No, so they can restaff w/ H1B

If they want a libertarian technocity they can build the floating one off Cali they’ve been pitching for like 20 years. Why do it in the fucking Arctic

Long story short, PP refuses to get his security clearance because he doesn’t want to be “gagged”.

He was offered a special pathway to getting the briefings that didn’t involve a mandatory security clearance.

But, after finding out that he still would not be able to share classified information with others, he’s backing out again.

It’s so obsessed with UX and negative space, even on a 4k monitor at full screen you still only get like 100 characters line width. It’s a fucking joke.

I guess on the one hand, it wouldn’t make a material difference because the US can and would criminalize it and the American market for the product would be non existent…

But on the OTHER hand it would make very little impact in terms of dollars and cents…

But I guess on the OTHER hand it would trigger disproportional responses because Trump is heavily funded by tech bros…

I suppose on the other hand, though, we could pivot our tech sector creating a product that will need to be locally dismantled once a friendlier president gets elected…

But, on the other hand…

I’m all for FOSS, jailbreaking, owning what is yours, right to repair… Etc etc, but trying to frame this as an appropriate or meaningful response to terriffs is nonsense. It’s drawing a line between two things that aren’t connected. And nobody would give this proposal the time of day on its own merits, the only reason it’s even making the rounds on the socials is that Cory said it.

I guess I’m saying I wished he hadn’t changed, and just did the thing he said he was going to do originally.

Harper wrote a fantastic essay on electoral reform before he was elected.

I’m not impressed by a liberal or conservative supporting reform when polling shows they’d benefit from the proposed change and then immediately forget it once they’re elected w/ FPTP.

Wow imagine if he just actually kept his campaign promise

Who is your parties candidate?

Can I vote for obsfuscators not holding a language hostage?

Where I am the charging infrastructure is terrible and electricity prices are bad. I was considering a hybrid but I guess if it’s no better I’ll just grab a regular ICE

I generally agree.

That being said… All of the analysis, all of the sound arguments… They’ve already been made 1000 times.

This is different in the sense that it provides no explanation. Face. Word.

It’s not anti republican. It doesn’t induce shame in a reader simply for identifying as Republican.

There might be a subset of disillusioned republicans for whom this actually is actually a persuasive approach.

Edit: And I actually applaud whatever nerd realized that all the nerd talk has been had and was brave enough to try something else.

The one China policy is just a diplomatic hedge.

Everyone will SAY there is “one China”, but nations can make defense pacts with specific “parts” of China, even in the event of “invasion” from a different part of that same “one China”.

One China is about those mental gymnastics. Buying into “one China” isn’t about supporting the reunification of Taiwan. Never was. It’s the opposite.

Yeah. Not embarrassed about this at all. And a narrative that I should be is bizzare to me.

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I think pretty much everyone views their political ideology as “the one that stands for freedom”, and it just comes down to what it means to be “free”, and the follow up of free from what.

I feel like libertarians would love the concept of FOSS and decentralization, and I don’t think anyone would argue they skew left.

So, I disagree that FOSS is inherently left wing. I think it’s attractive to the left wing for many good reasons. I think people project their own politics onto whatever they love, and things can be loved by very different groups for different reasons.

Here, take this cigarette!

Moments before what in retrospect was inevitable, Jeremy realized he shouldn’t have crammed his rectal cavity with cheddar cheese that morning.

The real acronym for multiple personalities disorder. It spiked in popularity in 2021-22.

I think if society is putting “normal” on a pedestal, admiring and adoring that “trait”, that’s what a narcissist will want to be viewed as, and would fight any statement suggesting the contrary.

In the last decade, I’d say that there have been plenty of examples of social media elevating and celebrating many neuro-divergent conditions. Autism, ADHD, Tourette’s and DID.

I think that’s awesome, and I love it, and I never want things to go back on this. My nephews are diagnosed by an actual doctor neurospicy and I’m like, overcome and overwhelmed with gratitude that they’ll get to opportunity to grow up in a world of acceptance that I couldn’t have dared to dream could exist when I was a kid.

But, this new reality has brought out the narcissists like flies to honey. Suddenly everyone was self diagnosing DID. The irony being that they don’t have DID, but that it’s a huge red flag for narcissism.

My opinion is that if you obsess about trying to co-opt the concept of “diagnosis” so that you can have a word for yourself when you’re 0.1σ off the median, then that word exists, but it’s just “narcissist”.