Readit News logoReadit News
deathlight commented on Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo   github.com/mozilla-firefo... · Posted by u/thefilmore
OrangeMusic · 10 months ago
Or, log in?
deathlight · 10 months ago
There is a huge irony in me logging in to this website to posit the question to you: why?
deathlight commented on Librarians are dangerous   bradmontague.substack.com... · Posted by u/mooreds
tianqi · a year ago
A fun fact that please excuse me if off-topic: Mao Zedong was a librarian before he started the Bolshevik Revolution in China, and then he changed all of China. So it's often said in China that it's really dangerous to upset a librarian.
deathlight · a year ago
My understanding is that Mao was a rural peasant from the distant Countryside who was looked down on and marked by his more (self declared) socialist Coastal betters along China's Coast who were contesting with the kmt and later Japanese invasion. The idea that Mao invented the communist or socialist revolution in China is laughable because that revolution had been ongoing prior to Mao's entrance into it. My understanding is that Mao was the guy that stood up and said look, the peasants in the Hinterlands are an Unstoppable Army that is going to come flooding from distant and Central China on to the coast and push all opposition aside and so Mao was basically saying that that the Communists should be attempting to position themselves as favorably as possible in relation to the rising peasant tide of discontent in China. If anything the concern is that if you say anything that the modern Chinese Communist party does not like or agree with they will disappear you to all the corners of the Earth. It is probably only in Taiwan that you could speak openly and honestly about the nature of modern Chinese history from let's say 1900 to the current day. They probably have a better accounting of what was actually going on, and that will soon be deleted by the now dominant Communist Party of China. You can see how they have treated their assimilation of Hong Kong, and Macau before them to imagine what awaits Taiwan.
deathlight commented on Growing trade deficit is selling the nation out from under us (2003) [pdf]   faculty.washington.edu/ss... · Posted by u/TaurenHunter
collaborative · a year ago
I don't understand how nobody in the media is talking about this. The world accepts the US as the producer of currency, trades energy in dollars, etc. The US gets to print money for free, how is that bad for the US?

So far I can only see 2 reasons why Trump wants this:

1. He believes the US can force others to pay even more, via tariffs, and they will just accept it. No retaliatory tariffs. Kind of like how he says Greenland will be handed to the US no problem. Dishonest? Delusional? Bullyish?

2. The theory of him being a Russian asset is true, and this is the way for Russia to undermine the US while looking like Trump is rooting for the US. The real plan is for the world to drop the dollar. I don't like conspiracy theories but it just makes no sense otherwise

deathlight · a year ago
Trump has been singing the same tune for over 40 years. If he's an asset of anybody it's Lou Dobbs, not Putin.
deathlight commented on The Return of Digg, a Star of an Earlier Internet Era   nytimes.com/2025/03/05/te... · Posted by u/frankacter
DrillShopper · a year ago
Every time someone complains about ThE aLgOrItHm as a YouTube viewer(*) I remind them that the Subscriptions feed exists and continues to work.

(*) YouTube creators, though, have to have a firm knowledge of it because at this point for many of them less than 10% of their views come through subscriptions.

deathlight · a year ago
You don't even need an account, you can use an RSS reader on channel pages. I think that's how newpipe populates its feed.
deathlight commented on Judges suspends FCC net neutrality restoration rule   inc.com/bruce-crumley/jud... · Posted by u/nickt
Defletter · 2 years ago
Sure, but Congress being dysfunctional does not give licence to the Supreme Court to do whatever it wants.
deathlight · 2 years ago
Why not?
deathlight commented on Microsoft bans U.S. police from using enterprise AI tool for facial recognition   techcrunch.com/2024/05/02... · Posted by u/coloneltcb
yardie · 2 years ago
I literally had to present ID this morning to buy cold medicine. Had to present ID lastweek to enter my kid's school then had to present ID to their pediatrician.
deathlight · 2 years ago
It's sad how in the state of Washington I have become accustomed to drawing my ID out on every transaction that involves confirming that I'm over 21 whereas cross the border into Idaho there's not a single time I have ever been asked to provide my ID in over 10 years. Clearly in Idaho they can take one look at me and go like well yeah clearly but such visual social technology is beyond the pale in the great creepy state of Washington. I'm a bit sad to think of what the children of today's children will be like when I am very old and they are very young. Maybe one day nobody will know what it was like to live in a society that was able to just tell things by looking at it.
deathlight commented on Senate Commerce Committee chair Maria Cantwell upended privacy bills for years   washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/Terretta
selimthegrim · 2 years ago
McMorris Rodgers is also certifiable, not to put too fine a point on it
deathlight · 2 years ago
Your comment is too terse for me, I can't parse it. Both Cantwell and Rodgers are moderate politicians from opposing parties in the state of Washington. What certification are you referring to?
deathlight commented on The FCC needs to stop 5G fast lanes   cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blo... · Posted by u/rsingel
deathlight · 2 years ago
Tacking on to this, what is the justification for charging for tethering and would net neutrality do anything about this?
deathlight commented on U.S. No Longer Ranks Among 20 Happiest Countries   wsj.com/health/wellness/w... · Posted by u/kvee
tarkin2 · 2 years ago
This is a democratic worry: unhappy people are pliable people and are more likely to vote for demagogues, demagogues who are more a wrecking ball than a manager of state.
deathlight · 2 years ago
Hopefully we get good and hard the democracy that we have long been promised; and good and hard because you only get an outcome that people whose lives have been utterly and entirely unlike your own are the ones making the rules for how you and yours will be to the end of your days. Sounds like a lot of fun right? It sure is interesting how people's opinions change when they realize what kind of people are the ones getting to make the rules for everybody from here on out.
deathlight commented on Andre Braugher: Brooklyn Nine-Nine's Captain Raymond Holt Dies Aged 61   bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-c... · Posted by u/shrikant
arp242 · 2 years ago
Great, that's perfectly fine; everyone likes or dislikes some things. Nothing wrong with that.

But not posting your opinion is something you're allowed to do... In fact "knowing when to shut the fuck up" is the major factor that distinguishes an asshole from a non-asshole.

deathlight · 2 years ago
So obey me and obey my command upon what is good and right and acceptable; this is surely some sort of authoritarian on consensual pressure pushed upon people that might otherwise have a contrary opinion. Good to see you lay it out so sordidly and so sorry in terms of your own prior biases which you yourself must necessarily deny even exist. Isn't that right?

u/deathlight

KarmaCake day31January 8, 2021View Original