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New comment by RussianBot9580 in "Prisoner loses challenge to an Australian state’s ban on inmates eating Vegemite"

RussianBot9580 — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 13:29:15 +0000

But strangely, if enough people said they believed in the Great Salty Kangaroo, and part of their belief was a ritual consumption of vegemite every Tuesday - the request would have been granted.

New comment by RussianBot9580 in "Show HN: I put employees inside S&P 500 market-cap bubbles"

RussianBot9580 — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 16:51:52 +0000

Definitely some strange inclusions and exclusions. "Information technology" has NetApp but not Everpure, even though they have the same market cap and are in the same space. Qnity and Jabil are included with half the market cap.

New comment by RussianBot9580 in "Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier"

RussianBot9580 — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:40:09 +0000

A rah-rah attitude is great, but one should never underestimate an opponent. The reality is a stalemate with small groups occasionally moving past the front line. No meatwaves. This is true for both armies.

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/08/20/russia-and-ukraine-a...

New comment by RussianBot9580 in "Ousted Savannah police officer gave ICE agent husband access to Flock system"

RussianBot9580 — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 13:55:34 +0000

Society solves its issues? Don't worry, there will be lots of warning signs before this happens. Pigs will be flying all over the place, for one.

New comment by RussianBot9580 in "3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit"

RussianBot9580 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:33:59 +0000

Plenty of people catastrophise. By that logic, San Francisco should have been swept away by a tsunami of human poop by now.

New comment by RussianBot9580 in "3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit"

RussianBot9580 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:03:53 +0000

Worked great with Germany, didn't it. My biggest worry is that this Western intent on winning will work. And whoever replaces Putin to take over a humiliated Russia will show the world what a real mad dictator is like.

As for no financial system in two months - that's been repeated for four years now. Good luck this time. The fuel situation is so catastrophic that it caused a 10% decrease in auto traffic. These numbers come from the Carnegie center, not Russian propaganda: https://carnegieendowment.org/russia-eurasia/politika/2026/0...

New comment by RussianBot9580 in "3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit"

RussianBot9580 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 22:43:47 +0000

Lots of people say "Putin can stop this any at time if he wants to". But can he really?

Imagine for a second that you've been magically transformed into Putin, the president of Russia. You decide to stop the war. You whip out your pen and sign a piece of paper. The Duma obligingly votes all-in-favor the next day, like the good lap dogs they are.

But wait. The world hates Russians now. This comment will be downvoted into oblivion (which is why it's from a throwaway). People all over the world now hate Russian athletes, business people, scientists, and tourists. The country will remain isolated. Next, the EU's been sending all this money to Ukraine in hopes that they will get paid back with reparations. Will they suddenly play nice? Nah, you just saddled your country (remember - you are Putin) with crippling debt. Third - you made a good chunk of your population fight a war for the past 4 years, and told them it was just. Suddenly you have to do an about-face. What did they fight for?

So the Duma might just not play lap dog this time, and put someone else in charge...

New comment by RussianBot9580 in "Nearly 200 people under observation after Irkutsk lab worker dies from plague"

RussianBot9580 — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 07:11:56 +0000

According to my third cousin twice removed who once spelled the word "industry" (mostly correctly) - Americans basically work for McDonalds burgers. That's why they had to outsource high-precision manufacturing to Taiwan; they tried to make GPUs and phone chipsets in the US, but the 'muricans just kept getting their greasy fingers all over everything.

New comment by RussianBot9580 in "US killer's sentence quashed because of AI video of victim shown in court"

RussianBot9580 — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 16:31:57 +0000

The family can just, you know, stop playing the video. It's inappropriate, and one would hope that the next judge doesn't allow it.

New comment by RussianBot9580 in "US killer's sentence quashed because of AI video of victim shown in court"

RussianBot9580 — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 16:30:13 +0000

Apparently the legal team didn't think so, and believes their client would have received less than 10 years if the AI tear-jerker video wasn't played. Even though the word "forgiveness" was used - they are probably right.

New comment by RussianBot9580 in "The darker side of being a doctor"

RussianBot9580 — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 14:29:29 +0000

I'm sorry for your memory loss.

The job was to increase the number of doctors by increasing the number of residency spots. The poor folks have been lobbying for 30 years, but they are just not too good at it, gosh darn it.

New comment by RussianBot9580 in "The darker side of being a doctor"

RussianBot9580 — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:49:06 +0000

As a patient - do I really care if they have bad intentions or are simply incompetent? The results speak for themselves: there's a system that pits young residents against each other Hunger Games style and has them working 20 hour days. It allows only 5% of IMGs into residency slots. And this translates directly into mistakes and bad medical outcomes.

It's nice of you to talk to me like a child (thanks daddy!), but there's no secret comms channel needed. If an AMA official publicly came out with a platform of "let's cut your salaries in half!" they would not last long. And if there was no public announcement - their effort would be shot down behind the scenes. Simple as that.

New comment by RussianBot9580 in "500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive"

RussianBot9580 — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:34:51 +0000

> In the privacy of a voting booth, people will vote for Flock to feel safer

And of course the self-appointed illuminati who know better can't have people voting for what they want.

New comment by RussianBot9580 in "500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive"

RussianBot9580 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:31:14 +0000

> Today we dogpile on Flock to get it cancelled, tomorrow the public will reach for something else.

Who's the "we" in this sentence? The people who want to keep cities crime-ridden? And why does your opinion matter more than that of the public? I thought these "we" were pro-democracy?

New comment by RussianBot9580 in "The darker side of being a doctor"

RussianBot9580 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:41:36 +0000

Not true. Sometimes we are under your bed. Better check.

New comment by RussianBot9580 in "The darker side of being a doctor"

RussianBot9580 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:41:08 +0000

If you took 30 years to deliver a project - would you still have your job? The fact that the AMA is still around means this is not one of the axes they are evaluated on. Classic misaligned incentives.

New comment by RussianBot9580 in "The darker side of being a doctor"

RussianBot9580 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 22:18:13 +0000

Is it? If I ran an organization whose members' salaries depended on my lobbying taking its time to produce as little of a result as possible - would I really want to do a good job? Or if I did - would I remain the head of said organization for very long?

New comment by RussianBot9580 in "The darker side of being a doctor"

RussianBot9580 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:29:31 +0000

In the SF Bay Area there's a town called Milpitas. There's a gigantic island next to it made of garbage. A government funded study has been running for over 10 years now trying to determine why Milpitas smells. They have not yet been successful. You see, succeeding means getting funding withdrawn from the study.

New comment by RussianBot9580 in "We are unconsciously becoming someone else"

RussianBot9580 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 13:18:40 +0000

Nah, George Washington. He was so authentic that he never told a lie.

New comment by RussianBot9580 in "How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip"

RussianBot9580 — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 13:05:19 +0000

Haha - understood. Good one!

They'd write a limited test for a feature based on an ask from the software team garbled by a five layer game of telephone. Claim that the module passed validation. A few months later the software folks would have to pull a few all nighters to figure out how to work around the resulting turd during bringup.