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New comment by goldenManatee in "How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized"

goldenManatee — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 15:51:16 +0000

always with the emotional manipulation, and when that doesn’t work go Samson on people

New comment by goldenManatee in "How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized"

goldenManatee — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 15:46:24 +0000

Before 1948 the Palestinians were peasants living under foreign rule. But at least they were alive. When Zionist interests moved in, backed by English and American militancy to enforce land purchase contracts, the Palestinians were not a centrally organized collective. You cannot “offer” to people who are not organized, and that’s what Israel has exploited. Jews went on a 2,000 year holiday in Europe, then came back and expected they could relive the glory days of a kingdom from over 2,000 years ago. The issue has been the presumption that you can “offer” to people who have occupied the land consistently for thousands of years. Their lack of central government as peasants does not negate their humanity. Except in the Israeli government’s expansionist eyes.

New comment by goldenManatee in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

goldenManatee — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 17:59:23 +0000

This notion alone does not grant you the powers of the Congress which apportioned the money to the groups. Moreover you and I do not possess the national intelligence to make the assessment of “corruption.” If you have a complain there are mechanisms for Congressional investigations. What you are conspiring to is the overthrow of the democratic processes that ensure that no one group claims to act in the public good, while acting on their selfish behalf behind the scenes.

New comment by goldenManatee in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

goldenManatee — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 09:58:03 +0000

Let us also consider just how badly this continues to paint tech and tech workers to the general public. To distrust technology such as all the AI hate we see online.

New comment by goldenManatee in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

goldenManatee — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 09:55:30 +0000

One of them transcribed an ancient Greek text from Vesuvius. So idiots buy into the idea this qualifies them to become unelected arbiters of THEIR OWN opinion of justice and decide who the Treasury pays or does not.

New comment by goldenManatee in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

goldenManatee — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 09:51:08 +0000

I mean, Garry Tan has already been on Twitter with his stupid take that there are “brilliant” so it surely must be true. /s

The Treasury has been taken over and barricaded, but please enlighten us Garry with fables of their 10x brilliance.

New comment by goldenManatee in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

goldenManatee — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 09:41:17 +0000

No you’re supporting treasonous actions and you must be taught and discouraged from such actions that violate the will of the people in favor of expeditiousness. Your views are a danger to a stably growing society.

New comment by goldenManatee in "Goose: An open-source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions"

goldenManatee — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 08:16:29 +0000

Regarding the “Extensible,” doesn’t that completely moot its whole point?

New comment by goldenManatee in "Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs"

goldenManatee — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 10:02:52 +0000

What kind of role did you occupy that you saw "manager leave headcount unfulfilled because the qualified candidates they found were non diverse"? Have you considered it may all just be the appearance you are interpreting in your head, but it doesn't map out to reality?

New comment by goldenManatee in "Apple Buys DarwinAI Ahead of Major Generative AI Updates Coming in iOS 18"

goldenManatee — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 04:40:36 +0000

Wouldn’t they need several months (at least) to do integrations and testing?

New comment by goldenManatee in "Apple says UK could 'veto' global privacy tools"

goldenManatee — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 18:34:13 +0000

Other countries would bid for the same veto, and go to great lengths if necessary to obtain “equality” in this respect to UK. Countries would then all veto security improvements they could exploit on one-another. If country A knows country B would benefit from a patch going out, country A could veto, leading to an overall worse experience and destruction of quality, trust, and value in Apple in the long run. The pedophile argument is so worn when UK is toothless in holding its own Prince Andrew’s behavior to account.

Overall, Home Office is gaming to destroy value in Apple. The legislation is an existential threat to the company’s long term health. If there were technical people at Home Office who knew better on security than the engineers at Apple, they would already be working at Apple since Apple pays better. Even a person most “duty bound to service” has to pay rent or a mortgage, so the most highly-skilled people in security are already working at firms like Apple, and not for Home Office where they presume to veto privacy for the world.

New comment by goldenManatee in "Leaked screenshot shows Amazon now tracking individual employee attendance"

goldenManatee — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 20:40:14 +0000

Another reason to expatriate. The entitlement to demand vassal-like fealty from employees can encroach to become anti-personal growth to the individual. A person is more than their job, and the notion that one’s needs are subservient to career promotion is a limiting belief.

If every person instead operated a bit more like a company, rather than a vassal, they’d be a little more assertive in their negotiating of boundaries.

New comment by goldenManatee in "Texas worker accused of being on drugs was dying of heatstroke"

goldenManatee — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 11:17:10 +0000

Man, the people of Texas really expect very little regard to their own humanity, seeing as they keep re-electing these guys. I can see how that’s very good for business.

New comment by goldenManatee in "OpenAI’s CEO says the age of giant AI models is already over"

goldenManatee — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 20:29:41 +0000

bubble sort /s

New comment by goldenManatee in "Anti-porn bills could force device makers to censor sexual material"

goldenManatee — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 06:49:51 +0000

Where is the line between porn and art, and how would it remain a consistently enforceable standard? Since early times, through the Greeks to now, art celebrates nudity and sometimes depicts static (because earlier civilizations had no video) representations of sex and violence mixing in order to tell a story (uhh … Persephone and Hades, much? or Zeus turning into a thousand animals to lure women then rape them). Where do you draw the line; why draw it “there” as opposed to anywhere else; by what right is it to suppress, in the process, others’ definition of where to draw said line?

New comment by goldenManatee in "Justice Department says Google destroyed evidence related to antitrust lawsuit"

goldenManatee — Sat, 25 Feb 2023 08:49:40 +0000

How much do your morals swing as you travel different countries or even states? Age of consent being an example of morality - the legal age varies by country but it would be sociopathetic if someone were to “shop around.” Morality is not legality; the law _aspires_ to codify the spirit of a society’s morals - therefore it is morality that dictates to law, and law aims to catch up to morality when zeitgeists change. Equating the two things would be a poor understanding of sociology and civic politics.

New comment by goldenManatee in "One common behavior seen in “mature” software engineers"

goldenManatee — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 03:11:25 +0000

Focus-work that is broad and shallow versus narrow and deep.

New comment by goldenManatee in "Facebook reportedly laying off thousands of employees"

goldenManatee — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 14:54:23 +0000

What is “manage out”? I haven’t heard this business double speak term.

New comment by goldenManatee in "Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022"

goldenManatee — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 14:17:24 +0000

That’s going to be a battle of cash poured into PR teams. While competitive, I am layman and do not see that it rises to the level of conspiracy. You can’t exactly call a non-monetizing protocol the competitive beast that a publicly traded, global behemoth like Twitter is.

New comment by goldenManatee in "Google is shutting down Stadia"

goldenManatee — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 20:31:40 +0000

This is what drives my hesitancy toward subscribing any Google paid product. The company is very short-term focused and fickle on measuring the success of a product. They have the cash to throw at new problems, but they lack the stamina for any of their products to weather-out a storm. Google itself has the reputational problem of being weak on product longterm visions; that makes it a non-starter for buying into their mercurial fantasies.