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New comment by buellerbueller in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

buellerbueller — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:44:38 +0000

$$$, one of the classic bad faith motives. Most of tech nowadays is subsidized by advertising and profiling to some degree, often quite a large degree.

New comment by buellerbueller in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

buellerbueller — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:10:19 +0000

It's not just about ads. The same data and tech is also about locking you up and identifying you for deportation you if this admin thinks you are in the USA without permission.

New comment by buellerbueller in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

buellerbueller — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:36:03 +0000

Congratulations, you were exercising your literacy and art skills.

New comment by buellerbueller in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

buellerbueller — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:34:55 +0000

>The attempt to restrict screentime is based on today's parents wanting their children to have the same experiences they did, i.e. screens were the exception not the rule in the 90s through the early 2000s. This impulse is understandable, but it's not really about improving learning.

Allegations without evidence.

New comment by buellerbueller in "LinkedIn is illegally searching your computer"

buellerbueller — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:32:31 +0000

When Aaron Swartz does it, it is the threat of life in prison leading to suicide. When a multibillion dollar company does it, it is just capitalism.

HOLD EXECS LEGALLY ACCOUNTABLE, CRIMINALLY AND CIVILLY, FOR THE CRIMES OF THER CORPORATIONS.

New comment by buellerbueller in "U.S. stocks are set to deliver their worst quarter in nearly four years"

buellerbueller — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:10:26 +0000

It's incredibly dumb to judge, with hindsight, the calls that were being made with the best data and intent at the time.

Next pandemic, come back from 5 years later with your time machine, and let us know what to do, mmmkay?

New comment by buellerbueller in "U.S. stocks are set to deliver their worst quarter in nearly four years"

buellerbueller — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:32:46 +0000

Bail out individuals, not the wealthy. Certainly not corporations.

The stock market is rigged in favor of corporations and wealth.

New comment by buellerbueller in "U.S. stocks are set to deliver their worst quarter in nearly four years"

buellerbueller — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:18:42 +0000

Unions + Pensions

New comment by buellerbueller in "U.S. stocks are set to deliver their worst quarter in nearly four years"

buellerbueller — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:36:54 +0000

It's not 4d chess.

"We" did not vote for him. Some of y'all did.

New comment by buellerbueller in "U.S. stocks are set to deliver their worst quarter in nearly four years"

buellerbueller — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:36:05 +0000

>Are we as small savers just idiots feeding this idiot machine?

Yes. 401k should never have been the main retirement plan.

New comment by buellerbueller in "U.S. stocks are set to deliver their worst quarter in nearly four years"

buellerbueller — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:31:31 +0000

Worst President Ever.

New comment by buellerbueller in "US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects"

buellerbueller — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:21:54 +0000

The US is dead; it is now a Trumpian shithole.

New comment by buellerbueller in "How to defer US taxes"

buellerbueller — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:31:25 +0000

You keep making these silly examples that are not how taxes work. Try again with everyone investing $0.90 into roads, and everyone investing $900 into education.

New comment by buellerbueller in "How to defer US taxes"

buellerbueller — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:18:54 +0000

>The Federal government has cut public health grants, Medicaid, laid off a large portion of he Department of Health, cut Department of Human services, cut school funding, cut University of Minnesota funding, cut heating assistance, cut flood mitigation, cut USDA programs, and cut SNAP.

Not paying taxes isn't going to re-fund these things. In fact, it will ensure they don't get funded.

There are always people who don't agree with a particular government's funding priorities; if we didn't pay when we don't agree, government would happen when we do support its priorities.

New comment by buellerbueller in "How to defer US taxes"

buellerbueller — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:13:12 +0000

Your example is zero sum; there is no collective benefit. Investment in roads enable commerce. Investments in education enable future technology.

New comment by buellerbueller in "How to defer US taxes"

buellerbueller — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:00:47 +0000

Or, just pay your taxes. We collectively benefit from them.

New comment by buellerbueller in "Silicon Valley's "Pronatalists" Killed WFH. The Strait of Hormuz Brought It Back"

buellerbueller — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:09:09 +0000

Obviously there is, you just refuse to recognize it. I think this war is terrible, Trump is the worst president of American history by a wide margin, and yet, I can still be happy that we are able to glean insight from learnings that came about as a result of forces not under my control.

Finding good among the bad is such a commonplace occurrence that my native tongue, English, has many metaphors for it. I already mentioned making lemons into lemonade; there is also "every cloud has a silver lining," "every dog has his day," "light at the end of the tunnel," and "April showers bring May flowers"

I suspect you would respond, "but Mayflowers brought genocidal white settlers!!!!"

That's your problem, not mine.

New comment by buellerbueller in "The American Healthcare Conundrum"

buellerbueller — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:22:47 +0000

That's good, love how you're co-opting anti-semitism for your own political ends.

"Blood libel" refers to a specifically anti-Jewish trope of alleging that Jews murder Christians, especially children, to use their blood for religious rituals. Grandparent comment is 100% not blood libel.

New comment by buellerbueller in "Silicon Valley's "Pronatalists" Killed WFH. The Strait of Hormuz Brought It Back"

buellerbueller — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:06:20 +0000

Yes, ignore the natural experiment that is unfolding before our very eyes, and gain nothing at all from the war that is causing it.

Like the saying goes: lemons -> lemonade

New comment by buellerbueller in "Silicon Valley's "Pronatalists" Killed WFH. The Strait of Hormuz Brought It Back"

buellerbueller — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:04:51 +0000

While pregnant, additional intercourse does not make one more pregnant. You just need enough WFH days to get people pregnant.