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Comment Re:Worse very very soon we are all going (Score 1) 135

well, there is the thing, if you pick your account name sensibly it's really indistinguishable from "anonymous coward", it only tels which anonymous coward you are.

Yes, and that is valuable to other users. The users depriving us of that information know their comments are shit, that's why they do it.

Comment Re:Worse very very soon we are all going (Score 0) 135

also, some subset of "coward" might have legitimate reasons to be "cautious"

So what? Slashdot accounts don't even expose your email unless you choose to have them do that, so not checking the post anonymously box doesn't give any clues about your identity unless you picked an account name that does that.

there was a time (long passed indeed) where anonymous posts could be among the most worth reading.

Disagree. There was a time when a useful percentage of them were worth reading at all, though.

Comment Re:This is why... (Score 5, Insightful) 156

Expecting having children to mean you cannot have a life means you are deep throating the boot.

This country used to have enough prosperity for that to happen, now it doesn't, and you accept that. That's because you're weak and pathetic.

Demand more, don't be a fucking cuck happy to watch billionaires fuck your country.

Comment Re:Cushing, OK hub has 2-3 wks of crude remaining (Score 1) 138

So you're asserting that the US can't get its oil domestically?

The US mostly exports its oil so that we can replace it with a higher grade of imported oil which is more useful for our purposes. We want mostly fuel, not plastics. Our refineries are designed for the imported oil. We would have to do a bunch of work on them to make them work with our oil.

Comment Re:Competitive Market and Personal Networking (Score -1) 135

Another protip for them - if you think everyone above you in the food chain is stupid and evil, they notice your poor attitude, because they are not stupid, and evil people exist at all levels of the food chain.

Whether they are stupid or not, they are commonly incompetent. That's why they got made a manager, if their work was so great, people would want them to keep doing it. Then they want to tell you how to do your job, which they clearly were never actually good at, and are even worse now because they're out of touch. There are of course exceptions to this, but I've seen it work this way more often than not.

Evil is almost irrelevant, once you're in the job anyway. Capitalism is set up to reward evil more than competence. But it's the dominant paradigm, so there's no point in complaining about it once you're part of the same system. It's evil all the way down.

Comment Re:Yeah, closing in on this too. (Score 2) 135

We're at the brink of a post-scarcity economy. Might as well get on with it.

As a species we've been producing way more than enough for everyone to live comfortably on for years, decades even. Yet we're not living in a post-scarcity economy because economies are gamed for the benefit of the worst people. You know how everyone seems to think that Warren Buffet is a kinder, gentler billionaire? Well, Berkshire-Hathaway is the corporation behind buying up most of these mobile home parks that the old people on fixed incomes can no longer afford to live in, so they're going to go to a home. Bastards at least were fathered by someone, billionaires just slid out of a kaiju's asshole.

Comment Re:Never held accountable (Score 1) 52

He decided "the metaverse" was the future of computing, just as everyone else was embracing AI as the future of computing.

He's trying to do both things. AFAICT the AI stuff is not much worse than anyone else's. As far as the metaverse, it's clear that he didn't read anything anyone ever wrote about it. It might be the future of computing, someday, but it's the far far future now as long as we have crap efforts like his to go by.

It's obvious that few corporations are really going to want to operate something like the metaverse with enough freedom for it to work as well as it's going to. Second Life proves that it's possible, but also that most people won't want to use it any time soon, at least outside of carefully curated experiences.

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