local_crmdgeon

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   by local_crmdgeon 3y ago

   The UN is just an office building on First Ave. It has no actual power. The USA can do whatever the fuck it wants, the UN has 0 jurisdiction over us.
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   by local_crmdgeon 3y ago

   The billionaire right like Bezos, Gates, Zuckerberg? The people who are the largest DNC donors? The people who are huge backers of hiring quotas, vax mandates, lockdowns? Them? Doubt.
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   by local_crmdgeon 3y ago

   Yes. When Disney, Ratheon, the DoJ, the police, City Hall, Ford, GM, Delta, Google, Facebook and Apple support your movement, you are no longer the counterculture. It doesn't matter how hard you want to be.
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   by local_crmdgeon 3y ago

   That's because Boomer Humor is actually really funny when you get the unsanitized version. The lame Boomer jokes are just the ones that HR approves of.
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   by local_crmdgeon 3y ago

   Counterculture now is the far right. Trad West etc are huge, and the AOC/Wine Mom/Twitter dunk set doesn't really realize. Google Doodle Capitalism is really, really unpopular among that set, and the memes are incredible
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   by local_crmdgeon 3y ago

   We do, but there's a subset that's too violent to go to a halfway house. The subway pusher set needs to be warehoused. Not necessarily in prison but the old asylums need to come back at least.
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   by local_crmdgeon 3y ago

   Cosmological constant change proposals are always spicy. I don't know shit about any of this but I learn a ton from these comments.
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   by local_crmdgeon 3y ago

   I agree with you, and so does huge swathes of the West. This person has The Correct Opinions, but those opinions are driving the working class into the arms of Le Pen, Meloni etc. This is not going to end well.
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   by local_crmdgeon 3y ago

   Right, that group of 100 is a burden on society and are likely not able to consent to their current situation, to treatment, or to basically anything besides eventually getting run over. I'm sorry if it's mean, but we have a duty
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    by local_crmdgeon 3y ago

    The people are discontent because they're stuffed into ghettos that are totally separate from French society. This produces a subculture that exists in opposition to that society, look into the intense shit French Muslims say about the
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    by local_crmdgeon 3y ago

    Almost no one in the US makes minimum wage. Last I paid attention it was <2% of workers.
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    by local_crmdgeon 3y ago

    THIS THIS THIS THIS. The vast majority of homeless are people "couch surfing" or "crashing with a friend for a bit." The guy on the corner screaming and smoking meth is NOT a representative homeless person - it's a
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    by local_crmdgeon 3y ago

    It's not that malicious. Product people work on this, and overoptimize these flows. They do this to get promoted. That's it - it's just managing to the metrics gone wrong, writ large.
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    by local_crmdgeon 3y ago

    Weird that it was an election year. Watch BLM pop up again next year - that also seems to neatly match presidential election cycles.
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    by local_crmdgeon 3y ago

    TikTok makes its money selling data to governments like the CCP. The ads aren't paying for all that bandwidth.
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    by local_crmdgeon 3y ago

    This would be true if Reddit was ever profitable, which it was not. Hosting images was an expensive decision, and they weren't making much money before then. I think this is just the way of the world. Usenet -> Slashdot -> Digg -
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    by local_crmdgeon 3y ago

    >Last holdouts They were only a "holdout" insofar as they sued anyone else who used that process. They were kind of a shitty corporate citizen and I'm not sad to see them go.
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    by local_crmdgeon 3y ago

    Anyone use the original x.ai? The scheduling thing? I liked it!
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    by local_crmdgeon 3y ago

    Correct, and a lot of it is posting either very short comments, which are parsed easily, or very long comments that seem like they are correct by length alone (Bardfinn and PoppinKream). Neither has much to do with being "good" co
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    by local_crmdgeon 3y ago

    Thats the core group of Mastodon though. No one worries about censorship of mainstream opinions, and that’s the Mastodon mainstream
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    by local_crmdgeon 3y ago

    The karma of individual comments absolutely changes the way people interact with them
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    by local_crmdgeon 3y ago

    Yup. The fun posts are where the site demographics clashes with the ideology- check out posts about Affirmative Action for example. People seem shocked that a site with a large Desi and East Asian population may be against AA. It’s good fun
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    by local_crmdgeon 3y ago

    I think LinkedIn doesn’t know either, so they just did … that
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    by local_crmdgeon 3y ago

    HN markdown doesn't use _, it uses * - wrap your text in asterisks to make it italic
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    by local_crmdgeon 3y ago

    Ironically this convinced me to buy a Ring camera. "You might pattern match on the people who steal your shit" ok? Then I'd be able to report people who steal my shit? Is this a joke? Am I missing something?
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    by local_crmdgeon 3y ago

    They don't like that having cameras provides objective evidence of the race of people who commit crime. They recommend against being able to prevent/punish these crimes, because that might be mean.
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    by local_crmdgeon 3y ago

    Breitbart and Jacobin confirm this statement.
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    by local_crmdgeon 3y ago

    Weevils
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    by local_crmdgeon 3y ago

    What a reasonable opinion
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    by local_crmdgeon 3y ago

    You don’t need that though - you can get a long way with improved tooling and devex