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by krapp 7mo ago
>But all these DOGE perps need to serve life in prison without parole as a warning sign to any others who engage in such a brazen and unaccountable task. We would need a Constitutional amendment removing the President's power of par
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by krapp 7mo ago
>You still want to make payroll and can't just randomly fire people. In the US you can. >Also, if you own a failed company you're responsible for cleanup tasks for years afterward. But we're talking about golden parachu
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by krapp 7mo ago
They were following the procedure they were ordered to follow. They were doing exactly what they were meant to be doing. And a lot of people on HN were enthusiastically supportive of what they were doing. Even the illegal stuff. Especial
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by krapp 7mo ago
No no no, the President's job is to start a holy war* in Iran to distract the country from his pedophilia. * sorry "special operation"
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by krapp 7mo ago
They should be growing out of it in prison.
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by krapp 7mo ago
Mastodon isn't "about the politics," though. It already existed when the diaspora from Twitter occurred, it wasn't created for that reason. There's plenty of good "content" there - although calling it that
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by krapp 7mo ago
What do you think people are going to do, exfiltrate their SS and IRS data to Palantir to have them profiled and classified as enemies of the state?
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by krapp 7mo ago
The position doesn't get a golden parachute, the person does. If you're CEO when things go shitty you shouldn't get anything more than your bottom-line employee would, which is to say you should just be unceremoniously kicked
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by krapp 7mo ago
You said we should return to a pre-civilizational state of animist goddess worship. You even implied we should abandon language. That's about as dualistic an option as one can get. No doctor worth their salt would ever claim that ritua
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by krapp 7mo ago
Almost everything of interest to HN is written by LLM now, at least partially, and if it isn't it will be soon. There already is a rule against comments being LLM generated (which gets ignored all the time) but if we extended that to a
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by krapp 7mo ago
Nah. I prefer actual medical science keeping me from dying of typhus and cholera to praying to the spirits, but you do you.
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by krapp 7mo ago
This is reality now, what do you want?
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by krapp 7mo ago
If all of the infidelity, rape, pedophilia, warmongering and brazen corruption and graft didn't faze them I doubt a little light blasphemy will. A lot of these people already believe Trump was sent by God like an avenging angel to wage
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by krapp 7mo ago
I mean, this thread includes examples like agriculture and writing so I don't know why you're snarking at me specifically. But all of modern science, including relativity (which is also mentioned somewhere) depends upon the initia
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by krapp 7mo ago
I ascribe the creation of God(s) to sub-rational behavior - paredolia, superstition, emotion born of fear and ignorance. The pinnacle of intellect was realizing the universe operated by rules that could be understood rather than the caprici
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by krapp 7mo ago
I don't know. Is it illegal or impossible to install android software any other way? If so, then the problem seems to be android and not Google. And besides, other platforms exist, so it still isn't a monopoly. You don't hav
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by krapp 7mo ago
An odd assertion to make, given that apparently no one has done it.
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by krapp 7mo ago
Google can dictate who has or retains access to their market, but that doesn't make them a monopoly, since other markets exist. This game is still available on Steam and probably elsewhere.
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by krapp 7mo ago
Because there are always moral panics, always some "thing" that's corrupting the youth, be it television, rock-and-roll, D&D, video games or now social media, and people keep thinking giving in to the moralists will prote
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by krapp 7mo ago
Look up Andrew Jackson and the Indian Removal Act[0], manifest destiny[1] and the American Indian Wars[2]. The Trail of Tears[3]. Here's a whole Wikipedia list for massacres of native Americans[4]. Here's one for native American g
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by krapp 7mo ago
Good. The universe of Trek feels too old, too bound by franchise requirements and lore. The Federation is a galactic empire and all of the threats have either been folded in or rendered pathetic (like the Borg.) There's no mystery left
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by krapp 7mo ago
>You claimed that you had no choice but to become a Democrat. If that wasn't caused by coercion, then it certainly was a choice. I explained my choice. Choosing the lesser evil is a choice. I don't think anyone in this thread b
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by krapp 7mo ago
I never claimed that anyone forced me to become a Democrat. I support them at the national level because they're the least evil of the two and exactly two relevant options available, and the one which at least gives lip service to prog
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by krapp 7mo ago
I'm a leftist, and a Democrat by necessity (not by choice) and I would be fine if the power of pardon was removed for Presidents who share my ideology. I would rather have working separation of powers and reform the justice system than
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by krapp 7mo ago
Or American police in general.
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by krapp 7mo ago
Violence by the state is legal. Violence otherwise tends not to be.
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by krapp 7mo ago
Why is it my responsibility or anyone else's to do your thinking for you? I've seen more than enough of your political comments to know you aren't arguing in good faith here. You aren't interested in a discussion, you&#x
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by krapp 7mo ago
>Maybe for resume cover letters and LinkedIn posts but I haven't met anyone with half decent taste who prefers AI writing, even well prompted, to skillful human writing. That attitude is one, maybe two generations away from extincti
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by krapp 7mo ago
Maybe being unable to believe that anything better than capitalism is possible is part of the problem.
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by krapp 7mo ago
We're sticking to capitalism because capitalists are the ones making the investments and the laws and the decisions. If you want to change the system to something other than capitalism, pick up a gun and start a revolution. And the end

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