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BillyTheMage commented on Radar footage shows Hellfire missile fired by US Military bounce off UFO nypost.com/2025/09/09/us-... · Posted by u/eth0up

WJW · 6 months ago

This premise fails right at the start. Why would "they" lose their power when people know about aliens? All the reasons why the current batch of political leaders are in power remain valid if aliens exist, whether they're democratically elected or authoritarian despots.

BillyTheMage · 6 months ago

Well I'm sure not listening to them

BillyTheMage commented on Radar footage shows Hellfire missile fired by US Military bounce off UFO nypost.com/2025/09/09/us-... · Posted by u/eth0up

BillyTheMage · 6 months ago

They've known there's aliens for years, they just have to boil us like frogs so they don't lose their power when we "find out"

BillyTheMage commented on Ask HN: Is anyone here deliberately low‑tech? If so, why and how? · Posted by u/scdnc

badpun · 6 months ago

We very well could survive, but maybe only after 6-7 billions of us starve. 1-2 billions of people is considered to be natural carrying capacity of Earth.

BillyTheMage · 6 months ago

Perhaps we could do it gradually enough where nobody has to starve, we get rid of the "REPRODUCE REPRODUCE REPRODUCE" propaganda, and we just naturally end up back near a natural population instead of overpopulating until we die of a metaphorical heat death.

BillyTheMage commented on The Last Programmers? xipu.li/posts/the-last-pr... · Posted by u/kiyanwang

Herring · 6 months ago

It’s an ancient lesson that has to be relearned over and over.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woodcutter_and_the_Trees

BillyTheMage · 6 months ago

Thanks for the rabbit hole, the Perry Index is my new thing for the next few months I guess

BillyTheMage commented on Ask HN: Is anyone here deliberately low‑tech? If so, why and how? · Posted by u/scdnc

badpun · 6 months ago

No electricity means no pesticides, no fertilizer and no machinery. Farming productivity levels would go back to around 1800 or so, and we could barely feed a billion people at that time.

BillyTheMage · 6 months ago

> oh geez oh no how can we possibly survive without poisoning everything we touch?

BillyTheMage commented on Tech leaders take turns flattering Trump at White House dinner theverge.com/policy/77276... · Posted by u/tastyface

BillyTheMage · 6 months ago

Something something Epstein Files something something distraction

BillyTheMage commented on House Republicans want to dox Wikipedia editors over 'bias' complaints techdirt.com/2025/08/29/h... · Posted by u/anigbrowl

xnx · 7 months ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/?redirect=no&title=Reality_has_a_...

BillyTheMage · 7 months ago

I really don't like that phrase. It should be "reality has a progressive bias". Progressive is the opposite of conservative. "Liberal" is a specific ideology, and will end up in a position somewhere on the progressive-conservative spectrum based on how progressive or conservative it is.

Specifically it is the ideology of Capitalism, representative democracy, the rule of law, etc... basically the ideology of the enlightenment.

This misuse of Liberal is easy to track the etymology. The colloquial usage of "liberal" does sound like an opposite of conservative, it's basically a synonym for "lenient". But colloquial usage is often totally incorrect in certain contexts, like this one.

People who use "liberal" as an opposite of conservative are just bad at type theory.

BillyTheMage commented on Are we on our way to the sixth major mass extinction? theguardian.com/environme... · Posted by u/ljf

BillyTheMage · 7 months ago

Why are they saying "on our way" to something that's already here? We even have a name for it: the Anthropocene Extinction Event. Seems dishonest for them to ask that question and then fail to mention the name of it.

BillyTheMage commented on I'm Building My Father's Brain Before He Dies hopeyscott.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/jmacd

BillyTheMage · 7 months ago

there were bunnies, they were jumping on a trampoline...

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