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New comment by bluealienpie in "Los Puesteros, solitary men who look after ranches and livestock in Patagonia"

bluealienpie — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:02:39 +0000

Patagonia as it’s referred to today was never unpopulated, it still has an indigenous population. This narrative is used everywhere for vast untamed wilderness that just ignores the many people still living there.

New comment by bluealienpie in "AI Is Threatening Natural Resources for Billions"

bluealienpie — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:44:16 +0000

X is terrible, so don’t address Y is an awful way of framing any issue.

New comment by bluealienpie in "Woman pulled over twice after Flock-linked software connected her to homicide"

bluealienpie — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:30:34 +0000

Exactly, the abuse of power and the everyone going along with it is the issue. The supreme court and executive now function as a complete governing body without any input from congress. Every spending bill gets passed with bipartisan support, even if the Democrats need to sacrifice a few members. Meanwhile I hear very few people complaining about colonizing Venezuela.

New comment by bluealienpie in "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide"

bluealienpie — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 22:12:46 +0000

Shoot and cry

New comment by bluealienpie in "Tax cuts for the wealthy only benefit the rich (2023)"

bluealienpie — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:46:11 +0000

So no candidate ran on tax cuts? Explicitly for high income earners?

New comment by bluealienpie in "IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center"

bluealienpie — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:29:36 +0000

Israel has densely populated urban neighborhoods that would be completely wiped out in a conventional attack. Tehran would be destroyed with nukes but so would every major Israeli city. The scale of country size is immense. If Israel thought that nuclear weapons were a viable option, they would use them already. That’s the reason for the tit for tat. They both have capacity to attacks that would devastate each other countries. Smotrich would rather the US take the brunt of attack and losses their ME bases.

New comment by bluealienpie in "Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing?"

bluealienpie — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:13:40 +0000

AI rating AI? Am I missing something.

New comment by bluealienpie in "Alex Karp Is Saying What Every Angry CEO Is Thinking About AI"

bluealienpie — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:45:56 +0000

I know people honestly working to make government taxation efficient to help people, but they then take those profits and buy 3-4 houses in lower income communities and rent them out at exorbitant rates once renovated. None of this would be an issues except regulation prevents affordable and non market housing.

New comment by bluealienpie in "30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech"

bluealienpie — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 01:08:18 +0000

*Murderer

New comment by bluealienpie in "Michigan bill would bar employers from requiring after-hours coms with workers"

bluealienpie — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 18:39:12 +0000

This is the media equivalent of showing a family swimming on the lake when discussing heatwave death. You have valid life experience but it’s not relevant to the topic at hand.

New comment by bluealienpie in "Amazon drops Sam Altman movie after announcing OpenAI partnership"

bluealienpie — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 23:38:44 +0000

Agree on tabloids in general but this is widely reported https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jun/19/luca-guadagnino...

New comment by bluealienpie in "Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics"

bluealienpie — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 23:16:12 +0000

Google summaries from websites mainly did this before “AI” came around. Now I just don’t know the source unless I dig myself. Would rather it went back to before, or at least they implemented the veracity checks better.

I thought it was interested that the movie looper had argidrones, but what inspired that wasn’t part of the training set or discussion online. I get remarkably bad answers and search results which seem misleading at best.

New comment by bluealienpie in "Foreign business owners are scrambling to raise capital to stay in Japan"

bluealienpie — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:23:04 +0000

Fundamentally the issue is that visa requirements are restrictive creating concentrated demand for labor. There are countries with higher paying jobs that can done online, but every position doesn't just shift overseas. We put the onus on the individual to stop illegal activity, but it’s the business owners that hire and sustain this kind of employment. A high minimum wage would negate the need and desire for irregular migration. It would also provide good paying jobs for migrants who could afford to live in the country.

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

bluealienpie — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:28:19 +0000

The purpose is support enterprises which have investment in genocide, the free speech nature of this website was always questionable at best.

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

bluealienpie — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:26:23 +0000

They also committed genocide as well. Surprising that even after Israeli human rights organizations acknowledge it, it still remains stuck in the mind of capitalists to support profit at any cost.

New comment by bluealienpie in "Global population movements from 1990 to 2023"

bluealienpie — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:57:44 +0000

And if you pay taxes and social security for 20+ years why wouldn’t you be entitled to it? Especially considering you wouldn’t be using expensive programs like Medicare.

New comment by bluealienpie in "Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time"

bluealienpie — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:53:34 +0000

I think the difference between a targeting a specific piece of military hardware compared to training an AI model to target humans and infrastructure is quite different. This explains why drones that get misdirected will target oil infrastructure in friendly countries.

New comment by bluealienpie in "New U.S. college grads now have higher unemployment than the average worker"

bluealienpie — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 02:09:01 +0000

Universities administrators, yes. Funding for basic research, no.

New comment by bluealienpie in "Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Story (2023)"

bluealienpie — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:27:54 +0000

To Kill A Mockingbird may have a slight disagreement with your analysis.

New comment by bluealienpie in "Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground"

bluealienpie — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:50:53 +0000

We argued that AI would free us to explore the arts. Instead it first came for written language and images. So what's left when it can write all the programs, drive all the cars, and AI sensors on farms can monitor and distribute nutrients. I remember watching TED Talks about how AI weapons need to be carefully studied, and instead we see them autonomously picking targets. I'm not seeing any higher values, instead I'm seeing how we're on a path to assured destruction.