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"I can't believe I have to say this, but arresting civilians for collecting paint chips and not arresting the people in power for raping children is fucking evil."

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Watchu gon do about it Americans?

Like posts and leave comments that regurgitate their feed's content or assumptions at the time. And that's about it until their feeds move onto another topic in the next 48 hours.

It's a really easy country to get away with shit which is why so many take advantage of that. The population is toothless and part of the ongoing indoctrination is that they're free and the best, so there's really no threat from them at all.

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There is no pro capitalist left

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Thanks for the selective reporting.

If you actually took the time to explore the results openly, you'd find significant libertarian critique of capitalism. Libertarian socialism, for example, is explicitly anti-capitalism; obviously though, as it encroaches on people's freedoms with wage labour, capital ownership, corporate bailouts, limited liability, etc. All the things that take something from people without their control or consent.

If you're seeing a lot of Dave Smith, that could be your algorithm tuned in favour of that content. While he is libertarian with drugs, foreign policy, privacy, etc. he only represents the utmost right flank of libertarianism that expresses individualistic freedoms from things like state rather than economics. Kind of like your Ron Paul kind of character that is pro-capitalism but fights to keep things like corporate control and market monopolies from encroaching on people's liberties too much, just as with any other undesired authority.

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Stanford scientists regrow lost cartilage and reverse arthritis in major breakthrough

I think a part of getting older is just watching medical science get better as the world gets shittier and realising the two cancel each other out so a natural death is still the preferred option. This is probably how people felt off the back of a world war, the depression, and then in the middle of another world war, someone's like,

"Check out penicillin! I accidentally discovered it like a decade ago."

"Nah, I'm good, thanks."

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Fuel up on your kid enjoying it. You're doing the work; they'll enjoy it. The more they enjoy it, the more you will too in the long run—no pun intended.

Wish my parents were like you back when.

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Americans Have Turned Against AI in Incredible Numbers

the 30-49 year olds and the 50-and-up brackets are more closely aligned, at 39 percent and 37 percent respectively viewing it as negative.

I'm really surprised at the 30–49 bracket being at 39%. But, keep in mind there's a huge gap in tech savviness and tech lifestyle between someone born in 1977 to someone born in 1996. Their impressionable years kicked off literally at opposite ends of the Digital/Tech revolution, so I guess that makes sense that way...

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Starmer expected to resign on Monday and set out orderly exit

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And here I was trying to summarise the Westminster system with four paragraphs.

Only thing worth noting is a PM isn't some presidential position. It's generally just the party leader in the leadership position of the other ministers.

If a party decided they want to take turns of being leader each month, they'd each take a turn at being PM too.

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Anne Hathaway says she was spammed with ChatGPT-written thank you notes after hiring for a recent role: "Nobody on that list gets that job"

I deal with job applications. It's incredibly obvious when a CV and cover letter is just AI. There's no need to even confirm it with software. Everyone bins them straight away.

It's not so much a surge in using AI on genuine job applications—and honestly, that wouldn't even be an issue—its the sheer amount of slop spam coming in. They'll apply for half a dozen jobs with different resumes catered for them, from anything from entry level data analyst to director of marketing, not realising it's the same company.

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Anne Hathaway says she was spammed with ChatGPT-written thank you notes after hiring for a recent role: "Nobody on that list gets that job"

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I'm the same. I still read the opening sentences of them, but if it's the usual "cover letter template" shit, it's pointless and I go straight to the CV.

We've hired plenty of people with lacking CVs that had genuine cover letters, though. It's clear when someone is trying to say they're really into their shit, but all they got on the CV is McDonald's.

But as you become more advanced in your field, they're useless. At the end of the day, you don't want to be stuck working for someone that ignores all the skill and experience, declining an interview because no cover letter.