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There's a profit angle in terms of keeping wages down, but there's also a competitive angle. Having a bigger talent pool to draw on means you get better talent, particularly when you're in the top spot in terms of pay, quality of life, professional achievement, etc.

We should have culled all these cows, and kept culling them until nobody and nothing tested positive. And done it all a year ago. But apparently that was too hard, and now it's really just luck whether this becomes the next global catastrophe.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/how-america-lost-control-of-the-bird-flu-and-raised-the-risk-of-another-pandemic

Not that I'm any kind of authority on the biases of publications, but I tend to think of ProPublica as more about investigative journalism than any political theory.

• Jacobin
• Mother Jones
• Democracy Now!

Just off the top of my head

That's a neat tool. But it's giving me a slightly confusing result. I have a solar installation and I've plugged in the details so far as I know them, just to see if I'm producing about what I "should" be. The peak production month is about right, but the minimal production month is only estimated to be like 25% less than that. My system has more like 50-60% drop, and some quick googling suggests that's about normal.

Any thoughts on why this tool suggests a much smaller drop?

The media keeps talking about how they've learned their lesson about how to report on Trump; that they're not going to get spun up about all the noise he makes; that they're not going to let him switch the story every week; that they're going to focus on the real, material things that are going on.

Well here we are again, writing deeply concerned pieces about a handful of tweets (or whatever they're called in Trump land). And here Lemmy is upvoting them.

Trump is a troll. Don't feed the trolls.

This seems like a prime opportunity for an investor lawsuit

I hear youth knives are a growth market

Martial law?

I would be careful with phrases like, "there is no contradiction." There is a comprehensible tension between free speech as the ability for anyone to say what they wish, and a prohibition on hate speech as a prohibition on saying specific things. Denying that risks damaging one's credibility because it can appear that we are merely refusing to acknowledge that tension.

I argue it's better to admit these tensions. And that's not an admission that the arguments for prohibition of hate speech are weak, but it is an admission that as real people in the real world, we can never have the comfort of a tension-free, contradiction-free theory for anything of significance.

You can't ask the government to drive innovation and take on difficult challenges if people keep labelling everything that might not work out a boondoggle. The IRA was like $800 billion. It's okay if 7 is spent on a longshot.

Let's hope this is the start of a trend of Trump's incompetence thwarting his objectives.