thewildginger

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by thewildginger 3y ago
Smedly Butler's short book War is a Racket is a must read. He was the first popular American icon to criticize the American Defense Industrial base.
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by thewildginger 3y ago
Out of respect I wanted to reply and say thank you for the links, and justification for another view. While I would say deliberate prejudice very possibly wasn't in the decision making process, a risk assessment was made. One where the
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by thewildginger 3y ago
>nor access to printers You fail to realize what you're asking. The military is a system where the older you are while surviving the institution, the more pull you have. These dinosaurs are what stop this from happening. They ignore
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by thewildginger 3y ago
Yup. Definitely didn't know that. Americans sure don't get told this about the cold war. It is also omitted that mass testing of these bio weapons was done on black communities, hence the distrust of both doctors and the governmen
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by thewildginger 3y ago
And limiting player rotations will help. It ruined baseball for all leftie hitters completely. For any HN readers, go look up this ridiculous practice. It will impress the number cruncher types, and it will impress you how much the TV compa
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by thewildginger 3y ago
The real interest is where it was found. There's so many sites that are not able to be excavated due to the limit of efficiency of the Mexican government and a very select few universities, after the pilfering of colleges in the northe
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by thewildginger 3y ago
The thing about something like this is that there are always individuals who will seek gain from classified access for themselves. The US has a singular focus on financial gain, but mental evaluation needs to be a more clear part to this. T
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by thewildginger 3y ago
I mentioned conspiratorial thinking, and they doubled down! It's scary. Thank you for being a voice of rationality. You put it better than me.
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by thewildginger 3y ago
I have never seen so much paranoia and conspiratorial thinking from Hacker news than with this story unfolding. Many comments saying "it can't be this easy and dumb, can it?" Ask any government worker who works in classified
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by thewildginger 3y ago
There are 19 year olds with TS clearances. Some jobs just require it. It can be written into an enlistment contract. National guard and reserve units of different kinds are also kind of known for having serious racism problems. Racists use
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by thewildginger 3y ago
Just say crypto bros. We all know someone who treats crypto like it's CrossFit. We'll get what you mean. Even a miner and exchanger is a crypto bro, even if they don't want to admit it. They're in it for the money.
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by thewildginger 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20230412004329/https://www.newyo...
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by thewildginger 4y ago
I think most 12 step people who find success actually acknowledge what the psychiatrist is saying. Addiction isnt just one thing, often it can be a bunch of things, a big one being un-treated mental health problems like depression, anxiety,
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by thewildginger 4y ago
I don't know if the Woodstock comparison at the beginning was trying to do this, but Woodstock while being a celebration and a symbol of the times in 1969 has also symbolized a shift of the beginning of the end. Adam Curtis's docu
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by thewildginger 4y ago
Defense is the critical problem. There is very little in the way of serious cyber security defensive minded assessment before projects are on-boarded. Technical vulnerability assessment, reverse engineering, security-by-design, all of that
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by thewildginger 4y ago
It gets hazy. Here's a little article about the armed personnel side of the agency. https://www.nsa.gov/About/Central-Security-Service/
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by thewildginger 4y ago
This is the real reason, they don't want people to coordinate anything, and they don't want employees spiting the company and leaving with valuable info.
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by thewildginger 4y ago
The last portion about the personal motives of the top lawyers behind M&As and the heads of the FTC was funny. Nothing like personal grudges of elites to alter hundreds of thousands of people's lives haha.
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by thewildginger 4y ago
Acknowledging the historical power of violence is not "irresponsible" and neither is acknowledging every day violence perpetuated by institutions we are all beholden to. Building the weapons of war to improve military intelligence
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by thewildginger 4y ago
While this was the southern district of new York, the 9th circuit court of appeals ruled on a similar issue with Vidangel on 2016. They would buy DVDs and let people pay to watch a censored version, even going so far as to purchase a physic
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by thewildginger 4y ago
But a possibly better and more optimized implementation can't be put in place until the current one fails, that's the core issue here. Many people want reforms to the banking system, bit the system is defended fiercely until it&#x
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by thewildginger 4y ago
Article said a patch was released tuesday
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by thewildginger 4y ago
I don't know, given all the funny stuff going on the power might REALLY shift soon haha
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by thewildginger 4y ago
I have no admiration nor pity for a billionaire inheritor who's used their wealth to try to delay the mass psychosis that is a symptom of capitalism. She can eat my behind and call me mommy and I still would not care. The day she start
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by thewildginger 4y ago
I have a feeling some devs are more loyal to the brand than the owners, and this is an appeal to the fans
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by thewildginger 4y ago
They are players in this game too. They could "lobby" Congress to change the laws to allow them not to be shitty. But they won't. Part of stopping the game is shitting on ANYONE who wants to play that wah
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by thewildginger 4y ago
Shelter as a necessity for life that is artificial and cities being the main entry point for wealth in the world kind of make this a necessity. It's not like any of these business owners will stop being landlords because they will stil
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by thewildginger 4y ago
A problem with the argument of IT being such a free market right now is the pattern of labor markets. Look at the AI leaps and you have yourself a foreseeable "streamlining" that every other profession of the past has gone through
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by thewildginger 4y ago
I did have mass climate decline on my doomsday bingo card, but not dustbowl 2. Probably not my Sunday at the bingo parlor.
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by thewildginger 4y ago
Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.

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