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Comment Re:Finally! (Score -1) 128

Well, I think it is only possible to make this movie now, after a decade and a half of bullshit that has been pushed onto everyone by various pro trans, pro socialist or even pro Marxist movements.

Now that Trump is running (and likely ruining) the place, it is possible to come out with anything I think and who is going after Brooks, what are they going to do, cancel him? :)))

Comment Re:Dumb laws (Score -1) 163

Nonsense, the very act of driving does not mean anything, you bought into this nonsense hook, line and sinker. Government shouldn't have any say over how we live our lives, how we drive on our streets, what apps we use, who we trade with.

The only one single, the only one maybe half reasonable thing for government to do is is protection against foreign attacks, that's it.

Comment Re:Dumb laws (Score -1) 163

You are absolutely correct. It is disgusting to see so many people supporting any government intervention in our lives and this is just more of the same. People are supposed to be these automatons the government wants them to be so that they can be fined more and more often, controlled harder and harsher for normal human behavior, which is under a continuous attack by the goons, who have power and occupy government positions.

Comment hammer ... nail (Score -1) 46

USSR used nuclear bombs all over the place https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik... because the money was spent and now they just these bombs, how do they not use them as brute force solutions to every day problems? It seemed like a low effort, high reward way of accomplishing things where otherwise proper engineering and work would be required. It would also somewhat justify the insane expense on the nuclear program outside of the promise of total annihilation.

We moved from Ukraine to Russia, Yakitia in 1985 and lived there for 6 years before going back, We found out that a decade prior a nuclear bomb was blown up underground nearby and it didn't go well, a few thousand people decided to try and walk away from the town towards another town 500km away but they couldn't make it in that winter and came back. Winters there are dark (no Sun at all most of the time, you only see a glimpse of it for a couple of hours) and cold (-50C is normal, sometimes much lower than that).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik....

USSR failed many times on many fronts, today criminal murderous morons want to reinstate it and so we have a war where thousands are dying daily and where the victims are getting blamed by the leaders of the most powerful country in the world for the perpetrators attacking them, that is after the victims gave away their nuclear arsenal to the perpetrators after the leaders of the most powerful country in the world promising that this very thing wouldn't happen, because the most powerful country in the world would prevent and or intervene.

So many failures on so many levels, people all around the world are learning lessons that a nuclear arsenal is a must.

Once many will have their nuclear arsenals, they too will use their nuclear bombs all over the place in futile attempts to reverse flow or rivers and for other similar reasons. Not looking forward to it.

Comment Re:respected...but not missed. (Score 0) 100

You don't nee j2ee, just java itself and a jdk/jvm does the job just fine, this entire crazy stack nonsense, including Spring is garbage not worth using for any purpose where you need clarity, curtness, ease of implementation *and* debugging and maintaining the code. You don't need XML inside your application, it was something forced upon people for the same reasons people later started trading NFTs - the mentality of the sheep, where those, who are selling the idea make all of the money and the rest end up suffering and bleeding.

Java is used by the enterprise, enterprise buys into grandiose promises sold by snake oil salesmen sent by the likes of SAP, Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, Salesforce, Amazon, Adobe, VMWare, etc.etc. these guys know how to take enterprise money and you cannot really fight them once they are done with you, likely they have more money than you do. Everyone's service becomes shittier and for stupid reasons out of all of the things that could be blamed, a computer language takes a huge brunt... silly. I like Java for what it is - a great language to code server side business systems.

Comment Re:A trade balance requires an equal population (Score -1) 262

Trade deficit and national debt are absolutely tied together. The debt is growing all the time to 'pay' for the unaffordable welfare state, the trade deficit is deficit financing the consumption that isn't paid by production but instead is paid by debt. The funny thing is that the very people who manufacture your products are also debt financing your consumption, they are buying your Treasuries (Debtories really) with the dollars they receive from you that you provide in exchange for the goods they are selling you. You are borrowing / printing the money used to finance the trade deficit and this borrowing / printing adds to your debt.

Don't expect more than one reply from me in a day, given the moderation I can only leave 1-2 comments a day here, cheers.

Comment Re:Doing what? (Score 3, Insightful) 26

It is the new antivaxx. People who know a little more than the average non-techie person based ofc on mostly secondhand sources amp up the scare factor and get positive feedback in terms of clicks & attention and -- if they graduate to grifting -- ads. Yeah it is all a con stochastic parrots biggest bubble since tulips scorch the planet yadda. Meanwhile materials scientists using it to make better solar panels, plasma physicists using it to enable fusion, medical science unlocking the proteome for personal designer therapies.

People should spend their energy learning how the tools work, and how to use them well.

Comment Re:Who didn't immediately disable Pocket in Firefo (Score 5, Interesting) 62

If I had mod points I would upvote this. Please do yourself a favor and use LibreWolf. It is literally just Mozilla with the adware/telemetry ripped out, uBlock0 preinstalled and good privacy-preserving defaults while maintaining usability. In other words it is what people who donate money and code to Mozilla are trying to help create, namely, a non-commercial open source browser for users by users.

My only complaint is that they will not shut up and take my money

Comment Re:A trade balance requires an equal population (Score -1) 262

A permanent trade deficit that requires more and more debt to be printed and sold for the future generations supposedly to pay back (will never happen, the default and inflation will take care of that) is due to a population consuming more than it produces, full stop, period.

When I say a population consumes more than it produces what I mean is this: you can have all of your government offices, government departments, government subsidies, government programs, everything that government does, you can put more than half of your population on various programs, food stamps, welfare, SS, Medicare, Medicaid, whatever. All of those things combined require *more* money than you can generation as an economy. People never vote for someone to reduce spending, spending always grows, government officials get excellent retirement packages, health care paid by the system, etc. This entire thing consumes much more than it is capable of producing.

Sure, you can actually tax everyone much more and maybe you can have a smaller deficit, but actually realize that the demand is so much greater than the supply that probably taxing everybody at 80% won't be enough. Actually *nothing* is *ever* enough.

You can promise everything to everyone, you can even attempt to deliver it. Free food, free housing, free education, free healthcare, free energy, free clothing, free travel, free transportation, free entertainment, free everything. If you do that, there is nobody working, everyone is just getting everything for free, so who is working? Who is producing all of these things, delivering all of these services? That's the imbalance, that's the maximum imbalance taking to 11. But you don't have to take it to 11 to have an impossible imbalance.

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