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It's not just brilliant, it's earth-shattering.

Please double your prices, at minimum. (And port to Linux, so I can use it. Just CLI would be great.)

Also see physics: "quarks," "strange," "charm"

Yes. It's a horrible sentiment, and he should be able to air it. Free and open discourse requires me to allow you to say things I dislike in exchange for you tolerating my saying things you dislike. It isn't free speech if you're only allowed to say popular things.

You can't expect people to express themselves freely when a single mistatement could land them in prison.

Dunn was jailed eight weeks for posting three memes:

> Prosecutor George Shelley said Dunn had posted three separate images. The first one showed a group of men, Asian in appearance, at Egremont crab fair 2025, with the caption: “Coming to a town near you.”

> The second also showed a group of men, Asian in appearance leaving a boat on to Whitehaven beach. This, said Mr Shelley, had the caption: “When it’s on your turf, then what?”

> A final image showed a group of men, again Asian in appearance, wielding knives in front of the Palace of Westminster. There was also a crying white child in a Union flag T-shirt. This was also captioned, said Mr Shelley, with the wording: “Coming to a town near you.”

https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/24513379.sellafield-worke...

Those examples are completely inoccuous to my sensibilities. Of course, there are plenty of countries that lack the broad speech protections Americans enjoy, but one doesn't expect such curtailments of personal liberty in a fellow English-speaking western "liberal" democracy.

You can't rush enshittification.

That quote from Google is 2.5 years old.

It wasn't obvious to me either. But we know the angles ABC, ABD, and DBE equal 180 degrees, as do the interior angles of triangle ABC. From that we can deduce that angle BAC = angle DBE, from which it follows that angle ABC = angle BDE.

That's not true. Who told you that?

If you're a tech worker who would like to improve your social skills or overcome mild to moderate social anxiety, I can whole-heartedly recommend working as a server nights and weekends for a few months. As a server, you will always have a clear purpose guiding each interaction, eliminating the sometimes intimidating open-endedness of more casual settings. But you'll be constantly talking to people, and you'll meet all kinds. You'll also have many opportunities to have structured and unstructured interactions with coworkers. It's a fantastic way to get in lots of reps in a short time.

We're concerned with society's safety, not just that of the user.

Citation needed on your second paragraph. We deliberately shape the information environment all the time for different reasons. It can be done. Of course there are limitations, drawbacks, and objections that reasonable people can make for philosophical, pragmatic, and other reasons. But the media generally does not report suicides because of the copycat effect. Governments implement elaborate systems to guard sensitive national security information including the workings of certain advanced technologies. Criminal records can be expunged. The sharing of health and education records are restricted.

What do you expect from a bit-spitting clanker?

Modulated signals flow

> Let’s put aside that this isn’t good for the end user, as it openly admits the whole point of solar is great profit, rather than savings for the end user.

The whole point of capitalism is that in a well-regulated, open, competitive market, an ecosystem of companies pursuing maximum profit drive down each other's profit margins as they compete for a limited pool of consumers. In other words, it is precisely the profit motive that creates savings for the end user.

Donations from multiple foundations, most of which were created by people long dead, are hardly comparable to ownership by a wealthy, living business magnate.

Where are the class action law suits?

Lead used to be in paint and gasoline, so the top soil of entire cities were adulterated with lead in the last century.

The indigenous people of Palestine did not start this conflict. They did not choose to be colonized by Jews fleeing persecution in Eastern Europe.

Gaza has been under blockade since 2007, and the roots of the conflict date back to the founding of the Zionist Organization by Theodor Herzl in 1897 with the purpose to facilitate the escape of Jews from persecution in Eastern Europe by establishing a colony in Palestine. Israel has persecuted the indigenous people of Palestine ever since.

Famine is not an inevitable outcome of war. It is the inevitable outcome of Israel's deliberate actions to limit access to food, which are well-documented.

OP didn't specify decreasing government employees. They said decreasing government. And DOGE was promised to cut federal spending. In any case, I wasn't addressing DOGE, but the specific assertion that most people want less government.

> But most Americans want the government reduced...

Citation needed. Do elderly Americans selling their every worldly possession to pay for home healthcare after a medical crisis want reduced or increased government? Do single mothers unable to afford childcare want reduced or increased government? Do the people in Granbury, Texas suffering health effects from the noise of a Bitcoin mine want reduced or increased government? Do the Trump voters who want to round up and deport every last undocumented immigrant want reduced or increased government? Do the families stuck sending their chilren to failing urban schools want reduced or increased government? Do veterans struggling to access healthcare want reduced or increased government? Do consumers paying inflated prices to a proliferation of monopolies and private equity roll-ups want reduced or increased government?

I see routine bad faith in:

- politicians of both parties (eg, speaking disingenously on issues of relevance to their corporate sponsors)

- corporations

- judges, including in the Supreme Court, who abandon espoused judicial philosophies the moment they conflict with political expediency

- government administrators, much more so with Trump's appointments

- media organizations (The self-censorship of coverage around Gaza has been eye-opening.)

You should never argue with an LLM. Adjust the original prompt and rerun it.

The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem determined that it is a genocide in a report released September 16: https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/israel-has-c...

> The incredible vast majority of people in the world are acting in good faith.

We have fundamentally different priors.

Both can be bad. The NYT absolutely publishes some slop from time to time, and I'm inclined to believe this is one such occasion. But this Substack essay isn't a measured correction and has its own mistruths and exaggerations. In other words, there's a middle ground between total credulity and solipsistic nihilism.

You're strawmaning the socialist view. The stealman version is that people who are feeling economic pain are more likely to want to do something about it, and may be primed to develop class consciousness and become politically mobilized. Socialists generally consider material conditions to be more important than identitarian concerns, which in their view, are often used as a wedge to divide working class people who might otherwise be united by their common economic interests. They don't think poor people are somehow magically less likely to be bigots.