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New comment by 1000units in "Bumblebee queens breathe underwater to survive drowning"

1000units — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 09:43:40 +0000

This might sound fine as stated, but then you might be concerned a philosopher joins to dissect your brain to discover what you think is right and wrong.

New comment by 1000units in "James Watson has died"

1000units — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 17:12:28 +0000

OK, and what of the other hundred countries or so? The Jews just blended in?

New comment by 1000units in "How ancient people saw themselves"

1000units — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 06:37:40 +0000

So the sculptors had much better taste than the painters they allowed? Or are the reproductions not faithful?

New comment by 1000units in "Haydex: From Zero to 178.6B rows a second in 30 days"

1000units — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 14:04:41 +0000

It's funny how this comment chain is about how names stick to ideas in somewhat arbitrary ways, and you are using "Elon" to explain a personal policy for information grooming.

New comment by 1000units in "Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me"

1000units — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 19:11:08 +0000

Maybe they mean well. You'd have to understand their total security posture.

New comment by 1000units in "We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own"

1000units — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 09:36:09 +0000

Can't you with enough effort?

New comment by 1000units in "Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me"

1000units — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 13:52:48 +0000

This seems like a plot to redirect residential Chinese traffic through VPNs, which are supposedly mostly operated by only a few entities with a stomach for dishonest maneuvering and surveillance.

New comment by 1000units in "Richard Stallman is coming back to the board of the FSF"

1000units — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 12:33:14 +0000

I would have liked to personally drive a cattlerod through Epstein's brain, and yet I don't think there was anything wrong with Stallman's comments. How do you square that? Maybe you have not properly characterized the situation.

New comment by 1000units in "Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler"

1000units — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 14:40:48 +0000

How do you propose we bring his victims back to life?

You're a dangerous idiot with garbage ideas.

New comment by 1000units in "Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler"

1000units — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 13:52:33 +0000

This reply is incoherent. Uttering "X is invalid" doesn't do anything about X. I encourage you to consider more effective solutions.

New comment by 1000units in "Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler"

1000units — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 13:37:35 +0000

Violence should always be a last resort. The idea is to give people other options so they never feel the need to go there.

What are you proposing?

New comment by 1000units in "Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach"

1000units — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 16:21:50 +0000

I happened to have recently bought a police trade-in Glock. I'm returning it. I'm disgusted. I've had enough. We're back to carrying the Sig.

New comment by 1000units in "Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach"

1000units — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 16:01:26 +0000

George Floyd was a common criminal coming down from a large fentanyl dose (nevertheless RIP), Ashli Babbitt was a military veteran acting in an expressly conscientious manner alongside a large gathering of other like-minded political activists. Surely these are both tragic losses, and yet the common criminal received immeasurably greater sympathies here and elsewhere. What's going on? Were BLM grievances not rooted in an equitable respect for the sanctity of life and an earnest desire for peaceful coexistence? Perhaps this explains the months of undirected destruction that followed across the country in the middle of what was represented as a dire pandemic? Maybe these people are hypocrites, useful idiots, bigots, and losers?

New comment by 1000units in "Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach"

1000units — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 15:52:30 +0000

This is utterly non-responsive. I was noting it's wrong to interpret these people's actions as QAnon directives. Perhaps they merely have a brain and therefore have low confidence in the legitimacy of 2020 election results in contested states.

New comment by 1000units in "Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach"

1000units — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 14:53:35 +0000

It's absurd to intimate the grievances people have surrounding the 2020 election are cult conspiracies. I have enough reasons to dislike Trump, and I'll tell you this election was an absolute disaster. It's obvious to any neutral party.

New comment by 1000units in "Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach"

1000units — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 14:26:49 +0000

He's obviously talking about CHAZ.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_Autonomous_Zone

New comment by 1000units in "Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach"

1000units — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 09:57:55 +0000

So does the American flag for a lot of people, that's why we need a military, right? Did you know this woman was a veteran, by the way? She swore an oath to protect that flag, not the confederate flag. Try reconciling this in your mind, maybe you'll understand what's happened better.

New comment by 1000units in "Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach"

1000units — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 09:43:09 +0000

His assumptions are built into his response.

He said "how about this symbolism!" and talked about a piece of cloth. I'm now asking what an unarmed woman with blood pooling out of her head symbolizes. If it helps you answer the question at all, she was also a US military veteran with four tours of service.

New comment by 1000units in "Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach"

1000units — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 09:15:18 +0000

A dead woman on the floor with blood pooling out of her head sends a weaker message in this respect than an appropriately-decorated piece of cloth being raised? I suspect you may be a little too shaken by recent events to be thinking clearly. Thoughts and prayers, my friend.

New comment by 1000units in "The Journalist and the Pharma Bro"

1000units — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 07:31:52 +0000

Let me just say this: that album got sold the way it did for a reason. My boy Martin did these guys a big favor.