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New comment by SauciestGNU in "Electric shock gloves in use by police departments in Bellevue, Omaha"

SauciestGNU — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 14:28:38 +0000

Just "less lethal" is the current industry term, since it's acknowledged that these weapons are still capable of killing.

New comment by SauciestGNU in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

SauciestGNU — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:48:06 +0000

Not "charged" as in indicted but the search was based on an accusation that he had CSAM on the device. But his political proclivities make it pretty transparent that CSAM was an invented excuse to investigate and punish a political dissident.

New comment by SauciestGNU in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

SauciestGNU — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:25:44 +0000

I've decided to take that salary hit. I want to stay an IC and work somewhere that doesn't effectively require a 996 schedule to keep up with openclaw slop for PR count stack ranking purposes. It really depends on your financial situations, but I've seen the human cost of very high compensation jobs on myself and some things are worth more than money.

New comment by SauciestGNU in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

SauciestGNU — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:20:52 +0000

I just left a backstabby stack ranked company and so many people were sabotaging colleagues or teams they were in competition with. AI psychosis has been enabling terrible management practices as well as terrible engineering practices.

New comment by SauciestGNU in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

SauciestGNU — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 19:27:52 +0000

I'm just happy people are still talking about Situationists.

New comment by SauciestGNU in "Why a $154B CEO just endorsed stripping most Americans of voting rights"

SauciestGNU — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:21:25 +0000

Morality and empathy are orthogonal ideas, I see no reason why someone with antisocial personality disorder couldn't develop a moral philosophy.

New comment by SauciestGNU in "Never Enough"

SauciestGNU — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:24:08 +0000

I'm somewhere that does stack ranking so it's a prisoners' dilemma. As long as someone is running Claude constantly and producing PRs, we all get negative performance implications for simply allowing ai to help us be more effective at what we were already doing.

Honestly it's driving me mad and I'm thinking about looking for different work.

New comment by SauciestGNU in "ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125M to Find Voter Fraud"

SauciestGNU — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:32:39 +0000

Anecdotally I was considering dropping my Washington Post subscription and instead paying for Reuters. Now I'm definitely not doing that.

New comment by SauciestGNU in "Supreme Court upholds broad conception of birthright citizenship"

SauciestGNU — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:30:58 +0000

Yes, justices who take bribes or whose spouses help to organize a coup and an insurrection against the United States are not legitimate (Thomas, Alito). I'm more apt to listen to Gorsuch, even though he was in the dissent here, because he seems like a legitimate thoughtful jurist.

New comment by SauciestGNU in "We can still stop California's 3D printer surveillance scheme"

SauciestGNU — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 04:12:19 +0000

These laws also apply to subtractive manufacturing methods like CNC machines. They just aren't as common in households so they don't get the headline space to grab our attention.

New comment by SauciestGNU in "We can still stop California's 3D printer surveillance scheme"

SauciestGNU — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 04:09:04 +0000

I want to know how on earth restricting the publication of plans could be consistent with the first amendment. That's like prohibiting the publication of books with content you disagree with.

New comment by SauciestGNU in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

SauciestGNU — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:19:46 +0000

Nazbols then? Equally bad.

New comment by SauciestGNU in "Prairieland defendants sentenced today to prison terms ranging from 30-100 years"

SauciestGNU — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:47:27 +0000

A jury of the dumbest motherfuckers found that, after the judge declared a mistrial and threw out the initial jury because he perceived them as too sympathetic to the defense. Rigged trial run by Nazis juried by Nazis.

New comment by SauciestGNU in "Prairieland defendants sentenced today to prison terms ranging from 30-100 years"

SauciestGNU — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:42:54 +0000

He wanted to claim an affirmative defense that he shot in order to defend others, since the cop who was shot had drawn and was aiming a firearm. The judge prohibited the defendant from bringing that defense claim (not that it likely would have worked).

Frankly I don't see how a cop presenting unwarranted deadly force is different from a random person doing the same. Especially now that we've had a decade of body worn camera footage to prove just how lawless American police are.

New comment by SauciestGNU in "California AB 2047 makes 3D printers off-limits to students, educators, business"

SauciestGNU — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:14:15 +0000

My assumption about his involvement with Everytown is that he sees his position in society through a Marxist lens for threat modeling, and armed proles are one of the bigger threats the plutocrats face.

New comment by SauciestGNU in "Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes"

SauciestGNU — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:36:43 +0000

Forced displacement and ethnic cleansing is a core component of genocide, you're making a distinction without a difference.

New comment by SauciestGNU in "Legislation Killed Would Have Effectively Blocked Police LPR, Including Flock"

SauciestGNU — Fri, 29 May 2026 00:48:25 +0000

Fundamentally people don't like being held accountable for their "wrongdoing". My state banned automated traffic enforcement aside from very specific circumstances, but we're stuffed to the gills with Flock cameras.

New comment by SauciestGNU in "Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE"

SauciestGNU — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:17:20 +0000

It was a fairly common narrative during the Arab Spring, when the technology was still relatively novel.

New comment by SauciestGNU in "Iran will impose fees on subsea internet cables in Strait of Hormuz"

SauciestGNU — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:42:06 +0000

Nero also knew that he must stand up to politicized Christianity.

New comment by SauciestGNU in "Google and Pentagon reportedly agree on deal for 'any lawful' use of AI"

SauciestGNU — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:44:04 +0000

Because the government is comprised of Nazis now and is waging wars of expansionist conquest abroad and murdering domestic dissidents at home. Anyone working toward enabling that deserves to be on the receiving end of the systems they build.