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Re:How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post
on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @03:53PM (#46891602)
Power + Control >> Money.
That’s it.
Re:Apple Is Fighting for TSMC Capacity as Nvidia Takes Center Stage
on Thursday January 15, 2026 @11:34AM (#46635093)
Except this makes no sense. There isn’t enough power to run all these new chips, so the demand must be speculative, not growth.
Re:We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers
on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @06:13PM (#46609802)
Sounds like you have zero empathy for the real costs AI is driving and feelings that this creates for website owners. How about you pony up and pay for your scraping?
Re:The Cloudflare outage was a good thing
on Monday November 24, 2025 @03:31AM (#46031675)
Thanks for doing the meme! https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-som...
You are very intelligent!
Re:Detroit's Carmakers to Save Billions in Emissions Rollback
on Sunday September 07, 2025 @08:20PM (#45163537)
False. The US Auto market is subsidized and regulated in opaque and convoluted ways that distort prices and demand significantly.
Re:German court declares Karl Marx's teachings unconstitutional
on Friday August 15, 2025 @01:05PM (#44914833)
The knee jerk anti communism is your propaganda showing. Marxist historical materialism is a mainstream mode of analysis. Nothing inherently leftwing or revolutionary about it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_materialism
For the gamers, the Victoria series by Paradox uses historical materialism as its gameplay.
Re:BYD Bets on Budget EV Boom with Atto 1 Debut in Indonesia
on Thursday July 24, 2025 @12:50AM (#44667052)
You are missing the point. I don’t dispute the sales data, I agree with it, it supports my point. It’s not out of preference, it’s enforced by regulations and encouraged by
the tax code.
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24139147/suvs-trucks-popu...
Re:BYD Bets on Budget EV Boom with Atto 1 Debut in Indonesia
on Thursday July 24, 2025 @12:43AM (#44667003)
Wrong. American car choice has everything to do with government subsidies, car safety standards and fuel standards. Consumer choice doesn’t matter in the US Auto market.
Re:BYD Bets on Budget EV Boom with Atto 1 Debut in Indonesia
on Thursday July 24, 2025 @12:20AM (#44666891)
Yeah, I came to the same exact conclusion last year. Heck, even Ford’s CEO drives a BYD and thinks their a major threat.
This administration seems set on demolishing American industries though. Such a shame, but maybe we can finally get decent rail once all the car lobby’s are dead. (But probably not)
Re:World fertility rates in 'unprecedented decline', UN says
on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @01:55AM (#44233057)
Desire for children is above the replacement rate, though.
There is a gap between the world we live in and the world desired. One solution would be to close the gap.
Re:You're Right You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings (2020)
on Friday May 16, 2025 @09:28AM (#44005268)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble...
CEOs are not the living embodiment of a company. They are an agent with their own values too.
Re:California overtakes Japan to become the world's fourth largest eco...
on Friday April 25, 2025 @02:21AM (#43790690)
California should acquire some nuclear weapons then.
Re:How Each Pillar of the First Amendment Is Under Attack
on Sunday March 30, 2025 @11:59PM (#43530814)
Fascist.
Re:How Each Pillar of the First Amendment Is Under Attack
on Sunday March 30, 2025 @09:57PM (#43529925)
How was my response uncivil? Your reply is bad faith because it provides no evidence.
Re:How Each Pillar of the First Amendment Is Under Attack
on Sunday March 30, 2025 @09:48PM (#43529858)
I’m an active DSA member. What about you?
Re:How Each Pillar of the First Amendment Is Under Attack
on Sunday March 30, 2025 @09:45PM (#43529838)
Voting is the minimum of civic duty, not the maximum.
Re:German electrical engineer with green card stripped and 'violently ...
on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @10:50PM (#43478366)
Your comment is a perfect example of authoritarian apologia. You feel bad, for feeling bad about authoritarianism. Not only that, but you’ve also moved the goal posts (“business as usual?”) in the first paragraph and presented only your stream of consciousness as evidence. Ignoring the entire article and content.
Facts don’t care about your feelings, asshole. The facts are that the USA is unlawfully detaining innocent travelers.
Re:The U.S. Government Tried Replacing Migrant Farmworkers with Teenag...
on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @12:59AM (#42631434)
Setting aside the moral component, and focusing on the economic; the Trump deportation plan is red carpet invitation for consolidation. Agriculture today is a declining mix of many medium and small growers, with a few mega growers that have increasingly concentrated their market share of output. Deportation will greatly accelerate this trend, consolidating most agriculture under a few mega growers. Small and medium sized farm operations can’t afford the capital for complex automation to replace manual labor - but mega corps can.
Re:Hitting OKRs vs. Doing Your Job
on Monday January 06, 2025 @03:28PM (#42615333)
Majesty I & II were implemented like your idea of this game…
Re:New Mac Mini with M4
on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @11:12AM (#41984656)
This seems like the perfect home media transcoding server (Plex, Kodi, etc). I am curious if these will ever be able to run Linux.
Re:US satellite jammer is set for delivery as flaws are fixed
on Friday October 25, 2024 @03:35PM (#41948835)
You can’t wait for escalation? Are you pro-war???
Re:Boeing CEO says the company must fundamentally change as losses surge
on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @08:33AM (#41924373)
US military has no peer.
USPS is very good, better and cheaper than UPS or FedEx.
Wish antigovernment types didn’t lie and had actual complaints.
Re:Mozilla wants you to love Firefox again
on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @10:42PM (#41187622)
I don’t know if Firefox can be saved. I say that using Firefox for iOS right now.
I use Firefox because it’s not chrome, not because it’s good. Mozilla’s reputation is trash, Firefox is riddled with ancient bugs, and the bleeding hasn’t stopped.
I’d like to be wrong but I don’t see how.
Re:Apple's secret silicon fab next to thousands of homes
on Monday June 24, 2024 @03:13AM (#40773259)
I like how Apple got the city HazMat to tip them off to the EPA inspectors, personally. Is that a new “best practice?” I am taking notes.
Re:Apple's secret silicon fab next to thousands of homes
on Monday June 24, 2024 @03:03AM (#40773202)
So right. This was a one-off. A tiny whoops-a-daisy by Apple. Definitely not a sign of culture problems or a pattern of bad behaviors.
Edit: /s folks
Nearly died from mysterious industrial chemical exposure from my employer, Apple
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Re:Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds
on Monday May 13, 2024 @01:37AM (#40340110)
Better Corollary: If you worked somewhere that made remote permanent you made the right career decision.
Re:Home ownership is not the boon to older Americans that it once was
on Saturday May 11, 2024 @08:36PM (#40331519)