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monero-xmron Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems

Having bare minimum protections against invalid voters, illegal immigrants or otherwise, is a basic precaution that every country on Earth except America does. The honor system we have here is absurdly lenient. I understand the Democrat desire to oppose everything Trump proposes, but imagine if in The Netherlands you can waltz in and say you are this person or that person, without any ID check whatsoever. Europeans might not realize this but that is literally the American system.

I totally grant that the fraud Trump is claiming is way off the mark. But why not just... require ID to vote? At least in federal elections? The lack of verification is the exact reason why the lies continue

monero-xmron US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional

FYI you can also grow psychedelic mushrooms at home in all 50 states legally. The precursors are legal

monero-xmron Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story

I don’t see the harm of insider trading. I would make the trades public and mark someone as an insider. The “cat and mouse” game played now leaves for endless suspicion

monero-xmron Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story

If I use a drone to look over a fence to count the amount of inputs and outputs of a factory, and only I know this, it is perfectly legal for me to trade on it. Not insider trading! I'm just a really good information-finder and I'm morally just in how clever I am at finding an edge.

If I work at the company and count the inputs and outputs, and trade on it, I am a morally bankrupt scumbag and I have hurt society and all of the traders in the market.

Hmmmmmmm

monero-xmron Tell HN: Apple development certificate server seems down?

The only thing worse is trying to get a denied Google Play review to change… considering you can’t even provide a comment to the reviewer objecting to your update

monero-xmron Oracle may slash up to 30k jobs to fund AI data-centers as US banks retreat

Perhaps white collar employees have felt jobs not conducted in an office are beneath them. Because a wide range of physical jobs pay a lot more than office work already

monero-xmron Oracle may slash up to 30k jobs to fund AI data-centers as US banks retreat

If there is a need that people pay for, and it took 10 people, and technology comes and it can now be done by 1 person, that is a great thing. That’s not a bad thing at all. That’s exactly how the world progresses forwards. Everyone can get the need met, and at a cheaper cost, while freeing the other 9 people to do something else useful.

That is why we have the standard of living we have today

monero-xmron Oracle may slash up to 30k jobs to fund AI data-centers as US banks retreat

I heard this canard my entire life. It’s been said for centuries. If you want maximum employment pass a law that says all grass must be cut with scissors. Otherwise let productivity gains diffuse out - that’s the only way to increase true wealth

monero-xmron Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions

I haven’t seen any evidence of an army of agents producing unicorn companies. If this was the case we’d see a rash of < 10 employee startups being worth $1 billion, and to my knowledge that’s zero

monero-xmron Physicists developing a quantum computer that’s entirely open source

The first QC that decrypts previously undecipherable text will have incalculable value to the government that surrounds it. QC companies are bullshit because they will take whatever free non-gov money they can, why not? They exist to absorb government money, rightly so, but their public profile is simply to get money from private sector sources

monero-xmron A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification

They also created an open air market for child prostitutes with their latest anti-arrest law, as observed by the NYT last November https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/insider/sex-trafficking-m...

monero-xmron Fentanyl makeover: Core structural redesign could lead to safer pain medications

Can enforce sales limits with IDs and computers

monero-xmron Fentanyl makeover: Core structural redesign could lead to safer pain medications

If only there was anything different between 125 years ago and now!

monero-xmron Number of UK workers on zero-hours contracts hits record high ahead of crackdown

The UK is poor and getting poorer every year. People simply don’t start companies there. Making the labor market even worse isn’t going to fix the structural issues that are reducing living standards year after year

monero-xmron Fentanyl makeover: Core structural redesign could lead to safer pain medications

To be honest I would prefer addicts could get heroin prescribed. The primary danger of street drugs is the inconsistent purity and chemicals it’s cut with. If it was pharmaceutical grade and everyone prescribed was on a list, we would have fewer overdoses and a better understanding of who to put in treatment

monero-xmron Why isn't LA repaving streets?

Hmmm probably the only thing I’ve consistently noticed around the US is they can pave highways and roads very quickly. That’s the American skill: tons of sprawl and highways. You may have been confusing road repaving with gas or water pipe replacement

monero-xmron U.S. Cannot Legally Impose Tariffs Using Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974

America is a global superpower. Trump is not bound by laws, anymore than Bush 1 and 2 were restricted in Iraq, LBJ in Vietnam, FDR in everything, and on and on. It really doesn’t matter. Some loophole will be found. It’s meaningless

Elect a new president who decides they care again about restrictions on American trade. Your only hope

monero-xmron A Botnet Accidentally Destroyed I2P

Computers are so fast it doesn’t matter

monero-xmron Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras

https://x.com/arthurmacwaters/status/2015533344914878923?s=4...

Maybe we just incarcerate you permanently once you have 31 arrests

monero-xmron Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras

Non-developed countries do not have functional law enforcement and they are highly corrupt, so any statistics outside of developed countries should be ignored.

For developed countries, none but America have such high levels of immigration nor the racial diversity America has. It is much easier to convince society to promote high-trust empathetic solutions when society is racially homogenous and shares cultural background. It’s impossible to compare America to any European country, although soon it may be possible if immigration continues

monero-xmron Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras

Sure but as long as we are on the same page about aggressively pursuing and incarcerating violent criminals

monero-xmron Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras

This may be hard to accept - but there are some people who can’t help themselves. They are career criminals and even when presented with honest work they still choose to commit crimes. There exist sociopaths who don’t feel empathy or remorse, and are driven by their own desires and needs regardless of the cost to other people and society. They cannot be rehabilitated. They need to be locked in a cage forever. Society has known about these people since civilization began

monero-xmron Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras

I’m glad you agree we need to aggressively prosecute violent crime, which is something that is not aggressively pursued in my large blue American city

monero-xmron Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras

Why would you want someone who commits a violent crime to avoid prison?

monero-xmron Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras

The vast majority of crimes are committed by a small percentage of people. The real issue is prosecutors who refuse to incarcerate repeat offenders. But having video evidence is a powerful tool for a motivated prosecutor to actually take criminals off the streets

monero-xmron Facebook is cooked

All of those topics can be found other places if you look, then it updates your algorithm. I mean vaccine skepticism? Youtube and instagram have a million videos

monero-xmron Facebook is cooked

I actually think it's because reddit is supported by a vast group of unpaid labor (moderators) and conspiratorially I believe they (actually) get paid by NGOs and governments to push narratives and suppress others. Although denied (poorly) it is very likely ghislaine maxwell was one of the most powerful moderators of reddit, modding hundreds of subreddits including r/worldnews, up until the day she was arrested

Last comment June 28, 2020 https://old.reddit.com/user/maxwellhill/comments/

Arrested July 2 2020 https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/ghislaine-maxwell-charg...

One of the most powerful accounts suddenly stops activity, never to return

monero-xmron Facebook is cooked

Reddit is so insufferably political now it's insane. Like why do 3d printing subreddits need to stand with (insert leftist outrage of Gaza / Israel / Ice / Canada / on and on)

monero-xmron Warren Buffett dumps $1.7B of Amazon stock

They could just increase prices. They deliver fast (often same day) and always accept my returns. Add 5% to prices, pure margin.

monero-xmron Unprecedented 'Jobless Boom' Tests Limits of US Economic Expansion

I truly believe the goal is to bring blue cities back to the 70s through 90s. Dangerous, gritty, dilapidated, horrible schools, corrupt government. But it will be cheap to rent and artsy 20 year olds / older homosexuals without children will enjoy it