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Comment Re: FBI crime stats don't say what you want them t (Score 1) 60

If you add a bunch of extra coefficients that are basically guesses and squishy "social science" apologetic, you can soften the blow/implications to someone's ego. However, it still doesn't change the outcome or the facts. The fact is that asians and whites commit a lot less crime per-capita and a lot more in nominal terms. If you want to run onto the scene and hand-wave with a bunch of mitigating factors, go ahead, there is room for that and some of those factors really do matter. However, the per-capita stats matter, too. They seem to say "Those groups can do better." and they definitely can. They probably would if we took some of additional factors into consideration and tried to mitigate them.

Comment Re: FBI crime stats don't say what you want them t (Score 1) 60

I'm arguing against a narrative that uses bigotry and fear for political gain

Bullshit. You made a racially charged statement: "the majority of arrests for these crimes are of Caucasians" then you're horrified when some calls you a racist and a statistics-liar ? Bro, YOU ARE A RACIST and it's as simple as that and as clear as day. Are you one of those "it's impossible to be a racist against white people" racists?

and you're turning that into me being the racist one?

I didn't turn it into anything. You made a racist statement. You clearly just thought it was fine because it was anti-white.

Comment FBI crime stats don't say what you want them to. (Score 1, Informative) 60

Yeah, you do not want to go there. Those stats absolutely do not prove the racist shit you are implying: quite the opposite. The second you actually account for population ratios in those stats, it becomes blindingly apparent that "black and brown bodies" are committing a hugely disproportionate number of crimes compared to Caucasians. For example, quoting from the article "The data shows significant disparities when examining specific violent crime categories. African Americans are the primary group arrested for murders, robberies, and weapons violations, despite representing only 13 percent of the total US population."

Comment Re:Why in the actual fuck would anyone do it? (Score 1, Flamebait) 107

Elon is actively reposting white nationalist horseshit.

From what I can tell: that's true. However, what you call "white" I call "anti-racist". What you call "nationalism" I'd probably call "western culture". He seems concerned that the West is being overrun with culturally incompatible people and ideas. Anytime he or anyone else stands up for white folks or the West, there is always some hysterical useful idiot yelling "racism!" at the clouds. It appearently wasn't racism when applied to black or brown folks (then it's "equity") but if someone says a single nice thing about the West or about white folks, folks like you start your label printer up.

That's a pretty big source of angst.

I'll bet! It's hard when your primary way to shut people up (hysterical racism labels) start bouncing off folks and they start waking up to the fact that not everything that leftists hate is actually racism. I've also noticed that tactic is failing these days. They lost "retard" now they are losing on "racist" too. That's what happens when you really want Communism, but have no debate skills, so you just get intellectually lazy and start slinging "racism" everywhere you actually meant "not Marxist".

Comment Re:This isn't the EU. He's going to win. (Score 1) 311

Nope. Last three international trips I took I breezed right back in. No phone search at all. Same thing. In the US they say "Give us your phone." when you're under suspicion and they want your phone. In the EU they say "You're under suspicion. Give us your phone." Big difference *shrug*.

Comment Why in the actual fuck would anyone do it? (Score -1, Troll) 107

Twitter SUCKED. It was run by censors and assholes more or less exclusively for government propaganda. Remember when Elon bought the place and ran most of them out on a rail? This is still a butthurt crybaby reaction to that juuuuuust like Mastodon, Truth Social, or Bluesky, were. They were all created by folks who were jealous of X's reach.

This won't be shit or do shit. It's just going to have a few pissed off leftists complaining about having paid their "Fighter" fees and found they were in an empty echo chamber. X is still censored somewhat (nowhere near what it was) and still sucks in a cesspool-like way, but at least Parwal and his censor-crew got bounced out on their asses unceremoniously and ignominiously. That was well deserved, funny, and gave me much satisfaction to hear them crying on the internet about how they'd been dispossessed of their censor knobs. That's the real source of angst around/about Elon and X. It's pure jealously and rage over being bounced outta their perch as censors and propagandists.

Mother fuck censorship and censors and especially the ones that thought censorship during COVID, when we needed honest & accurate information the most, was a great idea. You fuckers RUINED any leftover trust for science doing that stupid shit.

Comment Everything I don't like is racist. (Score 1) 130

Are you saying those who disagree with H1B immigration policy are racists ? Is that what you believe is the most salient fact about H1B visa holders ? I seriously doubt anyone would care if they were white Romanians driving down wages, but I guess if your whole world view revolves around race and grievance, maybe it make sense to you.

Comment Even a blind pig finds an occasional acorn (Score 5, Informative) 130

He probably won't do whatever he's hinting at. The pattern is "talk mad shit that people want to hear" then "Say you are going to do something about the StupidShit." then "Do something but leave holes a truck could drive through" then "Watch as trucks drive through."

He knows that it's a good "populist" topic (as well it should be, the H1B program is horrible in most dimensions). However, he also knows tons of American corporations use the program to drive down wages.

Comment Too late Rusticans, you're obsolete. (Score 1) 65

AI makes Rust a waste of time. Just write it in C and use AI to both complete all the security checks you care to do and swaddle the code in whatever security weenieism you need (canaries, safer returns and/or malloc/free). No need to port shit to Rust.

I've written about 600,000 lines of C with AI so far this year. So, I'm basically writing more C faster than any political Rust asshole can do anything about it. Yes, OS code. Yes, desktop DE code. Yep. I'll still be doing it when Rust joins Swift, Ruby, ADA, COBOL, etc.. all the "fix" langs get abandoned. C stays.

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