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Why do you think this has anything to do with drone operators?

Kills people by clicking on them? WTF? This is about network security, defending against cyber attacks. You may or may not agree that we should have people doing that, but conflati…

I seriously doubt the GP (who was proud of their work) was one of the suicides. If they were, the mere fact that they are able to post here after taking their own life would be the…

Oh, that's an easy one. When I'm trying to model a situation I consider a wide variety of possible explanations, and then rank them by how well they fit the facts. I also note when…

Way to pull a Tokyo Rose; the GP was alluding to "cool" and "impactful" things they had done to keep us all safe from malicious actors and you try to twist it into "illegal activit…

That was my point exactly. There isn't some evil mastermind behind it--at least, in the click-case; in the psyops or vote-for-us! cases there might sort of be, but even there they …

Right, that was in my list. That's a clear case of the misery being incidental / collateral damage.

I suppose I should be grateful, if it means the mercenaries are leaving.

I personally hate YAGNI, because it so often leads to balkanized APIs that only implement the "needed" features and omit things that a reasonable person would expect because they w…

Who's making money off our misery exactly? I can see it as a foreign adversary psyop (they benefit from us being demoralized) or as a side effect of the attention economy (more cli…

> but that does not mean psychiatrists caused the underlying psychosis It doesn't rule it out, either. :)

100%. I noticed it most when the slurs they used against us became status symbols, as a hoard of grifters traded in their ties (remember ties?) and golf doodads for SF franchise bl…

"It's just been spiraling in a very dark direction for a long time. You have these blackpill depression cirklejerks everywhere. Astroturfing is getting worse every year." Agreed. F…

Clickbait headline. Should be "Life left mineral substrate at least twice" or some such. The research is interesting, but they're playing word games in the telling of it by saying …

I was prepared to be critical, expecting a slop-recital of facts with no explanation of how we came to know them (the sort of brain-dead thinking that would conflate knowing player…

This has nothing to do with SpaceX per se; it's a standard sort of scam that's been around since the days when waiting for your ship to come in was meant literally.

Managers trying to justify _cutting_ scope... Is your planet accepting immigrants? I think I'd like it there

April 1st, 2020 I don't think that was intentional, but it might as well have been.

On a rocket? They make and launch them. More, in fact than the rest of the world combined. At this point, anyone claiming "SpaceX can't do " is either 1) claiming that no one can o…

No, it's just as bad for web development.

So...we're doing better than expected!

"...how your uncles 舅 (mother's brother) 伯 (father's elder brother) 叔 (father's younger brother) relate to your parents." These words are likely also on their way out, when you con…

They could have named the company "Irony", but that would have required situational awareness.

Reasonably clear explanation here: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-glo... Short quote to capture the main point: "I have evidently fallen into the pocket o…

> Frankly, I expect better analysis from Quanta. Seriously? I agree with the rest of your comment but "better analysis" is not even remotely on brand for Quanta.