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Comment Re:I think it is a shame.. (Score -1) 67

However, I'd like to ask you what, if anything, you've ever done for your country or have you just held out your hand hoping your government would drop money into it?

Once you realize it is the governments of the world that cause tribalism, and pit us against each other, you will realize what a folly it was to go to war so some politicians and can win over some other politicians. Sorry if that upsets you, but the stupidest thing you can be is patriotic. Even in America, we are far from free, and far from the sort of men who went to war over a 1% tax on tea. Our governments own us. They are in control, and we cant do shit about it. They are evil, regardless of which side of the aisle you think your side has the moral high ground. You are wrong. No peoples want to harm you, no peoples want to take what is yours. Just governments do (unless you are Palestinian, and there are Israelis around). I commend your bravery for going to fight, just not the wits you used to decide to do it for some shitty politicians. They are all shitty. All of them.

OK, so splendid isolation, Fortress America, dare I say America First, we should stop getting involved in military conflicts which do not involve us? Including Ukraine? Or are you just a typical leftist "being involved in any wars is evil, except of course for the ones I support" hypocrite?

Comment Re:Minimum specs on Steam are clear, and pretty lo (Score -1) 65

"minimum spec" for a game isn't supposed to mean "technically runs but no one will actually be willing to play it that way"

Maybe not in your opinion, but it has always meant that, and always will. Marketing departments are a thing.

No, that's stupid marketing. Sensible marketing is supposed to increase your profits, this will only generate lots of refunds.

Comment Re:Not a realistic portrayal of AI's capabilities (Score -1) 86

but might not know the exact syntax or the exact API signature

In other words, a search engine*.

*In the times of yore before ads buggered them all up.

If you know of a search engine that's can search Stack Overflow, auto-paste the snippet into appropriate place in my code, auto-adjust it for my context (replacing generic variable names with my own, etc.), not respond with some variant of "RTFM/STFW/you shouldn't be doing that, I, a random guy on Internet know better than you what you want to do/question irrelevant/offtopic" half of the time, all in a workflow integrated into the IDE that takes about 5 seconds and does NOT break my coding flow unlike the alt-tabbing/searching/etc. then I'm all ears.

Comment Re:You don’t like government handouts? (Score -1) 94

Tax subsidies - not taking as much tax from a company as you otherwise would - is not the same as giving them other people's tax dollars.

No, but the effect is the same. If I don't collect $500 M from the fossil fuel companies, that money has to be made up somehow. It's not giving them other people's tax dollars but it's raising everyone else's tax burden to make up for it.

Not saying it is good or bad, just that it is a thing and is not specific to the fossil fuel industry.

True, I hear tax breaks for the asbestos and lead-paint industries are equally as beneficial to our national health. "We've always done it this way and the companies are very happy about it." is not a reason to continue funding environmental disasters.

What's next? You will defend oil spills as a way to create jobs cleaning up the coast? The Valdez oil spill and Deepwater Horizon were great ways to inject government dollars into the economy?

OK, so if I delude myself into thinking you owe me 1 billion $, then "graciously" allow you not to pay it, I have subsidised you for 1 billion?

Comment Re:Projections for 75 years from now... (Score -1) 121

I know it is easy to dismiss.

A few years ago my mother complained about the government "wasting" money on research into ocean algae / plankton die-offs. I had to explain to her that ocean algae and plankton generate an estimated 50-80% of the oxygen on the planet and if they die off we all might have a big problem breathing.

No, the oxygen you breathe is generated by the food you eat while it's growing. If you somehow magically isolated off oceans, forests, just kept our farms on our side of that barrier. It's a closed loop, we'd still be ok. Every single molecule of oxygen you breathe in and use is used to burn organic matter, and the plant that fixated that carbon into said organic matter released exactly the same amount of oxygen in process.

Comment Re:Global warming (Score 0) 121

Mosquitos. They LOVE warm weather and the nastiest of the nasty little critters are moving northward. They've packed their bags full of tropical diseases. As one little feller was heard to exclaim when arriving in Michigan with his mosquito family: Wheee!! We're here!!!

Which means that there will be bigger pressure and maybe finally the greenie assholes will stop vetoing any measures designed to deal with the problem and eradicate the fing bugs. We have techniques to do that, like the gene drive or sterilized males, we just need to ignore greenie crying and actually *use* them. But hopefully, it's quite different when a greenie asshole can go "oh but we need to protect mosquito species, and malaria is a problem those plebes in poor countries can deal with". Personally going through a bout of malaria (rather than just watching African children in TV) has this habit of suddenly making greenies rational.

We have the tools, we just need to *use* them. And we don't even need to eradicate *ALL* mosquito species, just the disease-carrying ones. I can assure you that the non-malaria ones can fulfill their environmental role just as well.

Comment Re: Join the ponzi stampede, everyone (Score -1) 79

Yeah, that's essentially how it works, with one important correction: capital reserves.

There's a reserve rate that banks must actually keep on hand. For most banks, I think it's around 5%, but it varies by type of bank.

No, it's actually 0%. If the world worked the way you've been brainwashed to believe it does there'd be infinity money, but guess what, you've been lied to by leftists. As usual.

Comment Re:Okay what did Trump do? (Score -1) 201

The "Big Beautiful Bill" passed. Might be time to get over that whole tire particles thing if you're even slightly considering upgrading to an EV, because both the new and used EV credits are going away as part of that.

What is going on right now that the Trump administration might want a distraction from is the drama at the CDC. Something about making America healthy again by letting most people go unvaccinated against Covid. *rolls eyes*

LOL, it's 2025 and you're pissed about (lack of) covid vaccine mandates? Are you still triple-masking too?

Comment Re: Join the ponzi stampede, everyone (Score -1) 79

You deposit a dollar in a bank. The bank lends out the dollar, and the borrower spends it on something. The recipient of the spending has a dollar. You feel that you have a dollar because it is deposited in a bank, and you can transfer it to someone else's bank account in the same way that you could spend a dollar, and people will accept that as a 1:1 substitute for a dollar.

LOL. So you really think that if I put a dollar in my bank X, bank X lends it out somewhere, then I decide to transfer that dollar to someone at bank Y, then bank Y is going to increase that someone's balance just like that, without receiving (the equivalent of) a dollar from bank X, cus "lol, we're evil capitalists and we're going to take losses just so we can twirl our moustaches while laughing and make libs cry"?

You leftists would be funny were it not for the fact that you're allowed to vote.

Comment Re:Russia... (Score -1) 126

Biden had the right idea and really in my opinion the most moral path and the one best for America's interests; continue supporting Ukraine with weapons and support for as long as they are willing to fight.

"Pretend to support" you mean? If NATO really *supported* Ukraine, then Putin would have his ass handed to him on a platter within a week. And yet, here we are. OK, so we're worried about him bringing out the nukes. Fine. But at least cut the crap saying how we're "supporting" Ukraine. No, we're not. We're pretending to support them while we're waiting for them to run out of manpower and fail so we can wash our hands and say "oh well, we tried".

Comment Re:Russia... (Score -1) 126

Is it NATO or just Trump who is saying that? I think those words are clear cut example of how Trump and his team has no clue (and never did) of any idea how to "end" the war

Unlike... well who exactly? Bidet? Von der Leyden? Karen Harris? Macaroni? Pray tell, whose brilliant plan we should have followed and we'd be out of this mess already, except we voted for Trump?

Comment Re:Such a surprise (Score -1) 44

Prove your statement. Show me one instance were I posted anything like that here.

Are you really stupid enough to not realize that "you" as in "you leftits" is plural, or do you know that perfectly well and this is this some sort of a lame attempt to "win" a argument by pretending otherwise?

Also show evidence for me being a "leftist".

If you do not manage that, then you are just a lying sack of shit.

Yes, I am absolutely obligated now to write a disstertation on your posting history with links citations and everything, so you can then play some version of "Marx would be right-of-center in Europe" that seems to be so popular here.

Except no, not really.

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