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New comment by angoragoats in "Patio11 bribes State Department official"

angoragoats — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 01:01:12 +0000

The article says Patrick Collison did this. Patrick Collison is the billionaire cofounder of Stripe.

Patio11 is Patrick McKenzie, who is a different person, and in general seems like not the kind of person who would ever be willing to do bribery like this.

New comment by angoragoats in "Show HN: I built a Bible verse feed to replace doomscrolling"

angoragoats — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 11:25:17 +0000

Yeah, genocide, murder, slavery, etc are not exactly great substitutes for doomscrolling.

New comment by angoragoats in "MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch"

angoragoats — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:37:31 +0000

I don’t think there is a “central MacOS design philosophy,” at least not anymore.

New comment by angoragoats in "I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories"

angoragoats — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:04:23 +0000

Again, more evidence that you have thin skin, and that you’re a racist if you are aware of the beliefs we’re discussing here and truly think those beliefs are “fine and valid.” I support everyone’s right to state what they believe, but intolerant beliefs aren’t worthy of respect or good-faith debate.

If one can’t handle the disrespect that comes from being a racist, perhaps publicly proclaiming those beliefs online isn’t the best approach.

And shame on you for defending him.

New comment by angoragoats in "I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories"

angoragoats — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 22:55:39 +0000

“Slimy shots” as in simply stating DHH’s self-proclaimed beliefs in plain language? Sounds like you’re easily offended.

New comment by angoragoats in "I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories"

angoragoats — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 22:50:59 +0000

The article is very clear and offers links that outline what the author’s issues are with DHH.

New comment by angoragoats in "I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories"

angoragoats — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 22:49:20 +0000

I would take Ruby over Python any day of the week and I find Ruby very flexible and elegant. It’s all personal preference.

New comment by angoragoats in "Tesla 'Cannot Guarantee' Roadster Reservation Holders Will Ever Get a Car"

angoragoats — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 21:38:34 +0000

> In a contemporary interview with Marques Brownlee, Musk said they didn’t currently have the technology and the specs were an extrapolation for what they expected to be available on release.

That’s even worse then, because it was supposed to be released by 2020. Here we are in 2026 and I still don’t think it’s possible to cram 200kwh into a sports car. I take this as an admission straight from the horse’s mouth that either: 1) they were lying and had no intention of shipping the car as specified when it was announced, or 2) they’re completely inept at making predictions about the trajectory of technology core to their products. Both are extremely bad.

New comment by angoragoats in "Tesla 'Cannot Guarantee' Roadster Reservation Holders Will Ever Get a Car"

angoragoats — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 18:53:12 +0000

This is a completely different car than the one that was announced in 2017. So they cancelled it, and replaced it with a new one, which is likely never going to ship and will serve as a way to prop up whatever merger scam the CEO has cooking in his drug-impaired brain.

New comment by angoragoats in "Tesla 'Cannot Guarantee' Roadster Reservation Holders Will Ever Get a Car"

angoragoats — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 18:49:37 +0000

> if Tesla ends up selling a clean-sheet sports car called something else by 2036, would that still count? Or are we talking about this specific model with these specs?

Yes, and note that this has already happened: the original Roadster v2 from 2017 never shipped and was replaced with this one.

New comment by angoragoats in "Tesla 'Cannot Guarantee' Roadster Reservation Holders Will Ever Get a Car"

angoragoats — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 18:45:59 +0000

The original 2nd-gen Roadster reveal claimed a 200kwh battery pack and 600+ miles of range. There were analysts arguing at the time that the state of the art in battery tech could not possibly allow for that much capacity in that size car. This smacks of the same BS that happened with the Cybertruck — the originally announced range/pricing was far, far better than what actually shipped.

There should be legal investigations into this practice, because it’s extremely deceptive.

New comment by angoragoats in "Tesla Debuts 2026 Roadster"

angoragoats — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 11:23:19 +0000

This is a completely different car from the one that was announced a decade ago and never shipped. And they spent all that time showing off the fact that it can act like a stunt car if you buy the non-street-legal, available-by-invite-only version.

Tesla is an unserious car company, led (for some reason) by a person who supports 1) the destruction of incentives to buy EVs, and 2) the destruction of the climate more generally. I hope the people putting money down on this farce lose it all.

New comment by angoragoats in "Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help"

angoragoats — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:16:32 +0000

Me: “your comment was extremely weird”

You: repeats the same comment

I hope you get some sleep, or mental health support, or whatever else you might need.

New comment by angoragoats in "Amsterdam police confiscates server left-wing ISP A/I at American request"

angoragoats — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:14:15 +0000

Oh the irony.

New comment by angoragoats in "Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help"

angoragoats — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:00:13 +0000

Evidently you do. I said goodbye, fascist scum.

New comment by angoragoats in "Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help"

angoragoats — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 23:07:00 +0000

Perhaps the person you’re replying to was simply trying to stoop to your level, since you made the extremely weird “spreads his DNA everywhere” comment first. Perhaps this was, to borrow your misused phrase from elsewhere in this thread, the intellectually appropriate response.

New comment by angoragoats in "Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help"

angoragoats — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:11:18 +0000

Bye, fascist.

New comment by angoragoats in "Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help"

angoragoats — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 11:34:02 +0000

> None of those people were murdered by Elon Musk.

Yes, all of them were. I explained how in my post. Your response amounts to “nuh uh.”

> I’m well educated, smart,

Like other fascists on this site, you’re a walking caricature.

New comment by angoragoats in "Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help"

angoragoats — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 14:41:24 +0000

I understand. I think that when faced with specific examples that refute my claim, I’d also prefer to shy away from addressing them and instead only reply to the final sentence of the post which was the least important.

New comment by angoragoats in "Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help"

angoragoats — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 14:25:33 +0000

You’re not responding to anything I’m actually saying, and your statements are so hyperbolic that it’s not worth continuing in good faith. I’d welcome a good faith conversation if you change your mind.

> Name one of the millions of people he murdered. Just one. It’s funny that you can’t. But you will go on telling huge lies on the internet anyway.

Here are four: Yamah Freeman, Gbessey Kiadu, Ibrahim Koroma, Achol Deng. Elon Musk ran the “agency” that fed USAID “into the wood chipper.” He is therefore responsible for their deaths. This is murder. Please retract your statement.

Edit: here’s a bonus fifth name: Santina Sunday. This article has many paragraphs of detail about how and why she died. https://www.propublica.org/article/kenya-trump-usaid-world-f...

In short, please educate yourself and refrain from posting further fascist talking points until you do so.