Cornbilly

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by Cornbilly 1y ago
Personality cults are really quite weird, aren't they?
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by Cornbilly 1y ago
Also, FYI to all commenters: The FCC board is required to have no more than 3 members from a single political party on the board of 5.
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by Cornbilly 1y ago
These chuckleheads probably don’t even know what this research entails but banning it makes their dimwitted followers excited. The state of the US right now is shameful.
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by Cornbilly 1y ago
For me, it's only really useful as an enhanced search engine and using it to do any real work usually just leads to more issues than if I just did it manually. The vast majority of uses are your typical Silicon Valley hype, jargon fill
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by Cornbilly 1y ago
HN (and Silicon Valley) has a contingent of people that want to attack the credibility of the scientific community so that they can present their own (usually very flawed) conclusions as being legitimate.
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by Cornbilly 2y ago
It’s just anti-intellectualism and fear across the board. And that’s been the GOP MO for a long time now. Convince people that the colleges are full of crazy liberals and you should go into the trades instead. Now that you’re in the trades,
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by Cornbilly 2y ago
A few of my friends did the same. They could easily run to Guitar Center and swap broken cables before a gig. That could easily be worth the added cost.
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by Cornbilly 2y ago
Even more confusingly, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign now has a Chicago location as well.
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by Cornbilly 2y ago
> Downvoting people who actually understand Trump voters and try to vocalize their needs and perspectives just silences the voices that could be used to shape a better platform for the Democrats next time. You won't win elections by
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by Cornbilly 2y ago
And, apparently, we’re still doing the deliberately obtuse act. Nothing ever changes.
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https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/trump-calls-congress-p...
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by Cornbilly 2y ago
If you read Tolkien’s other works, you’ll find that evil cannot be destroyed as Melkor/Morgoth corrupted the very nature of the world and that evil will remain until the end of the world.
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It passed in the last Senate with a voice vote, which means it had overwhelming support. Thankfully, it being in the previous Senate means that the bill has to start over. Hopefully, the increased scrutiny will lead to amendments or killing
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by Cornbilly 2y ago
Do all of geohot's posts come off as manic to anyone else?
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The take loans from the Treasury to cover the shortfall.
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by Cornbilly 2y ago
The downvotes are because you’re treating blatant Elon-bullshit with good faith.
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https://www.uspsoig.gov/focus-areas/did-you-know/do-my-tax-d...
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My guess is that all of this moronic fiscal policy causes a significant recession by the next presidential election.
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by Cornbilly 2y ago
>The truth is economic growth hasn’t been occurring in real terms for most people for a long time and the rich have been transferring money from the poor to themselves at a dramatic rate. The US is setting up to make this worse by cuttin
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by Cornbilly 2y ago
Well, you just nailed why this line works on voters. Here’s the other one that works on that same crowd: “We need to fix the budget to close the deficit. We’re going to leave spending basically unchanged and cut taxes for the rich.”
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by Cornbilly 2y ago
Former integrity? He got his start cosplaying as a former downtrodden redneck from the holler, when he’s from suburban Ohio.
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Many African cultures have a tradition of eating “bushmeat” (ie. meat from wild animals). It’s not dissimilar to the tradition of hunting deer/rabbit/etc in the west (which has its own concerns about a disease jumping species like
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by Cornbilly 2y ago
There are no consequences or standards as long as you or your family is enough wealthy enough and connected to the right people.
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He likened Trump to Hitler and then ran with him. That reveals everything about Vance.
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The unspoken part of that is Vance likely thinks that the people should fear their government.
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That’s referring to the cases, not the components. The cases are made in the US and the machines are assembled in the US. Everything else is likely imported.
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People don’t seem to realize that these are blanket tariffs.
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The DEI and pride support was marketing dressed up as HR.
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The “tech geniuses” left their database unsecured. Can’t wait to see how they handle all the data they’ve had access to.
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That’s not why this exchange is getting moved but nice hot take. The exchange struggled with the transition to electronic trading 20+ years ago and never recovered. My firm stopped tracking volume from CHX over a decade ago because it’s ess

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