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by voakbasda 2mo ago
What a spectacularly efficient means to devalue a once “premium” brand. I guess “good will” didn’t get its own line item on their balance sheet.
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
If you have a binary view, Good will always lose. Evil can act Good, but Good cannot act Evil. Evil has that advantage over Good that cannot be matched. This continuously plays out in our political systems. Good actors cannot fight the de
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
So you want to ban guns? Good and bad quickly become subjective, depending on how you view their use in different scenarios.
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
Begs the question: coul reactors use radiative air cooling? Channel the water through a huge radiator and transfer the heat to the air
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
I wonder if there is any accountability to the people that make these decisions. Competent engineers should see this kind of thing happening from a mile away.
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
How do I get in front of these people? I have legit business ideas, and it’s frustrating to hear how easy it is to get VC money. I want a piece of that cake.
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
I wonder if the business model is to operate on the high seas, where sanctions do not apply….
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
I expect the people will realize how easy it is to disable agriculture pumps, located in the middle of nowhere, with no one around to protect them. When the law fails to protect the people, they will eventually do what it takes to protect t
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
Mission accomplished
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
My fucking bank just added one to their login page. Glad I am moving next year and will take the opportunity to switch banks.
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
That’s the joke. We are literally letting those growers export our water and put the profit in their own pockets and at the public’s expense.
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
The hilarity of being post food scarcity when the quality of food in stores has declined precipitously both in terms of nutrient density and taste. Most of the processed food contains high fructose corn syrup, sketchy preservatives, and wo
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
Even worse, my understanding is that much of that alfalfa gets put into shipping containers and sold overseas. The agricultural drain on the aquifers does not even benefit US ranchers.
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by voakbasda 3mo ago
The product may change with the times, but there will always be snake oil salesman.
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by voakbasda 3mo ago
You realize that a lot of these devices have been found to phone home to servers in the motherland, right? Without informing the user they were doing so? Or would be expected for the class and function of device? You wanna explain how tha
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by voakbasda 3mo ago
I expect a firmware update to “accidentally” brick parts of my new car at some point, then claim it takes them 6 months to roll back the mistake. That is how they will do it.
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by voakbasda 3mo ago
This. If they don’t feel pressure to pay, they won’t. More people should make them pay.
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by voakbasda 3mo ago
Totalitarianism only works well with a benevolent dictator. Unfortunately, power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Due to human nature, it will never ever turn out for the best.
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by voakbasda 3mo ago
There is a ton of evidence that equipment out of China can come with built-in backdoors and worse.
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by voakbasda 3mo ago
Is that the standard for evidence in Canada?
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by voakbasda 3mo ago
I have heard prosecutors say that innocent or guilty doesn’t matter. All that matters is whether they can convict.
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by voakbasda 3mo ago
That’s fine as long as you acknowledge that you are breaking the law and infringing the rights of all of the authors of said works who do not want their works disseminated in that way. If you are willing to give a middle finger to the law,
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by voakbasda 3mo ago
I will ask this here again: At what point did the German people find it morally acceptable to start killing Nazis? At what point will the US stop accepting the boot and act to remove the tyranny stamping on our collective face?
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by voakbasda 3mo ago
Think about that last point for a moment. Our “rights to read” are diminished significantly with digital works as compared to printed works. Right of resale. Right to lend. In the end, digital publishing just isn’t right and will lead to
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by voakbasda 3mo ago
Remember the bell curve in grading? Yeah, most of the graduates from every school everywhere did NOT get straight A’s in their classes. On average, they are B students… at best. And half of them are worse than average.
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by voakbasda 3mo ago
I think it actually ends up a negative net gain. The slop ends up taking more time and energy than it brings in value. Everyone is working harder, but the result is an even bigger pile of cards waiting for the wind to shift.
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by voakbasda 3mo ago
There is no bigger measure of success for a privacy project than getting a freedom hating government to request a takedown.
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by voakbasda 3mo ago
As a small farmer, I will tell you that, without exception, home-farmed food is immeasurably better than the food in grocery stores. Appearance, taste, nutrition are all superior to store-bought equivalents. Cost is the only metric wher
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by voakbasda 3mo ago
Democracy dies. Always.
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by voakbasda 3mo ago
Not any more though, right? Didn’t we just learn that Codeberg now bans vibe-coded projects, and that’s how Jack developed it?

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