HarkMahlberg

HarkMahlberg, 10 months ago

investor Paul Graham tweeted in November, after Musk took over the social network. “In both those companies [Tesla and SpaceX], people die if the software doesn’t work right. Do you really think he’s not up to managing a social network?”

And Tesla software doesn't work right, and people have been killed.

Paul Graham must be a stupid fuck, easily parted from his money.

HarkMahlberg, 10 months ago

There's a solid argument that the number should be 15.

HarkMahlberg, 10 months ago

There are a handful of ex-millionaires who are no longer millionaires because they cared for others in a way they couldn't care for themselves. Only a handful of course, I would say they are good people.

You said it friend.

HarkMahlberg, 10 months ago

Fantastic fucking visual.

HarkMahlberg, 10 months ago

This is straight grown-up advice

Nope. You wanna know what actual grown-up advice looks like? Go read Nougat's comment in this thread. Or read OP's post. Again.

HarkMahlberg, 10 months ago

https://xkcd.com/512/

HarkMahlberg, 10 months ago

All the sudden packing the courts is a virtuous conservative ideal. Traitors and scum, the lot of them.

HarkMahlberg, 10 months ago

Conservatives' single driving ideal is to retroactively win the Civil War. To that end, they see birthright citizenship as written as an inconvenient reminder of their failure. I say as written because they talk out both sides of their mouth. Birthright citizenship for children of white citizens is a given, but not for minorities, non-citizens, immigrants, or even liberals. If they could put your parents' political affiliation or citizenship status on your birth certificate, they would.

That allows them to deny basic rights, liberties, public services, opportunities, and constitutional protection to exactly the people they don't want to have those things, while keeping them for themselves.

HarkMahlberg, 10 months ago

How does this compare to ranked choice? Obviously RC is more complicated, but what benefits does this system confer over RC aside from simplicity?

Already I see a potential hazard. Consider how our 2 parties interact with their respective extreme wings. Conservatives turn out for their candidate regardless of how distasteful, unqualified, or corrupt they are, because they share the same hatred-oriented politics. And now you give them multiple candidates to vote for.

Liberals are more concerned about ideological purity, the mainstream sees progressives as going too far left, the progressives see the mainstream as not going far enough. Ends result, the liberals split their vote and don't mutually vote for each other. This gives conservatives an even stronger advantage.

Curious to know if you disagree and why.

HarkMahlberg, 10 months ago

PURA is just indicative of how badly Regulatory Capture has spread across America like a plague. The solution is not deregulation, but restoring regulators' integrity and cracking down on conflicts of interest.

HarkMahlberg, 10 months ago

Source for this "special place?" Also the act of vacuuming alone is not what kills electronics, it's the static electricity their fans generate that could discharge into electronics and kill them. The safer method is compressed air, either by a limited-use can or an electric air compressor.

HarkMahlberg, 10 months ago

Thanks. I've seen this video before but didn't notice this part.

HarkMahlberg, 10 months ago

If he wants to fix this problem he helped create, then he should resign today and let Biden appoint a liberal replacement. Shit, he should be advocating for an expanded court to counteract the blatant ratfucking of the last 7 years.

But he won't do any of that. Because he's a partisan hack.

HarkMahlberg, 10 months ago

The other conservative justices are exhibitionists. Roberts gets off to the same shit they do, he's just upset they do it publicly and give him a bad name in the process.

HarkMahlberg, 10 months ago

Looks like someone needs to rewatch Line Goes Up, and remember the problems are not limited to scams. Crypto is woefully bad for energy consumption and climate change.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g

HarkMahlberg, 10 months ago

They'll vote for him in 2024, believe you me.

HarkMahlberg, 11 months ago

"The 2030's are going to be a reckoning for how much of the 21st century was built on the back of low interest rates." See Adam Conover's interview with Dan Olson of Folding Ideas.

HarkMahlberg, 10 months ago

Gonna just take a second to acknowledge and appreciate how much effort you put in to, rightly, debunk an author who definitely didn't deserve your time.

HarkMahlberg, 10 months ago

I could smell the prejudice when he claimed that Mastodon had "no unique selling point." Like why does it need one at all, let alone the fact that he's wrong?

HarkMahlberg, 10 months ago

You know what's a unique selling point? Not being on a platform run by Abraham H. Parnassus.

HarkMahlberg, 10 months ago

They weren't before? I suppose this is good then.

But what is the consequence if they don't?

HarkMahlberg, 11 months ago

Generally I agree, but I usually found it was the opposite way from OP's meme. The top comment was the tired regurgitated joke, and the followup comments, or the second or third top comment, were the real discussion.

HarkMahlberg, 11 months ago

/r/subreddit_simulator wasn't just an experiment, it was prophetic.

HarkMahlberg, 11 months ago

I can't see any problems, therefore there must not be any problems!

Stupid bastard.

HarkMahlberg, 10 months ago

The promise of a unified institution is that it makes things more efficient or convenient, but it always comes at the cost of choice, diversity, or granularity.

One thing to note is that healthcare consolidation is driven by toxic late stage capitalism squeezing every drop of value out of the system and by extension it's patients. CT community colleges were already run by one entity: the state. So there's no reason for them to "buy out their competitors."