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New comment by TheBigSalad in "Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children"

TheBigSalad — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:24:37 +0000

Well they're suing meta on behalf of the children. So obviously the children will be getting the money. Right? Right?

New comment by TheBigSalad in "Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children"

TheBigSalad — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:23:04 +0000

Just a ridiculous cash grab

New comment by TheBigSalad in "The oldest bar in every state"

TheBigSalad — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:11:31 +0000

There was never a point in American history where the Irish were not considered white. It's just that racism is amazingly not limited to whites vs non-whites.

New comment by TheBigSalad in "Latest Airbus single aisle aircraft innovations"

TheBigSalad — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:58:20 +0000

I would. Just throw me in a coffin.

New comment by TheBigSalad in "Latest Airbus single aisle aircraft innovations"

TheBigSalad — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 20:56:24 +0000

For coach, I wish they would just stack people in laying down. Laying down for the flight would be much better than sitting. I don't see why they couldn't get the same amount of people in if they configured the plane correctly.

New comment by TheBigSalad in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

TheBigSalad — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:44:33 +0000

Writing by hand is in no way good for your brain.

New comment by TheBigSalad in "The Zilog Z80 has turned 50"

TheBigSalad — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 21:41:27 +0000

TI-83 for me. We didn't have that advanced technology.

New comment by TheBigSalad in "Resetting Xbox"

TheBigSalad — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 01:05:35 +0000

I like the idea of the next console supporting PC games. Xbox with steam and emulators right on my tv would be a dream.

New comment by TheBigSalad in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

TheBigSalad — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 22:31:33 +0000

Caused by AI marketing teams hyping everyone up.

New comment by TheBigSalad in "Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability"

TheBigSalad — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:11:58 +0000

Because our entire industry has fallen into the rut of "more tools"... rather than fixing the real issues that hold us back.

This is why I'm not motivated to build something better. I don't think anyone would care.

New comment by TheBigSalad in "Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability"

TheBigSalad — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:30:43 +0000

Yes. Some software is just really bad.

New comment by TheBigSalad in "Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability"

TheBigSalad — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:14:54 +0000

That sucks, git is so absolutely horrible. It's crazy to me that nobody has made anything better yet. Although I could start that myself and yet have not.

New comment by TheBigSalad in "Automating myself out of development"

TheBigSalad — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:58:40 +0000

You have to make those architectural decisions and feed them to the agents. Be very specific. That's been my experience.

New comment by TheBigSalad in "Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself"

TheBigSalad — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:12:03 +0000

You're talking about a thing that happened for 1 species for such a small period of Earth's history to be just a blip. There's not enough data to draw a conclusion here.

New comment by TheBigSalad in "Scott Adams has died"

TheBigSalad — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 18:18:48 +0000

I think he means that it was like family in the sense that he was there. You didn't choose him, Dilbert was just everywhere. And back in the day everyone loved Scott Adams, but then thing started to go bad over time and we all realized what was happening. It's similar to what a lot of families face - you love someone when you're younger but realize how messed up things are later. Or the person changes in negative ways. I don't see this as justifying anything.

New comment by TheBigSalad in "Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo"

TheBigSalad — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:59:26 +0000

This is the equivalent of Blockbuster rejecting Netflix.

New comment by TheBigSalad in "Covid-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality"

TheBigSalad — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:52:52 +0000

Could it mean that lots of Covid deaths are being attributed to other things?

New comment by TheBigSalad in "Hi, it's me, Wikipedia, and I am ready for your apology"

TheBigSalad — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:27:45 +0000

You had me in the first half.

New comment by TheBigSalad in "Duke Nukem: Zero Hour N64 ROM Reverse-Engineering Project Hits 100%"

TheBigSalad — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 15:43:43 +0000

We do. Don't worry about it.

New comment by TheBigSalad in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

TheBigSalad — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 20:07:39 +0000

We like the added sense of danger.