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peppers-ghost··on Tourist in US chained 'like Hannibal Lecter'
Some of the people that got dragged to Guantanamo didn't even have charges
peppers-ghost··on Tourist in US chained 'like Hannibal Lecter'
If you're a human and in the US physically you are guaranteed due process by the constitution. This is being trampled on by the powers that be.
peppers-ghost··on Tourist in US chained 'like Hannibal Lecter'
Which other country is deporting people to concentration camps controlled by the military on foreign land?
peppers-ghost··on Tourist in US chained 'like Hannibal Lecter'
It's luck of the draw with those guys. The job attracts people with nationalistic/fascist mindsets and if you look a certain way you can expect to be treated worse than others.
peppers-ghost··on Tourist in US chained 'like Hannibal Lecter'
I think the press cares about it because each aspect of it is getting worse. People coming into the country no longer have due process and can't see lawyers now.
peppers-ghost··on Tourist in US chained 'like Hannibal Lecter'
I can't imagine why anyone would read this and think it's a good idea to come to the US for any reason in this current climate. There's nothing here worth seeing if it means you're going to be tortured for the opportunity.
peppers-ghost··on Tesla loses ground as Chinese EVs dominate global markets
There's no such thing as a free market
peppers-ghost··on Tesla Hate Is Making Insurance More Expensive for Owners
It would be if anyone cared to do anything about it. It's not even legal to modify trucks to fart out black smoke like that to begin with but it's never stopped them from doing it. Cops do not care about that issue.
peppers-ghost··on Y Combinator urges the White House to support Europe's Digital Markets Act
The constitution does not only apply to citizens. If you're in the US you are supposed to have freedom of speech.
peppers-ghost··on A look at Firefox forks
Having one browser engine dominate the web is not a good thing. If there was ever a terrible zero day found everyone would be in trouble.
peppers-ghost··on Tesla created secret team to suppress driving range complaints (2023)
Fraud is being pretty heavily normalized. The crypto space model is what all things are moving to imo with the feds being dismantled
peppers-ghost··on Federal workers ordered to return to offices without desks, Wi-Fi and lights
I'm not even sure it's true Russia is doing this. I think our elected officials might just be really stupid on their own.
peppers-ghost··on The top 10% owns 87% of the stocks
I honestly would prefer moving there but it's pretty hard to attain citizenship. I believe the US is going to collapse and potentially balkanize in the coming years and don't want to witness it firsthand.
peppers-ghost··on The top 10% owns 87% of the stocks
China's economy is more state owned than not. The private market is strictly controlled with socialist ideology. The difference between Chinese markets and liberal markets is that the state there controls the capitalists, in the US the capitalists control the state.
peppers-ghost··on The top 10% owns 87% of the stocks
How's China's Marxist-Leninist society working out right now? Last I checked their economy was on pace to grow larger than the US.
peppers-ghost··on Dutch software firm Bird to leave Europe due to onerous regulations in AI era
I wonder what regulations they take issue with specifically. Shame the article didn't expand on that.
peppers-ghost··on Louisiana to end mass vaccine promotion, state's top health official says
We've gotta be the dumbest empire in history
peppers-ghost··on FEMA: Never donate clothing (it is never needed)
Imagine you go through a natural disaster and someone donates bedbug infested clothing
peppers-ghost··on 47% of 160 Top Selling Protein Powders Tested Exceed P65 Limit for Toxic Metals [pdf]
There's def a probability of conflict of interest but I haven't found a better site. Are you aware of one?
peppers-ghost··on Ask HN: Industry Wide Strike for Worker Protection?
Bold to propose such a thing in a haven of libertarians and temporarily embarrassed billionaires
peppers-ghost··on 47% of 160 Top Selling Protein Powders Tested Exceed P65 Limit for Toxic Metals [pdf]
Fear of retaliation is why they're not naming and shaming. I use labdoor.com for any supplements because they show their work.
peppers-ghost··on Orbit by Mozilla
if you use Linux you can run Gnome web which also uses Webkit as it's engine. You can also build webkit yourself if you want to run it on Windows.
peppers-ghost··on Walmart employees now wearing body cameras
You can ask someone their zip code and you can figure out from that their chance of being in prison during their life compared to others. Crime is almost entirely an economic issue. There's no reason to bring genetics into this.

Whether anyone deserves it, vengeance has never been an effective deterrent to crime. This is why most countries focus on rehabilitation rather than just torturing people. The US will never learn this lesson.

peppers-ghost··on Walmart employees now wearing body cameras
We already imprison more people than any other country on earth.
peppers-ghost··on Fighting bad capitalism with good capitalism in healthcare, company idea?
I think you're well intentioned and I appreciate that, but the biggest problems with health insurance/healthcare in the US are so well entrenched I don't think it can be fixed short of tearing it down and rebuilding. My suggestion would be to reach out to a law firm you trust and go over your ideas to see if they'd be viable.
peppers-ghost··on Fighting bad capitalism with good capitalism in healthcare, company idea?
There is no good capitalism in the health insurance field. Every dollar of revenue that goes to the insurer is a dollar not going to patient care. Best case you're a friendly parasitic middleman.
peppers-ghost··on ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials
Our tax money is funding these atrocities. I felt the same way about the genocide in Yemen.

>Around the world, countless marginalized groups face equally dire or even worse conditions and would welcome similar support from these people

I don't think this is true. The majority of people dying of or suffering from starvation on earth right now are in Gaza.

>Yet, these so-called human rights advocates remain willfully ignorant of anyone or anything happening outside of the US and the Israel/Palestine conlflict.

You have blinders on if you think this is the case.

>Given this, how can anyone take these protesters seriously when they exhibit a groupthink mentality, lacking self-awareness or critical thinking, and behaving more like zombies than independent thinkers?

I'd rather you didn't take us seriously if you're not going to fully understand our goals or reasons for our beliefs.

peppers-ghost··on ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials
"confirmed" data from Gaza at the moment is unreliable. The people who were doing the counting have either been killed or cleansed from the area. The official death toll is still around 40k despite the reality being closer to 100-200k.
peppers-ghost··on Show HN: Cardo ‒ Open Source desktop podcast client
Hey thanks for making this. I've been looking for something that would sync with Antennapod.
peppers-ghost··on The Onion buys Infowars
Infowars is being sold, along with his other assets because he's going bankrupt. He's not getting anything from the proceeds.
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