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Re:Trumpcard (Official US Government Website) on Friday September 19, 2025 @09:33PM (#45309059)
Yes. Amassing obscene wealth is anti-social and immoral. Hording wealth is an action. Anyone with much over $10,000,000 can be assumed to be evil on some level. You don't earn that kind of money, you exploit others for it.
Re:Nano Banana image examples on Thursday September 11, 2025 @06:06PM (#45216603)
Looks like your mental model of the world was COMPLETELY wrong. Thanks for sharing but I don't understand the need for people to constantly tell others how stupid they are (or used to be). We get it, your dumb.
Re:Claude can now create and edit files on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @11:00AM (#45182852)
That doesn't make any sense and isn't an appropriate comment for this discussion.

The Anthropic product adding a feature is not the end of employment or even a step along the way.

MOST PEOPLE can't even use an actual computer yet even think about programming.

WYSIWYG editors didn't kill web development because most people are simply too stupid to understand a new tool, let alone use it.

Re:Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code on Sunday August 17, 2025 @01:58PM (#44933503)
Been using Claude almost daily but can't understand the use case of this program? Seems like a step backwards?
Re:A.I. Is About to Solve Loneliness. That's a Problem on Saturday August 02, 2025 @10:58AM (#44768140)
That explanation makes no sense, obviously. Human beings have been human beings long before things even cost money and will exist long after money is gone.

I'm happy to accept the idea that people are simply brainwashed into thinking they need money and that is the root of their problems, but needing money is not a problem for a human being in and of itself.

Edit: but I think you said it yourself, you seem to think that you're forced to live a certain lifestyle, that's not true. You want to live a certain lifestyle and that lifestyle takes a lot of money.

Paywall, can't read it.
Bitcoin (BTC) doesn't work at all for payments less than $100 (as by design) and so adding a second layer on to that only makes it MORE expensive, not less.

Like saying I can't afford my credit card fees so I'll just take a cash advance on my credit card, put the money in a bank account, then use a debit card for transactions. It makes no sense and would only work to trick a moron that doensn't understand how the system works.

Bitcoin (now called Bitcoin Cash) solved the problem 10+ years ago, then Blockstream hijacked the BTC GitHub repo and injected the SegWit and RBF code that killed the project.

Why not just use Bitcoin Cash? Bitcoin was designed to compete directly with Visa's transaction rate and still can. I don't get why people don't simple use what works?
Re:Our $100M Series B on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @09:51AM (#44734209)
And Donald Trump doesnt even take a salary at all! /s
Re:Blowing the whistle on domestic (family) court on Monday July 28, 2025 @08:02PM (#44717358)
I can't bother reading past your first sentence but anecdotes and hearsay is absolutely what constitutes evidence, maybe you are trying to think of the word "proof"?.
Re:Blowing the whistle on domestic (family) court on Monday July 28, 2025 @09:28AM (#44710679)
It took nearly a whole generation for young men to see what was going on but I think a lot of figured it out!

I know I'm doing my part to tell every young man I know to not have kids in the state of Ohio until they fix this evil and broken system.

My son has told me something similar, that he would never get married or have kids just because he's seen how stupid this whole thing is but I'm sure there's a lot like him :-(

Re:Blowing the whistle on domestic (family) court on Monday July 28, 2025 @09:22AM (#44710642)
And I am unaware of what, "regs" you are trying to address, but the current situation is clear, without trying to change the subject:

Domestic judges are elected positions that can and do solicit campaign contributions from local attorneys.

At the end of that campaign extra funds can and do end up in the pockets of the judges themselves. This is equivalent to lawyers directly paying off the judges.

The way an attorney described it to me is that every attorney worth their salt immediately starts making the maximum contributions to every judge on the bench every 4 years.

What "regs" do you need to show this? My guess though is that you do know the truth, you are an attorney and your comment is just trying to distract from what's going on.

Re:Blowing the whistle on domestic (family) court on Monday July 28, 2025 @09:19AM (#44710615)
Yes, 85% of men in Ohio are abusers, that's why they've lost their children.

You sound super smart ;)

Blowing the whistle on domestic (family) court

The US domestic (family) court system, in Ohio in particular, has become functionally corrupt for two reasons.1) Judges are elected and can now receive unlimited campaign contributions, vacations and gifts, the vast majority coming from the lawyers and "family" law firms they are ment to be judging objectively.2) All records are "sealed" so judges and courts have zero accountability to anyone...

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025) on Monday July 28, 2025 @08:13AM (#44710076)
I'm trying to get the word out that: The judges are the top lawyers and the lawyers are pieces of shit.

The US domestic (family) court system, in Ohio in particular, has become functionally corrupt.

The Ohio bar association has co-opted the domestic court system for their own revenue generating stream. The judges profit from kickbacks in the form of campaign contributions every four years from the very attorneys are supposed to be judging against, this is not just the appearance of corruption it is a system built on it.

On top of that, all the judgments are sealed and secret, meaning that there's zero records and zero accountability for any judges or lawyers in the system. This means the judges only incentive is to judge in a way that is most in line with his best interest. In practice this means that what little data we have shows that almost every time the judge finds in favor of whichever attorney donated the most money to his campaign.

This has been going on for the better part of 20 years and is the reason that 85% of divorces end with single parent custody in Ohio, it's because the judges are getting paid off.

I'm blowing the whistle, working on websites, printing signs, sending out mailers, Court watching and taking notes on these corrupt evil fucks, doing anything and everything I can to get the word out that the Franklin County Ohio domestic court system in particularly has been corrupted by a small group of judges, mainly Judge James Brown. I'm doing everything I can to get the word out about these evil and corrupt judges, the biggest hurdle seems to be how much money they are making and that people believe that once a lawyer gets rich and powerful enough they're uncorruptible, which is the exact opposite of the truth. The judges are the ones running a corrupt, pay to play, system of kickbacks with themselves at the top. The judges are the top lawyers and the lawyers are pieces of shit.

They are literally horse trading children like they're chips at the casino and what they've done to a generation of young people and millennial fathers is pure evil.

Well, that's just not true at all now is it?
Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks on Thursday July 24, 2025 @10:27AM (#44671129)
In the old days people would pay to host video content and now people pay Google to watch other people's hosted video content. It's funny how easily people can be brainwashed into giving companies money for nothing. I'm still waiting for the first company to start selling bottled air next!
Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks on Thursday July 24, 2025 @10:23AM (#44671092)
YouTube only still "works" because of the cat and mouse ad blocker game. I don't know how but my new ad blocker seems to fast forward through all the ads. For a little while YouTube had them licked and I was watching 10 to 20 second ads all the time so temporarily gave up on YouTube until the ad blockers caught up again. Now YouTube is still functionally broken on TVs and mobile phones but works fine on a desktop computer still.
Re:What Will Become of the CIA? on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @10:22AM (#44647266)
100%, CIA has long controlled that narrative in this country though its subsidiaries. Just a few BIG examples:

1. USAID – Frequently used by the CIA for covert operations and as cover for agents abroad. (Washington Post [1])

2. Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) – CIA-founded and funded anti-communist intellectual network during the Cold War. [2]

3. Air America – CIA-owned airline used heavily during the Vietnam War and Laos operations. PBS [3]

4. Blockstream - CIA backed "non-profitable" company that controls the Bitcoin GitHub repository and guides development founded by useful idiots like Gregory Maxwell, "Blue Hair Matt," and a handful of other internet trolls with no real software credentials.

1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/usaid...

2. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1263191.The_Cultural_Col...

3. https://www.miamiherald.com/

Thank you for posting your nonsensical take.
Exactly, companies favorite thing thing to sell is nothing at all. Subscriptions, insurance, service fees...
Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @12:46PM (#44512181)
Of course I hate what Elon has done to Twitter but you're feeling previously that everyone was there was an illusion brought on by massive propaganda and manipulation of the conversation. The same thing has happened to Reddit now, well it feels more inclusive and open it's actually an incredibly controlled enclosed system that only allows one specific viewpoint. Now of course to the people inside that bubble it feels like freedom but to everyone else it looks like a liberal echo chamber.

For example, when the actual owner of the at Bitcoin handle wasn't pushing the narrative that Jack Dorsey wanted they hijacked the moniker and gave it to a pro b Blockstream (THE COMPANY THAT CONTROLS THE BITCOIN CODE BASE) individual. For most people that support Bitcoin and blockstream it looks like a victory of free speech but in reality they're just controlling more and more of the speech and kicking out anyone from the conversation who disagrees.

This take and the article get it utterly wrong. The ONLY real headline is, "Americans have gotten so used to free money they can no longer even imagine producing anything and selling it at a reasonable price".

I'm a small farmer and can sell my garlic all day for $1 a bulb. But it's A LOT of work. If I bump the price to $5 less people buy but that doesn't mean I get to give up and say, "oh well, can't produce in America I guess... "

Lol, Americans :(

Re:The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger on Sunday June 29, 2025 @11:51AM (#44414048)
And same with opium, literally MILLIONS of contented users yet people STILL say their is a backlash?
Re:The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger on Sunday June 29, 2025 @11:48AM (#44414027)
But that is utterly UNreasonable, of course, that is obviously why the courts did not side with that opinion (also because it's a stupid and naive opinion).

Unless they are saying they don't want anyone "trained" on "their data", it's a phrase that simply makes no sense and only expressed by people who don't know how the real world works at all.

Unless what they're really doing is a thousand times worse and this is the propagandized version..
This is my favorite response from you guys!

"Look, children may be dying and maybe we're killing them but we need to verify and we need more time. Because first of all what were they even doing there? Oh and also this is our Land anyways and there were no deaths nobody died there aren't even any children in gaza!"

We are so sorry you "need to get involved" in order to help spread pro-Israeli propaganda :(

1. If by "verified" you simply mean that the Israelis are admitting to what they did then you're right they're still lying about what they're doing everyday. Only verification are the videos, photos and dead bodies themselves of course.

2. The Israelis are out in force on these message boards, IDF. Personally I'm at the point where if I'm seeing any illogical support for the murderous regime of Israel I assume it's the IDF at this point, most real humans no matter what their political beliefs can at least agree that murdering innocent children is not good, only the Israelis struggle away with the way to justify it.

3. Lol, "wait and see..." This was the same attitude of the Nazis in world war II! "Just more time.. we just need more time so we can verify..." Amazing that the IDF is now using the same playbook that was used against them in world war II, I guess you guys figure if it works once you can work again!

Re:PlasticList – Plastic Levels in Foods on Tuesday June 24, 2025 @12:59PM (#44368302)
Now we will wrap the bales in 5 to 10 lb of plastic each, so they last longer!

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