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New comment by ddq in "The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein"

ddq — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 21:39:48 +0000

In addition, it broadcasts that the sender is too busy with all their important work to spend time refining and proofreading, that you're getting their raw, unfiltered thoughts directly from them, not through an assistant, and that their time is more valuable than yours so the burden is on you to parse their stream of consciousness jumble for precious nuggets of their exclusive wisdom. The semiotics make sense, plus it's just easier and faster.

New comment by ddq in "The UK is shaping a future of precrime and dissent management (2025)"

ddq — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:54:15 +0000

"The only people being arrested in the Uk are for supporting a proscribed group."

Why are you claiming that members of Palestine Action are the only people being arrested in the UK for speech? That is not true. Low-effort, bad-faith trolling contributes nothing to the discussion.

https://archive.ph/20250906150110/https://www.telegraph.co.u...

New comment by ddq in "The UK is shaping a future of precrime and dissent management (2025)"

ddq — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 21:44:58 +0000

Then why did you say 80-year old women were "the type to sledgehammer police officers though apparently" and then immediate shift the goalposts? Further, the statement "The only people being arrested in the Uk are for supporting a proscribed group" is patently false; the UK government has not limited its arrests for social media posts to those expressing support for Hamas. You are not engaging in good faith discussion.

New comment by ddq in "Larry Ellison – 'citizens will be on their best behavior' amid nonstop recording"

ddq — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 13:29:01 +0000

We stop collaborating. Technologists, engineers, and support staff make this machine run. It must be made personally infeasible to continue contributing to our own shortsighted destruction. The incentive structure can and must be changed.

New comment by ddq in "AI surveillance should be banned while there is still time"

ddq — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 20:24:39 +0000

Yes, only 3x rather than 2x. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treble_damages

New comment by ddq in "Grok Code Fast 1"

ddq — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 13:08:18 +0000

Also just bad faith comments muddying the waters. The evidence has been abundantly available to any inquisitive minds to find out for themselves Musk's worldview, goals and especially his methods, the simpler explanation is they are merely following his example of corrupting online discussions with low effort rhetorical bait, whether they are aware of the imitation or not. The net is flooded with many such clones.

New comment by ddq in "Undisclosed financial conflicts of interest in DSM-5 (2024)"

ddq — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 12:52:05 +0000

Can you provide evidence-based numbers of how many people's lives have been saved or improved vs how many have been ruined or ended in part due to the guidelines DSM? Or what the outcomes would have been had psychiatry not continued to rely on it as the gold standard? Without a comparison, a vague, unsubstantiated claim such as that is worthless.

New comment by ddq in "Apple vs. Facebook Is Kayfabe"

ddq — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 12:20:53 +0000

Then make app switching better, replace the overlong animation with a snappy transition and make returning to the original app seamless. They're loading these phones up with RAM, they should be able to support true multitasking. The UX should be as natural as alt-tabbing between apps on desktop, and could be made even more fluid with proper design. But that's clearly not a priority.

New comment by ddq in "Will Smith's concert crowds are real, but AI is blurring the lines"

ddq — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 12:04:43 +0000

After decades of consumerism, most consumers already have most of what they need/want, so in order to keep selling widgets, corporations must manufacture demand. Enough big screen TVs have already been built and sold to give every American a fully functional 60"+ screen in every room in their residence, enough lightly used ones to go around to completely negate the need to manufacture more. But profit must not go down for any reason, so they must invent gimmicks to push the latest and greatest model onto a public that can't even tell the difference without marketing propaganda.

The entire global economic system depends on the unceasing transformation of natural resources into a stream of disposable crap for the benefit of the ownership class and shareholding leeches. It's obviously unsustainable, but so are the mortal lives of those who benefit from the system. What incentive have they to save a world in which they will no longer have any stake? Better to live out their days in comfort and wealth by cutting down the saplings under whose shade they will never sit.

I say enough is enough.

New comment by ddq in "A dive into open chat protocols"

ddq — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 04:23:05 +0000

At this point, I simply want to pick whichever protocol has the highest concentration of my kind of folks. The Discord audience is not it.

New comment by ddq in "The United States withdraws from UNESCO"

ddq — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 15:00:41 +0000

"Deeply, deeply deranged" is fairly inflammatory language to express your own reductive ignorance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws#Anti-BDS_laws_in...

New comment by ddq in "Houdini of FL: autistic savant in prison for taking tools he inherited"

ddq — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 02:11:54 +0000

On the contrary, that detail makes it even more enraging. A real life Jean Valjean.

New comment by ddq in "How bad are childhood literacy rates?"

ddq — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 04:47:15 +0000

This to me is the most urgent moral issue of the day: our active stunting of our children's development. Our collective misguided and counterproductive approach to pedagogy does not cultivate a learning mindset but rather stifles children's enormous natural aptitude for exploratory play. We are doing it wrong and we know it. The curriculum we use isn't worth paying minimum wage to teach.

It could be different. It must be. We have role models to imitate, better methods to follow, resources and tools galore. What is needed now is organization toward common purpose. How does the internet bystander locate effective organizations to disrupt the march of folly? This is a situation where the pilot has gone mad and we must seize control of the aircraft but are too paralyzed by social forces to act.

New comment by ddq in "Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online"

ddq — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 02:37:51 +0000

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New comment by ddq in "Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)""

ddq — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 12:46:35 +0000

In the '70s they called it "heightening the contradiction".

New comment by ddq in "Jack Welch, the Man Who Broke Capitalism (2022)"

ddq — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 15:07:26 +0000

Market Daoism?

New comment by ddq in "Jack Welch, the Man Who Broke Capitalism (2022)"

ddq — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 15:05:37 +0000

The market of markets must be free, or the idea of a free market is a myth. Which it is. Capitalism cannot simply be removed, it must be outcompeted by a superior usurper.

New comment by ddq in "Sam Altman Slams Meta’s AI Talent Poaching: 'Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries'"

ddq — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 14:57:14 +0000

Then punitive measures are in order. Add it to the pile of illegal, immoral, and unethical behavior of the feudal tech oligarchs already long overdue for justice. The harm they have done and are doing to humanity should not remain unpunished.

New comment by ddq in "Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion"

ddq — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 04:21:57 +0000

Sounds like IEEE is in need of fresh leadership and soon. Complacency at this point is folly.

New comment by ddq in "Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion"

ddq — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 03:58:09 +0000

Yep, you're right on the money. The correct course of action is for those of use who recognize this to cease arguing on the Internet with those who don't and connect with one another offline. We're in dire need of something akin to a 21st century Continental Congress.