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New comment by cholantesh in "U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective"

cholantesh — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:46:10 +0000

I suspect they're a bot, fwiw.

New comment by cholantesh in "U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective"

cholantesh — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 20:48:28 +0000

And if the terrorist group that provides the impetus for the sanction is practically nonexistent, it's entirely sensical?

New comment by cholantesh in "U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective"

cholantesh — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:25:13 +0000

>They are making and providing tools that enable communication specifically for Far Left groups, some of which are terrorist groups.

As per a government who puts cycling and expressing distaste for inflation in the same camp.

New comment by cholantesh in "Air Conditioning Is Not a Luxury, It Is a Necessity"

cholantesh — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:47:56 +0000

"HumanProgress.org is a project of the Cato Institute with major support from the John Templeton Foundation and the Searle Freedom Trust, as well as additional funding from the B & E Collins Foundation, and William H. Donner Foundation." ~ https://humanprogress.org/about/

New comment by cholantesh in "Deus Ex creator Warren Spector is retiring from game development"

cholantesh — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:06:58 +0000

Especially funny because by his own admission, Spector wasn't even a major contributor to the development of Thief.

New comment by cholantesh in "Wikimedia Foundation refuses union recognition, hires union-busting law firm"

cholantesh — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:59:35 +0000

How do you imagine they get there in the first place?

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

cholantesh — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:51:25 +0000

Quite a lot of folks who got into tech for the tech are also miserable, because, as the byline rather aptly puts it, a lot of it is pointless. It does not serve a public good, or even a public desire, and 'work for its own sake' is only engaging up to a point.

New comment by cholantesh in "How Americans View Capitalism, Socialism and Free Enterprise"

cholantesh — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 12:26:30 +0000

I quite regularly read weird characterizations of the USSR, but 'feudal dictatorship'?

New comment by cholantesh in "Wikimedia Foundation refuses union recognition, hires union-busting law firm"

cholantesh — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 14:29:56 +0000

Luckily, desk workers can never get tired or experience physical or psychological stress, or be subjected to unreasonable demands from leadership; these are just laws of nature.

New comment by cholantesh in "Wikimedia Foundation refuses union recognition, hires union-busting law firm"

cholantesh — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 13:43:50 +0000

So paid overtime, vacation, parental and sick leave, and 40 hour work weeks are, in fact, shameless excesses that have made office work worse?

New comment by cholantesh in "Canceling "Hey""

cholantesh — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:42:21 +0000

I can't recall when the strongarmed union-busting happened at Basecamp, but it was a few years ago. Funnily enough, he kept patronizing Citations Needed well after.

E: 2021, apparently; thanks mplewis.

New comment by cholantesh in "Canceling "Hey""

cholantesh — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:33:18 +0000

'high-trust society' is quite often the same, as a sibling demonstrates. These two terms pretty much never appear simultaneously in an argument except as a dogwhistle.

New comment by cholantesh in ""Can We Make the Villain a White Guy?""

cholantesh — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:47:48 +0000

I'm significantly more tired of the reactionary whinge machine re: 'progressive storytelling', to be perfectly honest.

New comment by cholantesh in "Europeans should learn to love the air-conditioner"

cholantesh — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:34:07 +0000

They don't have bylines, though, so individual authors could be of different nationalities.

New comment by cholantesh in "The brain was not designed for this much bad news"

cholantesh — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:35:10 +0000

It's not a fact-free handwaving; every last one of those comments is just steelmanning Israel's position without any evidential basis. And if you are so deeply concerned about characterizing them as 'XYZ evil foreign power's propaganda', I wonder why you see no reason to push back on claims like this:

>Iran isn’t negotiating in good faith, and will likely need another round of attacks. America should also flood Iran with small arms for the revolutionaries

What kind of productive discussion do you think this encourages? And given that the intelligence community broadly considers the latter a losing proposition, are we to assume that you think they are all Iranian proxies?

New comment by cholantesh in "The brain was not designed for this much bad news"

cholantesh — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 16:34:42 +0000

As opposed to treating fact-free rehashings of Israeli state propaganda as 'non-flattering statements' and decorating such treatments with thought-terminating epithets.

New comment by cholantesh in "Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers"

cholantesh — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:38:08 +0000

Someone in the Thief community was celebrating the Nightdive remaster announcement because it is apparently getting much harder with each passing year to install and run the Dark Engine games on Windows; meanwhile I've been doing this multiple times a year for about a decade with Lutris.

New comment by cholantesh in "Russian artist and Putin critic shot dead in Poland"

cholantesh — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:35:35 +0000

>Netenyahu evilness

Israel was an apartheid state before Netenyahu became its PM. The BBC wasn't quite as euphemistic about their settler colonial project until the 90s though.

New comment by cholantesh in "Delacroix's Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople Restored"

cholantesh — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 02:12:10 +0000

More historically accurate, though, no?

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

cholantesh — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:50:41 +0000

Firstly, the 'Islamic' character of Malaysia and Indonesia has never really factored into Singapore's geopolitical confrontation or collaboration within SEA. Secondly, the narrative that Israel is some kind of plucky outpost standing up to barbaric Islamic hordes at its gates is, at best, profoundly naive at this point. There isn't a meaningful correlation to be found here except through the lens of intellectual laziness and Islamophobia.