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- Comment on FBI admits buying Americans' location data and says it won't stop 1 day ago:
Because someone has to coordinate to let Saudi royal families safely exit nationally closed airspace after 9/11 when 15/19 plane hijackers were from Saudi Arabia!
Can you imagine what might have happened to them if not? Luckily we then started having those same agencies spew stories about WMD that didn’t exist in Iraq so we could fight a proxy war in Iraq.
The US is China’s bitch, Israel’s bitch, Saudi Arabia’s bitch…
- Comment on PwC will say goodbye to staff who aren't convinced about AI 1 day ago:
It’s also just generally a good barometer of a good idea. If people can’t independently evaluate an idea and come to a similar conclusion on their own, it just means that you simply apply coercion and then you get to be right! It’s excellent as a management practice which I’ll note all the big 4 claim to offer…
- Comment on Well, That’s One Way to Sell Americans on Electric Cars. The U.S. has been wary of EVs. As the cost of gas soars, we’re now paying the price. 1 day ago:
That’s the beauty of it, now that the oil-ligarchy has defunded alternate energy and removed tax incentives, the companies responded by reversing 2 decades of development and finally getting hybrids and evs common in us automakers.
Now that electric is off the menu, and protectionism is back on, it means the places those cars are being made and made well–like china–americans simply won’t even know about them or be able to buy them as they’ll be tariffed out of existence.
Triple win for the oil-ligarchy
- Comment on Google co-founder spends $45m in fight against California billionaire tax 1 day ago:
You could almost say a that would be a really unhealthy place to live when the influential and powerful in a society and country think that is the best use of their position.
- Comment on Facing the music: Detecting dangerous driving through AI facial analysis— New technology could change how drunk and dangerous drivers are identified 4 days ago:
Why would you use such questionable technology to assess future behavior of subjects when we can simply use phrenology to easily predict criminal behavior?
- Comment on Biggest wildfire in Nebraska history continues to burn out of control 4 days ago:
They’re about to get “You thought you was Kobe?!?” When they find out even loyal dogs don’t get love since there is Ratheon, Lockheed and Texaco to keep fed.
- Comment on Granada 1 week ago:
Suérte!
- Comment on NIH director launches "Scientific Freedom" lectures with non-scientist 1 week ago:
Won’t someone think of the architects and engineers and the burdensome regulations and testing red tape that they suffer under? I’m all for it. How much faster and cheaper could US get bridges to market if we let high schoolers design and test them? Think of the wasted cost in education having to pay and train people who had to become experts in their fields when you could just substitute in snake oil “media personalities” for an MD or LPN? I know I want my care and life to be completely shaped by whoever is willing to cut corners the most.
- Comment on Average Lifetime Credit Card Debt in Every U.S. State (2025) 1 week ago:
By state not really that useful. Much like US politics, it pretty much comes down to urban or rural? All states have a massive urban/rural earning divide that would probably show a more useful contrast; debt where income is lower has significantly higher impact.
- Comment on Online age-verification tools spread across U.S. for child safety, but adults are being surveilled 1 week ago:
They people who wave away bombing a school and killing 175 because “it’s war”(that we unilaterally started). These are definitely the people who you want to trust on child safety and well-being.
- Comment on TriZetto confirms 3.4M people's health and personal data was stolen during breach | TechCrunch. ( the company failed to detect for almost a year.) 1 week ago:
Plausible accountability
- Comment on Teen boys are using ChatGPT as their wingman. What could go wrong? AI is teaching teenagers about love now. 2 weeks ago:
Correct, because it’s important that only large corps with access to resources to create widely used LLMs have unfettered access to the minds of our populace in a completely open way. Random humans being able toaccess and exchange information adhoc, independently without prior approval is of course incompatible with the first amendment.
- Comment on Record number of Americans are making 401(k) withdrawals to cover immediate expenses — but it comes at a heavy price 2 weeks ago:
They aren’t going to be able to retire anyway so it’s almost moot. The average amounts saved by age are predictable and depressing. Anyone would have predicted and did that voluntary retirement contributions and management by underpaid laymen would be something the general public failed at compared to a world where pensions were something companies managed to say nothing of the fact they were guaranteed.
This paired with refusal to fund social security–but always plenty for wars, tax breaks and surgeilance–is deliberate, designed and depressing. 95% of Americans will work until they die.
- Comment on We Overhauled Our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy - Another VC funded bait and switch 2 weeks ago:
Dictatorships can be very efficient, tons of time saved by no meetings, delays, stakeholders, rights, debate or considerations needed.
- Comment on Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features 2 weeks ago:
I had completely forgotten Lenovo bought Motorola from Google some 10 years ago. Honestly haven’t seen a Motorola phone in at least that long …
- Comment on Californian pulls AI ballot measures, citing OpenAI intimidation 3 weeks ago:
The nice thing is, it makes it easy to identify anyone who doesn’t publicly stay they won’t do it now and get fired, if they don’t do that, then they are absolutely selling their LLM models and data to trump without any safety or security restrictions as that drunk Hesgeth and Trump made clear this week.
Open ai? Gemeni? Not a peep from them about wanting to keep your rights safe and no complaints from Hesgeth means they sold your constitutional rights off.
- Comment on Not Found 3 weeks ago:
The nice thing is, it makes it easy to identify anyone who doesn’t publicly stay they won’t do it now and get fired, if they don’t do that, then they are absolutely selling their AI models and your data and privacy to trump without any safety or security restrictions as that drunk Hesgeth and Trump made clear this week.
Open ai? Gemeni? Not a peep from them about wanting to keep your rights safe and no complaints from Hesgeth means they sold your constitutional rights off.
- Comment on Trump is marching toward war with Iran. He hasn’t bothered to make clear why | Mohamad Bazzi 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Tulsa police pepper sprayed children for walking out/protesting 3 weeks ago:
The entire press release comes from the angle of students having accountability for peaceful protests but speaks not at all to the accountability of police to follow the constitution and other basic laws they have been shown repeatedly in countless jurisdictions to have less than admirable compliance with.
A neutral press release would have also included that the police are accountable for ensuring the rights of all citizens including minors and taking extreme prejudice against escalating to violence. That last part is key, as they have been shown repeatedly to not do so.
This school board is supporting an atmosphere where unnecessary escalations of violence is presented as the norm and where the two parties have unequal duty to the laws that govern interaction.
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- Comment on AI contributes to inflating global debt, already approaching $346 trillion or 310% of GDP 3 weeks ago:
No, those people already did. They have transferred the grift into houses, retirements, and change the course of the future for themselves and their families.
Everyone else gets to pick up the pieces for their deceit, exaggeration and stupidity.
- Comment on Growth of $100 by Asset Class (1965–2025) 3 weeks ago:
What fuckwit made this graph? The highest, largest positive return should be on top, e.g. the pink. Contradictorily, the returns per annum is sorted like this with the top return of stocks being on top.
Cash is not accurate- unlike another asset that can then be redeemed or sold for an increasing amount of money/cash, the $1,500 actually represents the devaluation of cash/fiat over that time if $1,500 is what 2026 cash is worth compared to 1965. If “cash” was actually a bank savings account rate or something, fair enough I guess but it should be labeled as such.
- Comment on Modern parenting means apps for sports, school and more. Where is the data going? 3 weeks ago:
Middle class parents are the ones slapping Gps trackers on their kids wrists. Poor kids are the lucky ones as they may not yet have a digital leash due to cost? I’m sure googles next academic intrusion will move from Chromebooks to smart watches for PE.
I seriously can’t believe how common it is to see 9-y/os chatting on a voice call every 15 minutes with their parents. I’m on block a. I’m going to playground b. I’m with Johnny. JFC and their parents likely had exposure to “higher education”.
- Comment on Roblox, Reddit and Discord users compelled to use biometric ID system backed by Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel 4 weeks ago:
Not really the merger of corporate and state power in fascism buT what I noticed was the similarity in times with the fundamental decision between authoritarian rule and democracy and the crossroads Rome was taking going the other direction and how the US seems to be retreating from.
- Comment on Roblox, Reddit and Discord users compelled to use biometric ID system backed by Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel 4 weeks ago:
I’m watching Gladiator tonight for the first time in 20 years. It’s hardly new but so painful to watch again through the lens of the current state of America. It went from ominous historical warning 25 years ago of power, weakness and how men act in opportune moments to a primer on current affairs.
- Comment on ‘I feel like I’m in a financial prison’: Trump Wall Street plan puts ‘mom and pop’ investors at risk, advocates say 4 weeks ago:
Don’t invest in these and if they make their way into your 401k sue your company administrator
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Yes, I could definitely see the lower dollar increasing tourism to the US in the current context with everything that has been done to boost foreigners desire to visit the US. Who wouldn’t want to visit the US right now?!?
- Comment on YSK that everything the New York Times about Donald Trump actually happened 1 month ago:
NYT endorsed Iraq invasion even though there was no evidence of WMDs and the rest of the world was against it. Surprise, no WMDs were found.
Interestingly, some companies did steal billions upon billions of dollars and we blew the national debt up. Strange that outcome …
- Comment on Elon Musk says Tesla ending Models S and X production, converting Fremont factory lines to make Optimus robots 1 month ago:
They don’t need to be affordable, they will be subscribed to. What, poor, you don’t have the iRobot subscription?