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New comment by ProcNetDev in "US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s"

ProcNetDev — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 18:01:43 +0000

Other nations have adjacency.

Taiwan makes some of the most complex devices humans have ever constructed! They can figure out the almost 100 year old technology to make a gun bomb nuke.

New comment by ProcNetDev in "US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s"

ProcNetDev — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 16:11:45 +0000

This has not been my experience growing up in a rural America. Sure leftists might try to cancel you online.

But I got my face punched multiple times for not preforming masculinity in a way that they found acceptable or for standing up for someone smaller and weaker.

New comment by ProcNetDev in "US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s"

ProcNetDev — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 16:06:22 +0000

You want the war to end so that Russians can do what they did to Bucha a thousand more times!

You want the war to end so that Poland, Japan, Taiwan and Australia no longer trust that the US will help them and develop their own nuclear weapons!

New comment by ProcNetDev in "A son spent a year trying to save his father from conspiracy theories"

ProcNetDev — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 15:22:34 +0000

I listened his This American life episode on Monday morning and had to compose myself before my stand up.

It is heartbreaking what happened to a generation of men.

New comment by ProcNetDev in "Jeff Bezos exerts more control of Washington Post opinion"

ProcNetDev — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 23:40:20 +0000

That was bad. This is also bad.

New comment by ProcNetDev in "DeepSeek Open Infra: Open-Sourcing 5 AI Repos in 5 Days"

ProcNetDev — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 13:18:33 +0000

Look past what he says and into what is actually happening.

He is actively helping take health care from poor people. He is firing thousands of people with families, mortgages and medical bills without cause. He is closing our national parks. All so he can personally have a tax cut.

His ex-wife is frantically posting for him to help with the healthcare of their own son in his replies. He can't even manage his family I don't think he has the betterment of humanity on his mind.

New comment by ProcNetDev in "US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago"

ProcNetDev — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 11:22:30 +0000

You have provided no evidence that the fired employees provided zero productivity.

Firing thousands of people should not be the decision of one unelected man. Congress funded those agencies congress has to defund them.

The middle class pay the vast majority of the taxes. The mega-rich pay very little as a percentage of their wealth.

New comment by ProcNetDev in "Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website"

ProcNetDev — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 05:57:39 +0000

I am willing to wager that the IRS will continue to exist.

New comment by ProcNetDev in "DOGE Has Started Gutting a Key US Technology Agency"

ProcNetDev — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 05:39:59 +0000

Your example of a leftist that can win in a red state is...Bernie Sanders? Kamala won Vermont by 30+ points. That's not a red state.

Everything else you said was hypotheticals and wish casting. The DNC cleared the way for Dan Osborn and he still lost. I'm sorry that the state senator you like got beat in the primary. That's politics. Leftist got beat in SF in 2025. If you can't win SF I don't think there is hope for Kentucky.

New comment by ProcNetDev in "Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website"

ProcNetDev — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 02:11:06 +0000

How so? You don't pay TurboTax per regulation. You pay them a flat fee to file your taxes.

I might buy that line of thinking for a corporation but the direct file program was about individuals. Elon gleefully tweeted about how that had been deleted. That's a direct give away to TurboTax and H&R Block.

New comment by ProcNetDev in "Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website"

ProcNetDev — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 15:33:11 +0000

Money Saved By Canceling Programs Does Not Immediately Flow To The Best Possible Alternative

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/money-saved-by-canceling-pr...

New comment by ProcNetDev in "Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website"

ProcNetDev — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 15:30:58 +0000

Sometime really rich people lie. Maybe their actual goal is different from their stated goal?

The 2024 federal deficit was 1.8 trillion I am willing to bet a donation to GiveWell that 2025 will higher. You want to take the other side?

New comment by ProcNetDev in "Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website"

ProcNetDev — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 15:10:37 +0000

None of those tweets are about tax prep. They are about him personally wanting to pay less taxes.

If Elon wanted he could fund an opensouce alternative to Turbotax.

I am willing to bet 1k that Intuit's 2024 TurboTax Online and other Consumer Group revenue of $4.4 billion will remain above 4B in 2025.

New comment by ProcNetDev in "DOGE Has Started Gutting a Key US Technology Agency"

ProcNetDev — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 22:58:13 +0000

The far left proves over and over again that they don't turn out to vote or have too many conflicting litmus tests.

If the just move more left strat worked, I would expect to see an AOC style candidate in at least one red state. But the truth is that style of politics isn't popular outside of a few very blue districts.

Dan Osborn gave of a glimpse of what a left populist campaign in a red state might look like but he still lost. And half of his positions would get you cancelled by the AOCs of the world. The reality is a 2012 Obama platform is about as far left as you can go and hope to win a nationwide general election in the current US political climate.

New comment by ProcNetDev in "The Prophet of Parking: A eulogy for the great Donald Shoup"

ProcNetDev — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 01:26:59 +0000

Having kids radicalized me against cars more not less. Cars kill kids. Suburban isolates kids from their friends and in person activities.

New comment by ProcNetDev in "The Prophet of Parking: A eulogy for the great Donald Shoup"

ProcNetDev — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 01:20:13 +0000

You should actually read Donald's book this is very well covered.

New comment by ProcNetDev in "LA wildfires force thousands to evacuate, NASA JPL closed"

ProcNetDev — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 14:09:16 +0000

"That assertion is wrong. The city was in the process of negotiating a new contract with the fire department at the time the budget was being crafted, so additional funding for the department was set aside in a separate fund until that deal was finalized in November. In fact, the city’s fire budget increased more than $50 million year-over-year compared to the last budget cycle, according to Blumenfield’s office, although overall concerns about the department’s staffing level have persisted for a number of years."

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/08/wildfire-threatens-...

New comment by ProcNetDev in "Ted Weschler Turned $70k into $264M in a Retirement Account"

ProcNetDev — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 23:50:49 +0000

What do you think the Efficient Market theory says?

New comment by ProcNetDev in "House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner or ban the app"

ProcNetDev — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 19:41:41 +0000

https://twitter.com/ncri_io/status/1737948525340615118

New comment by ProcNetDev in "Deeply Unhappy Gen Z and Millennials Cause U.S. Drop in Global Happiness Ranking"

ProcNetDev — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 16:58:31 +0000

Maybe people are less happy because they belive viral misinformation?

https://economistwritingeveryday.com/2021/09/01/who-is-the-w...

There are a lot more boomers so they had more wealth in total but when viewed per capita millennials have similar wealth at the same age.