People think that its a magic trick to be able to morally come up with a situation where its justifiable in an individual case to steal for survival and then without batting an eye apply that reasoning to organized crime and I promise you they aren't Robin Hood-ing it for the poor
Maybe it’s just because I’m just old but I grew up in the ‘hating MSFT’ trenches and “any level of abuse is appropriate if you use software I don’t like at your job” is kind of a wild one
This is why it’s important not to talk about “AI”, which is both a misnomer and a massively overbroad term that includes too many technologies. Better to be specific and talk about LLMs and generative models specifically.
Jason NARK
Come on man
https://x.com/JasonNark/status/2046973579888140711 Jason Nark (@JasonNark) Microlooting is a great way to be anti-capitalist: https://t.co/mSUx3Zotik X•Today at 11:25
they're calling it the most obvious fedpost in history
"microlooting" they are gentrifying retail theft
This author has that Male Historian tendency of going "the obvious conclusion is [thing that is absolutely not obvious]"
A February tweet from Louise Lucas responding to fuckin' Ted Cruz whining about Virginia redistricting: "You all started it and we fucking finished it."
25 years ago I played Louise Lucas's opponent in a debate prep session and I hope you do not think it immodest if I say I fared better than Ted Cruz.
I just could not get past the first paragraph
Oh god, reassembling people atom by atom. Just feels straight out of the back half of HPMOR
Some of these guys will be easy to prosecute. Some are sophisticated enough that it will be necessary to do the Capone for tax evasion approach.
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just read this article in the magazine and this is great but also when you see where his house is....brother just leave it's not worth it
Floridians man idgi
The easiest way to get information from the Internet is to be confidently wrong
Oh let’s be clear, the economic impact of the SoH closure is going to be felt *forever*
Oil/gas now, food over the next year(s), moves away from hydrocarbons in the long term
It’s a step change moment, folks
Also let's not discount the very real chance the art in question is damaged or destroyed making the act of theft a pointless damaging act which benefits nobody
Talking about how heists are inherently cool and sexy is really not helping you beat the “a core problem of our age is that too many people think movies are real” charges, tbh
Art theft is one of those crimes that makes no sense to me. It's gotta be one of the most difficult things to fence. There's only one of any given Rembrandt.
Given to understand stolen art is often used as collateral in certain criminal enterprises, but that just raises the question: how?
We have just disinvested SO MUCH in our passenger rail infrastructure it's hard to even start. Since 2002 the US East Coast has seen zero miles of electric mainline rail constructed. We just don't have the number of routes we need to hit all of the destinations which come into New York.
Find someone who loves you as much as the Swedes loves to blast enormous transit caverns in hard rock.
The massive underground bus terminal under construction at Slussen.
It looks like it has 28 bays. The current Port Authority Bus Terminal has 228 departure gates. At a certain point, you have to ask – would a higher-capacity transit mode not be appropriate here?
This is an incoherent vision of politics and political economy, the Louvre is a public institution, you are literally stealing from The People
It is a good time to not have any travel plans.
Like, I do recognize on some level that maybe we DO need laws to protect voters from themselves, but the utter unwillingness to concede this is 100% the fault of voters and not "the DNC" or "stupid Dems" or such is the insane/immature part.
Everybody in the comments/QTs going "Age caps!", meanwhile Georgia had plenty of alternative options and chose David Scott.
At what point do voters finally start owning and taking responsibility for their own voting choices?
You're basically going "why don't laws save voters from themselves".
no it is actually pretty nuts to flip out on everyone who says “I find Claude useful!” or some equivalent like they personally are Elon Musk or Sam Altman. you can dislike the societal impacts of a widely used consumer product without being a psycho to everyone who uses it.
i know this is anecdotal, but almost all the e-bikers i see on our mixed-use trail are either couples or elderly people going slower than people on regular bikes. the exception is kids on e-motos, which is a whole other conversation.
Right. As I always say, these conflicts arise because bikers/pedestrians/rollers/scooters/whatever are fighting over slivers of space not taken by cars.