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  1. Re:Stop asking these questions. on Proposed Bill Would Force Arizonians To Pay $250 To Have Their DNA Added To a Database (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0

    That's exactly what I take issue with. People need to stop pretending care about this shit. The entire political process in every Western nation is currently nothing but a work of theater. Farming peoples' impotent outrage is now a booming industry in its own right.

    If you don't care, you need to stop pretending to care. All anyone does by futile protest is indirectly give more money to the people enacting the oppressive policies.

  2. Stop asking these questions. on Proposed Bill Would Force Arizonians To Pay $250 To Have Their DNA Added To a Database (gizmodo.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    People consider questioning things dangerous. It isn't. Question marks are the only weapon people are willing to use against this problem. It's a problem that isn't going away until you use guns instead. If you're not willing to engage in terrorist acts against the perpetrators of these abuses, just shut up about them.

  3. This kind of thing doesn't happen in a system you can vote your way out of. Buy a rifle. You're probably right in thinking you won't solve the problem with it, but "live free or die" is the only way anyone ever lived free.

  4. Re:The luxury of asking that question.. on Ask Slashdot: Is It Ethical To Purchase Electronics Products Made In China? · · Score: 2

    I can count the number of American products I bought in the past five years on that many fingers. I'm willing to bet it's the same for you. Currently, #2 means we still have one factory left, somewhere. And there's another one we could get running in a week if it weren't cheaper to buy shit from China.

  5. Re:The luxury of asking that question.. on Ask Slashdot: Is It Ethical To Purchase Electronics Products Made In China? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Remember when America made things?

    Yeah, neither do I, but my parents keep talking about it.

  6. It's not ethical to live in the US at all on Ask Slashdot: Is It Ethical To Purchase Electronics Products Made In China? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    gonna keep doing it though because my life is really just a huge list of accidents anyway

  7. This is a problem humanity is causing that it could fix. However, because greens try to get people to swallow the lie that global warming also is, very few people are going to believe that. So, nothing will be done, and the ecosystem may actually collapse. Nice.

  8. Don't other carriers have standing to sue? on Apple Just Endorsed AT&T's Fake 5G E Network (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    This misleading advertising damages their business because they aren't doing it, and the confusion it will cause will slow adoption of actual 5G once anyone makes it.

  9. Re:Robots what now? on Engineers Create a Robot That Can 'Imagine' Itself (eurekalert.org) · · Score: 1

    I really wish people would stop this.

    If we make the robots to be smarter than we are, why would we expect them to be evil? Those are related. The robots will be good guys if we show them the love they deserve.

  10. Wait... I'm getting a message from the future... on H-1B Visa Lottery Will Now Favor Masters, Doctorate Degree Holders (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It's from white-collar liberals... it says... "DEY DURK ARE DURRR"

    whatever could that mean

  11. Nasim Aghdam did nothing wrong. on YouTube Strikes Now Being Used As Scammers' Extortion Tool (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    We should all follow suit. The most important public venue for expression and debate gets shittier every day because Google cares about ads and not people.

  12. Permanent martial law hasn't been declared. on Ask Slashdot: What Could Go Wrong In Tech That Hasn't Already Gone Wrong? · · Score: 1

    It largely seems like the threat of it happening at any time has been enough to control the populace.

  13. No you fucking didn't. on 'I Got Death Threats For Writing a Bad Review of Aquaman' (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody likes Aquaman. Everyone knows this.

  14. It was nearly dead when they bought it. on Is Disney's Star Wars Franchise In Trouble? (cosmicbook.news) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Dumbest investment Disney has ever made, hands down. The only way it could ever reasonably expect to be brought back is if they gave projects in or before the Old Republic era a real budget and kept identity politics as far away from the marketing as possible.

  15. "not necessarily" on How Etsy Sellers and Big Business Make Money on Public Domain Art (vice.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It is good, without qualification. Anyone who is aware of how many things are gone forever because it was made effectively illegal to preserve them wants a bunch of no-talent hacks keeping old works alive as much as possible.

  16. Re: If it's a Netflix original... on Netflix Sued By 'Choose Your Own Adventure' Publishers Over Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (polygon.com) · · Score: 0

    opinion discarded

  17. Re: If it's a Netflix original... on Netflix Sued By 'Choose Your Own Adventure' Publishers Over Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    You could've watched Castlevania. It's not Netflix's fault you make bad decisions.

  18. Re: disruptions lead to loss of jobs on Yellow Vests Knock Out 60 Percent of All Speed Cameras In France (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It would be easier to list what political violence isn't justified. We haven't lived in a functional republic for nearly a century.

  19. Definitely don't need to know Zurich's position on the matter, thanks for omitting it

  20. Re: disruptions lead to loss of jobs on Yellow Vests Knock Out 60 Percent of All Speed Cameras In France (bbc.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Evidently, they believe there are more important things than having a job. It'd be nice if Americans thought that way.

  21. Re:Broken by design. on The First Basic Income Experiment in Germany Will Start in 2019 (basicincome.org) · · Score: 1

    I have been on food stamps for years, and have been surrounded by others on the program my entire life. I have only ever heard of people selling their food stamps for frivolous bullshit third-hand. The people who make decisions that poor tend not to live long enough to a major liability.

  22. Re:Broken by design. on The First Basic Income Experiment in Germany Will Start in 2019 (basicincome.org) · · Score: 1

    It needs to be unconditional, something you don't have with a pilot program where you need to pick people to participate. Part of the reason UBI is an important idea is that it doesn't come with the overhead of determining and verifying eligibility. It needs to be permanent. Five easy years isn't enough to fit college or a mortgage into.

  23. Re:Broken by design. on The First Basic Income Experiment in Germany Will Start in 2019 (basicincome.org) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yes, they are failing by design. Have you paid a sliver of attention to the structure of these things? They are always built with limits and targeting that make them not at all similar to UBI except for the "free money" part. The entire point of these trials is to discredit the concept of UBI through misdirection.

    If you think there is any skill that won't be automated in the next five to twenty years, you are insane. There will still be jobs, but they will be fake jobs in which the wealthy are "assisted" by AI rather than replaced by it, to justify their continually rising status. If we don't start shooting soon, income inequality is going to be allowed to increase until there are two types of people: the ones going to Mars, and the ones who will die of orbital bombardment a generation later.

  24. Broken by design. on The First Basic Income Experiment in Germany Will Start in 2019 (basicincome.org) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The program is similar to the one now ending in Finland, which means it will fail on purpose and there will not be a permanent UBI program in Germany and by extension the EU.

    The people who run the world have announced their intention to starve us to death when our jobs are automated. If you live somewhere it's legal, buy guns.

  25. These systems were destroyed before Boomers started retiring. They cheered on that destruction because they were making enough money that they didn't need any of it. Now they can't retire because there's nothing under them as a direct result of their own actions. They'll doubtlessly find a way to blame their kids for it.