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  1. Re:I'm actually a bit envious on The New Yorker on Linus Torvalds (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    Linus very rarely rips people a new asshole, and when he does they deserve it. If he was a shitty leader his project would have fallen apart years ago.

  2. Far too many people think that "the internet" means "the WWW" and get the idea that the Americans selfishly took credit for it.

    The internet was a better place before Europe inflicted us with the WWW.

  3. Re: How many times has this been threatened/Rumore on Alibaba To Set Up New Chip Company Amid Fear of US Tech Dependency (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know, man. That's a really good question. Why the hell are we in the business of defending Europe from...the Germans? Why isn't it Europe's responsibility? Why aren't they paying for themselves? They can't even pay the minimum 2%. They're cheapskates, and ungrateful ones at that. They repay our generosity with hateful rhetoric about how we are baby-killing monsters who need to get out of Europe. Yaknow, I agree with them.

    Do we really have something to lose as Americans if we pull back our external activity? The Cold War is over, and it seems the more fingers we have in pies like NATO, the Middle Eastern countries, and so forth, the more problems we create.

    Let Europe defend Europe. They are not incapable nascent and fragile democracies anymore. Giving Europe its self-determination is the mark of a true ally. Granted, it might mean compromises to their various social welfare states or tax increases because military might is expensive, but it is their decision to make.

  4. Again, you completely ignored my point that the nations of Europe do not contribute to their own defense. NATO is a military alliance, which means you have to have a military! European nations don't see any need for one, and why not? They have an idiot to pay for them! The money saved is h-u-g-e and they're able to fund generous welfare states as a result. That plus the $150 billion we give them in trade every year.

  5. The uncomfortable conclusion on AI Could Devastate the Developing World (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    After another 30-50 years when we finally have robotics and AI, we simply won't need workers any more. Robots will do the job of all but a few of the working class, and AI will do the job of all but a few of the middle class. There will be a small number of people necessary, and the rest will be superfluous. So what to do with all these useless eaters?

    I see it ending badly. The ruling class isn't going to have any of it. Throughout history, they always considered us deplorable but always needed us to create their wealth for them. Sort of like how a farmer might not like his animals, but needs them. So he has to feed them, tend fields for them, heal them when they're sick, etc., regardless of how he feels about them. But what happens when the farmer gets robot animals that produce just as well as the regular kind, but don't need hugely expensive housing or hospitals or EBT cards?

    Especially considering the negative impact that massive numbers of humans have on the environment, and the negative outcomes that occur when these humans are allowed to vote their own interests (Brexit, Italexit, Trump) then I just don't get why we'll be allowed to continue in the current way. Once automated weapons can be commanded directly without all those generals, colonels, captains, sergeants and privates being required, our ruling class can at last do whatever it wants without restriction. It will be a great day for them, the realization of a dream thousands of years old. Imagine people like Donald Rumsfeld or Pol Pot able to implement their agendas with no restrictions.

  6. Re:The USA [slowly] losing its clout? I think so.. on Alibaba's Jack Ma Backs Down From Promise To Trump To Bring 1 Million Jobs to the US (cnbc.com) · · Score: 0

    It will be an excellent day when America gets kicked off the world stage. At last, we will be able to ignore the haters and start concentrating on ourselves again. Our people are hurting, badly. Our soldiers are sent off to die on insane missions aiding countries who hate us. Our wealth is exported and our workers abandoned. We commit war crimes on a regular basis.

    Remember that time Obama bombed the Doctors Without Borders hospital? It was the only time in history one Nobel Peace Prize winner bombed another Nobel Peace Prize winner. He then gunned down the fleeing doctors and patients. This is a war crime under the Nuremberg principles that got all those Nazis hanged. And America just declared defiance of the International Criminal Court, where Obama needs to be standing to answer for his crimes.

    America has set the world back hundreds of years socially and technologically. America is the greatest threat to the planet. The day that America falls will be declared a global holiday.

  7. Not at all. Allies aren't needed. In fact, they just make things more expensive. You know the only reason the USA has allies is due to massive, massive bribes right? America is the fat kid at the playground whose mom has to pay the other kids to play with her.

    If you want access to the gargantuan US market, then play by US rules. China has been exploiting the shit out of us for a long time, ever since those morons in the DC establishment decided to admit them to the WTO. The Chinese have made a mint, the DC establishment created a monster, and the American people paid for it all.

    Nobody wants to cooperate with the Americans unless they get paid. America can win this trade war on its own, because locking other countries out of the US market is basically a death sentence. The world exported its way to prosperity on the backs of the US worker.

  8. Re:The USA [slowly] losing its clout? I think so.. on Alibaba's Jack Ma Backs Down From Promise To Trump To Bring 1 Million Jobs to the US (cnbc.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    That network of allies has never been America's strength. The allies are worthless, only a couple of them are worth anything (Britain, Singapore, Australia, a few others). What most US allies do is leech off us, take our free defense while laughing all the way to the bank, and then call us baby-killing fascists because we have a military and they don't. The free lunch is coming to an end. If we have to pay to have allies, then fuck them.

    Isn't that what you wanted? Isn't that what you've been screaming about for years and decades? Stop bullying the world, America! Who told you you have the moral authority to play world police?

    Well, you're getting what you asked for, an America that's going to stop playing world police. I hope you're happy, but I seriously doubt it. I am starting to understand just what anti-Americanism really means. It doesn't mean pro-social justice or pro-equality or any of those things. It just means find out what the Americans are doing and take the opposite view. If the Americans want to dominate the world, then that's bad and we need to criticize it. If the Americans want to go home and dump our allies who think we're deplorable, then we need to criticize that, too. It's such a hateful ideology, but I guess we Americans deserve it. We're bad people. We need to stop oppressing the world, and under Trump that's exactly what we're going to do.

  9. We are required to pay Europe $150 billion every year for the privilege of trading with them. Imagine if it were the other way around and we profited from them instead. Wow, just think of what we could afford. Hell, if it were simply even, we'd be far better off.

    Remember Bernie Sanders' free college plan that was widely ridiculed as unaffordable? That was only $60 billion every year. Trump's wall is $25 billion once. And that's just trade, we also pay 80% of NATO while the Europeans laugh all the way to the bank. Then they call us baby-killing monsters because we protect them with our blood and treasure.

    We've been there for so long and taken care of everything for you for so long, that you grew to just count on it and you weren't very appreciative. You've lectured us for 70, well, 60 or so, years since it took some time to rebuild after everyone butt fucked the hell out of you for WWII, with no repercussions at all. Now there is a president putting America first and you don't know what to do. America is realizing that maybe we don't want to spend so much of our money protecting an ungrateful Europe and maybe Europe can do it for themselves for a change.

  10. The US pays 80% of NATO. Pay your fair share, you ungrateful cheapskates.

    I'm tired of carrying them on our backs to be quite honest. There is absolutely no reason why the Nations of the EU cannot meet their 2% GDP goals in NATO except they don't feel the need to. Meanwhile we're contributing 3.5%-4.0% to make up for their lack of commitment. World War II ended slightly under 73 years ago. At the time is made sense for us to remain spread across the EU nations to protect them while they rebuilt and recovered. We've been there long enough. It's time that the EU nations actually stand on their own two feet.

    Bring our troops home. Close most of our bases across the EU. Reduce our NATO contributions to 2% until every single member of the NATO alliance meets that same 2% threshold.

  11. Re: The long fall to Socialism on Rice University Says Middle-Class And Low-Income Students Won't Have To Pay Tuition (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Nobody mentioned race, buddy. That's all on you. Racists are always thinking about race. You just made a bunch of assumptions, constructed multiple strawmen, and then told me that's my position. That's so bad you do that, is that what smart people do?

    Conscientiousness is indeed what we're talking about. It's one of the Big 5 personality traits, along with Openness, Extroversion, Neuroticism, and Agreeableness. If I had to guess, I'd say you're low in agreeableness and openness, since you're quite aggressive and are closed-minded to new information. The Big 5 are replicable science. It's not something under debate. The only debate is if there are six factors instead of five. People who are high in intelligence and conscientiousness will do very well in life. Again, this isn't under debate. I'll just leave this here, but due to your closed-mindedness, I'm not sure how much good it will do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  12. Re:Bend over and grab your ankles.. on Despite Data Caps and Throttling, Industry Says Mobile Can Replace Home Internet (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    I love how fat-shaming is wrong, until you do it. Then it's OK. Weird, eh?

    It's almost as if we shouldn't depend on the federal government to do everything for us, and we should do it ourselves at the state and local level. Ajit Pai is the biggest argument in favor of this, don't you think? And what's one of Trump's signature positions? Devolving power from the dangerously over-powerful federal government down to the people.

  13. Re:How many times has this been threatened/Rumored on Alibaba To Set Up New Chip Company Amid Fear of US Tech Dependency (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    It's like how Germany and the rest of the NATO "allies" are threatening to increase their defense spending to the required 2% by 2024. It'll never happen, but it sounds good.

    Can anyone tell me why we have a military alliance with them? To have a military alliance, you have to have a military. They're just free riding on us and laughing all the way to the bank. They have nice things because they don't have to pay for defense. Then they sneer at us because we're militarist fascist baby-killers. Why do we not bring this to an end? It is clearly not an advantageous situation.

  14. Re:This extrovert thinks... on People Tend To Cluster Into Four Distinct Personality 'Types,' Says Study (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You can laugh all you want, but Big 5 personality traits are quite real. They are replicable science. James Damore was fired for pointing them out. When you silence a man, you do not prove him wrong, you only tell the world you fear what he has to say.

  15. Europeans have 1 month vacations because America grants Europe a massive $150 billion in subsidies in the form of horribly unfair trade deals. Moreover America pays for European defense, saving their countries another ton of cash. Imagine the nice things Americans could have if they didn't have to pay for a continent of ungrateful jerks.

  16. Movies are fiction. If you are getting your idea of real life from them no wonder you're a misogynist. Remember who makes these movies: people like Harvey Weinstein.

  17. Which celebrities lined up against Obama? They didn't even criticize him after he bombed a Doctors Without Borders hospital and gunned down the fleeing patients. Remember that? Why is he not standing trial in front of the ICC at The Hague for that?

  18. Re: The long fall to Socialism on Rice University Says Middle-Class And Low-Income Students Won't Have To Pay Tuition (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    You're missing conscientiousness. That, along with intelligence, predicts life outcomes. Low intelligence, high conscientiousness means you're the best janitor in the building. High intelligence, low conscientiousness means you're a WoW guild leader living in mom's basement. High both and you're an achiever. And human intelligence does indeed follow a bell curve. Facts over feelings.

  19. "Poetry is nobody's business except the poet's," wrote Philip Larkin, "and everybody else can fuck off."

    "Poetry is nobody's business except the poet's," wrote Philip Larkin, "and everybody else can fuck off."

    Instead of trying to appeal to general audiences, even educated ones, modern poets and artists try to appeal a small circle of people consisting of themselves, professional critics, and a small number of big-pocket patrons who, unlike the patrons of past classical art and literature, seek to distance themselves from the masses rather than win their approval. This has created a spiral where creatives try to constantly outdo each other in going against established norms and tastes by being controversial, offensive, or outright incomprehensible just for the sake of it.

    And they were largely successful at it: they created a "high culture" that reliably signal a certain upper-class/elite subculture, but is repulsive to all us peons, who instead consume what is disparagingly designated as "pop culture".

  20. Re:It's over on Linux Community To Adopt New Code of Conduct (kernel.org) · · Score: 1

    "We live in a meritocracy" is just a way for bigots to say "ciswhite hetmales are better than every other demographic" without sounding like an outright bigot.

    And, let's be honest, meritocracy is immediately debunked by 4 words.

    "Donald Trump is President"

  21. Re:or maybe less people can afford to eat out... on American Eating Habits Are Changing Faster than Fast Food Can Keep Up (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes but this allows us to look down on the deplorables. Isn't that what's important? Speak truth to the powerless!

  22. Re: The roof of these addictions on Addiction To Fortnite Cited In Over 200 Divorce Petitions (dailydot.com) · · Score: 2

    I said the attitude needs to die in a fire, genius. Way to deliberately misunderstand what I said, just because it made you feel bad.

    Things are better today than they have ever been in human history. Ever. And morons STILL can't think of anything to do but complain that everything isn't perfect. Boo-hoo-hoo. Jesus Christ, the ingratitude. The total lack of perspective.

  23. Re:So what? on Automation: The Exaggerated Threat of Robots (flassbeck-economics.com) · · Score: 1

    So what's changed? Where's this flowering of laws and civilized behavior? Where can you start a business and not be hounded into bankruptcy by the locals?

  24. CNN deceptively edited a rioter's speech. What she did was call for the rioters to move their rioting.

    > Burnin down shit ain't going to help nothin! Y'all burnin' down shit we need in our community. Take that shit to the suburbs. Burn that shit down! We need our shit! We need our weaves. I don't wear it. But we need it.

    Citation: https://twitter.com/DeeconX/st...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-8Cn6boqcA

    CNN apology:

    > We shorthanded sister's quote. Unintentionally gave the impression she was calling for peace everywhere.

    Unintentionally my ass.

    CNN Cuts Live Interview When Facts About Refugees Are Brought Up https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Fake protest staged by CNN film crew at London Bridge terrorist attack scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    CNN gets caught red-handed telling their focus group what to say https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    CNN conducts fake interview in parking lot https://www.theatlantic.com/na...

    Top 10 Times CNN Reported Fake News https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    CNN reporter's response when asked why CNN hadn't corrected false gun article: "not playing your game man." http://thefederalist.com/2017/...

    CNN threatens man into silence with threats of doxxing https://i.redd.it/jyw161j3wntz...

    CNN on family leave before and after Trump backed it https://imgoat.com/thumb/e296a...

    Media shows why it's so mistrusted after falsified Trump fish-feeding 'story' http://thehill.com/opinion/whi...
    CNN: Trump feeds fish, winds up pouring entire box of food into koi pond

    The CNN example includes edited video that zooms in on Trump to only show his face and prevents the viewer from seeing what Japanese Prime Minister Abe was doing at a key point of the short event.

    Why was Abe edited out? Perhaps because he took his entire box of fish food and dumped it into the pond. Trump followed Abe's lead and did the same seconds later.

    But with the zoom edit cutting Abe out, the viewer or reader - with an assist from the caption Â-- is led to believe only Trump dumped his box. The media was not only blatantly overt, but intentional in its deception.

    The greatest danger to our nation comes from a free press that chooses sides in the political process. And that has openly and unapologetically taken place.