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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • It’s easy to provide a good place to live when you’ve got tons of wealth. Just because the US treats some people well to score political points, doesn’t mean it’s a better place to live overall. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, you can see how the US acts when there’s no competition. Wealth inequality soars, civil rights get rolled back, social services get cut, and the cost of living goes crazy, including the cost of schooling that was supposed to put us ahead. It’s why the US screams endlessly about how dangerous China is, because they don’t want competition that would require them to provide some benefits for their peasants so they can continue thinking the US is “the greatest country in the world”.




  • There is no assumption, genius.

    Then you go on to describe everything in terms of the election system we have in place specifically set up to trap you within these two seemingly (but not actually) different choices. If the system is specifically set up this way, then what makes you think the people who control the system will let us make any meaningful change? It’s clear they have overarching goals and they manage to make progress towards these goals regardless of which party gets in.


  • You mean like how both parties support the genocide of Palestinians? You mean like how the Iran war enjoys bipartisan support even if they sometimes hold meaningless votes to show opposition that doesn’t translate to meaningful action against it (and they only hold those votes when they know it won’t do anything)? Maybe you get fooled by the political theater, but not everyone is as impressed by the rattle shaking.




  • One problem and…

    Still, it required humans to apply the finishing touches.

    “The raw output of ChatGPT’s proof was actually quite poor. So it required an expert to kind of sift through and actually understand what it was trying to say,” Jared Lichtman, a mathematician at Stanford University whose doctoral thesis centered on one Erdős’s conjectures, told SciAm.