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- Comment on Tulsa police pepper sprayed children for walking out/protesting 17 hours 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 4 days 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) 4 days 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? 5 days 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
They don’t need to be affordable, they will be subscribed to. What, poor, you don’t have the iRobot subscription?
- Comment on ‘Repatriate the gold’: German economists advise withdrawal from US vaults 4 weeks ago:
I think it’s due to historic risk management - even 50 years ago Germany was far from settled and secured compared to the US economically or politically. Many other countries were similar and didn’t take seriously the seismic risk changes of the past few decades. Now they are.
- Comment on FTA: India and EU set for 'mother of all deals' as Trump's tariffs bite 4 weeks ago:
It will be interesting to see the line Europe takes with India re:their dealings with Russia, this was a lever the US pressed on to get India to restrict oil imports from Russia, presumably the EU has even more at stake in kneecapping Russia’s income sources.
- Comment on Exclusive: Amazon plans thousands more corporate job cuts next week 4 weeks ago:
The majority of their employees are in warehouses. They have more than 1 million employees. Most people don’t have options, even white collar workers are outmatched in the employment relationship when they depend on income to survive month to month. Few are those who have the relativve luxury of employer political alignmnet.
People can barely feed themselves. The federal minimum wage hasn’t gone up in 19 fucking years. Think about the implications of that in a high inflation environment. That is work for no pay essentially.
- Comment on Verizon carriers start switching to 365-day device unlock policy, up from 60 days 5 weeks ago:
Who didn’t need this in their life? I’m so glad the CFPB has also been disemboweled.
- Comment on 5 Malicious Chrome Extensions Targeting Enterprise HR Systems 5 weeks ago:
Not sure why the down votes for the article, maybe the article was updated after you read it but these were listed:
"DataByCloud Access — Posed as a productivity or security-related tool while secretly harvesting session tokens.
Tool Access 11 — Intercepted authentication data and blocked access to administrative and security settings.
DataByCloud 1 — Exfiltrated authentication cookies to attacker-controlled servers.
DataByCloud 2 — A variant with extended persistence and administrative interference capabilities.
Software Access — Enabled bidirectional session hijacking and long-term account takeover. "
- Comment on YSK: When you sit in your car and have a speakerphone conversation, there’s no privacy 5 weeks ago:
Subpoena?!? those were for the before times. Now just say you’re investigating a murder while looking for a woman calling abortion clinics, no legal access, review or consequences for breaking the law.
- Comment on Ending a relationship during the dating phase is a positive outcome. 5 weeks ago:
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- Comment on L.A. Rams Owner Stan Kroenke Becomes Largest Private Landowner in the U.S. 1 month ago:
The company that, with Amazon and Tesla, is suing to have the NLRB declared unconstitutional so unions can have the final stake driven through any organized resistance to fascism?
The company that has refused to sign a union contract with their stores who have voted to organize?
Haggis dressed as 🐑
Fuck trader joes
- Comment on U.S. Credit Card Debt in 2025 1 month ago:
The beauty of proportionate statistics
- Comment on What are your technology mispredictions? 1 month ago:
Drones are the industry in the last 6 months. It’s just beginning.
- Comment on What are your technology mispredictions? 1 month ago:
They’ve not even started for most of the domestic and consumer uses. They’re only just scratching the surface of commercial and military application.
In 30 years people will have subscriptions to a drone service that will take x# of packages for them within their city/geography per month/year with weight tiers. Etc. errands and single use car trips and commercial trips in the last mile will drastically decrease.
The skies will never be as they are again. The generation growing up right now will be the last to have been able to look up at the vast expanse without some buzzing. Whirring distraction.
- Comment on US economy added 50,000 jobs in December, capping off one of the weakest years of job gains in decades 1 month ago:
The administration, if anything though, would want to pull the numbers down, to show weak hiring/job losses as that would compel the fed to more aggressively lower rates. This is because they want to lower rates to juice business profitability and maybe accidentally help a few Americans so they might get reelected. That paradigm is basically changed though because lower rates no longer leads to much job creation delta, businesses hire pretty much when they need to regardless. It’s not 1970.
- Comment on YSK: House flies always launch backwards, no exceptions. Creep behind them and they'll jump into your crushing hand. 1 month ago:
Build him a garage and leave the door open and watch him lose his mind trying to get one of his buddies out of it.
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 1 month ago:
It’s because when so much money/power has pushed so long for people to make decisions based on money and not logic, we’ve now arrived at the point where even “the emperor’s new clothes” type moments can’t rein in the insanity; executives are bonused off this garbage and most employees who do know better–thanks to orgs’ own internal propaganda and structures–have given up caring and just publish the garbage and clock out(as they should).
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That food heart was 100% created by a Zelda fan.
- Comment on Millennials are giving up on the thought of ever buying a house and experts estimate fewer will become homeowners 2 months ago:
“by retirement”
Another thing millennials will broadly never approach. Between systematic under-pay with 2-3% increases in wages, high inflation, exploded housing costs, predatory financial system (credit cards, BNPL), etc. I’d guess 5% of people will actually “retire” in the normal sense of stopping work in their 60s.
Physical and mental health are so affected by the vice in which Americans are crushed, many will not live to see retirement anyway.
- Comment on Donald Trump scores 'F' grade on economy: Poll 2 months ago:
Civics, personal finance, debate and English went ungraded as he did not show for a single class of any.
- Comment on Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content 2 months ago:
Consequences for thee
