butterbomb

Oddly enough though, my journey into computers was greatly assisted by my curiosity at random log files that were being dumped to my desktop constantly.

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47277727

None of those are tech

> They'll kick you to the curb and remove democracy since any real democracy is a direct threat to them.

Not a threat, these people rarely feel truly threatened, but an obstruction.

> I thought this was going to be about someone that wanted to go to jail in order to receive meals and/or healthcare.

Tbf, there’s probably an easier way to achieve that goal that involves much less serious charges than breaking into the jail lol.

Ah that makes sense. Was something changed recently to enable this? I’ve certainly seen employer health insurance discounts for not smoking for years, but the complete ban, listed in a job application, and explicitly including cessation aids feels like something I’ve only seen in recent years.

Funny. At least since Covid, I’ve noticed a number of employers, often at municipalities or other governments, but sometimes at private companies, are adding terms that employees cannot use any nicotine products whatsoever. What’s even stranger is the always go out of their way to explicitly note that non tobacco cessation aids are not allowed either. Seems like pure virtue signaling, though at least one person has suggested to me that the companies engaging in this are serious and go as far as blood testing.

It is good proof the mods lie about moderation though. Regardless of what you think of this particular user, I’ve seen dang jump down even long time user’s throats for much less.

> Hot take: AMBER alert is a way to keep the public paranoid about child abduction by strangers, an evil but extremely rare act

I thought they were mostly custody style kidnappings anyway.

> how do they implement this?

Centralized power and being unafraid to use authoritarian tactics. Also the general cultural ethos of the people.

> Put on your tinfoil hat and ask yourself: why is that suddenly a topic in so many different countries?

Ooh I know, the elite classes across the globe have been exposed as degenerate pedophile subhumans. Knowing the information would release soon, they began to coordinate this campaign to provide lip service virtue signaling about child predation while also tightening their grip on the underclasses before it gets too heated.

> Wouldn't unvaccinated people and outbreaks strengthen my case for ICE and dumping these people into quarantined facilities?

Way to discriminate against neurotypicals.

> people crowing about how much time they are getting back

Trust me, if it wasn’t for RTO, I probably would be lol.

Probably enough to live amongst the lower middle class till carpetbagger real estate speculation and the general clown economy push you back to the rust belt shithole from which you came.

Well then it sounds like I’ll be free of my problems soon enough

God, maybe I could buy if it it came with significant work to repair US education and investment in a domestic science workforce, but unfortunately in the US, these nationalist waves have to also come with a strong air of anti-intellectualism.

It’s less about any of that. It’s more that I’m glad I won’t have to hear them deify the constitution anymore because they don’t care for it much anymore.

> Not only they voted all of this, but keep believing this paranormal constitutional nonsense where winner-takes-all elections where you rule under no oversight, you have no opposition, and don't even depend on your own party support is actually a sane democratic system.

Honestly I’ve been filled schadenfreude with as the American civic religion collapse. Even the right is giving it up as they view it as too obstructionist.

The silver lining in all this is that the American people might come out a bit less retarded. It’s been fascinating to see the explosion of political thought amongst Americans in the last few years.

> The wild thing is that America pretends itself that it is a meritocracy while

If you haven’t been paying attention, the elite have give up on that lie. They know it’s indefensible to even the dumbest Americans anymore.

Additionally the risk is over. The American people are so disgustingly impotent, they no longer need to placate them with lies of meritocracy and other false values. They can now transparently tell you “we will rule you as we wish and face no consequences”. The Epstein saga solidifies this.

> If the standard is historical continuity, Jews are indigenous to that land. Their sovereignty was interrupted by conquest. It was not invented in the 20th century.

Cool, I guess I need to find wherever my ancestors lived 3000 years ago. Turns out. I have a claim to it still!

> Only I’m not exactly sure what constituency will support this war.

The remaining neocons who have surprisingly managed to weasel their way back into influence.

It’s more like “might makes right” I think, and it’s not really me embracing it, as much as realizing this is the ideology of our ruling elites and they aren’t afraid to be frank about it anymore.

> it's only available for big corporations because as a self-employed, it's close to 30%.

Well maybe instead of complaining you should simply just generate more economic value. If Meta disappeared tomorrow it would hit the US economy, if you disappeared tomorrow it wouldn’t even be noticeable in the stock market.

> How did we get so religious/narcissistic so quickly and as a whole?

We built a behemoth that rewards attention whoring and anti social behavior with money.

> Burger King is not in the "too big to fail" category.

How the hell have they survived this long. It’s consistently been the worst fast food burger restaurant I’ve been across the various states I’ve lived.

Same as with any other: delusion

More likely a mass grave

NYC police seem insane lmao. For some reason various precinct accounts have made it into my social media feed, and the last time I saw the they were bragging about stealing some old ladies less lethal defense weapon.

> I got laid a few days ago from McDonalds as I'm too old (40) and too slow to compete with youngsters

I’m guessing that it’s less of you being too slow, and more of you not being as impressionable as younger people

Unfortunately your attack plan was discovered when an AI system connected to speaker outside flagged a private conversation you were having as a domestic terroist risk and a swarm of Amazon Secuirty (tm) drones have to been dispatched to paint the concrete with your brain before you even get to the data center.

It doesn’t come with a ton of PII you can sell to data brokers.