brambledog
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- Comment on SpaceX blasts FCC as it refuses to reinstate Starlink’s $886 million grant 10 months ago:
I think I misunderstood you the first time. I thought you were a musk fan boy claiming the regulators themselves were the deepstate.
- Comment on SpaceX blasts FCC as it refuses to reinstate Starlink’s $886 million grant 10 months ago:
If you are expanding the deep state to include regulatory bodies, you are just talking about the state.
Can you provide an instance of the state ever hiding the fact that they regulate businesses, or did you just find out that was one of their powers?
- Comment on Amazon's humanoid warehouse robots will eventually cost only $3 per hour to operate. That won't calm workers' fears of being replaced. 11 months ago:
A loss in coal jobs doesn’t mean a loss everywhere in the energy sector.
When we are looking at Appalachia, their descent into what could almost be described as fifth world or failed world alignment isn’t necessarily because of technological advancement but of cultural stagnation.
From the 1880s to the 1920s the rednecks were imprisoned and murdered while the hicks consolidated power.
The jobs are still there nationwide, just mostly in the places that still have educated workforces. A large reason why coal country is hanging onto coal instead of supporting those retraining programs that will allow them entry into the markets that historically red places like Arizona and Montana are getting in on is that the inhabitants of those States didn’t murder their intelligent people at the behest of business.
- Comment on Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons Remake announced 11 months ago:
Never heard of this game in my life, no idea to its quality but the title is absolutely hilariousmy bad. It makes me want to play it.
Does the game deliver on the camp or is it a legitimate game with just a bad English title?
- Comment on Amazon's humanoid warehouse robots will eventually cost only $3 per hour to operate. That won't calm workers' fears of being replaced. 11 months ago:
According to this podcast on collapse I once heard, not once in human history has a technological breakthrough made humans less productive.
- Comment on Reddit updates look after rough 6 months and ahead of reported IPO 11 months ago:
Pretty sure corporations running their own subreddits has been.a thing for awhile now. Fairly certain Costco’s subreddit is fully modded by their advertising department. Threads written by employees during COVID were getting nuked constantly.
- Comment on Microplastic overdose 11 months ago:
My understanding is it is made from reconstituted powdered milk.
We store a lot of dairy products in caves throughout this country I have been told.
- Comment on OpenAI Employees Say Firm's Chief Scientist Has Been Making Strange Spiritual Claims 11 months ago:
Honestly, I believe it.
I have worked at an amazon warehouse. Bezos was never referred to as anything but Jeff and every day during the stretches we would be told how impressed Jeff was with how well we were doing.
At Costco, we would have daily meetings. At least twice a month the assistant manager would interject to remind everybody that they had once had lunch with the original CEO. There was also this strange creation myth of how the company was able to dominate the grocery industry within less time than everybody else. It involved the CEO inventing a new way to filet a Chinook salmon or something like that.
Cult behavior is surprisingly strong within corporate America.
- Comment on Barack Obama: “For elevator music, AI is going to work fine. Music like Bob Dylan or Stevie Wonder, that's different” 11 months ago:
That’s Captain Beefheart you are talking to…
- Comment on Barack Obama: “For elevator music, AI is going to work fine. Music like Bob Dylan or Stevie Wonder, that's different” 11 months ago:
It tends to be in upscale hotels, generally around the holidays, but isn’t incredibly common anymore.
If I think back on it, I’m not sure I have heard it since the 90s.
- Comment on Mullvad's public encrypted DNS Servers run in RAM now 11 months ago:
Catch-22 or Gravity’s Rainbow, if my memory of books I’ve read once is still accurate.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Except he appears to be running the company at a loss currently, being over half a billion in the hole after making close to 5 billion (largely in government contracts).
archive.ph/…/behind-the-curtain-of-elon-musks-sec…
I’m not saying the rumors are true that Joe Rogan has been pumping him full of ketamine to get him to sign over his fortune, but Musk is clearly starting to lose his ability at what he was good at: making money.
- Comment on Monero Project admits thieves stole 6-figure sum from a wallet in mystery breach 11 months ago:
Really?
Please show me in which of Orwell’s writings he suggested that economies should be based off allowing financial criminals to commi their crimes against citizens, unimpeded.
The thesis of 1984 is that when totalitarianism takes hold, we will turn on those we love to protect ourselves. Which specific portion of that novel do you believe told you that true freedom is getting your money stolen with no recourse?
This is primarily the issue with libertarians. You guys are constantly applying a book you haven’t read to every situation you don’t like. It’s weird and I think people see through it.
- Comment on Monero Project admits thieves stole 6-figure sum from a wallet in mystery breach 1 year ago:
As you yourself out it, the issue with monero is that it is designed to protect attackers.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
So a man whose wealth has largely been built off lying to investors and consumers about his products told you that his father only gave him $28,000, and you just believed him?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Your favorite painting was likely commissioned by a rich person, and the person who received credit for it probably had most of the work done by an apprentice of theirs.
Rich people don’t like fine art and wine because they are so much more intellectually advanced than we are, they like them because they are a great tool of the wealthy. These people can’t tell the difference between a $7 wine and their $25,000 wine in a blind taste test, and if you tell them so, they will smile and nod, because the taste isn’t the point.
Your grandmother’s knit sweaters would be considered fine art if it could be used to launder money.
- Comment on Adobe is selling fake AI images of the Israel-Hamas war 1 year ago:
I’m not surprised some stock photo companies are selling AI work. I imagine this is an industry not easy to make money in if you are one of the few remaining firms not owned by Getty.