d0gsg0w00f (u/d0gsg0w00f)

d0gsg0w00f commented on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes reuters.com/world/america... · Posted by u/jumpocelot

cdelsolar · a month ago

charges for what? he is a Venezuelan in Venezuela. You can't say "he broke our laws" and take him to fucking New York.

d0gsg0w00f · a month ago

I have yet to see it in this thread, but the WSJ reported that the "crime" they "extradited" him for is running a drug cartel and dumping tons of cocaine into the US.

d0gsg0w00f commented on Waymo halts service during S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams missionlocal.org/2025/12/... · Posted by u/rwoll

floxy · 2 months ago

>either people complain that they go slow and are too careful, or they will video and complain about every small traffic infringement that they make.

Is there a name for this (and related) effects? Obviously, in a group of several hundred thousand people, there will always be at least a few people that complain about something for the exact opposite reasons. That's not a signal of usefulness. I feel we need a name for the some-rando-has-an-opinion-that-gets-picked-up-and-amplified-by-"the algorithm" phenomena. And the more fringe/out-there, the more passionate that particular person is likely to be about this issue, when "most" people feel "eh" about the whole thing.

d0gsg0w00f · 2 months ago

The answer to everything in life is always "somewhere in the middle".

d0gsg0w00f commented on Brown/MIT shooting suspect found dead, officials say washingtonpost.com/nation... · Posted by u/anigbrowl

asdff · 2 months ago

The sentiment is basically that the "all hands on deck" manpower effort is futile and if anything even a political/propaganda effort to dissuade others from having similar thoughts. What good is it to mobilize 1000 FBI agents if they aren't going to move the case forward at all? What good is having a budget capable of mobilizing that many people for a single case and not to bear any fruit with it? Is this outcome better than what might have happened if this were relegated to local PD? Surprisingly the answer is "no, not at all." That is a big indictment on federal law enforcement and their abilities to turn their budget into actionable effort that makes the population safer. And probably suggests that such resource draining manhunts might even come at the cost of whatever the FBI does in fact do well.

d0gsg0w00f · 2 months ago

Half of life is collective "give a damn". If you see 1000 FBI agents, read 47 headlines, and hear a dozen gas station conversations then you start to tune in. That's when the tips start coming in, as everyone wants to be part of the big "thing".

d0gsg0w00f commented on ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair cnn.com/2025/09/17/media/... · Posted by u/VikingCoder

lojban · 5 months ago

There's a huge difference between top down cancellation and bottom up cancellation.

Do you think the CEO would have fired you for being conservative? Or do you think your career wouldn't have advanced because people wouldn't want to associate with someone who's always saying things they find abhorrent?

d0gsg0w00f · 5 months ago

I think people wouldn't have wanted to work with me or listen to my opinions. I don't think the CEO would care, but down at my level, what the CEO thinks doesn't matter. It's all about peers and adjacent teams.

And I never voice any political opinions at work because I don't want to say anything my peers would perceive as "abhorrent".

d0gsg0w00f commented on ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair cnn.com/2025/09/17/media/... · Posted by u/VikingCoder

AfterHIA · 5 months ago

This is the reaction from the part of the political consciousness that just realized it/its children are not safe anywhere. They're going to continue to use this as a justification for retaliation. You have to realize that the correct answer to this is, "conversions not killings" but the uppity software developer, "middle class" either needs to mobilize itself or the next wave is you getting fired from your dev job because you criticized the nascent regime.

This isn't a drill. It's also not a real fire. Half truths are a grifter's greenbacks.

d0gsg0w00f · 5 months ago

But it's already like this. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have survived in tech if people knew I was a conservative. I've always felt like I would be punished if people knew.

d0gsg0w00f commented on Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah nbcnews.com/news/us-news/... · Posted by u/david927

d0gsg0w00f · 5 months ago

I think the "gotchas" were a side effect of his true mission. If you look at all the gotcha clips for Charlie Kirk and others like Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson, they're not created by the official accounts, it's mostly leech accounts that grab the "best of" clips for their own click-bait benefit.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm sure the creators aren't sad that they have these followers but I don't think they go out looking for this.

d0gsg0w00f commented on Kenvue stock drops on report RFK Jr will link autism to Tylenol during pregnancy cnbc.com/2025/09/05/rfk-t... · Posted by u/randycupertino

syntaxing · 5 months ago

What’s the alternative? Pregnant people are people too. They can’t take Ibuprofen, or opioids, or even Tylenol now.

d0gsg0w00f · 5 months ago

Honestly, it's probably just good practice for being a parent. The first thing you learn is that pain is your new normal. You just get used to it.

It's kind of freeing, in a way. Lets you see your own pain from the outside like it's happening to someone else. Takes the power away.

d0gsg0w00f commented on How did .agakhan, .ismaili and .imamat get their own TLDs? data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-al... · Posted by u/aerodog

steviedotboston · 5 months ago

The Ismaili leaders are super influential and have connections everywhere. They are megawealthy socialites. Basically they wanted the TLDs so they knew who to talk to to make it happen.

d0gsg0w00f · 5 months ago

I used to have a close Ismaili friend and saw some of the inner workings of the community. They're extremely tight knit due to historical persecution (similar to Judaism). They are very well connected and are always secretly funding schools and factories for communities in need all over the world. The charity and service are never boasted about outside the religious circle to keep eyes off of them. However, they do a fair amount of boasting internally just because they are very proud of their community.

Much respect for Ismailis.

d0gsg0w00f commented on Neuralink 'Participant 1' says his life has changed fortune.com/2025/08/23/ne... · Posted by u/danielmorozoff

dghlsakjg · 6 months ago

First to what market?

Electric cars have been sold since the 1800s (electric vehicles predate the 4-cycle internal combustion engine). Chrysler, Ford, GM, Honda and Toyota all had serial production of EVs in the 1990s or earlier. The land speed record holder in 1900 was an electric vehicle. Tesla wasn't first, they were relatively late, they just got it right in a number of ways.

Self driving? Maybe, but there is a lot of argument about whether a Tesla is self driving. Based on the fact that Tesla themselves require a human driver ready to intervene, it isn't a credible claim.

d0gsg0w00f · 5 months ago

Of course others were first to the technology, but you can't argue with Tesla being first to get EVs in the hands of everyday consumers. That's the market part of "first to market".