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Do you have an example of left-leaning reporting that is mass media in the US?
Re:What Happened to the Snowden Archive on Monday September 21, 2026 @05:38AM (#49785095)
far-right lunatic? do you have a source for this or an example

I read his substack, he seems to be critical of the US security state and not inline with alt-right principles at all

Re:Tim Cook Sold Out Steve Jobs on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @08:35AM (#49521120)
2025. He’s right, Tim Cook is a coward and no better than the rest of the oligarchs who kissed the ring and played the game.

But Anil also falls into this trap of believing the myth of Jobs over who he actually was. Steve Jobs was a Silicon Valley capitalist who took parts the hippie counterculture ethos and baked it into an image that sold well to consumers. He was not some revolutionary, he just successfully used the language of revolution to sell a better product than his competitors.

It’s capitalism. The market has determined that plastic in the ocean is the most efficient way to produce goods and services.
Airemin
Re:Pixel Watch 5 on Thursday August 13, 2026 @06:20AM (#49283865)
Google had a town hall a few years ago. The Pixel Watch (4?) had just launched and supposedly fixed a bunch of bugs like apparently you could not reliably record a run with the previous generation without that app crashing and losing the workout. Someone in the audience asked about this, and the PM who responded was wearing an Apple Watch. Apparently everyone on that team at the meeting was wearing Apple Watches or a dumb watch

They know this product is garbage

Re:The AI Apocalypse Is Here on Sunday August 09, 2026 @12:48AM (#49228537)
>China has not known freedom for some time, but citizens of the United States have a long experience of it.

One of those American beliefs presented without evidence because it’s just so obviously true, but what the fuck does this even mean? Exactly how are Americans more free?

Re:The Boeing 747 Begins Its Final Descent on Monday June 29, 2026 @06:03AM (#48717153)
America begins its final descent
too bad houses AREN’T for living in, but for speculating
Western governments are so concerned when this happens to them (at arguably a tiny scale) compared to the “interventions” they’ve supported around the world for almost one hundred years.

Rules for thee and not for me. Sure, Canada isn’t the CIA, but they’ve been right there with the US from Iran to Ukraine.

Re:Apple WWDC 2026 Livestream on Monday June 08, 2026 @01:20PM (#48448180)
https://www.youtube.com/live/hF8swzNR1-o

there’s also a YouTube live stream that lets you go back

Blocking an event memorializing a shameful part of China’s history? that’s not great, but that’s really not the same thing
Do you have any sources for these claims about China?
Re:Wikipedia doesn't need my cash on Friday May 29, 2026 @03:06PM (#48327831)
>> By my calculation, and further verification, that's around 17 months of running costs.

so if you’d like Wikipedia to be around two years should you donate?

the leader of building earth-based datacenters lol

what are we even talking about

And the American part will be owned by a pro-Israel billionaire, the largest private donor to the IDF.
Re:F-35 is a masterpiece built for the wrong war on Monday April 20, 2026 @04:53PM (#47840463)
Writers of history or historical fiction often wonder how did average people in militaristic, fascist societies from the past view their society? I think it’s obvious from the present-day US: they were amused. They were entertained by it. Human suffering, a necessary feature of such cultures, is trivialized by draping the death machine behind the veneer of fun, exciting game!
Can confirm this guy is Swiss

Has arguably the best infrastructure and system in the world and will still find issue with it. A real Swiss hardly knows the horror show that is the rest of the non-Switzerland world.

yeah, fiber rollout is slow outside of the cities. It’s still better than 95% of the developed world. All perspective.

Re:Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English on Saturday December 27, 2025 @06:28PM (#46406582)
This is very nice. When I use ffmpeg recently I usually ask an LLM first but it often takes a few tries to get the exact incantation right.

On a side note (I’m not a web developer), why would a command line tool like this be written and distributed using node.js? Seems like an unnecessary risk to use JavaScript for a basic (local) command line tool. Couldn’t this be written more simply in like Rust or something?

The US will try to avoid this by privatizing the Fed through stablecoins, but I predict this backfiring massively. Private creation of money will likely tank the world economy worse than 2008 and in the rubble a new order will form without the US at the center.
Europe will probably be the largest market where US EVs will try to compete with Chinese cars. BYD is already selling better spec’d models for less than this Rivian, and Xiaomi will enter the market late 2026.

I don’t see how Rivian can compete, either on price or features.

These companies are only surviving because of US protectionism. This tech is more expensive than then Chinese equivalent from 2-3 years ago (look at what Xiaomi or BYD released as their 2024 models).

These cars will not sell well outside of the US.

Israel used Palantir technologies in pager…

“ Contrarian View(highly upvoted) Many argued the attack was a highly targeted, lawful military operation against Hezbollah's command, achieving military goals with remarkably low civilian harm compared to conventional warfare.”

What a sad world we live in. This site really is a cesspool of American fascism, and the community is not doing enough to take a stance against that

I don’t think the US will ever enact a similar ban. The power to shape young minds is too great, even if these service also increase suicides in children to some degree.

The same algorithms that showed IDF war crimes compilations and turned a generation against Israel can be reshaped to push a different, right-wing narrative. The David Ellison’s of the world have too much power to allow regulation getting in the way of this.

It was flagged and enough people complained about censorship that is was resurrected with a pinned post from dang about how we should be civil
None of what the US is doing in Venezuela is new ground for the empire. Failed CIA coup plots, bribing Maduro’s pilots and allies in hopes of betrayal, even military action like bombing boats on shaky “national security” grounds— the US has been doing this sort of thing in Latin America (and much of the world) since the 50’s.

But this story has stayed in media because Trump is so brazen, declassifying CIA documents and speaking openly about these war crimes. That’s new for America. Usually these things are denied for a few decades, claims to the contrary are called “conspiracy theory”, before being admitted quietly, maybe mentioned in a back page of the NY Times.

So I’m skeptical that anyone from the US government could ever be held accountable for war crimes or violations of international law, but who knows. This does feel different.

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