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2026-08-26 17:43:36 UTC

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How is this better when you need angel investors just to afford a local video card or a stick of RAM? I certainly can't run the overhyped local LLM of the week. I'm still running games from 2011 on a graphics card from 2013, because I can't get approved for the third mortgage it would take to upgrade.
The anti-datacenter crowd is still needed.

2026-08-26 00:27:52 UTC

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aww, man, and just when @npub1vm3…6nvd almost had me convinced that Poland wasn't an authoritarian shithole like the rest of the EU.

2026-08-22 00:37:06 UTC

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Appreciate the sentiment, but I also realize that the post doesn't weigh anything. :D

2026-08-21 20:54:36 UTC

Your monthly reminder to every web designer who completely rewrites a working site just to take advantage of the latest shiny whizbang javascript framework because they read about it in a trade article:
Accessibility is a thing. Look it up. Spend some time to learn about the well-understood fallback technologies called HTML and CSS.
Not everything has to be dynamically rendered. You can send information in response to a HTTP request, and not just code. The old ways are usually the best ways.
(Added bonus: HTML+CSS is pretty well tested, meaning you won't have to deploy a security patch next month. And the month after that. And the one after that. And ...)

2026-08-03 17:39:30 UTC

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I can't take AI announcements like this seriously. She doesn't even get her boobs out.

2026-07-27 23:04:12 UTC

Three dead at a festival yesterday in the far-left communist shithole known as Seattle. Police have arrested a suspect identified only as a "15-year-old".
Not one news story mentions the suspect's race, which means he definitely wasn't white.

2026-07-25 15:09:17 UTC

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Don't buy a car with a "central nervous system" that can be hooked into. The only "radio" that should be in a car is AM/FM.

2026-07-25 13:55:29 UTC

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Nate?

2026-07-22 01:14:26 UTC

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The frightening thing is that more than half of leftists are walking around undiagnosed.

2026-07-14 20:08:34 UTC

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Precisely how my phone is set up. The default ringtone is silence. My wife and three other people have custom ringtones.
The Android feature I wanted for ten years was to ring only if the number was in the address book, and go straight to voicemail for numbers that aren't. Though at this point, I don't even want calls from most of my contacts.

2026-07-14 19:54:18 UTC

I've given up on synchronous interrupt-driven communication. Notifications off, ringtones silent. When you get 15-20 robocalls a day, it's just not worth answering phone calls - especially from numbers that aren't in the address book.
Anyone who wants to get hold of me needs to leave a message - SMS, voicemail, email - somewhere that I can filter and check later, when I get the energy to deal with the bullshit of a world that wants me to be 24/7 connected.

2026-07-13 15:01:40 UTC

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Asserting that you don't have leverage implies that the decision has been taken away from you; that you are somehow required to watch the sporting events that they are offering at premium prices. This is incorrect. Of course you are free to make your own value judgments to decide whether what they're offering is worth what they're charging to you, but you are in no way forced to watch that content. That decision is still yours, and you have the ability (if not the willingness) to say no.

2026-07-10 22:45:11 UTC

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> we don't have very much leverage when it comes to live sports.
We really really do, actually. You just don't want to give up your addiction to the professional gambling rings who play at gladiatorial spectacle, and that gives them leverage over you.
If your goal is simply to see sporting events, there are alternatives that aren't at the top-tier most-expensive bread-and-circuses level. I follow minor league baseball, where, for about the same cost as a pub night, I can watch the game in person from four rows behind the dugout.

2026-07-08 17:53:38 UTC

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They get a lot of things wrong. They also lie to your face. They have never had your best interests in mind. It might be time to start thinking for yourself.

2026-07-08 17:44:59 UTC

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They were wrong.

2026-07-08 14:47:25 UTC

The question is no longer "What radicalized you?"
The question is "Why aren't you radicalized yet?"

2026-07-05 15:06:45 UTC

@npub145e…kjzl #2hfh Folk Hour Forever!
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2026-06-29 16:27:27 UTC

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This argument is so tired and overused. Your local Wal-Mart coupon book also failed to prevent it. Because documents don't have agency. They're not animate. They can't do anything without people acting on them.
People allowed the current system. People failed to prevent it. A document is useless if people don't read it. It's not the Constitution's fault. It's our fault for letting evil people who disregard it into positions of power.

2026-06-27 20:48:47 UTC

Reminder of the difference between news and propaganda:
News tells you what happened.
Propaganda tells you how to feel about it.

2026-06-16 16:48:49 UTC

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It's not the FBI's job to police petty crime within cities. Those cities are supposed to have local police to do that. In places where they don't, the first criminals that need to be locked up are in City Hall.
Do you propose that the FBI should start arresting the mayors and city councils of cities who won't police their streets? If so, you've got my vote. But even the most ardent Trump-worshippers should cringe at the idea of a national centralized police force HQ'd in Washington DC and responsible for all policing across the country.

2026-06-10 19:53:59 UTC

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He's got my vote. To which precinct do I send my box of mail-in ballots?

2026-06-09 21:04:39 UTC

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> Your insults only further diminish your integrity here on Mastodon.
Says the person who started the conversation with the phrase 'climate denialists'. Projection much? Hypocrisy is after all, one of the founding tenets of Scientism.
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2026-06-08 20:30:43 UTC

I don't know why the willful ignorance of political devotees still surprises me.
How often an otherwise reasonable-sounding person will demand you prove your points, but when you do, they will not trust or believe that proof - simply because they don't understand it.
I gave someone a mathematical analysis explaining why there is a higher probability that the sun will explode tomorrow killing everyone on Earth than that the numbers being reported by the Democrats of California came from actual American voters. He ignored the entire analysis and said "Yeah, but statistics aren't proof."
People who Believe will scream that there's "no evidence", and will believe their own words because they have no idea what evidence even looks like if they saw it.
And they steadfastly refuse to learn. Because that might challenge their Faith.

2026-06-08 07:56:05 UTC

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> Statistical probability != proof.
> do so beyond a reasonable doubt
Please read what you just wrote again. Thank you.

2026-06-08 02:22:31 UTC

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A vote dump of 23,000 ballots where zero of them are for the republican is statistically impossible, if the ballots are from legitimate votes. A box of 16,000 ballots, every one of which is for the same Democrat gubernatorial candidate, and NONE of them voted for a single down-ballot candidate, is statistically impossible if those ballots are from real voters.
If you can't accept the statistical argument, is because you don't understand statistics. And your misplaced faith in the democratic process is just that. Faith. A desire to believe a fantasy despite evidence and logic to the contrary.
This widespread faith - the unsupported belief that we aren't being ruled by a cult of psychopathic liars - is exactly the reason that we are.
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2026-06-08 01:58:47 UTC

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The burden of proof should be on the cheaters to explain how every election they hold produces a statistical impossibility. They're the ones who intend to certify obviously fraudulent results. That's what it means to certify an election. You're attesting under oath that the count is accurate.
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2026-05-20 17:52:13 UTC

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> it's what is supposed to happen when the other side is voted in
Nothing is "supposed to" happen when the other side is voted in. Republicans and Democrats aren't in the Constitution. They are the stable equilibrium in our first-past-the-post voting system. Plurality voting has the advantage of being easy to understand and administer, but the disadvantage that it inevitably leads to a two-party system. None of this was intended. Nobody ever asked for a permanent "us versus them" dichotomy.
Every conflict that divides 50% along party lines was specifically engineered that way, by people who have something to gain by the nation being divided.

2026-05-20 17:19:22 UTC

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> he voted against bills because there was something in them he didn't like
Imagine if more Congresspeople voted this way. Imagine how much less pork and fraud would make its way into these 10,000 page bills.
Maybe the problem isn't one person voting what he thinks is best for his constituency. Maybe the problem is the other 434 voting the way their party's hivemind demands.

2026-05-18 18:31:26 UTC

Debate Pro-Tip: If you are making a rational argument that you want taken seriously, avoid outing yourself as a mentally disabled 12yo by putting things like "LMAO" at the end of your post.

2026-05-15 01:00:12 UTC

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Do an all Taylor Swift show. It's what the fans want.

2026-05-08 23:30:31 UTC

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Socialism is a system in which government handouts exceed economic production. The difference is made up with stolen wealth (hence why socialism only begins in nations that were prosperous under some other system), and always lasts until the pool of wealth is depleted, at which point, the system inevitably collapses on itself.
How long this takes is a function of GDP, starting wealth, and the excess and corruption by the ruling class. The most insidious part is that this often takes a generation or two - long enough for the population to forget how to be self-sufficient.

2026-05-08 22:03:54 UTC

Some suggested symptoms of mental illness to be included in the next DSM:
- Trusting the government
- Wearing a mask alone in a car
- Having an AI girlfriend
- Believing that the weather is your fault
- Thinking that socialism can work

2026-05-08 19:19:48 UTC

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And not to be confused with ordnance, which is what we should be using the next time they decide to impose totalitarianism under the guise of public health.

2026-05-08 19:18:46 UTC

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Technically, an ordinance is a city or county level law.
The others are indeed all fantasies from the spank bank of a would-be tyrant.
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2026-05-08 17:09:02 UTC

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He didn't serve three terms, but at this point, I don't think a rational person can deny that he won three elections.

2026-05-07 16:09:53 UTC

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Short answer: Yes, you're right. Anyone with the ability to run code under your user account has access to everything that runs under your user account. That includes your passwords, if you store them in your browser.
And if your user account has admin privileges, then everything on the system is fair game.
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I saw this scroll past my feed last night with the usual "OMG EVERYTHING IS BROKEN" hysteria, and yes, I rolled my eyes.
- A memory dump is literally everything that is known to the process at one moment in time. If the process has access to some information, that information passes through memory.
- There are some defense-in-depth tricks you can use to obfuscate certain bits. eg: the article mentions Chrome deleting plaintext passwords from memory, which defeats a casual ctrl+F search of a dump. But anyone with access to the dump can get the passwords because Chrome can get the passwords
- If these so-called "security researchers" are this mind-blown about a memory dump, wait until they learn about a debugger.
- In order for a process to open up a memory view on another process, it needs a special system permission (SeDebugPrivilege). Getting this requires Administrator access in Windows. Task Manager, of course has this permission, but it's not something that, say, a compromised Notepad could do.
- If your account is the default hybrid-admin account that most people run under, there are tricks to elevate from default "pseudo-admin" mode to full-blown administrator without user interaction. MSFT doesn't consider this to be a security boundary, but that's another rant.
- This article follows the persistent myth amongst security circles that there should be security measures to protect a user from themselves - some way to block off one process or bit of data from another running in the same context simply because they have different semantic meanings. This is possible - by putting data or processes on the other side of an actual security boundary (eg: in another account, or in a sandbox). But now you've sacrificed usability, which is something most users won't abide.
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Anyway, from Microsoft's perspective, they've done nothing wrong here. This "exploit" only works if the user is an admin, and at that point you haven't crossed any security boundaries. IMO, it is poor form for Edge to load the entire password store in plaintext in memory, but that's more defense-in-depth than a vulnerability.
If you're concerned about this as a user, then there are two steps you can take: 1) Run as a standard user and not as admin. 2) Don't store your passwords in your browser. Use a third-party password manager.

2026-05-07 14:53:42 UTC

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> They should all be arrested and deported!
The fraudsters, or the judges?

2026-05-04 16:44:50 UTC

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If the FAA weren't so thoroughly stifling competition, then anybody with a few hundred acres of land could build an airport.

2026-05-04 16:41:26 UTC

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The airline industry doesn't have nearly enough airlines. Every company that thrives in a free market does so because if they don't, the customers will go to the competition. In a captured market, cartels of established players dictate terms (and prices) to customers, with no transparency or consequences. (aside: when a gov't steps in to regulate such a market, it is inevitable that it will turn into a captured market)
The fewer airlines that we have, the more powerful the remaining players become, and the more helpless their customers are to whatever crap they decide to pull.
As far as I'm concerned, anyone with an airplane should be able to spin up an "airline". If they have a successful business plan, they should grow and take market share. This threat must ALWAYS loom over the heads of the established players in order to realize the societal benefits of a free market. Otherwise, you've just got yet another government-backed cartel.

2026-05-01 20:14:53 UTC

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> "Real newsgathering journalism, which involves shoe leather and cross-checking of facts, costs money."
By his definition, Nick Shirley is a "real journalist". Do you think he'd concede that point? I doubt this moron is old enough to remember when what he considers "real journalists" actually did that. I am barely old enough.

2026-05-01 20:14:01 UTC

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The article author does a pretty decent job of pointing out the ridiculousness of some of the theories, as well as the perverse incentives on the part of social media companies. But at no point does he actually make a case that it is "destroying society". I guess the reader is just supposed to assume that a few internet trolls are somehow powerful enough to destroy everything humanity has built in several millennia.
Worse, he does make the standard m5m argument - the one that boils down to asserting that truth can only flow from "real journalists" - meaning those working for corporate legacy media. This also is presented without evidence or rationale, of course.

2026-04-26 16:19:06 UTC

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Three words: Borderline Personality Disorder. This is a textbook symptom.
At least she recognizes that she is the problem. That means she still has a chance at happiness.

2026-04-24 17:06:56 UTC

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LLMs are fundamentally pattern-matching machines initialized with all of human knowledge to pattern-match against. They can't create new knowledge; they don't even have any thinking capacity to recognize new knowledge if they did create it. LLMs create mediocre already-done content at an astonishing pace. They are the ultimate information parasite, consuming and rearranging human knowledge and information and presenting it in ways you think are novel because you personally have not seen it before.
Without humans in the mix, LLMs begin consuming their own output. This adds no new knowledge to the model; only entropy. Eventually the entropy will overwhelm the knowledge, and the model will cease to be useful. Companies that try to replace humans with AI are hastening this model collapse.
What we should be rooting for is new entrepreneuers to employ the best human engineers and take advantage of the human ingenuity and creativity to outcompete and displace the enshittified companies who think humans are interchangable with pattern matching algorithms.

2026-04-18 20:09:06 UTC

There are dozens of purely economic reasons why Universal Basic Income would be an unmitigated disaster for any nation that implements it. But none of those reasons is as important as the freedom argument.
There will be a government agency in charge of doleing out the money. There will be a politically-aligned bureaucrat in charge of that agency, with the responsibility to decide who is eligible for money, and who isn't eligible. That person - who is either Woke or MAGA depending on the election cycle - literally gets to decide who is allowed to eat this month. I don't care which side of the political spectrum you call home; that should scare the bejeezus out of you.
UBI puts every human being in the nation into a de facto state of indentured servitude to whomever sits in the dictator's chair.

2026-04-17 18:23:10 UTC

Software development and software testing are two entirely different disciplines. The trend in corporate software to treat them as interchangable or easily combined has caused testing skills to atrophy across the industry. The result is software that is less reliable, less stable, and less secure than a decade ago. Software that needs constant updates just to keep from falling over.
The only group of developers who really think about how to test software these days are hackers and security researchers. And many of them wear dark-colored headgear.

2026-04-10 22:18:51 UTC

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**"But who will build the roads?"** said every statist ever, as they take yet another argument against government waste and fraud and assume that its only alternative is for us all to walk everywhere through the wilderness.
**The motte** is social security, subsidies, government handouts, Learing Centers, sex change surgery for illegals, climate religion, racist DEI programs, megabank bailouts, permanent foreign wars, FEMA preferred vendors, bridges to nowhere, California high-speed fraud, and on and on and on and on...
**The bailey is ALWAYS muh roads**.
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/this-is-who-will-build-the-roads/

2026-04-08 21:15:12 UTC

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If accessing your digital library needs an account on someone else's system, it's not your library.
If your digital library only exists for streaming from someone else's servers, it's not your library.
It's amazing how much hard-earned money people throw away to "buy" things that they will never own.

2026-04-07 16:37:24 UTC

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What sorcery is this?
I live somewhere that has very soft water, so I admit I'm uneducated about water systems. But "Hard water is water that has a high mineral content," according to the very first sentence of the wikipedia article. Those images all depict a wire wrapped around a sealed pipe. I'm quite certain they're not removing any minerals at all. At best, they're dropping the minerals out of solution and into the pipe at that location. After that, one of two things is happening: The minerals are being deposited into that small section of pipe (how often will you have to redo your plumbing there?), or the minerals are being washed into your appliances and drinking water anyway.
What am I missing here?

2026-04-05 23:44:54 UTC

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> Dynamic webapps didn’t become the standard because developers said “hey, this is great!”
I don't necessarily draw a causality here, but I did exist within the event horizon of one of those companies at the time. Yes, developers totally did. Especially when you said the magic word AJAX, which, for a while, was the holy grail to solve every problem in computing.
You're right that every company wanting to carve out their own walled garden was a major contributing factor. But it would never have worked if people weren't dazzled by "responsive design" and dynamic *everything*.
Unfortunately, computer users are gnats when it comes to deciding between the shiny thing and the productive thing.

2026-04-05 23:27:23 UTC

95% of what's wrong with the web today started when someone decided that web pages should behave like applications, and everybody in the world just decided that yeah, that's cool, who gives a shit about functionality or accessibility or user control, because hey look, infinite scroll!

2026-04-05 19:04:06 UTC

When the government comes out and says that aliens and UFOs are real, that is how you know for certain that humans are alone in this universe.

2026-04-04 18:46:05 UTC

It is not possible to be a leftist and a Christian at the same time, for the same reason it's not possible to be both buddhist and muslim. Religions almost always espouse incompatible beliefs. Eventually you're going to have to decide which one you truly believe in, and which one you're only playing at.

2026-04-01 17:57:54 UTC

AI is not your friend. AI is not your lover. AI is not your therapist. AI is the lovechild of websearch and autocorrect, with a little more attitude and a lot less transparency.

2026-04-01 17:45:21 UTC

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Easy. In your next lifetime, don't trust unaccountable faceless corporations with anything important.
And while you're at it, be a little bit more skeptical about Silicon Valley marketing hype. AI is not your friend. AI is not your lover. AI is not your therapist. AI is the lovechild of search and autocorrect, with a little more attitude and a lot less transparency. Behind the AI is still the same corporate human beings who have absolutely zero accountability, and zero concern for your well-being.

2026-03-31 05:47:39 UTC

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I assume you copied this text from a corporate censorship platform. The unnecessary asterisks are really quite distracting.

2026-03-30 20:44:31 UTC

Vibe Coding is Dunning-Kreuger with an aesthetically pleasing UI.

2026-03-29 04:18:39 UTC

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What would YOU do for fun in the Klondike?

2026-03-26 17:47:22 UTC

A surprisingly effective and totally fallacious form of online rhetoric used by people on both the left and right is to **dismiss an argument as "old" or "tired" or "overdone" without addressing the content of the argument at all**. The technique is a form of bad-faith argument employed by commenters who want to discourage or demean their opponent by suggesting that the argument has been made countless times before.
The implication is that the argument has been repeatedly refuted, and that by making it yet again, you are wasting everyone's time and energy, and everybody would all just be happier if you would **shut up and go away**.
It is bad-faith because the speaker **has no valid refutation at all**. The argument beind ridiculed is valid, but it is one that they would prefer that you just drop because it harms their own position.
Use of this technique often comes with a **false affect of world-weariness or superiority**, used to further demoralize the opponent into conceding. Another much more childish variation is the use of **MiXeD-CaSe sEnTenCeS aNd WoRDs** in order to convey a feeling of immaturity - an example of projection and reversal.
Use of this technique is a strong indicator that the person making the argument is **not here to gain knowledge or reach an understanding**, but rather to spread propaganda. (optionally, just here for the lulz). They will be completely unreceptive to counterarguments. If you find yourself in a conversation with one of these people, then it is *you*, ironically, whose time is being wasted.

2026-03-23 03:47:38 UTC

A really good analysis of what systemd has just done to the Linux community by merging an age verification API: https://www.webpronews.com/systemd-now-has-an-age-verification-api-and-that-should-worry-everyone-who-builds-or-uses-linux/
(Also, yet another reason that systemd is malware, that has infected 90% of all linux distros...)

2026-03-20 16:47:50 UTC

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Do you honestly think you can trust any "opt-out" mechanism they offer? That company has been caught red-handed farming and selling data that they swore was sacrosanct so many times by now, you have to assume anything that passes through their servers is being monetized, regardless of what they claim.
The preferred "opt-out" method is to not use fakebook or whatsapp or instagram or any other product that company is involved in. They have a corporate culture of lying about what they do with your data.

2026-03-18 21:04:07 UTC

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We never started.

2026-03-17 02:54:17 UTC

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Even the hummingbirds know better than to go to the west coast.

2026-03-16 04:25:58 UTC

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Obviously, this kind of waste is egregious. In fact, it literally boggles the mind (which is why most humans have difficulty even reasoning about numbers that high).
But let's not treat it as exceptional. For comparison, the national debt went up a little over 15 trillion during the 8 years prior to 2025. That's effectively money that Congress spent *over and above* all revenue from taxes, tariffs, fines, etc, etc, etc. Back of the napkin math, that means that Congress spent, in the average day, $5 BILLION more than they took in.
The federal government is big. And it is irresponsible. So yeah. DoW blowing 2.5 billion a day is a lot, and should raise eyebrows. But it reads like a biased hit piece on Trump to build a whole article around it without showing how it compares to the $5bn/day business-as-usual waste, fraud, and abuse in Congress.

2026-03-15 19:13:50 UTC

Joseph McCarthy may not have been the hero that America wanted, but it's obvious that he was the hero it needed.

2026-03-15 00:18:41 UTC

Dear right-wing "media":
You exist because left-wing legacy media has become so completely biased as to be without credibility, and someone had to fill the gap. People who read your stories want accurate information that hasn't been run through the same politically-controlled corporate censorship as everything you see on television. Ideally we want unbaised information, but we understand that's hard to come by these days. We're adults, and capable of making our own decisions.
What we are not here for is to be told how to feel about the stories and information. When you put BREAKING, SHOCKING, VILE, TERRIBLE, and other ADJECTIVES in your HEADLINES in order to GRAB people's ATTENTION and tell them HOW TO FEEL about a story, you're behaving exactly like the corporate propaganda machine. When you do that, you erase what benefit that you had over the left-wing media that uses the same tactics. You have become what you swore to destroy.
Stop it. Report the facts. Not the propaganda.

2026-03-11 20:22:37 UTC

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> whines about unnecessary drama on fedi
> boasts about using the "block" feature, which is just mute with unnecessary drama added

2026-03-05 17:08:44 UTC

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Often I think these leftist redefinitions of terms come *after* the whitewashing of the original definition. "Democracy", "equality", "diversity", "hate", "recession", "vaccine". In each case, the original definition is inconvenient to their rhetoric, so they just claim it means the opposite for the sake of propaganda and lying.
Then, afterward, some woke self-appointed arbiter of language like Wikipedia or Merriam-Webster quietly updates their official definition as if it had always been that way. It's Gaslighting on a societal scale. And we keep falling for it whenever we use their terms.
"The Party told you to ignore
the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

2026-03-04 22:28:06 UTC

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The word "democracy" in the modern leftist vocabulary has no meaning. It is a made-up rhetorical MacGuffin used as a placeholder for the polar opposite of whatever it is that leftists hate.
No screeching leftist will be able to tell you what "democracy" is, because they honestly don't know. They only know that it is good, and that it is in danger from the bad orange man (or whomever is their hate target du jour), and that it is absolutely critical to be seen "protecting" it in order to signal to the other members of their cult that they are virtuous.

2026-03-04 06:15:52 UTC

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2026-02-22 16:25:12 UTC

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> PCR cycle thresholds are not arbitrarily adjusted to create false positives
Yeah, this claim's gonna need a hell of a lot more proof than "because the Eliza bot says so", if it can even be proven.
Our social media society has become so accustomed to blindly accepting unfalsifiable claims when someone says it in the midst of pseudo-scientific jargon, that even LLMs are emitting this flavor of propaganda, and people just lap it up.

2026-02-14 20:49:43 UTC

The Democrat Party is playing US government like a Bethesda RPG. They looked up online and found the infinite money glitch, and the mail-in-ballots exploit, the gerrymandering vulnerability, and grinding the public school starting zone to farm children for resources. And they're exploiting it every single day to min/max their character sheets. They've even found a way to work around the country's original antivirus - The Constitution - by installing the corrupt_judges.exe malware.
The problem is that, unlike those video games, US government isn't a single-player game. It's a massive-multiplayer arena.
Companies that run actual online multiplayer games know very well that cheaters ruin the experience for everyone else, and if you let that happen too long, everyone walks away and your game fails. **In an actual online multiplayer game, when you get caught cheating, you get a lifetime ban. No questions. No appeals.**
In the political arena, when someone gets caught cheating, we give them a platform to argue from emotion and scream "racism" like that word still has any meaning. We bow and grovel to the crybullies who whine about their feelings and then act like THEY'RE the victim because they cheated, and you CAUGHT them, you horrible person.
Ask yourself why we care so much more about integrity in video games than we do in our own government.

2026-02-14 18:20:51 UTC

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> quickest sun dial I've seen
> wait 15-30 minutes
Yeah, I can think of a half dozen ways to find north more quickly than that.
Besides, this trick doesn't work at all where I live. There is no sun in the Pacific Northwest.

2026-02-13 16:36:38 UTC

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Get them fedi accounts! It's easy to ignore that feed.

2026-02-12 17:40:47 UTC

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If you own a house, that's about three days worth of flippers spamming to buy it, "IN CASH AS-IS"

2026-02-12 04:38:46 UTC

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I mean, I kinda feel like it happened 20 years ago. But I'm Gen X and my (biased) experience is that millennials are dumb as a post.

2026-02-12 04:30:15 UTC

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"research suggests" is modern journalism code for "we just made this up". Receipts, or it's bullshit.
Also, every generation in the history of humanity has been dumber than their predecessors, when you ask their predecessors. I would be entirely unsurprised to learn this article was written by a millennial.

2026-02-10 04:19:21 UTC

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While I don't agree with all of those individual points, I do agree with the seeming impossibility of reversing them.
At the very least, it would require a widespread shift in attitudes among people who've been public-school trained from a young age to believe that every one of those things you seek to eliminate is sacred and must not be questioned. How to do that without engaging in the same kind of centralized indoctrination that got us here?

2026-02-10 03:55:44 UTC

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The last option - and the one which seems at the moment most palatable to me is "kick the can down the road".
It's not a solution per se, but I figure I've got maybe 25 more years left in this world. If the inevitable societal collapse can just wait until 2050, then it all becomes someone else's problem. Selfish, sure, but it's an effective cop-out.

2026-02-10 03:27:01 UTC

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> I thought you had already thought the issue through
I have not. At least not so far as a solution. I'm uncomfortable with the "we have to shoot our way out of this" solution, but that continues to be the only one that I see which doesn't involve the expansion of federal power - a solution I like even less, because of its limitless capacity for unintended side effects. The only other option I see at this point is a national divorce, or otherwise an end to the American experiment, which I also don't like.
Like I said, it's a fair criticism that I came without a solution. I guess I came in hoping someone might propose something I hadn't seen. Barring that, you may simply accuse me of trying to "raise awareness".
My original post came in response to seeing yet another thread about the political theater of the moment, and my thinking was merely that the specifics of what the government is doing with its illegitimate power is far less important than trying to address the fact that the power is illegitimate.

2026-02-10 03:07:07 UTC

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While it's true I'm on Pleroma, which affords more than 500 characters, it still doesn't provide enough to make every post a scientifically rigorous treatise, nor did I realize that I was expected to do so. The parts of the fedi that I federate with sport a higher-than-twitter average IQ, but I don't think even they demand that from every opening post.
If you want to engage and don't think I've provided enough information, feel free to ask for clarification before whipping out the gotchas and accusations. If I want to be accused of bad faith in every reply, I'll follow Maggos again.
For all you know, my proposed solution might have been "We need to jettison California and have a stronger country without them".
(Actually, that's unlikely. I prefer not to invoke the name of the Statist God "We", as it too often leads to solutions with high popular appeal and almost no chance of working)

2026-02-10 02:45:31 UTC

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As to the actual question of how to secure elections, the answer is complicated and nuanced, and I don't have all of the answers.
As a rule, I don't tend to favor "nationalization" of anything, which is why I would want to review the details before pledging "support" of such a thing. In general, I think local control - as local as possible right down to the individual where feasible - produces the best outcome.
But there are other solutions that haven't been tried at a national level, such as decertification of elections that aren't secure, or stripping representation from jurisdictions with incompatible laws.

2026-02-10 02:43:15 UTC

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I was prioritizing a problem without offering any particular plan to fix it. I didn't provide details, because I wasn't proposing a solution. You may fairly criticize me for that, but not for failing to give details of something I didn't suggest.
Of course you assumed a solution, then you asked if I "support" your given solution. I'm unable to answer that without either more detail, or some kind of extrasensory mind-reading ability.

2026-02-10 02:22:20 UTC

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The devil, as always, is in the details, and your two-word hypothetical proposal is woefully short on those. What are you getting at here?

2026-02-09 22:50:42 UTC

ICE, Ukraine, Epstein... All bread and circuses. The only political issue that matters is securing elections.
Without that, the public vote is compromised, and cannot be trusted on any issue. Both parties will continue to do whatever the people in power want: Filter tax money through massive fraud machines; Pass draconian laws that infringe rights and further tyranny. They will claim that they have a mandate to do so because without trustworthy elections, nobody will be able to prove otherwise.
And the public vote that should be distrusted most of all is when they argue that the public doesn't want secure elections.

2026-02-09 18:02:23 UTC

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We had them. Most people weren't listening. Then Twitter and Facebook banned their accounts.

2026-02-06 05:27:41 UTC

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It's also your eyes.
Focusing close for hours on end is not good for the eyes. We are built to focus in the distance. The warning sign is eye fatigue and headache, which incentivizes you to take breaks.
Screen time causes the same close-up eyestrain, but it is tricking the brain into thinking you're looking at something far away, so you don't get the warning signs. Staring into screens of any type, for hours and hours every day, has damaged the long-term eyesight of entire generations of modern humans.

2026-01-28 04:12:04 UTC

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Well, shit, if I knew that it was a valid argument to just shout **YOU'RE WRONG, YOU'RE WRONG** louder than the other person, I would've used fewer words.

2026-01-28 04:06:18 UTC

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The "I've had enough" attitude is, at least to the party strategists, a calculated populist response to the pendulum of government moving too far toward special interests. Trump's origin story may be exceptional, and his personality was ahead of its time, but his political playbook is straight reactive populism.
He appeals and plays up to the working class that were abandoned by the other party when their pendulum turned them into the party of war and bankers and globalism. Trump's popularity is a direct result of opposing what the opposition was doing; a tried-and-true political platform if ever there was one.
This is easily transferrable to the right MAGA disciple. The talking points are becoming mainstream, and there are already quite a few who can emulate the attitude.

2026-01-28 03:32:10 UTC

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LOL, have you learned nothing from the past $YOUR_AGE years? Political idols are interchangable. Trump will anoint his successor sometime in 2027 (probably Vance, but who knows who will be in and out of his whims), and when he does, all of the blind loyalists will transfer their admiration like the flip of a switch.
It works pretty much exactly the same way the left does, but with less misplaced empathy.

2026-01-26 01:58:14 UTC

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(Aside: All you touchy-feely crybabies who think words can hurt you, feel free to continue reporting posts like this to the admin of my instance. He's compiling a collection and needs a few more. Meanwhile, if you can't handle real human interaction, go back to Big Brother censormedia like X or facebook and leave the rest of us to think for ourselves)

2026-01-26 01:55:20 UTC

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Those are rookie numbers. Maybe they just aren't killing enough.

2026-01-20 23:26:43 UTC

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Working alone in a delivery van can also be dehumanizing. But I don't improve my mental health by beseeching the handtruck and referring to the windshield wipers by name.
Treating LLMs like they're human is the fastest-growing mental illness in the western world. It's especially dangerous because LLMs mimic human communication very well. It bypasses the intuitive defenses that keep us from making friends with handtrucks and wrenches.
The solution to this mental illness - this "AI psychosis" - is to interact with humans. The solution is not to sink deeper into the delusion with "a little simple courtesy".

2026-01-20 18:11:10 UTC

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Someday soon psychologists will be reporting on a widespread epidemic of AI Anthropomorphism Psychosis.
If you're truly fluent in bash, you could've done that faster by yourself than by "asking" the LLM to do it (including checking it to make sure the thing didn't hallucinate). And nobody ever says "please help me" to a screwdriver or wrench.

2026-01-19 07:23:34 UTC

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Please remind me exactly what "wars" the Republicans have started? In the last hundred years, Congress has only declared war once, and it was in 1941. Both sides of Congress were controlled by the Democrat party.
The last time before that was 109 years ago - in 1917 - with a Democrat-controlled Senate and a House that was controlled by a coalition of Democrats and the Socialist party.
So I assume you must mean the undeclared "police actions" since then, which are started by Presidents and not Congress.
Did you mean Korea? Oh, wait, that was started by Truman, a Democrat. Maybe Vietnam... Oh, nope, technically started by Truman, but really the significant US troop commitment was by Johnson (another Democrat). Okay, what could you mean. Maybe the Contra thing? Nope. Started by Carter (a Democrat). No, no no.
What's really considered a war? Oh, I know, the Gulf war. Started by Bush, of the Globalist Deep State party. Okay, I'll give you that. Not technically a Democrat. What's next? Somalia, Bosnia, Haiti, Kosovo? No, those were all Clinton (a Democrat).
Ah, here we are. Afghanistan and Iraq. Totally started by another Bush (still of the Deep State party). This must be what you're talking about. Anything after that? Libya, Benghazi, Iraq, Iran.... Nope, all Obama (a Democrat)
What's next? Peace for four years? I don't believe it. Here we go - Ukraine and Gaza! Oh, nevermind. Started by Biden (a Democrat).
Tell me again how the Republicans are somehow the party of sending Americans off to war?

2026-01-17 07:35:38 UTC

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Giving Obama the Peace Prize in 2009 illustrated that the contest was a sell-out for political favor. Since then, the prize hasn't been worth the toilet paper it's printed on.

2026-01-09 21:24:28 UTC

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> different people want different things
Exactly my point. You used the word "everyone" in your OP, which implies a homogeneity that doesn't exist in humanity.
> build a civics where those desires can impact the compromises we make to build the best possible society
I'm not certain how to parse this, but I think your underlying assumption - that "everyone" wants a "civics" - is incorrect. This statement feels like a euphemism for forcing your rules on people who don't wish to be involved (ie: colonialism and slavery). But we've had that argument before, and don't need to re-hash it.

2026-01-09 21:22:50 UTC

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> you want to be left alone so you think everybody wants that.
To some degree, all adults require agency. It's part of the human condition. People who genuinely crave being controlled and told what they must or mustn't do have not matured to the point of adulthood, regardless of their age.

2026-01-09 19:18:53 UTC

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> Try to have empathy for everyone..
"Everyone" doesn't need more empathy. What everyone needs is to be left the hell alone to live their lives free of coercion and meddling.

2026-01-09 19:18:19 UTC

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> Try to have empathy for everyone..
I'm pretty sure that's biologically impossible. Humans aren't wired that way. I'm pretty sure the attempt would give someone a mental disorder or psychosis.
Then again, I'm also pretty sure that's exactly what's happened.

2026-01-09 01:40:53 UTC

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> American's are being treated like Israeli's treat Palestinians.
Quit your equivocating bullshit. ICE is not after Americans. An American who doesn't want to be targeted has a simple way to do that: Don't attack armed federal agents.
Every single American who is in harm's way is one who chose to put themselves there.