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- Comment on Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics 3 weeks ago:
All politicians meet with lobbyists. It’s hard to get a handle on the needs of the nation (or state, or so on), and lobbying is how people inform their representatives of that need. Now whether those lobbyists are scumbags or saints, that’s a different question.
- Comment on Paralyzed Man Unable to Walk After Maker of His Powered Exoskeleton Tells Him It's Now Obsolete 1 month ago:
I was ready to hear something like a story from someone who had signed onto a medical trial and was upset the trial was ending. Nope, instead an absurdly short support period that seemingly is fed by the same culture of replacement over repair that has infected our economy.
- Comment on 7 years ago there were no billionaires worth more than $100 billion - today there are 18! 1 month ago:
Meh. Net worth can be volatile in the upper echelons of wealth. It’s often based on volatile assets. He’s still giving away plenty. I’m seeing a budget of $8.6 billion in 2024 for the Gates Foundation.
Also, his wealth doesn’t need to be spent within his lifetime to remain true to the pledge. The Gates Foundation can continue functioning long after his death, much like other foundations like the Carnegie Foundation.
- Comment on 7 years ago there were no billionaires worth more than $100 billion - today there are 18! 1 month ago:
Look at all our WONDERFUL job creators amassing their dragon hoards!
- Comment on 7 years ago there were no billionaires worth more than $100 billion - today there are 18! 1 month ago:
I’m not sure who is doing the calculations here, but the latest estimates I’m seeing for Gates have him down a bit for the year. He also is down after is divorce from Melinda, which included splitting off a good chunk of money for her own personal and philanthropic use.
- Comment on Regain Control in my ass 2 months ago:
Well, it’s going through my head right now, so I will count it.
Ceilings in my ass
- Comment on I'm so sorry 2 months ago:
This truly is the strangest timeline, where Serious Journalists write about rumors of JD Vance having sex with a couch.
- Comment on I'm so sorry 2 months ago:
Because we are in the weirdest timeline.
- Comment on I'm so sorry 2 months ago:
Merry Christmas!
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- Comment on Doctors Remove Woman’s Brain Implant Against Her Will 2 months ago:
If you start adding on mandates to the IP like that, that severely narrows the list of companies that are even capable of buying it. They have to have employees with knowledge of the specific device, which only a small number of people may be using.
- Comment on Doctors Remove Woman’s Brain Implant Against Her Will 2 months ago:
As part of unwinding a company that is going out of business, they usually do sell off their IP. That doesn’t mean that anyone will continue this particular experiment.
- Comment on If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"? 2 months ago:
Yeah, that definition of “master” is different than master/slave from what I can tell. Think the master copy of an audio recording. There are plenty of perfectly legit uses of “master,” but there’s no reason to use master/slave in this day and age. It was stupid to start doing so to begin with.
- Comment on If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"? 2 months ago:
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- Comment on Centipedes Don't Fuck 2 months ago:
Legistics?
- Comment on Oregonian driving 3 months ago:
Among us bicyclists, they’re called niceholes. They’re just trying to be nice to the bicyclist, but we would rather they just follow the traffic law so that they’re predictable.