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awnird··on Playa Phone
It’s a bunch of tech bros pretending to be counterculture while hanging out with Grover Norquist, Elon Musk, and Eric Schmidt.

If you want to hang out with those people it will be fun for you, but be honest with yourself about what it really is.

awnird··on Sam Neill has died
You’ll fit right in on this site then. It’s mostly elderly Americans sundowning and posting about their youth.
awnird··on Bonnie Tyler has died
The people in this thread are sundowning. They’ll upvote absolutely anything that reminds them of their distant youth.
awnird··on Robert Mueller Has Died
The core demographic here is elderly American racists.
awnird··on Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution
Israel has killed more civilians than Russia and Iran combined.

I don’t think your concern for civilian casualties is genuine.

awnird··on Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution
Hey, you forgot “they hate us for our freedoms” in your propaganda spiel.
awnird··on US national debt surges past $39T just weeks into war in Iran
Many tens of millions of Americans and Israelis want it.
awnird··on Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car
The atrocities in Gaza are funded by, and sometimes even committed by, Americans. That’s why a predominantly American forum is interested in it.
awnird··on U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for "Armageddon,"
I don’t think that the richest and most powerful people on the planet are prisoners. That seems like a ridiculous take.
awnird··on U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for "Armageddon,"
If Americans didn't like their system then they would change it. Isn’t that their whole founding mythos?

I don’t think hundreds of millions of Americans are continually being duped. I think they actually like the system they’ve built, and the outcomes that system produces.

awnird··on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
Americans are bloodthirsty freaks. Killing people is always popular with Americans.
awnird··on DOJ withheld Epstein files related to allegations Trump sexually abused a minor
It hasn’t affected his support at all. It really seems like most Americans actually just support raping kids.
awnird··on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan launches dark-money group to influence CA politics
Garry is chummy with musk and trump. His motivation here is to protect the pedophile class.
awnird··on Denmark sends military reinforcements to Greenland
I’m less interested in what Americans say than in what they actually do.
awnird··on Minneapolis driver shot and killed by ICE
Garry Tan is the owner of this site, and is a vocal fascist.
awnird··on Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%
Does Brave actually block ads now? Or does it still replace them with ads for scanmy cryptocurrency?
awnird··on There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout
Probably just a coincidence that Garry Tan and Marc Andreseen have so publicly aligned themselves with a cabal of pedophiles.
awnird··on [dead]
This is really embarrassing dude
awnird··on America is now one big bet on AI
https://archive.is/8Hyt8
awnird··on White House posts "enemies list" of Democrats critical of ICE
A civil war would require a second side. There's nothing here but enthusiastic support from bloodthirsty nazi freaks.
awnird··on White House posts "enemies list" of Democrats critical of ICE
Feels crazier that there is literally zero resistance to it.

Really drives home that the median American is a bloodthirsty nazi freak.

awnird··on U.S. Military Strikes Drug Vessel from Venezuela, Killing 11
The people aboard certainly are. If you're ok with these people being murdered, I guess you'll be ok when it happens to you.
awnird··on Producer Price Index News Release Summary
"Product detail: A quarter of the July advance in the index for final demand goods can be traced to prices for fresh and dry vegetables, which jumped 38.9 percent"
awnird··on New research finds that ivermectin could help control malaria transmission
Some Americans literally bought and consumed horse medicine because they thought it would cure covid. That’s not misinformation.
awnird··on Hulk Hogan Has Died
Elderly American racists is HNs core demographic
awnird··on Voting age to be lowered to 16 in UK by next general election
If the elderly with no skin in the game are allowed to vote, then children should be allowed to vote.

To be clear, I'm ok with disallowing children to vote if we also disallow the elderly. But if one group can vote, its only fair that the other group can as well.

awnird··on ICE lawyers are hiding their names in court
https://archive.is/LrjPb
awnird··on A CarFax for Used PCs: Hewlett Packard wants to give old laptops new life
I would love to see a program like this succeed. There are huge hurdles in getting partners though.

The strength of Carfax is the enormous number of data sources they use, and the enormous amount of money they pay for access to those sources. A typical Carfax report can include data from the OEM, dealership, government agencies, police agencies, insurance companies, and repair shops (both big groups and small independent shops).

Even if HP is willing to put in the money and effort making connections to secure data sources, it relies on those data sources wanting to play ball, rather than trying to build their own siloed approach.

It's certainly a noble goal, and I hope there is some kind of consumer groundswell to enable a program like this. I also hope, that like Carfax, there are eventually standards for the data, allowing competing services to exist.

awnird··on Before Tragedy, Texas Repeatedly Rejected Pleas for Flood Alarm Funding
The alert system in Texas is optimized for "Blue Alerts", to warn people that a cop 250 miles away stubbed their toe.
awnird··on In a milestone for Manhattan, a pair of coyotes has made Central Park their home
At a certain point if you keep getting outdoor cats you’re making a conscious choice to keep feeding coyotes.
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