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by gustavus 3mo ago
So even will all the effort we've put into solar and decreasing coal, being more economical unless there is massive widespread international cooperation to suddenly and rapidly start deindustrializatizing the air we breathe will be doi
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by gustavus 3mo ago
> Our analysis of NielsenIQ grocery data shows a trend in negative unit growth starting in mid-2025, masked by steady price increases. But since February 2026, units have stepped down sharply enough to pull sales lower across the US. Pri
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by gustavus 3mo ago
We all know that's where they are going with this.
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by gustavus 3mo ago
The government has a list of pesky troublemakers to target individually if they prove too annoying? I'm sure the good people of Germany can figure out something to charge someone with.
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by gustavus 3mo ago
Won't that just unfairly displace the impact onto the economically disadvanteged as they are the least likely to have the flexibility in their schedule, inadvertently forcing more of the maintenance burden onto those who are int be lea
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by gustavus 3mo ago
That's stupid. I mean we can start by gesturing at the Roman Empire, the Holy Roman Empire, heck England and France had a 100 years war, that was just one of their wars. And I don't remember the US starting either WW1 or WW2 in fa
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by gustavus 3mo ago
Sabaton, a swedish historical power metal band, also wrote a song about these women if you're into that kind of thing. https://www.sabaton.net/discography/heroes/night-witches/
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by gustavus 3mo ago
Because of the large quantities my family with 4 children is able to go to Costco once a month and purchase almost everything our family will need for the entire month this means we only need to go to the store one or two additional times d
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by gustavus 3mo ago
We have Social Security though and that doesn't seem to be working much better.
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by gustavus 3mo ago
For whatever it's worth I use Mullvad because it lets me pay in Bitcoin is super easy to re-up and is super anonymous. I don't really give a darn who you voted for or what your founder did. I like the product I'll keep using
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by gustavus 3mo ago
> Out govt system literally doesnt have the political will to do these brutal but effective policy changes I agree our country needs to really have some sort of revolution for the good of all humanity to force this change and overcome th
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by gustavus 3mo ago
I hate this analogy because it isn't true. This isn't like a clerk checking your age before you buy booze this is like a clerk taking a photocopy of your ID and a list of everything you bought and then storing those records foreve
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by gustavus 4mo ago
You would be correct there are no "banned books" in America. When people say "banned book" they mean that a certain level of government such as a school board or municipality has "banned" them from being in a p
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by gustavus 4mo ago
Counterpoint the principles of building a nuclear device aren't that complicated, we figured it out based on work doing in the early 1900's without computers. It turns out the hard part of building a nuclear bomb is actually getti
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by gustavus 4mo ago
I recently moved from the inter-mountain West to the east and that is one thing that is fascinating to me is how differently the term park is used between the 2. Out west a couple of swing sets and a slide with a small patch of grass is con
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by gustavus 4mo ago
Just finished a series on acoup.blog Must also mention https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
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by gustavus 5mo ago
Anyone else notice that the first/near top comment on every HackerNews post lately is someone saying something along the lines of "I had X problem so I went and started working on Y solution if you want to give it a look?" I
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by gustavus 5mo ago
In my early days of technology tinkering when I was young I was always interested in security, and one day I stumbled upon freenet, and my world changed. It was amazing and led me to get far more acquainted with the cyberpunk scene. It was
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by gustavus 5mo ago
Not that I disagree but it also incentives attackers to steal and resell data to other nefarious actors. After all a lot of the data companies have isn't their own, it's their customers. They are the ones who suffer because busine
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by gustavus 5mo ago
It doesn't matter the anti-children systmes have been put in place to be bypassed. The they can point to how it is being bypassed and say "see we need stricter laws and controls" the end game is complete surveillance and cont
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by gustavus 5mo ago
> Non-technical teams are now shipping production code and many of our workflows are being automated. As a security engineer this statements fills me dread.
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by gustavus 5mo ago
That was always the plan from day 1.
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by gustavus 5mo ago
I don't understand your point. The banks and credit card companies are already responsible. If I have a fraudulent charge I call and tell them it's fraudulent and they say okay and take it off and either getit back from the issuer
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by gustavus 6mo ago
Increased work and fuel means increased costs, increased costs means increased prices, increased prices means less food available for purchase by those on the margins, less food means starvation.
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by gustavus 6mo ago
I've always felt this is an absurd statement. Yes customers are paying the wages of the people working at the store, that's literally how basic exchange of goods and services has worked forever. Like what is the alternative? Busin
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by gustavus 6mo ago
I'm working on an edutech game. Before I would've had much less of a product because I don't have the budget to hire an artist and it would've been much less interactive but because of this I'm able to build a much
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by gustavus 6mo ago
Oracle? Oracle? The Oracle that published an announcement that said "we didn't get hacked" when the hackers had private customer info? The Oracle that does not allow you to do any security testing on their software unless you
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by gustavus 6mo ago
I have a buddy that works as a red team engineer for a large company, the models are becoming close to unusable for him now as everything he tries to do they start refusing after 2 or 3 requests because of the "security implications&qu
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by gustavus 6mo ago
It is currently in commitee the energy and commerce committee. If one of your reps sits on this committee my suggestion is to reach out to them and voice your opposition to this measure. Consider writing a letter or email as well. Committee
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by gustavus 6mo ago
So apart from all the geopolitics of it this line is interesting "few seconds to pay in bitcoin, ensuring they can’t be traced or confiscated due to sanctions,’ Hosseini added" Maybe I'm ignorant of Bitcoin but isn't Bit

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