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  • Wyoming launches first state-backed stablecoin on seven blockchains

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    I've been there, I think. The place is real but everything inside of its borders and the borders themselves are not.
  • It's 2025, the year we decided we need a widespread slur for robots

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    Well you're cranky, aintcha.
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    All I wanna say is that they don't really care about us. Tons of ppl are reporting that AI has talked them off the ledge at night when everyone is sleeping. The Government wants you to kill yourself or dial their hotline where nobody ever picks up Oh ppl can't afford healthcare and therapy?let them eat cake .
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    Yes, Ayn Rand IS a Libertarian, She didn't call herself a libertarian and explicitly said she isn't, libertarians don't call her a libertarian and explicitly say she isn't, only people not knowing what the hell they are talking about call her a libertarian. There's absolutely no reason to call her a libertarian. No matter how you'd want that to accuse libertarianism of whatever bad. It's actually funny, there is a bunch of ideologies, all different, and like all of them not mainstream and not left are bunched by idiots under libertarianism just like this. Rand isn't libertarian (not even in history of her beliefs), Curtis Yarvin isn't libertarian (despite history of his beliefs), Silicon Valley bros aren't libertarian (despite them using the word sometimes to the confusion of everyone), and neither are Zelensky and Milei (I mean, there is some awareness of libertarianism in his approahes). I find it interesting, so many proponents of Libertarianism don’t realize that the limits we put on these things they want to exist to stop people from creating neo-feudal fiefdoms. Bullshit. You might also want to think who's "we" and what externalia does giving that "we" an ability to "put limits on these things" possess. If a government is too weak to stop large scale organized violence you get warlords, of some form, in the modern case it’s whoever has the most wealth to found the largest private army. A government is large scale organized violence and warlords. But hey, your not too far off the mark with the whole Nazi bit, after all the word Privatize was invented to describe what the Nazis did with state property. That claim would require sources, I doubt you have any.
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    In the meantime: Parents: don’t give your children lighted rectangles to play with.
  • I Counted All of the Yurts in Mongolia Using Machine Learning

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    I'd say, when there's a policy and its goals aren't reached, that's a policy failure. If people don't like the policy, that's an issue but it's a separate issue. It doesn't seem likely that people prefer living in tents, though. But to be fair, the government may be doing the best it can. It's ranked "Flawed Democracy" by The Economist Democracy Index. That's really good, I'd say, considering the circumstances. They are placed slightly ahead of Argentina and Hungary. OP has this to say: Due to the large number of people moving to urban locations, it has been difficult for the government to build the infrastructure needed for them. The informal settlements that grew from this difficulty are now known as ger districts. There have been many efforts to formalize and develop these areas. The Law on Allocation of Land to Mongolian Citizens for Ownership, passed in 2002, allowed for existing ger district residents to formalize the land they settled, and allowed for others to receive land from the government into the future. Along with the privatization of land, the Mongolian government has been pushing for the development of ger districts into areas with housing blocks connected to utilities. The plan for this was published in 2014 as Ulaanbaatar 2020 Master Plan and Development Approaches for 2030. Although progress has been slow (Choi and Enkhbat 7), they have been making progress in building housing blocks in ger distrcts. Residents of ger districts sell or exchange their plots to developers who then build housing blocks on them. Often this is in exchange for an apartment in the building, and often the value of the apartment is less than the land they originally had (Choi and Enkhbat 15). Based on what I’ve read about the ger districts, they have been around since at least the 1970s, and progress on developing them has been slow. When ineffective policy results in a large chunk of the populace generationally living in yurts on the outskirts of urban areas, it’s clear that there is failure. Choi, Mack Joong, and Urandulguun Enkhbat. “Distributional Effects of Ger Area Redevelopment in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.” International Journal of Urban Sciences, vol. 24, no. 1, Jan. 2020, pp. 50–68. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1080/12265934.2019.1571433.
  • Google’s test turns search results into an AI-generated podcast

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    Oh, Google... Just eviler and eviler every day. Not only robbing creators of any monetization via clicking on links but now just blatantly stealing their content for an even more efficient theft model. FFS. I can't fucking wait to complete my de-googling project and get you the absolute fuck completely out of my life. I've developed a hatred for Google that actually rivals my hatred for Apple. ‍️
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