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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 · 3 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 · 3 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 · 3 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 · 3 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 · 3 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 · 3 months ago
What’s the alternative? Pregnant people are people too. They can’t take Ibuprofen, or opioids, or even Tylenol now.
d0gsg0w00f · 3 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 · 4 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 · 4 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 · 4 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 · 4 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".
d0gsg0w00f commented on Neuralink 'Participant 1' says his life has changed   fortune.com/2025/08/23/ne... · Posted by u/danielmorozoff
wombatpm · 4 months ago
Turns out Edison was a jerk like Elon as well. At least according to Tesla.
d0gsg0w00f · 4 months ago
Exactly my point
d0gsg0w00f commented on Grok Code Fast 1   x.ai/news/grok-code-fast-... · Posted by u/Terretta
disposition2 · 4 months ago
This will probably be a unpopular, wet blanket opinion...

But anytime I hear of Grok or xAI, the only thing I can think about is how it's hoovering up water from the Memphis municipal water supply and running natural gas turbines to power all for a chat bot.

Looks like they are bringing even more natural gas turbines online...great!

https://netswire.usatoday.com/story/money/business/developme...

d0gsg0w00f · 4 months ago
Where does OpenAI and Anthropic get their water?
d0gsg0w00f commented on Neuralink 'Participant 1' says his life has changed   fortune.com/2025/08/23/ne... · Posted by u/danielmorozoff
cramsession · 4 months ago
That's not how things have played out with Tesla. They have all the investment in the world and the most irrational valuation to have ever graced the public markets, yet their tech is years behind competitors.
d0gsg0w00f · 4 months ago
But they were first to market. That's 90% of the work. There's a huge gap between "perfect unrealized idea" and "shit you can actually buy". Hate the man all you want, he'll go down in history as the Edison of electric vehicles, even though others will undoubtedly surpass the initial public offering technologically.

u/d0gsg0w00f

KarmaCake day766November 11, 2018View Original