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ProcNetDev··on US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s
Other nations have adjacency.

Taiwan makes some of the most complex devices humans have ever constructed! They can figure out the almost 100 year old technology to make a gun bomb nuke.

ProcNetDev··on US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s
This has not been my experience growing up in a rural America. Sure leftists might try to cancel you online.

But I got my face punched multiple times for not preforming masculinity in a way that they found acceptable or for standing up for someone smaller and weaker.

ProcNetDev··on US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s
You want the war to end so that Russians can do what they did to Bucha a thousand more times!

You want the war to end so that Poland, Japan, Taiwan and Australia no longer trust that the US will help them and develop their own nuclear weapons!

ProcNetDev··on A son spent a year trying to save his father from conspiracy theories
I listened his This American life episode on Monday morning and had to compose myself before my stand up.

It is heartbreaking what happened to a generation of men.

ProcNetDev··on Jeff Bezos exerts more control of Washington Post opinion
That was bad. This is also bad.
ProcNetDev··on DeepSeek Open Infra: Open-Sourcing 5 AI Repos in 5 Days
Look past what he says and into what is actually happening.

He is actively helping take health care from poor people. He is firing thousands of people with families, mortgages and medical bills without cause. He is closing our national parks. All so he can personally have a tax cut.

His ex-wife is frantically posting for him to help with the healthcare of their own son in his replies. He can't even manage his family I don't think he has the betterment of humanity on his mind.

ProcNetDev··on US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago
You have provided no evidence that the fired employees provided zero productivity.

Firing thousands of people should not be the decision of one unelected man. Congress funded those agencies congress has to defund them.

The middle class pay the vast majority of the taxes. The mega-rich pay very little as a percentage of their wealth.

ProcNetDev··on Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website
I am willing to wager that the IRS will continue to exist.
ProcNetDev··on DOGE Has Started Gutting a Key US Technology Agency
Your example of a leftist that can win in a red state is...Bernie Sanders? Kamala won Vermont by 30+ points. That's not a red state.

Everything else you said was hypotheticals and wish casting. The DNC cleared the way for Dan Osborn and he still lost. I'm sorry that the state senator you like got beat in the primary. That's politics. Leftist got beat in SF in 2025. If you can't win SF I don't think there is hope for Kentucky.

ProcNetDev··on Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website
How so? You don't pay TurboTax per regulation. You pay them a flat fee to file your taxes.

I might buy that line of thinking for a corporation but the direct file program was about individuals. Elon gleefully tweeted about how that had been deleted. That's a direct give away to TurboTax and H&R Block.

ProcNetDev··on Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website
Money Saved By Canceling Programs Does Not Immediately Flow To The Best Possible Alternative

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/money-saved-by-canceling-pr...

ProcNetDev··on Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website
Sometime really rich people lie. Maybe their actual goal is different from their stated goal?

The 2024 federal deficit was 1.8 trillion I am willing to bet a donation to GiveWell that 2025 will higher. You want to take the other side?

ProcNetDev··on Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website
None of those tweets are about tax prep. They are about him personally wanting to pay less taxes.

If Elon wanted he could fund an opensouce alternative to Turbotax.

I am willing to bet 1k that Intuit's 2024 TurboTax Online and other Consumer Group revenue of $4.4 billion will remain above 4B in 2025.

ProcNetDev··on DOGE Has Started Gutting a Key US Technology Agency
The far left proves over and over again that they don't turn out to vote or have too many conflicting litmus tests.

If the just move more left strat worked, I would expect to see an AOC style candidate in at least one red state. But the truth is that style of politics isn't popular outside of a few very blue districts.

Dan Osborn gave of a glimpse of what a left populist campaign in a red state might look like but he still lost. And half of his positions would get you cancelled by the AOCs of the world. The reality is a 2012 Obama platform is about as far left as you can go and hope to win a nationwide general election in the current US political climate.

ProcNetDev··on The Prophet of Parking: A eulogy for the great Donald Shoup
Having kids radicalized me against cars more not less. Cars kill kids. Suburban isolates kids from their friends and in person activities.
ProcNetDev··on The Prophet of Parking: A eulogy for the great Donald Shoup
You should actually read Donald's book this is very well covered.
ProcNetDev··on LA wildfires force thousands to evacuate, NASA JPL closed
"That assertion is wrong. The city was in the process of negotiating a new contract with the fire department at the time the budget was being crafted, so additional funding for the department was set aside in a separate fund until that deal was finalized in November. In fact, the city’s fire budget increased more than $50 million year-over-year compared to the last budget cycle, according to Blumenfield’s office, although overall concerns about the department’s staffing level have persisted for a number of years."

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/08/wildfire-threatens-...

ProcNetDev··on Ted Weschler Turned $70k into $264M in a Retirement Account
What do you think the Efficient Market theory says?
ProcNetDev··on House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner or ban the app
https://twitter.com/ncri_io/status/1737948525340615118
ProcNetDev··on Deeply Unhappy Gen Z and Millennials Cause U.S. Drop in Global Happiness Ranking
Maybe people are less happy because they belive viral misinformation?

https://economistwritingeveryday.com/2021/09/01/who-is-the-w...

There are a lot more boomers so they had more wealth in total but when viewed per capita millennials have similar wealth at the same age.

ProcNetDev··on People hate the idea of car-free cities until they live in one
I can easily fit a Costco run on my e cargo bike.
ProcNetDev··on House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner or ban the app
Go make some videos about Taiwan, Tiananmen, or Tibet and see what the algo does to you.
ProcNetDev··on H.R. 7521 – TikTok Ban Bill [pdf]
Not a ban
ProcNetDev··on Diskprices.com makes $5k/month with affiliate marketing
Anyone know what Amazon's policy is on allow api access?

They shut down shucks.top.

ProcNetDev··on IRS to begin trial of its own free tax-filing system
opensource it, please.
ProcNetDev··on Browsers are the most likely disruptor of the mobile duopoly
For my use case, yes BLE is a hard requirement.

Their example of hijacking a BLE keyboard to get passwords seems a bit farcical. I would love to see a PoC of that attack. The API has been available in Chrome for quite a while. I don't think it has been a large attack vector.

ProcNetDev··on Browsers are the most likely disruptor of the mobile duopoly
AFAIK, they are refusing to implement BLE in Firefox(https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674737) saying that, "implementing it is harmful to the web."

Pretty hard to have a PWA future, if you can't access standard app APIs.

Seems like it would require a big mindset change for Mozilla to get on board with PWAs.

ProcNetDev··on Japan's 18-year-olds at record-low 1.06 million
Being anti-emigration seems to be winning in the minds of pretty much every rich nation right now. But it is just bad policy:

https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.25.3.83

People said the same thing about the Irish and the Italians in the US. It was wrong & racist then and it is wrong & racist now.

ProcNetDev··on Japan's 18-year-olds at record-low 1.06 million
Or we could just allow immigration?
ProcNetDev··on New U.S. immigration rules spur more visa approvals for STEM workers
We need every immigrant possible to pay for social security.
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