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New comment by deathlight in "Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo"

deathlight — Sat, 17 May 2025 10:00:24 +0000

There is a huge irony in me logging in to this website to posit the question to you: why?

New comment by deathlight in "Librarians are dangerous"

deathlight — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 20:17:28 +0000

My understanding is that Mao was a rural peasant from the distant Countryside who was looked down on and marked by his more (self declared) socialist Coastal betters along China's Coast who were contesting with the kmt and later Japanese invasion. The idea that Mao invented the communist or socialist revolution in China is laughable because that revolution had been ongoing prior to Mao's entrance into it. My understanding is that Mao was the guy that stood up and said look, the peasants in the Hinterlands are an Unstoppable Army that is going to come flooding from distant and Central China on to the coast and push all opposition aside and so Mao was basically saying that that the Communists should be attempting to position themselves as favorably as possible in relation to the rising peasant tide of discontent in China. If anything the concern is that if you say anything that the modern Chinese Communist party does not like or agree with they will disappear you to all the corners of the Earth. It is probably only in Taiwan that you could speak openly and honestly about the nature of modern Chinese history from let's say 1900 to the current day. They probably have a better accounting of what was actually going on, and that will soon be deleted by the now dominant Communist Party of China. You can see how they have treated their assimilation of Hong Kong, and Macau before them to imagine what awaits Taiwan.

New comment by deathlight in "Growing trade deficit is selling the nation out from under us (2003) [pdf]"

deathlight — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 03:55:50 +0000

Trump has been singing the same tune for over 40 years. If he's an asset of anybody it's Lou Dobbs, not Putin.

New comment by deathlight in "The Return of Digg, a Star of an Earlier Internet Era"

deathlight — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 20:43:14 +0000

You don't even need an account, you can use an RSS reader on channel pages. I think that's how newpipe populates its feed.

New comment by deathlight in "Judges suspends FCC net neutrality restoration rule"

deathlight — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 22:52:51 +0000

Why not?

New comment by deathlight in "Microsoft bans U.S. police from using enterprise AI tool for facial recognition"

deathlight — Thu, 02 May 2024 21:58:23 +0000

It's sad how in the state of Washington I have become accustomed to drawing my ID out on every transaction that involves confirming that I'm over 21 whereas cross the border into Idaho there's not a single time I have ever been asked to provide my ID in over 10 years. Clearly in Idaho they can take one look at me and go like well yeah clearly but such visual social technology is beyond the pale in the great creepy state of Washington. I'm a bit sad to think of what the children of today's children will be like when I am very old and they are very young. Maybe one day nobody will know what it was like to live in a society that was able to just tell things by looking at it.

New comment by deathlight in "Senate Commerce Committee chair Maria Cantwell upended privacy bills for years"

deathlight — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 06:24:18 +0000

Your comment is too terse for me, I can't parse it. Both Cantwell and Rodgers are moderate politicians from opposing parties in the state of Washington. What certification are you referring to?

New comment by deathlight in "The FCC needs to stop 5G fast lanes"

deathlight — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 02:19:57 +0000

Tacking on to this, what is the justification for charging for tethering and would net neutrality do anything about this?

New comment by deathlight in "U.S. No Longer Ranks Among 20 Happiest Countries"

deathlight — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 09:19:31 +0000

Hopefully we get good and hard the democracy that we have long been promised; and good and hard because you only get an outcome that people whose lives have been utterly and entirely unlike your own are the ones making the rules for how you and yours will be to the end of your days. Sounds like a lot of fun right? It sure is interesting how people's opinions change when they realize what kind of people are the ones getting to make the rules for everybody from here on out.

New comment by deathlight in "Andre Braugher: Brooklyn Nine-Nine's Captain Raymond Holt Dies Aged 61"

deathlight — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 06:09:33 +0000

So obey me and obey my command upon what is good and right and acceptable; this is surely some sort of authoritarian on consensual pressure pushed upon people that might otherwise have a contrary opinion. Good to see you lay it out so sordidly and so sorry in terms of your own prior biases which you yourself must necessarily deny even exist. Isn't that right?

New comment by deathlight in "Firefox slow to load YouTube? Just another front in Google's war on ad blockers"

deathlight — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 06:01:36 +0000

Congratulations on eating and deleting all the things I had to add I leave it to you nothing else added you are welcome; the leaders of controversy. Enjoy.

New comment by deathlight in "Professor in Jordan sues sleuth who exposed citation anomalies"

deathlight — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 05:56:29 +0000

I love using slop from the government to attack other slop. The only prosocial use of "science" these days.

New comment by deathlight in "AI’s big rift is like a religious schism"

deathlight — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 04:57:55 +0000

Those with teeth will devour those without. Those able to consume and perpetuate themselves will do so in the proceeding environment of those unable to replicate; they simply will not see anything but their end. And certainly these such people want nothing other than their gentle And Timely Sunset of existence and they will Embrace on endingly the new people that will continue after their own existence is ended forever.

New comment by deathlight in "The shrinking number of primary care physicians is reaching a tipping point"

deathlight — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 12:26:28 +0000

Well, Mister "lol"; what does "have doctors" mean to you. Because it seems to me without needing any sort of special education that one could conceivably take the term 'have doctors' to mean one thing according to how one poster describes their experience and mean something else entirely depending on how another poster would describe their experience. So, explicitly, what exactly does " have doctors " mean to you?

New comment by deathlight in "Crowdfunding a defense for scientific research"

deathlight — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 10:59:36 +0000

I shall play an etude on my smallest violin.

New comment by deathlight in "Higashiyama Atsuki and the “between-legs effect”"

deathlight — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 22:30:50 +0000

How about these https://egyptiangeographic.com/en/news/show/333

New comment by deathlight in "Grumpy Locals Are Sabotaging Cruise and Waymo Robotaxis with Traffic Cones"

deathlight — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 15:39:51 +0000

Unfathomably based.

New comment by deathlight in "Presence of airborne microplastics in human lung tissue"

deathlight — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 13:19:13 +0000

Phew,I was starting to get worried. Thankfully asshole instead.

New comment by deathlight in "iOS 17 automatically removes tracking parameters from links you click on"

deathlight — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 11:50:22 +0000

Too little too late; who could even begin to believe?

New comment by deathlight in "AI browser extensions are a security nightmare"

deathlight — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 11:29:14 +0000

I have perment unstoppable hiccups that have occurred in the last week or so. Nothing I have tried has made them stop in fact I just hit up more every time I try to report record anything. I would like to just breathe without having hiccups and it's not even a choice for me I'm not even permitted to even attempt to stop this Behavior May hiccups are constant and unending. I have run out of ideas of who to pursue for help this is just Agony I can't even breathe without constant hiccup interruption I don't know how to make it stop and I'll do anything at this point.