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chihuahua commented on Meta just suspended the Facebook account of Neal Stephenson   twitter.com/nealstephenso... · Posted by u/SLHamlet
gtirloni · 13 hours ago
How would one go about suing in cases like this?
chihuahua · 12 hours ago
You would start by reading the complete terms and conditions of service. Somewhere in there is a paragraph that states that your account can be suspended and/or terminated at any time for any reason, or no reason. Then you find the paragraph that limits you to mandatory arbitration. You conclude that you're wasting your time if you attempt to sue anyone over this. Eventually you realize that you're better off without a FB account.
chihuahua commented on 1981 Sony Trinitron KV-3000R: The Most Luxurious Trinitron [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=jHG_I... · Posted by u/ksec
ljf · 5 days ago
Stunning machine - was shocked that in 1980 30 inches was the largest CRT - but that makes sense I suppose - we really are spoilt with screen sizes (and costs) now.
chihuahua · 4 days ago
The sweet spot for CRTs was 27" - any larger, and one person could no longer lift it without risking injury; any smaller, and you'd feel like you're missing out.

A 27" TV weighed just under 100 pounds (45kg) if I remember correctly.

chihuahua commented on AI is predominantly replacing outsourced, offshore workers   axios.com/2025/08/18/ai-j... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo
toomuchtodo · 8 days ago
https://archive.today/dcz9V

Original title "AI is already displacing these jobs" tweaked using context from first paragraph to be less clickbaity.

chihuahua · 8 days ago
"You'll never guess which jobs AI is about to replace!"
chihuahua commented on A brief history of the absurdities of the Soviet Union   laurivahtre.ee/empire-of-... · Posted by u/Maro
nikanj · 17 days ago
Nazi Germany never put up fences to stop their people from leaving. The Soviet Union did. That’s my metric for the standard of living in them
chihuahua · 17 days ago
I'm virulently opposed to communism and the Soviet Union, as well as Nazism, and it is tempting to say that the Soviet Union was worse than Nazi Germany.

In some ways that's true if you look at the number of their own citizens that were killed by Stalin vs Hitler. On the other hand, Stalin had a longer period of time for his mass murder than Hitler did. But Hitler caused the almost complete destruction of Germany with the war he started.

In terms of living conditions, you are probably correct; although again, Hitler's starting point in terms of economy, civilization, and living conditions was much better than Stalin's, and we didn't see Nazism play out over decades.

Nazi Germany's soldiers on the advance engaged in systematic killing and regarded most of the population of the conquered territories as vermin; Soviet soldiers merely raped most of the women and did not engage in systematic killing campaigns, with some exceptions (e.g. Katyn massacre)

I'd say it's difficult to say which is more deplorable: Hitler killing millions just because of their ancestry, or Stalin killing millions in the Gulag because of paranoia and because it was a convenient source of labor.

If we're just looking at the success of the economic systems, leaving aside the mass murder and the devastating war, then what you're saying is correct.

chihuahua commented on A brief history of the absurdities of the Soviet Union   laurivahtre.ee/empire-of-... · Posted by u/Maro
titzer · 17 days ago
> The best system

The best system for growth. It's important to point out that Capitalism won because it grew faster. But nothing can grow forever--certainly not exponentially--so we're now finding out how poorly late stage Capitalism copes with slowing growth and population. Oh, and that little looming thing about environmental consequences.

chihuahua · 17 days ago
You should check out how Communism treated the environment.
chihuahua commented on Scammers unleash flood of online gaming sites   krebsonsecurity.com/2025/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
chihuahua · a month ago
A random website asks me to give them my cryptocurrency, and then they refuse to return it? Why, I thought I had seen the most shocking thing on earth, but this takes the cake!
chihuahua commented on Rotring 600 Ballpoint Pen   shellshore.com/review-rot... · Posted by u/Alupis
chihuahua · a month ago
I had the fountain pen version of this in the 1980s. It seemed very sturdy, as if it was machined from a solid piece of metal.
chihuahua commented on Show HN: Color Me Same – A new kind of logic game   color-me-same.franzai.com... · Posted by u/franze
chihuahua · a month ago
I have no idea what the rules are. There is no explanation at all. At one point, the label "Tutorial levels 1-3" appeared on the screen for about 0.5 seconds and disappeared before I could click on it.

I have no idea how this is supposed to work.

chihuahua commented on Millet mystery: A staple crop failed to take root in ancient Japanese kitchens   phys.org/news/2025-07-mil... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
thatguy0900 · a month ago
They might have felt the same if they could afford to douse it in suger and spices every time. How do you usually prepare your oatmeal?
chihuahua · a month ago
Fairly plain, just cinnamon and sugar or sucralose.

With chocolate chips for a special treat.

chihuahua commented on Millet mystery: A staple crop failed to take root in ancient Japanese kitchens   phys.org/news/2025-07-mil... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
giraffe_lady · a month ago
I'm not that familiar with this subject in general (and not at all for japan) but I have read some about grain agriculture in east asia. And one thing resounds from the record here: people do not like millet and will do their best not to eat it. In northern china (the region I'm most familiar with) people who could afford to eat rice or wheat did so as much as possible, the wealthiest landowners generally did not eat millet at all.

I don't know how this fits into the history here, but if they got rice & millet at the same time and could farm enough rice, it fits with what I've read about other places where both grains were available.

FWIW millet eats fine to my modern palate but then I've only had the probably better tasting modern varieties, who knows what that shit was like a few thousand years ago. I also have access to a wide variety of grains and I might feel differently if I had to pick one to eat every day of my life. Similar thing with oats, which have occupied a similar role in the mediterranean for a long ass time: animal fodder if you could afford wheat, your food if you couldn't.

chihuahua · a month ago
Funny - I would probably eat mostly oats every day, if it was nutritionally complete. It's so convenient and pretty tasty.

u/chihuahua

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