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BolexForSoup

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Former landed gentry.

BolexForSoup,
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Would love to try one of these services because frankly they sound too good to be true

BolexForSoup,
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I am pretty damn critical of AI/LLM‘s but this reads to me like you need to work on how you query it. There are best practices just like any other tool.

Here: give me something you want me to input into ChatGPT. I’ll paste exactly what happens.

BolexForSoup,
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Jfc that’s what you’re waiting for? You have nothing better to do with your time over the next half year?

BolexForSoup, (edited )
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I get what you two are saying, but this kind of removes agency from the people doing the moving.

Also: Should people not be allowed to move to another country if they’re “too useful” or “skilled”?

BolexForSoup,
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I didn’t say people had free agency to go to any country they want. You are presenting a false dichotomy. There are different people with different access to different places with different senses of urgency and for different reasons. Many people make choices on whether or not to immigrate, as well as where to immigrate if they choose to. They have agency, they are not just pawns in this discussion to be shuffled around.

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I think you have lost the thread here tbh

BolexForSoup,
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I’m not blaming them I am saying they still often make a decision. They are humans who have some control of their lives. That’s not mutually exclusive with saying they are also pressured externally.

The way they were originally described made it sound like they are just pieces on a board incapable of deciding what they want and acting on it.

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But I agree with you? I’m not sure what we disagree on?

BolexForSoup,
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People make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.

Never said they or we do

Our material conditions limit our agency.

Totally agree

BolexForSoup,
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Plenty of people seem to agree with me so the dismissive attitude is not warranted.

BolexForSoup,
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Your phrasing of your first comment certainly read that way to me. I didn’t misspeak. If I did not understand your meaning/intention that’s a fair claim.

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I took basic Econ. My point is decisions are multi-faceted. We are not all slaves of the invisible hand 24/7 as it guides our every single decision.

BolexForSoup,
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I am not forcing it with hostility. I made a broader point about treating people like pawns on a board and I got lectured about econ 101. Yeah I got a little snippy with them, sure I could've not been that way. But these responses are so absurd, they leave no nuance or middleground and keep telling me I am either saying things I didn't say or put up a lazy strawman as if it responds to what I said.

Also notice not one person wants to acknowledge that there is this implication people have some obligation to not leave their country as it means they are participating in "brain drain."

I get what you're saying, I really do. But the fact is people got all prickly when I tried to introduce nuance. Of course economic factors heavily drive our decisions. I'm not sure where I said anything remotely to the contrary, so I'm getting irritated.

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once they acclimate

I’m curious what you consider “acclimation” (and I assume you mean assimilate) because that’s a pretty loaded requirement

BolexForSoup,
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For the same reason we can’t take 15min without the context of the US’s size, smaller countries having larger percentages also need to be contextualized. The raw number does have some meaning here. It’s also about annual rate of immigration.

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It would be much more useful to look at it state-by-state as a few states are doing the heavy lifting. I say this as someone is decidedly pro-immigration. The logistics are no small matter

I live in Louisiana. Our only major experience with immigration was hurricane Katrina and they basically rebuilt our communities. I am eternally grateful.

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Pretty much

BolexForSoup, (edited )
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There are also different immigration rates for different states, some of which are as big as major countries. There are many states in the US driving the national average down because they have such a low percentage.

Edit: added some stats.

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Pneumonia =/= flu and MRSA almost exclusively occurs in a hospital setting, with older pneumonia patients among the most vulnerable. MRSA is also highly lethal. Odds are he just got sick and died because this happens thousands of times a year in the US, which is sad but not indicative of foul play.

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Also, Tesla’s strategy was smart 10 years ago. Things have changed a lot since then.

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The younger generation is getting their asses kicked in the name of human rights at colleges all over the country. The kids are alright. We can’t expect a bunch of 18 to 25-year-olds to solve all our problems for us.

White millennial and Gen X Americans need to wake up to their privilege and make sure Trump does not win.

BolexForSoup,
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Being edgy and saying effort is pointless is an easy way to get ‘attaboys on the Internet

BolexForSoup,
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Sorry, I could’ve been less curt in my response. Appreciate you seeing the larger point there.

BolexForSoup,
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So, what? We should just give up and die? I don’t understand what your point is other than just open ended pessimism

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