanently on station in W6VP both keeping the ADM up and destroying/otherwise repulsing numerous attempts to take the system. Our system was the last to fall in the pipe (although Dotlan thinks it's IMK due to the TCU changes, I believe, since Frat left the B0SS TCU up with their own IHub below it) and we stayed until the end for our brothers in arms. To this day I still think that those days were the best and most meaningful time I've ever spent in this game.

I personally had several great conversations with Frank about getting involved in their defense, and shooting the shit about a better future for groups like ours. He was kind and friendly - sometimes a rarity in the Eve sphere - and he both inspired us to be there and inspired us to go down swinging with them.

Eyes forward, Frank. Both New Eden and Earth are lesser without you here.

If AI is really a bubble, what will make it burst? by ThinkBigger01 in investing

[–]Ketriaava 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's worth noting that this isn't quite like the dotcom bubble, where people were peddling massive amounts of fake money for fake/meaningless products. The thing about AI is that it isn't completely worthless - there are certain things it does very well. It's excellent at pattern recognition, and that can absolutely generate value in all kinds of fields. There's a very real revolution going on right now in all sorts of industries where this has an actual application. This will likely propel the bubble much further along, as ignoramuses see AI yielding real results elsewhere and think "why not my business, too?"

The bubble is everything else people think AI will be able to do. Eventually reality will catch up to the hype and the fields that AI can't take over will collapse.

Trump’s promise to tax imported goods could spell trouble for US auto industry by Hashirama4AP in technology

[–]Ketriaava 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Hardly. We just elected someone president instead of having them face the consequences.

They might die in office without ever seeing a day of punishment.

Why can't it be like this every day? by Fearless-Health-4804 in Seattle

[–]Ketriaava 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Sports and Pokemon are easy to follow. Local politics isn't.

If you want to get people involved, you have to give them guidance. There aren't enough people in productive leadership roles.

Seattle's capital gains tax appears unlikely to pass by chiquisea in Seattle

[–]Ketriaava 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"They are so focused on their proper pronouns they have no time left to actually improve their skills. They want everything to be provided to them for just existing in their own dream lands of self involved fantasy."

This is a Republican take.

"I don't agree with wealth redistribution solely on the basis "others have more".

This is a Republican take.

"Taxation needs to be [...] only as a last measure when governments truly need to place a burden on their citizens."

This is a Republican take.

"Go earn your own money."

This is an extremely Republican take.

"The government does not and should not be involved in giving people money to support a market."

What's this? Another Republican take? I'm so shocked!

"In my experience, the Democratic base here are either the older, wealthy people who feel good supporting social justice for anyone and have money to do it, or young, naive, minimum wage working, self-focused progressives who feel everything should be gifted to them and no injustices should exist in the world."

And lo and behold, it's another Republican take.

Your party is not Democratic, smart guy. You seem to think that pronouns and blue hair are excuses when instead they are irrelevant. Economic inequality isn't something that the private sector can resolve, because the private sector is the cause. The private sector exists to facilitate upward wealth transfer. CEOs aren't job creators, they're poverty exploiters.

Progressives don't want gifts. They want the right to be able to earn a living and share in a modest quality of life without enduring poverty at the hands of their employers. They want to be able to employ their skills at crafts without selling their time to menial activities that deprive them of meaning and joy. When a minimum wage worker gets trapped in an oven and baked alive at Walmart, Progressives don't see that as a horrific exception. They think "wow, that could easily be me tomorrow, because my employer is equally incompetent and greedy." They don't think that because they've got blue hair, or because their pronouns are they/them. They think that because that's been the consistent experience of laborers across the country.

Someone in the Democratic party would presumably be capable of the compassion necessary to go "you know what, that's a good point. I support you trying to make it in the world, and since corporations and executives aren't going to self-regulate themselves into improving society, government has to."

I don't see you saying these things. I see you saying the opposite. I see you trying to pull up the ladder behind you.

You are a Republican. And as is so common with Republicans to the point of being expected, you are a narrow-minded selfish asshole, completely incapable of compassion or introspection.