Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman

Post by kbelder » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 10:55 PM UTC

ikkun wrote: post #51

lbarrow wrote: post #20

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Spitting your food out because the AI generated the recipe is so clearly irrational that I chuckled a bit on reading that

I could see being concerned about food safety; I wouldn't trust an AI recipe to tell me how long/what temperature to cook chicken, and I might not trust someone who uses AI to generate recipes to know either.

Post by watwut » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 10:56 PM UTC

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outside1234 wrote: post #242

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I don't condone it, but I understand the anger. The billionaire class has enabled armed masked police in our streets, endless layoffs, basically don't pay taxes at any reasonable percentage, and basically have rigged politics with Citizens United. Given that, I can see how people are resorting to 18th century French tactics.

The top 1% of income earners pay 40% of all the federal taxes collected. The top 25% pay 89% of taxes. Net of transfers, 60% of households receive more from government transfers than they pay in taxes. The idea that rich people don't pay taxes is just not correct. The entire system is basically rich people subsidizing everybody else through byzantine distributional systems.

Post by cogogo » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 10:57 PM UTC

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mmooss wrote: post #291

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> look at Iran and US. Where is "rule of law"? Who is going to give it magically? Rule of law - in this case, international law - has governed the Strait of Hormuz and relations between the US and Iran for decades. It's not magical or fantasy at all, but a very well-established and effective mechanism that has been the foundation of the most peaceful world arguably in human history. There is no valid argument that it…

> The Trump administration explicitly aims to destroy that rule of law. It's not just Trump. Trump and Biden both shredded the rule of law for Israel. I think both parties being captured by a genocidal foreign government has caused mass dissolution with the ability of the US to act within any framework that brings justice.

Post by tptacek » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 10:59 PM UTC

pesus wrote: post #344

tptacek wrote: post #317

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People in "local politics" are random neighbors, almost none of whom are "in politics" in the colloquial sense.

Fair enough, but I still think it at least somewhat applies to people who are willing to get involved in any kind of political process beyond the very basics or perhaps some special interest groups.

Post by pesus » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 10:59 PM UTC

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Do you spend much time with people not in the tech world? I think you'd be surprised how many people hold similar sentiments, even if not to such an extreme, especially once you talk to people in the real world. I've heard far more support for this sort of thing in real life than I have online due to fear of repercussions. Hell, even the president regularly calls for and promotes violence, so I don't think it's that…

> Do you spend much time with people not in the tech world? Most of it. Across the political spectrum. > even if not to such an extreme That’s precisely the point. There is a massive difference between doing or aiding and abetting such behavior, cheering it on, and giving into the impulse of “couldn’t have happened to a worse person” before self correcting. There are a few saints who reject the violence at first glan…