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Something true about Hamas like it was founded in response to the Ibrahimi mosque massacre, or that Netanyahu has bragged repeatedly to the international news media about making sure they get funded as part of his strategy on Gaza?

Private equity firms are capitalism in pure form, as they are capital controlling the means of production, which is capitalism's definition.

Private equity forms are a negative for humanity, but so is uncontrolled capitalism, so that checks out.

You just argued that you shouldn't have to take harm into account.

It would be cool if you had any internally consistent beliefs whatsoever.

It's not weird, though. They either hope to profit from these corporations' activities, or they're just prosperity theologists. Neither thing is rare.

That's how literally everything works, not just speech.

When you have rights without responsibilities, nothing works.

"OpenAI says an unreleased internal model has produced 372 results that either resolve or make substantial progress on open problems"

Look at how much we're accomplishing!

"which was produced through the collective efforts of a 10,000-strong agentic swarm that cost millions of dollars in computing power"

Look at how impressive our hardware is!

The rapeublicans are literally running the Nazi playbook, which is ironic because that was inspired by the USA's laws about slavery. Now which is the party of slavery again? I think I'll go with the party that controls the state where we still have slaves picking cotton.

Slashdot was relevant.

Weird they want to remind us of that.

He's literally insane. His earliest posts weren't like this.

My Ninja coffee maker has a clock, nice little blue-green one. I set it maybe once and it is easy to do. But now I just let it show some completely wrong time because I don't need to time when my coffee will brew and I won't bother checking it for the time when I have like 20 other ways to find out
 

Yes. This.

Didn't someone already do that with the Doom map editor?

Then maybe just give up. Read a book or jerk off or something.

To think, there was a time before we took a hard turn into Idiocracy 2: Now With Stupid Nazis.

Not that things were all rainbows and unicorns. I remember the early 2000's and 1990's quite well. We were both optimistic that the Cold War was over and we wouldn't have to duck and cover. But also we were cynical or depressed about the state of news media, reporting, politics, and the general lack of interest from the public to improve anything. In a few short decades we went from spindoctors and talking heads to mango-fascism. How innocent we all once were.