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by tootie 7mo ago
Some reporting on the contents of the speech from last year: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/10/peter-thiel-... It's suitably insane rambling nonsense. It actually seems to dovetail pre
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by tootie 7mo ago
Democrats ran mostly fine candidates. I think people have really unrealistic if not impractical expectations. I personally want my politicians to be boring. As to how to get Republicans to stop voting for evil? I have absolutely no idea and
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by tootie 7mo ago
This is the classic argument of "only Democrats have agency". 99% of the problem is Republicans, but here we are wishing the Democrats did more. They ran a perfectly fine campaign. Biden passed the biggest climate bill in history.
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by tootie 7mo ago
It's a weird article. For one, the researcher says "they believe" the data belongs to IDMerit but apparently aren't sure. IDMerit denies it's the owner of the data nor is it any of their partners. And there's v
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by tootie 8mo ago
They do it when the road is busiest actually. Just following the bumper in front of them instead of looking up.
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by tootie 8mo ago
There's a literal police station at the intersection and they don't pay any attention at all.
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by tootie 8mo ago
As someone who lives next to an intersection where cars routinely run red lights, this truly sucks and I hope it gets overturned. I understand the judge's reasoning, but running red lights is dangerous and we need much stricter enforce
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by tootie 8mo ago
The post-COVID spike was also absolutely insane and much bigger than dotcom boom.
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by tootie 8mo ago
Being impulsive doesn't mean you have a good system 1 intelligence. Quite the opposite. His system 1 sucks and is driven entirely by superficial biases and ego. His system 2 appears to be moribund as he rarely comes up solutions beyond
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by tootie 8mo ago
It's unbelievable he's still given any semblance of credence for anything he does. Trump is just palpably stupid. He is bad at absorbing information, he is bad at analytical thinking, he is impatient, vain and rash. Aside from his
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by tootie 8mo ago
Yeah, I think the number 1 use case for tablets is "portable TV" followed by "makeshift touchscreen kiosk". It really doesn't need a lot of features. I have an iPad setup as a little home dashboard and it's lit
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by tootie 8mo ago
Not psychopaths. I recall it being rank and file who were concerned about their options or whatever. Greed is fundamental human behavior.
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by tootie 8mo ago
The coup against Altman looks prescient. They knew who he was.
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by tootie 8mo ago
It's all over. NY Times writeup points to multiple sources and videos of destruction that they have authenticated. I don't think any body count has been independently verified. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02&
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by tootie 8mo ago
We literally just went through this with Venezuela. They replaced the dictator with the assistant dictator. The Iranian face of regime change making the rounds in Western media is the son of the last Shah.
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by tootie 8mo ago
> their goal is targeted and precise attacks Day one and they've already bombed a school and killed dozens of children. The goals, strategy and tactics have not been clearly communicated. You can pray they are using high quality int
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by tootie 8mo ago
Woke only exists in the mind of the far right.
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by tootie 8mo ago
Jenny Cohn on bluesky posts a ton of stuff on technofeudalist: https://bsky.app/profile/jennycohn.bsky.social A favorite target is Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale who was recently discussing regime change in Iran with
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by tootie 8mo ago
Pete Hegseth is frantically asking Deepseek to come up with targets in Iran and some plausible objectives he can sell to the public.
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by tootie 8mo ago
If the last ten years have taught us anything it's that politics just isn't a topic isolated to the halls of government. It's real life. Political alignment has never so starkly indicative of your position on fundamental huma
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by tootie 8mo ago
There was no landslide. Trump got 49.9% of the vote. And it was after his attempted insurrection to overturn a valid election in which he was soundly rejected. He's never received 50% of the vote despite his relentless lies about voter
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by tootie 8mo ago
I think even going back a few generations, phones are improving at a much slower pace. You can only jam so many cameras onto a phone frame before users lose interest. A few years back there was a mad dash to add AR features to flagship phon
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by tootie 8mo ago
During the massive post-pandemic hiring spree, there were a lot of threads in the vein of "why does [MATURE STARTUP] requires X,000 developers?" and I think those questions were maybe prescient. These companies have been spending
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by tootie 8mo ago
It's also downstream of voters who voted in a president who promised to be dictatorial after failing at an attempted insurrection. We need to deprogram like 70M very confused people.
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by tootie 8mo ago
I question how much of this is really AI vs them just regrouping around their core products and shutting down a lot of ventures or tertiary projects. Either way, the messaging we're seeing is a real shift from the ZIRP ear. Tech compan
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by tootie 8mo ago
> The bus feels dirty, unsafe and hostile Low ridership actually makes public transit feel even worse. Encourages loitering and restricts ridership to only the most desperate people. In NYC at least the buses tend to be pretty heavily ut
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by tootie 8mo ago
What is the volume of fossil fuel we extract from the ground every year and try to imagine getting there from zero. Fact is we have easily 100K sq miles of useless desert as-is. We can fit a Rhode Island-sized solar farm in Nevada and nobod
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by tootie 8mo ago
I fully believe that Dario is 100% full of shit and possibly a worse person than Altman. He loves to pontificate like he's the moral avatar of AI but he's still just selling his product as hard as he can.
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by tootie 8mo ago
I think it's completely valid criticism. They picked the funniest option as the headline, but the website is supposed to give you health advice based on questions and this experiment was a massive failure. If it is willing to be so hee
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by tootie 8mo ago
I've bought a few things from the in the last few years and their prices and service are pretty solid. You can even get some great deals on house brands or open box stuff.

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