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New comment by goatlover in "Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service"

goatlover — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 02:16:02 +0000

So less than 0.03% of the national debt?

New comment by goatlover in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

goatlover — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:30:49 +0000

Just need a giant worm god to put us on the right path.

New comment by goatlover in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

goatlover — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:26:54 +0000

I don't trust the authorities to use information just for public safety and against legitimate criminal activity (in part because legitimate crime needs to be decided legally in court not just because of police suspicion).

There's too many examples where they've abused information for harassment, dubious arrests and prosecutions. And this can be systematic not just a few bad apples here and there.

We've already seen this with how ICE has conducted itself with more funding and surveillance.

New comment by goatlover in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

goatlover — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:23:39 +0000

Serial killers are rare and limited in how many people they can realistically kill. We already have governments in the world who use increasing surveillance technology to crack down on public dissent and persecute minorities. Or pursue their war aims in other countries.

New comment by goatlover in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

goatlover — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:14:32 +0000

I wonder whether The Walking Dead ever did episodes with a surviving Amish community among it's many spinoffs. Potential problem for them is being outgunned by any aggressive community nearby.

New comment by goatlover in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

goatlover — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:11:55 +0000

Because it's becoming another Middle East quagmire which the American public has very little patience for, and it's bad for Wall Street, bad for prices at the pump, and bad for the global economy.

New comment by goatlover in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

goatlover — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:07:11 +0000

Then why was Trump threatening their annihilation prior to accepting the ceasefire around their proposal?

New comment by goatlover in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

goatlover — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:05:18 +0000

A complete regime change would probably only come with a large scale invasion, bigger than Iraq's. A huge majority of Americans don't want that.

New comment by goatlover in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

goatlover — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:04:11 +0000

Because the escalation Trump was talking about would have wrecked the ME with Iran's retaliation on desalination plants, oil infrastructure, power plants, etc. Which would have been a massive shock to the global economy, along with a large humanitarian crisis inside of Iran and it's neighbors.

New comment by goatlover in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

goatlover — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:38:53 +0000

What makes you think the Iranian regime wants a destroyed country as opposed to setting up strong opposition to the West in the region? "Fanatical Death Cult" just sounds like propaganda for justifying war with them as opposed to diplomatic solutions. North Korea and Russia saber-rattle plenty. It's a tactic.

New comment by goatlover in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

goatlover — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:27:52 +0000

You realize that Iran will retaliate by attacking their neighbors' power and desalinization plants? Do you want most of the ME to go dark and lacking water?

Even Netenyahu has said you can't do regime change without some sort of boots on the ground. Iran is much bigger and more mountainous than Iraq. The IRGC has a couple hundred thousand active personell.

New comment by goatlover in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

goatlover — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:17:54 +0000

The number for boots on the ground is more like 12% though. And the people opposed to the war span various bubbles or tribes, including some right-wing influencers. You can easily find critiques of the conflict from various former military and intelligence officials across many podcasts, news media and Youtube channels.

New comment by goatlover in "Nobody Is Coming to Save Your Career"

goatlover — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:18:01 +0000

That's one way to look at employment in a purely capitalist manner. Doesn't mean it's the only way. If the capitalists intend for AI to take all our jobs, perhaps we should entertain alternatives?

New comment by goatlover in "Audio tapes reveal mass rule-breaking in Milgram's obedience experiments"

goatlover — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:03:21 +0000

It wasn't a properly controlled experiment to begin with, nor was it repeated. General conclusions should not be drawn from a single, flawed study. But it makes for good headlines and talking points.

New comment by goatlover in "Spain shuts airspace for US planes involved in Iran war"

goatlover — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:52:54 +0000

Being sovereign hasn't stopped the Trump administration in Venezuela, Iran or Cuba.

New comment by goatlover in "Iran Is Drafting Law to Introduce Tolls for Hormuz Transit"

goatlover — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:22:46 +0000

Means the same thing as when Trump claimed the war was won in the first hour and that Iran's nuclear program was "obliterated" during last year's strikes. Which also means the same thing as Iran being an "imminent" threat to the US.

New comment by goatlover in "Pentagon asks for $200bn for Iran War"

goatlover — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:22:49 +0000

Why does this only apply to Israel and not it's neighbors? Seems to me the current Israeli government is just as "jihadist" in their aggressive war efforts. Same could be said for some in the US government, Hegseth and Graham being two examples who talk about this conflict in apocalyptic religious terms.

New comment by goatlover in "Pentagon asks for $200bn for Iran War"

goatlover — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:20:30 +0000

A rose by any other name applies here. It is a war regardless of how the US government wants to legally dance around the term.

New comment by goatlover in "Democratic Backsliding Reaches Western Democracies, U.S. Decline "Unprecedented""

goatlover — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 06:27:05 +0000

What if the things I don't like are anti-democratic? Like masked agents without warrants dragging people out of their homes and cars while ignoring federal court orders about using tear gas and other tactics? Or starting a war in the Middle East without consulting Congress and the American people.

New comment by goatlover in "LotusNotes"

goatlover — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:00:16 +0000

The development environment was quite good. It did replication and permissions really well. Email was integrated into the workflow. The Domino server was excellent. But people seemed to like the Outlook interface much better and didn't seem to care as much for implementing workflows using email.

I don't recall the client having much crashing and unresponsive issues, but I do recall people finding the UI unintuitive compared to MS products, and of course the custom products built with Notes could vary quite a bit. But so does the web, particularly the early web.

But then you can say the same thing about people building Excel apps and that has been a selling point. Or Powerpoint presentations that people complain about but keep using.