StanislavPetrov

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by StanislavPetrov 5d ago
Many believed the women who accused Assange of rape also that led to the bogus charges that had him imprisoned in an Embassy and then a British dungeon for years. >who craft no end of reasons to not believe them. The reason is that these
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by StanislavPetrov 5d ago
I think tribalism is inherent in humans, as we our species evolved in a tribal fashion. It is also certain that billions and billions of dollars have been invested by the CIA (and their equivalent in other countries) to perfect propaganda
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by StanislavPetrov 5d ago
Unfortunately to many, everything is a team sport, and that isn't an accident. It is a result of decades of carefully crafted propaganda by the powers-that-be. It's why otherwise intelligent people repeat idiotic tropes like &quo
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by StanislavPetrov 5d ago
>A longish life has taught me to believe vulerable women who open themselves to ridicule, mistreatment and attack for outing more-powerful men who harmed them. A longish life has taught me to cast a very skeptical eye on anyone who com
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by StanislavPetrov 8d ago
Hallucinations when it comes to air traffic are going to be just swell.
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by StanislavPetrov 9d ago
Perhaps. If we had just chanted slogans instead of launching an unprovoked surprise attack that killed hundreds of their leaders along with thousands of civilians it would be fair play.
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by StanislavPetrov 9d ago
Do you know why Iranians were chanting "Death To America"? Because we toppled their democratically elected government in 1953 and installed a brutal dictator so that we could continue to pillage their oil.(1) When the mullahs fi
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by StanislavPetrov 17d ago
To be fair, this sort of thinking is not entirely wrong (although it may be in this case). Your priorities are not necessarily the same as whatever person/worker you are dealing with. And the priorities of the worker you are dealing
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by StanislavPetrov 19d ago
That's true. I've also never used a wheelchair, or a variety of other tools for people who can't walk, because I can walk without them. The same holds true for communication.
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by StanislavPetrov 19d ago
Personally I never use an LLM or "AI" for any reason. Don't find them useful and, like others, don't find their writing compelling or interesting. I can understand using it as a coding tool, but can't fathom anyon
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by StanislavPetrov 20d ago
The Germans also launched the first rocket to make it to space on June 20th 1944, though it wasn't privately made.
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by StanislavPetrov 22d ago
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
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by StanislavPetrov 25d ago
>This has been a cornerstone of good game design for over 30 years. First, this is completely wrong. There are many good games that have been designed over the last 30 years that didn't assume you were an invalid and needed your ha
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by StanislavPetrov 25d ago
>It’s the games job to create an on ramp to understanding. No, it is a games job to be entertaining for those it was designed to entertain. >It’s not mine to spend 200 hours grasping every concept before I can play “the real game”, th
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by StanislavPetrov 27d ago
Because deploying these cameras is anti-social conduct.
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by StanislavPetrov 2mo ago
Well-respected by who? >(but unintentionally criminalizing open source) Why do you assume this was unintentional? Because she said so?
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by StanislavPetrov 2mo ago
I can't be the only one who will never comply with these draconian, anti-privacy laws, nor the only one with the technical prowess to bypass them. Never used social media (unless you count HN as social media, which is a stretch), so p
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by StanislavPetrov 2mo ago
>No, that court case established that the government needs a warrant to get, specifically, historical cellphone pings from a 3rd party (the cellphone companies). Flock is gathering far, far more intrusive data than "cellphone pings&
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by StanislavPetrov 2mo ago
>I really wish MUDs were still a thing. They aren't as popular as they once were, but they are still out there. One of the hardest-core OG muds, Armageddon Mud (which was based on the Dark Sun world) recently went down, but the fou
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by StanislavPetrov 2mo ago
>I wonder if the login nags only happen on mobile devices. Nope, I surf exclusively on a desktop using Firefox and yesterday I got hit with the login prompt for old.reddit. Don't have an account and don't plan on making one, s
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by StanislavPetrov 2mo ago
We were around ~$11 trillion in debt in 2009. Now we are ~$40 trillion in debt. The FED balance sheet was less than $1 trillion before the crisis in 2008, now it is around ~$7 trillion. Our debt to GDP ratio was ~64% in 2008 and is now at
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by StanislavPetrov 3mo ago
>but it is not, as far as I can tell, an organisation with an agenda of populace control that those powerful people suborn themselves to. They aren't suborning themselves to anyone. The organization is comprised of those powerful pe
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by StanislavPetrov 3mo ago
Well I'm glad to be the first. I suggest you familiarize yourself with the WEF, which is an annual meeting of heads of state, titans of industry and other various unsavory billionaires and people with far too much power. Going back d
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by StanislavPetrov 3mo ago
>None of this has anything to do with a purported green movement that seeks to end private ownership of cars. Modern cars allow autonomy of movement, even if you are tracked (except of course those with the mandatory kill switches which
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by StanislavPetrov 3mo ago
>extort random citizens for petty crimes that in any other case nobody would ever care or know about. With the massive, byzantine web of local, state and federal laws everyone is violating numerous laws and regulations all the time. The
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by StanislavPetrov 3mo ago
>Who desires the control? Can you name a member of this nebulous conspiracy? Every level of government, the World Economic Forum and every other organization that seeks to mandate digital currencies, mandate digital IDs, impose "cha
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by StanislavPetrov 3mo ago
As an aside, and as a life-long Long-Islander, it has long been considered an open-secret (whether it's true or not) by many that Cold Spring Harbor Lab has a small nuclear reactor somewhere on site.
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by StanislavPetrov 3mo ago
My friend's dad got a 1200 baud modem when they first came out for some obscene amount of money. Back then Compuserve used to charge by your connection speed. I was mowing lawns to pay $6.25 (~$20) an hour to play British Legends at
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by StanislavPetrov 3mo ago
>"Young people know all about computers" was never true either. That's true, but only because not all young people owned or used computers. I was born in the mid 70s and got my first computer as a young child. Back then
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by StanislavPetrov 3mo ago
>Most people in my generation didn't know the fundamentals of computing either. That's true of my generation as well, but computers weren't ubiquitous and used by everyone all the time for virtually everything.

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