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Link which doesn't directly support website owned by unscrupulous trillionaire: https://xcancel.com/runasand/status/2017659019251343763?s=20 https://xcancel.c
by wackget 8mo ago
Link which doesn't directly support website owned by unscrupulous trillionaire:
https://xcancel.com/runasand/status/2017659019251343763?s=20 https://xcancel.com/runasand/status/2017659019251343763?s=20
- asadm 8mo ago[flagged]
- andwhatisthis 8mo agoHow so?
- asadm 8mo agonasa is fucked up. spacex is US’s only shot.
- pyrophane 8mo agoMaybe. I don't think we yet have a good understanding of how many deaths he will have caused as a result of DOGE so abruptly cutting off assistance to so many vulnerable people around the world, but I've heard estimates hover around 600,000. Assuming that number turns out to be close to reality, how do you weigh so many unnecessary deaths against VTL rockets and the electric cars? Perhaps a practitioner of Effective Altruism could better answer that question.
- deleted 8mo ago[deleted]
- asadm 8mo ago[flagged]
- roboror 8mo agoI've seen corruption in the police. Government. Hospitals. Do you support immediately shuttering those offices with no replacements?
- sejje 8mo agoThey could at least just get funded by their own government.
- deleted 8mo ago[deleted]
- abustamam 8mo agoThere is corruption everywhere. But do you deny that these organizations by-and-large provided aid and therefore saves the lives of folks who may have otherwise died from illness? This doesn't make corruption OK. But he tore out a lifeline for some people without giving them an alternative way to get aid.
- asadm 8mo ago[flagged]
- NoMoreNicksLeft 8mo ago[flagged]
- asadm 8mo agoCorrect. But also, it's a bandaid (and a really ineffective one ie. 99% lossy) on real issues of that world.
- mptest 8mo ago> The US taxpayer has no moral obligation to send welfare "around the world". I mean, by way of the atrocities we've committed around the world, we kinda do. Even if we buy your thesis, foregoing morals, geopolitics, and history, it's a useful soft power strategy... I'm not saying fund USAID before healthcare for all in america. I'm saying of all the insane things our government wastes money on, USAID was far down on the list of most egregious.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 8mo ago>I mean, by way of the atrocities we've committed around the world, we kinda do. I've committed no atrocities. Going to guess that you've committed no atrocities. What atrocities did occur, most of those who committed those are dead, the rest are senile in nursing homes. I have no guilt and certainly feel no guilt for those events. >it's a useful soft power strategy. Sure, if you're some sort of tyrant. I thought the left was against colonialism... but you guys really just one a more clever, subtle colonialism eh? Figures. >I'm saying of all the insane things our government wastes money on, USAID was far down on the list of most egregious. What you're saying is that no cuts can or should be made, unless they are your favorite cuts first. And maybe after you get those, no others need be made at all.
- mptest 8mo ago>Sure, if you're some sort of tyrant. I thought the left was against colonialism... but you guys really just one a more clever, subtle colonialism eh? Figures Drastic misrepresentation. I made no value judgements. I simply offered reasons why the above commenter may be wrong. from different points of view. You misunderstand or are naive to the spectrum of how parasitic to symbiotic those soft power relationships can be > What you're saying is that no cuts can or should be made, unless they are your favorite cuts first. And maybe after you get those, no others need be made at all. Nope, just saying there's pretty clear science behind where money could be better spent besides billions in forever wars. Maybe start there? 9$ trillion on pointless wars in the middle east comes to mind? google a map of countries we've overthrown the democratic leader of if you want more examples. all the shahs men is useful too. i could go on. > I've committed no atrocities. Going to guess that you've committed no atrocities. What atrocities did occur, most of those who committed those are dead, the rest are senile in nursing homes. I have no guilt and certainly feel no guilt for those events It's not about that. someone simply had to pay that debt. sorry to tell you those bills they wracked up to accumulate wealth are coming due for the rest of us right or not.
- C6JEsQeQa5fCjE 8mo ago> I don't think we yet have a good understanding of how many deaths he will have caused as a result of DOGE so abruptly cutting off assistance to so many vulnerable people around the world Nor how many deaths will be caused by his support for far right parties across Europe, when they start ethnic cleansings.
- alistairSH 8mo ago[flagged]
- Dylan16807 8mo agoEven if his total contribution is positive, his current contribution is quite bad. And most of that bad has been tied directly to x.
- asadm 8mo agoI can atleast still voice against Israeli genocide there. I am good for now.
- throwawayfour 8mo agoGood reminder to also set up something that does this automatically for you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46526010 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46526010
- JimA 8mo agoI generally avoid extensions that can read all sites (even if technically necessary), so use the suggestion found here [1] instead. A few bookmarklets: javascript:(function(){if (location.host.endsWith('x.com')) location.host='xcancel.com';})() javascript:(function(){if (location.host.endsWith('youtube.com')) location.host='inv.nadeko.net';})() javascript:(function(){if (location.hostname.endsWith('instagram.com')) {location.replace('https://imginn.com https://imginn.com' + location.pathname);}})() [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1cc0uon/adding_custom_redirects_with_ublockorigin/ https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1cc0uon/addin...
- Alive-in-2025 8mo agoWow, where did these come from. these are great alternatives, especially the youtube. I like using the duck player but that's only in that browser. For example duck://player/fqtK3s7PE_k where the video id in youtube url https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqtK3s7PE_k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqtK3s7PE_k But it doesn't have that overview page like inv.nadeko.net does
- forgotTheLast 8mo agoI actually think it is fitting to read about a government agency weaponized by an unscrupulous billionaire going after journalists working for an unscrupulous billionaire on an unscrupulous trillionaire owned platform.
- apparent 8mo agoThere are trillionaires?
- alpinisme 8mo agoI guess technically musk rounds to a trillion. 852B acc to Forbes
- apparent 8mo agoThat would be some aggressive rounding.
- alpinisme 8mo agoYes and no. Obviously it’s unusual rounding or I wouldn’t have said “I guess technically,” but rounding is all about domains and relevant precision. To be honest, when someone says “billionaires” I don’t assume that the number 1,000,000 is a meaningful hard cut off. I assume we’re talking about the ones who are three orders of magnitude up from “millionaire” and orders of magnitude work by rounding from .5.
- dragonwriter 8mo ago> orders of magnitude work by rounding from .5. No, orders of magnitude are exponential, not linear, so conventionally “on the order of 1 billion” would be between 100 million × sqrt(10) and 1 billion × sqrt(10), but “billionaire” isn't “net worth on the order of 1 billion” but “net worth of 1 billion or more”, or, when used heirarchically alongside trillionaire ans millionaire “net worth of at least one billion and less than one trillion”.
- antonvs 8mo agoWhat's $148,000,000,000 between friends