ah good point. He reads “mature and excellent at communication” as a self-description. After that, there’s absolutely no way he can resist writing himself into both characters.

Impressive how someone can be so bad at writing after writing so, so much.

“Somebody must be doing something.” - everyone lol. The US is cooked, maybe not immediately but say goodbye to hegemony, goodbye to whatever shred of upward mobility remained, and goodbye to the possibility of retirement.

the funny thing about this quote is that you can post it under anything mildly outrageous and tons of people will go “mhmmm yes that’s me the critical thinker” regardless of their actual mental faculties.

can you imagine being a Democrat congressperson who actually wants to do something useful for people and having to listen to this? I’d probably just resign.

ooh look at you, so smart!

hey hey hey, at least the US is genociding brown people by proxy. You gotta give us that at least.

yeah but this isn’t about judicial review

but he did lower the crime rate

I don’t think I could ever recommend chromium-based browsers due to the MV3 switch. Does ungoogled-chromium do any patching to get around this? If not I think FF is the only sane option still.

I love how srid deflects by claiming no one has reported bad outcomes from the “meat and butter” diet… I found an endless stream of anecdotes from Google, like this.

can you imagine sneak, of all people, telling you you’re crazy and probably being right?

eh? I don’t see Jackie D’s keynote in the schedule, did the threat of a sit-in make them delete it? https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/ edit: oh, it’s linked from Drew’s post.

I bet if they restricted the survey entrants to people who actually write on LW, the score would have been far lower. Has a single article on there contained even a twinge of a useful idea?

h1-b visas make up a vanishingly small percent of the workforce. There are plenty of reasons to hate immigrants but this ain’t one.

Hey, you should learn about a simple concept known as “conflict of interest.” That might help you understand the position of others. Your education arguments are completely irrelevant.

fun fact, “most” real numbers have this property. If you were to mark each one on a number line, you’d fill the whole line out. Numbers that don’t have this property are vanishingly rare.

“People say their life sucks, but I looked at some numbers and actually they’re wrong!”

what a limp comment you have made. The post contains a treasure trove of insider information and specifics that paint a picture that is dire even to a jaded tech worker.

US forest service cuts thousands of jobs. Not to worry, the bright hackernews are on it! just install an AI data center in the forest!. Seriously though, I can’t tell if this is brilliant satire or not.

best we can do is 100 free chatgpt queries per month. If you can’t make a living from that you need to catch up.