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Comment Re:Two main issues not highlighted (Score 2) 26

I do not want a data-center/power-plant on MY rural dirt. I want bushy ravines supporting  shootable roughed-grouse, well-tending fields of corn supporting pheasants and brookly bubbling  streams of cut-throat trout and steel-heads. Fuck the *.ai people and  code they rode in on.

Comment sad case (Score 1) 92

Since I started DIY computer builds about Y2K I have used ONLY Crucial ram. Bought straight from the company, and in the early years Crucial would automatically connect  buyer to an engineer for advice. Thru 7 systems never in 25 years had a ram issue. Buying Crucial ram was the equivalent of buying enterprise-grade hard-drives or Xeon CPUs. Crucials decision to stop retail sales.  is a sad day for computer hobbyists. Mebby Crucial does not realize the value of a secure,  loyal long-term customer base.

Comment This is stupid. (Score 1) 52

This is exactly end to end encryption, and the so-called "security researcher" appears to have no idea what he is talking about. So:

Mr. Fondrie-Teitler, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

Comment Re:Excellent! Can we do this here in the uk? (Score 1) 140

One mans "natural" food is anothers' bush-meat. No common  food or drink is safe. You can choke on a glass of milk, as has been observed or live to be 102 drinking porter 3x a day. Japanese eat poisonous fish  & noodles while Greeks gorge on hi-salt olives and sardines. Russian & Germans eat  fat-laden sausage worth-the-name and Argentinians beef by the quarter. Mebby UKers and north Americans just have pussy constitutions and deserve condemnation to vegetarian hell !  I happen to like roast turkey and chicken, so please pass the ultra-processed honey-mustard sauce.

Comment arrogant (Score 1, Flamebait) 65

I read the Business Insider article. Dohmke is an arrogant bastard, without doubt parroting the M$ Mafia godfathers. He's demanding suicide from devs and infantile servitude from usrland. Who would risk their time/money/sanity  with such a sociopath? Whenever Linux infuriates my meager talents I just think about the M$ option ... and laugh.

Comment Re:Musk shut down Starlink in Ukraine (Score 1) 74

Would this be the Starlink system Musk rushed to Ukraine and afaik continues to allow UKR to use free if charge? (I believe that some donor nations do pay sub fees for the systems they've purchased for Ukr, to be clear.)

Musk repeatedly said that he won't allow Starlink to be used to support offensive operations. Yes, sometimes free gifts come with strings attached.

Your insistence that because Musk doesn't do everything Ukraine wants without question, "we know where his sympathies lie" is childish.

Yes, I can see the argument that an offensive to retake Ukr territory should be allowed, but I can also see the argument that it is an offensive. Musk, a rather pacifistic person who routinely gets collywobbles when confirmed with violence as pacifists often do, probably sees it that way (and your own linked article mentioned that Biden military & intel people at the time thought Putin 's retaliatory threats were increasingly credible). My guess is that he was confronted with Russian threats to himself or his companies globally.

Would it be better if Starlink just entirely shut down all service to the region? Would that be better for Ukraine?
If that's not what you want, then maybe shut the fuck up?

What is happening to Ukraine is terrible. Ukraine's defense against a sociopathic neighbor has been heroic. That doesn't mean everyone, everywhere, 24/7 makes "what's best for Ukraine" their priority.

Comment Re:Serious question (Score 0) 146

It is $6.25 bn and while it is generous it is only $250 per child born during that narrow period of election significance.

The Dell pledge is not for children born during "that narrow period of election significance" but rather applies to children under age ten that were not born during said period. AFAICT, the kids getting a thousand bucks do not benefit from this pledge at all. The Dell pledge also only applies to children who live in zip codes where the median HHI is under $150k.

Dell is piggybacking off of the infrastructure that already needs to be put in place to administer the accounts created by congress. I really don't understand why people seem to be so angry about this. The only real connection to Darth Cheeto is what the funds are named, and Dell didn't name them, congress did.

Comment Re:Total ham! (Score -1, Troll) 146

You sound like a seriously disabled person, envying your  hyper-productive  betters. Perhaps liberal pedophilic billionaires fed off family trust-funds, but the wealthy in my extended family bootstrapped from poverty. So either you are mentally/physically too weak to produce anything of value, or you are a professional poor-person/parasite sucking the financial blood from any metabolism close-by. In either case I certainly hope our gene-pool avoids your contribution , noting that in a civilized culture you would already live in a barb-wired, stone-breaking gulag. 

Comment Re:Already happened - Trump is not really Republic (Score -1, Troll) 109

Indeed, Trump is a "Kennedy" Democrat. Post-mod DemoRat leadership has moved so far Dadaist-left that thoughtful pork-chop (de)mocrats have jumped ship. Now, call us MAGA for upholding a Western/nationalist cultural meme ( Kennedy/Buchanan/Perot/Moynahan/Trump/Manchan ...) . If the Bush family neo-cons succeed in retaking Republican leadership we will drop them like a rabid pig.

Comment Re:what else is new? (Score 1) 124

John Money was the first of the batshit legion (that I'm aware of; his entire oeuvre sickens me so pardon if I haven't delved too deeply) to believe gender was distinct from actual sex.

"My deeply flawed views" are the facts that stand unchanging, despite fads.
Humans are either xx or xy chromosomes, producing large or small gametes respectively.

The tiny percent that aren't that, are mutations that happened to survive, like people being born without eyes or legless or conjoined. None of them are to be brutalized, none of them are to be treated with anything but respect and sympathy; it doesn't make them normal except insofar as 'mutations' in heterosexual reproduction are normal.

Give up; your bullshit carried through the crazy-years of 2020-2024, but nature is healing. Fucked up ideological gaslighting is fading before things like actual facts. We're calling MAPs pedophiles again, and people are recognizing how wrong were the lies that fueled Mengele-like brutal transgender experiments on CHILDREN, ruining their fucking lives. You can't "undo" castration chemicals given to prepubescent teens. You can't just wear a girl-mask and insist you're a woman. If you believe that, you need help and counseling, not endorsement.

Comment fair play (Score 1) 12

In return for the United States providing a safe haven for Flock ( and other companies ) , Flock preferentially hires USA citizens for their workforce, It's called the social contract ( or hemlock-cup for the Randists ). Pork-chop eating workers allow caviar-noshing C-Suites and investors. You say otherwise ? Then a just king would feed Flock executives to the palace lions ... gnosh gnoshgnosh ... gawd don't ya just hate it when feeding lions leave only the feet ...

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