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by PlanksVariable 9mo ago
“He led an insurrection against our Constitution” is extremely hyperbolic.
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by PlanksVariable 9mo ago
The American people had two options in November: - Kamala Harris, a terribly unqualified candidate who was appointed by the Democratic Party without a primary vote, who couldn’t clearly communicate basic policy positions, and who served as
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by PlanksVariable 9mo ago
Often in life the extreme ends of a spectrum are not “good” and “bad” but varying degrees of suboptimal.
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by PlanksVariable 9mo ago
American political parties have revolved around platforming persecution fetishes for decades now. Real struggles are inevitably exploited by individuals who leverage identity politics for their personal gain. This has played out in every gr
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by PlanksVariable 9mo ago
The percentage of Canadians of Asian descent shifted from 1.4% to 23% in the past fifty years. While Trump’s policies are a factor here, there’s a demographic factor as well. Many Canadians, especially younger Canadians, have stronger cultu
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by PlanksVariable 9mo ago
What book was that? All his books published prior to the 2000s were Dilbert compilations, so you might have the wrong date or the wrong person.
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by PlanksVariable 9mo ago
That doesn’t follow.
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by PlanksVariable 9mo ago
No, no. It’s more nuanced than that. They were opinions that were different from my own.
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by PlanksVariable 9mo ago
I started paying attention to him when he got sick. He seemed very reasonable about most things, and extremely insightful about many things. I certainly don’t think he deserved the posthumous label “crazy person.”
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by PlanksVariable 9mo ago
> think that white people are under attack Yes, they think that. > and that white people need to re-establish dominance. To them, equality is a threat No. When a specific group is singled out and attacked, whether they’re white, black
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by PlanksVariable 9mo ago
Diversity initiatives are often racist or regressive, in which case they should be mocked, and he wasn’t in the wrong for doing so.
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by PlanksVariable 9mo ago
Why can’t Microsoft employees learn on the job? When I joined a (non-Microsoft) BigTech company, I was expected to learn C++ and internal libraries and tools within a couple months while working on newbie projects. The company recouped that
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by PlanksVariable 9mo ago
Claiming we must honor the autonomy of people who have had their autonomy stripped away by a dictator is just as silly as saying we need to respect the sovereignty of the dictator himself.
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by PlanksVariable 9mo ago
Tahoe broke trackpad scrolling in Safari on my 2023 MBP. Other users have been experiencing and reporting the issue for months. Apple still hasn’t fixed it in any of its updates or addressed it. Pretty bad.
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by PlanksVariable 9mo ago
Everyone wants to live in the most powerful nation of the globe. Nobody wants to acknowledge what it takes to be the most powerful nation in the world.
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by PlanksVariable 9mo ago
Thanks, this is a more convincing argument than insisting that we must respect the sovereignty of a unelected dictator.
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by PlanksVariable 9mo ago
> The USA could instead choose not to provide asylum to these people in the future, and accept the reality that for the millions it already has, it has made its bed so to speak And who decided that? American citizens certainly did not.
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by PlanksVariable 9mo ago
It’s not a complicated answer, it’s just an arbitrary answer. Did the citizens of those countries agree to take in the asylum seekers? What alternative would you suggest when 8 million people flee across the border? In the U.S., there are a
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by PlanksVariable 9mo ago
I do not acknowledge that. If you want to make an argument that overthrowing a dictator is always wrong on principle, go ahead. But I will not accept this as axiomatic. Claiming this could “destabilize” the country suggests that the country
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by PlanksVariable 9mo ago
It’s estimated there are over a million Venezuelans in the U.S. who fled the country. Over 600,000 are currently under temporary protected status with asylum claims. 7 million in neighboring countries. Who gets to decide that this is good,
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by PlanksVariable 9mo ago
It's a car and battery company, isn't it? Framing it as a tech company is a bit weird, but I guess Tesla did the same. Buffett didn't love automobile stocks either, but Berkshire Hathaway held General Motors from 2012 to 2023
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by PlanksVariable 9mo ago
Perhaps we should look to Europe for inspiration on how to govern tech companies.
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by PlanksVariable 9mo ago
Funny, I remember the Internet from over a decade (or two) ago and it was a mess of full-screen ads, seizure-inducing animations, infinite popups, etc. that Google helped eliminate.
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by PlanksVariable 9mo ago
My search results were the opposite: 1. an AI summary 2. a link to the documentation 3. 4 videos that seem legit 4. a bunch more web links
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by PlanksVariable 10mo ago
You certainly seem to be arguing just to argue. You’re comparing Valve to the companies you choose to work for or the median German company, but those are irrelevant. You’re using the wrong reference set. Valve is a global, revenue-dominant
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by PlanksVariable 10mo ago
> These people were rendered to a prison where they're meant to spend the rest of their lives These men were never intended to spend the rest of their lives at CECOT, nor did they. All were released in July 2025 to their home coun
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by PlanksVariable 10mo ago
That seems like the least disgraceful part of the whole thing. Wherever they go, the U.S. taxpayers are stuck footing the bill for their prison stay, food, medical treatment, etc., but why would it need to be in the United States? They have
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by PlanksVariable 10mo ago
Of course smaller companies exist — there are 1 person companies! But in a world where many tech companies have 50,000+ employees, 300 is much closer to 100 or 10 and they can all be considered small. And then you consider it in context: a
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by PlanksVariable 10mo ago
Have you ever watched the original? It most certainly did not involve real people talking ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t6L-FlfeaI ). In fact, the overtly robotic voices added to the humor of the original, IMO. It was lo
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by PlanksVariable 11mo ago
At the big tech company I work for, it’s been at least 5 years since I was asked to interview a US citizen. And I have younger relatives and family friends who are recent CS grads that are smart and desperate for jobs. I don’t know what’s g

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