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ChrisLicht

@ ChrisLicht @lemm.ee

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  • Elon Musk's Neuralink implants brain tech in human patient for the first time

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  • I wonder if companies should be forced to provide a product’s core tech diagrams, material science, and major code base revisions to a kind of escrow, which is then released when the product is sunsetted.

  • All workers, your attention please. Your attempt to have a decent work/life balance and be treated with dignity in this facility is going to fail. You have eight minutes to get back to the office.

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  • Bentham pilled.

  • Andrew Tate loses appeal against ruling that stops him leaving Romania

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  • I like this superpositional moment for him. I suspect his insecurities made him want to be caught, and that there is some relief that will come, even if he sent to jail.

  • ‘Seismic shift’: driving unaffordable for many in US amid push toward SUVs

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  • They’re surprisingly good, particularly BYD cars, in my experience.

    Americans’ vehicles tend to be huge, wildly inefficient for their daily usage, and they throw off externalities like pedestrian and cyclist risks, road damage, and support for countries who use our gas spending to make the world less liberal.

    VW, Honda, Toyota, and Datsun capitalized on American vehicle bloat to build massive, multinational companies with products in every segment. The Chinese are going to ruin our domestic manufacturers, once they decide to build bridgehead plants here.

    Today, I’m driving an Acura that is made in Marysville, Ohio. Not assembled; it is substantively made here in the States. And, the chain reaction that led to Honda, a Japanese company, exporting profits made from American productivity in 2024, started with the Big Three making massively bloated, inefficient, expensive, poorly designed cars, leaving a gap in the market that foreign companies exploited with right-sized, efficient, affordable, reliable vehicles, starting in the ‘60s and exploding with the ‘73 oil crisis.

    I don’t have time to find a link, but there have been studies that demonstrate that the exact choices being made by American manufacturers today—to not fully serve the bottom of the market—sow the seeds of their own future declines in the middle and upper markets.

  • The White House has its own pharmacy—and, boy, was it shady under Trump

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  • The Pod Save Johns said he was called Dr. Feelgood by Obama’s WH staff.

  • Trump fuels cognitive concerns with garbled ‘death penalty’ remark

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  • It’s interesting that even MSNBC, stalwart bastion of resistance lib blather, never mentions that Donald’s father, Fred, developed Alzheimer’s.

  • Pilots at Southwest ratify a contract that will boost their pay raises by nearly 50% by 2028

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  • A company wholesale ruined by the exit of its operations expert CEO and the entry of a finance guy.

  • Solar Storm to Hit Earth Today Causing GPS and Radio Disruption

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  • Oh, good! I might finally get a break from the buttplug I lost last week.

  • Donald Trump slurring words at rally raises questions

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  • I’m going to accept your lived experience as a stroke expert.

  • NYC Mayor Adams Vetoes Police Transparency and Solitary Confinement Bills

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  • Which pill do you choose?

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  • Make a deck and pitch Valley VCs.

  • Billionaires are hoarding trillions in untaxed wealth. They want the Supreme Court to keep it that way

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  • This is how you get nobility. Before Reagan, wealth typically dissipated by the third generation. We are heading toward the old European model, where families are rich for a millennium.

  • Supreme Court will take up Trump’s eligibility to run for president

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  • This is not a smart take. It’s basically conspiracy thinking.

    Otherwise, the Supreme Court is clearly partisan, because Alito and Thomas unashamedly contort into any position needed to face the MAGA base, and Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Coney Barrett will typically tend to do so in any issue involving civil rights or business interests.

    The GOP is the body that executes the will of whatever conservatism is at any moment; they are inseparable at the executional level. The doctrinal vehicle the GOP uses to get where it’s going is originalism, but the great thing about justices playing professional-amateur historians is that they can cherry-pick history to suit party-doctrinal needs.

  • Tired brain is worst brain

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  • I brushed with cortizone cream a couple of months ago.

  • 23andMe tells victims it's their fault that their data was breached | TechCrunch

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  • Would bet that you’re a crypto fan.

  • Since Elon Musk’s Twitter purchase, firm reportedly lost 72% of its value

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  • I can’t figure out why BlueSky never comes out of invite-only. It would absolutely crush Twitter in this moment when there is so much demand for a direct replacement.

  • The 'Effective Accelerationism' movement doesn't care if humans are replaced by AI as long as they're there to make money from it

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  • Prediction: The world will return to something that looks like feudalism, with increased clamping on birth rates until a few rich holders remain with their human retinues solely there to entertain and flatter them. Otherwise, AI and robotics will cosset them.

    Once production is automated there is little need for workers, and once knowledge work is automated there is no need for a professional and technocratic class. Consumers have nothing to spend, so they are effectively a drag on the economy of wealth.

    That world then looks a lot like the time before the merchant class developed. Everything of any quality is made for the wealthy, and everyone else exists solely at the pleasure of their masters.

  • Unraid: WebUI won't load for containers routed through OpenVPN-Client

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  • That was very helpful, thanks!

    Only problem I have left is getting NGINX Reverse Proxy Manager set up, so that I can offer Overseerr webpage. The Let’s Encrypt cert generator keeps throwing an internal error at the last step. Something is preventing LE from reaching my server, and I’m too clueless to solve at this point.

  • Paris is saying ‘non’ to a US-style hellscape of supersized cars – and so should the rest of Europe

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  • The front ends on the newest full-size SUVs and pick-ups look like 18-wheeler front-ends from the ‘70s.