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Tadpole9181··on Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters
It still is, you just need to pay.
Tadpole9181··on Retailer denies memory replacement due to 4x increase in DDR5 pricing
It's not a "flawed" thought experiment and it's certainly not "instructive", it's utter trite clearly framed to promote the idea that the retailer can do whatever they want to save money.

This isn't what happened. It's nowhere near what happened. This will never happen. And our laws are written for the real world, not some hyperbole designed for corporate interests where any and all consumer protections are impossible because "what if the moon explodes".

Tadpole9181··on Type resolution redesign, with language changes to taste
He wrote an XML parsing stack on hours instead of doing his job because doing it was, and I quote, "yawn".
Tadpole9181··on White House plan to break up iconic U.S. climate lab moves forward
I'm not convinced Humpty will come together again at all. The US population doesn't seem to care nearly enough to effectuate change while the regime talks about brown shirts at polling stations, delayed elections, Fed oversight of ballots, and preventing married women from voting.

Our relationships have crumbled and there's no reason to trust us: friend or foe. We're ramping up debt harder than ever, we've made tourists scared, we killed our academic imports, and we've made it impossible to start a business while letting private equity gobble up entire markets to play financial games with loans - setting up a time bomb for catastrophe. Now we're shutting down food inspection systems, disabling ecological oversight, firing every qualified person we can and installing sycophants in their place. Some with for-life positions! The economy is only desperately clinging on pretending everything is fine and they can weather the store - but the King has no clothes and has taken full control of economic levers with no oversight.

And beyond requiring regime change, the US can no longer solve such issues without constitutional amendments. Our government has proven to be fundamentally broken. Which simply will not happen because it is broken.

The US seems to be on an unrecoverable path to third world theocratic state status. We will lose our democracy and we will lose our economy. And I see no path out of it anymore.

Tadpole9181··on Type resolution redesign, with language changes to taste
I'm sure it's not what you meant, but the argument "it makes me slower at my job and deliver less stable solutions, but I feel cool doing it" is not exactly a compelling endorsement.
Tadpole9181··on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
So, now that the Pentagon agrees we did it, you going to change your tune?

https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/03/06/pentagon-believes-u-s...

Tadpole9181··on AI Error May Have Contributed to Girl's School Bombing in Iran
Even when it's the US' fault, it's still everyone else's fault. The superpower with an unrivaled spy and surveillance state with a constellation of satellites and precision missiles with blades that can hit an individual person from across the world is just simply helpless from blowing up a school of children.
Tadpole9181··on TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe
> But refusing to give up encryption keys and supiciously empty chat histories with a valid warrant is very good evidence of a crime in itself.

Uh, it absolutely isn't? WTF dystopian idea is this?

Tadpole9181··on Someone needs to go to jail
And fix: a functioning government would make a law that outlaws such flagrant abuse of a media company.

What, if making murder illegal was hard would you just throw your hands and give up and make murder legal? Why is it that suddenly, when it's about corporations to do whatever they want - including destroy democracy itself - we're little babies who can't possibly lift a single finger to stop it?

But that guy who sold an eighth? Implement the full extent of mass surveillance and send a tactical SWAT team to the wrong house to arrest him for 40 years!

Tadpole9181··on Iran war wreaking havoc on shipping and air cargo, could create global delays
Trump went on TV and openly stated we just have to accept the death of Americans. "Oh well, that's what happens." As if this conflict is an act of God.

You think he - a raging, narcissistic, racist, pedophile rapist - gives a single fuck about Iranian citizens? You think He Seth - an alcoholic, "lethalmaxxing", Tate bro with nazi tattoos - gives a single fuck about Iranian citizens?

Tadpole9181··on Elevated Errors in Claude.ai
Oh come on guys, this one is at least funny.
Tadpole9181··on OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub
What do you mean "run OpenClaw natively", you're just running Node?

I'm also curious if it's particularly wise to have a web-facing system running on software that hasn't had a security update in 3 years?

Tadpole9181··on OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub
GitHub accounts are free and the project is literally a bot-ing service. It stands to reason that the tens of thousands of robots unleashed on the web are responsible for these stars?

It's larger than literally every open source service I thought to use as a benchmark. Rust, React, Vue, Symfony, Laravel, PHP Stan, Python, ESlint, rails, LLVM, Spring, fucking Linux itself.

I would wager the legitimate stars for OpenClaw are single digit percents of this. But hey, I haven't actually run the numbers on the GitHub API.

Tadpole9181··on US Military says 3 service members have been killed
To be clear, these people were not on the front lines in an invasion. Our contributions are currently (AFAWK) precision strikes. These dead service members would be victims of region-wide retaliatory missile strikes and may genuinely not have even known we had attacked Iran before a missile came out of nowhere and killed them in their (e.g.) cushy Dubai job.

Heck, if they were told the day of, what are they going to do? They're stuck in the Middle East on a deployment and will need to rely on a military vehicle to take them across the pond.

You should at least inform yourself about what's happening before making comments like this.

Tadpole9181··on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
Oh my God, is this 2001 again?

> All we know is that they did launch a missile that blew up a school. That's it. Just a little woopsies!

Ignore what schools are for and who are in them and what communities exist around them. Ignore that a school is clearly not a fucking military target. Ignore the workers digging through rubble and the reported deaths.

No, despite the past 25 years, the US and Israel's governments are not only trustworthy, but the only source of truth. There are no deaths in Ba Sing Se. There were nuclear missiles hidden in that school!

And, of course, I'm sure we'll hear next that any deaths were terrorists. And if any photos of lifeless kids come up, clearly they're some kind of pinatas or AI! And if their names and life stories come out and there are funerals - duh, state actors!

My country has completely lost its fucking mind. Which I guess makes sense enough after spending my entire adult life watching people basically shrug over little kids being gunned down at school.

Which, dang, that reminds me how Sandy Hook was also a conspiracy and I've had to suffer listening to the same exact "state actor" thing with that.

Tadpole9181··on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
> Israel did not mass bomb civilians

Within an hour Israel blew up an elementary school, killing 80 civilians.

Tadpole9181··on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
> Small scale melee combat at the border.

> Casualties: 35 combatants killed

Uh-huh.

So, half of the number of people we killed in our Venezuela attack. Of which half were innocent civilians.

Hey, could you really quick remind me how many civilians the US killed in Afghanistan? Something like 500,000 right?

Not here to say China is a good guy by any means, but your example was so bad I laughed out loud.

Tadpole9181··on We Will Not Be Divided
> Especially since Elon musk had to buy Twitter due to his tweets.

Okay, yes, if you openly and directly state a unilateral contract offer and you're already in trouble with the SEC, Tweets can be legally binding.

Tadpole9181··on We Will Not Be Divided
Well tweets aren't legally binding, so chances are he's just outright lying so they can have their cake (DoD contracts) and eat it too (no bad PR)
Tadpole9181··on President Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems
All American institutions are hemorrhaging talent and knowledge, their foundations intentionally being rotted out. The kleptocrats running the departments and military don't care if we are competent or if their job is done - because their real job is to steal every last drop of wealth they can.

So this whole thing screams of a charade to give Elon Musk more of our hard-earned money as a favor from Trump.

Tadpole9181··on How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week
I defer to my first 5 words above.
Tadpole9181··on Amazon accused of widespread scheme to inflate prices across the economy
Did you even bother to read the thread? The top-level comment, the Amazon employee defending the practice.
Tadpole9181··on Trump Fake Electors Plot
We've moved into the "open autocratic kleptocracy" phase of conservativism, I see...
Tadpole9181··on How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week
I don't necessarily buy it either, but TFA talks about the test suite. They basically pulled 2k unit tests and 400 E2E tests from Next and made sure they all passed.
Tadpole9181··on Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%
1. There's no meaningful European competition.

2. Trump is making everyone scared to use US hosting.

So they're leveraging for extra profits.

Tadpole9181··on The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler
What? The very first page of documentation tells you this. The help screen clearly shows a `--check` argument. This is a formatter and uses the same arguments as many others - in particular Prettier, the most popular formatter in the ecosystem.

How were you not expecting this? Did you not bother to read anything before installing and running this command on a sensitive codebase?

Tadpole9181··on Global Intelligence Crisis
> you're a liar... a dick

Oh, I have a perfect response for this!

"Let me put it this way, would you say what you said to someones face? Your best friend? You mother? or father and call them a liar and a dick because they said something that was off? Would you go on some holier than thou lecture on intent and deception? You would?"

They clearly weren't calling you nuts, for what it's worth. Saying something you said is nuts is not the literal saying "the person who said this is clinically insane and should be locked up".

Legitimate question, I don't mean to be insensitive, but are you not a native English speaker or something?

Tadpole9181··on Global Intelligence Crisis
> it's a targetted attack

What are we, children? You're acting like I insulted their mother and called the police.

> would you say what you said to someones face?

Yes, of course I would. I have. "That's nuts" or "it's nuts" is such a basic, inoffensive phrase and has no bite.

I've also said "incredulous" and "absurd" and "crazy" and a myriad of other adjectives. I've also had my arguments called those things - correctly. Maybe we keep different types of company, but when I'm having an argument/debate with friends or family, they're not so delicate we can't call each other out when one of us is being ridiculous.

> Would you go on some holier than thou lecture on the amount of people relying on food stamps?

Damn, objective facts and counterpoints related directly to the conversation are holier than thou now? I guess I forgot that when people say things diametrically opposed to basic reality, we're all supposed to just ignore it and let it go.

After all, we wouldn't want to be seen as a loon by a random guy on the internet, offended on someone else's behalf over a one syllable word that wasn't even directed at any individual, but an idea.

I mean, heck, that actually sounds kinda nuts.

Tadpole9181··on Global Intelligence Crisis
They said "no one". Not even "most", let alone "half" or "some". Those are their words.

To live in a country where tens of millions of people have food insecurity, 50 million rely on food stamps, and the median income is 40,000 while the median rent is 1,700 (20,000/year) and claim no one has to watch their grocery bill to their own inconvenience would be utterly disconnected from the reality of the survival of half of their countrymen.

Anyway, the irony is not lost that you simultaneously advocate for the parent being interpreted non-literally, by intent, but my colloquial, common use of the word "nuts" is "unacceptable".

Tadpole9181··on Global Intelligence Crisis
I'm rather well off and I'll still pay attention to the price of my groceries. Especially luxuries like protein bars. If it's too much, I'll either only get them where they'll cheaper or just outright not buy it.

It's nuts that people genuinely believe statements like this.

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