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New comment by gxnxcxcx in "IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report"

gxnxcxcx — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:22:26 +0000

> those who support them are minority freaks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_clean_Wehrmacht

New comment by gxnxcxcx in "ICE Begins Buying 'Mega' Warehouse Detention Centers Across US"

gxnxcxcx — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:04:18 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_camp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extermination_camp

New comment by gxnxcxcx in "I made my own Git"

gxnxcxcx — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:02:12 +0000

I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46273466

New comment by gxnxcxcx in "Why don't people return their shopping carts?"

gxnxcxcx — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:29:45 +0000

I fully acknowledge their existence. I'm sure I most certainly engage into equivalent antisocial behavior in some way or another wherever I most lack awareness, and my sole point is that, for most of us, when we are doing that, we dumb.

Slightly veering OT:

While I get the sore need for a place to vent after being subjected to a customer-facing workday, the website you keep linking to gives me in aggregate the rage farming vibes that are as prone to distort everyday reality as blind naïveté could be.

New comment by gxnxcxcx in "Why don't people return their shopping carts?"

gxnxcxcx — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 12:19:33 +0000

There's a minority of people wealthy enough to grease everything with money or really powerful connections. In a conversation involving people doing their own shopping and eating at places where you are presumed to take your tray to the bin I wasn't even thinking about them.

Those who lack that surplus wealth are "leaving money on the table", so to speak, by not caring about others. That's dumb.

And her pedigree or whatever gave her those aristocratic ways didn't save her from mild ostracism at the end of the story, so... That's social capital she left on the table. That's also kinda dumb even if she had enough money/power to enable god mode. It's even dumber if she didn't have it.

New comment by gxnxcxcx in "Why don't people return their shopping carts?"

gxnxcxcx — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 11:17:49 +0000

> I've read far too many stories of people who don't clean up after themselves at a store or restaurant, justified by "no need - they pay someone to do this" or even "it's a good thing I do this otherwise you wouldn't have a job" to know it's simply intellectual ability.

That they can barely articulate a verbalized post-hoc rationalization* for that kind of behavior doesn't prevent them from lacking the minimum processing power needed to achieve awareness of how they are leaving ungreased the machinery of the commons. Into which they will keep being embedded, pulling levers left and right all day long.

Even a moderately zero-sum minded sociopath can be aware of the perks of investing a modicum of well-placed niceness; if for no other reason, just to avoid losing social capital.

* And probably a memetic one, hardly an original thought.

New comment by gxnxcxcx in "Report: Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year'"

gxnxcxcx — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 16:26:23 +0000

It'd be interesting to get a new CEO that gets organically exposed to the same corner-cases roulette you play on a MBP with an actual second screen attached. After more than a decade of straying from the happy path I gave up and was bullied into clamshell mode for my own sanity.

New comment by gxnxcxcx in "I may have found a way to spot U.S. at-sea strikes before they're announced"

gxnxcxcx — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 07:39:34 +0000

They seem to be able to more easily acquire flags of convenience from further away, and optionally some kind of nominal insurance from different providers likely to pass muster at a first glance (I have zero maritime expertise and just wanted to add some supplementary context to the parent of your post).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_shadow_fleet

https://eutoday.net/eu-sanction-issuers-of-fake-flags-to-rus...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/05/30/world/asia/ru...

https://www.nrk.no/vestland/xl/over-100-ships-have-sailed-wi...

New comment by gxnxcxcx in "I may have found a way to spot U.S. at-sea strikes before they're announced"

gxnxcxcx — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 07:06:02 +0000

In the appropriate line of work you can already shoot their dog and seize their TV, and that's when things go peachy enough.

New comment by gxnxcxcx in "What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on"

gxnxcxcx — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:15:02 +0000

A problem created for absolutely no reason by a bunch of idiots[1] playing world police under obviously false pretenses for the benefit of absolutely no one of their constituents. They played with the thermostat, left things hot and some unrepentantly notorious twat[2] is still hungry and ready for seconds.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azores_Summit

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_International_Transitiona...

New comment by gxnxcxcx in "Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza"

gxnxcxcx — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 13:51:43 +0000

We know they do. Now adjust what that tells you about the "first world".

New comment by gxnxcxcx in "Poland shoots down drones in its airspace during Russian attack on Ukraine"

gxnxcxcx — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 13:28:47 +0000

Tech and the occupation of Palestinian territories have enough overlap to warrant organic self-interested flagging, and that isn't even accounting for any coordinated or state-sponsored activity.

Most people don't like seeing their employment, the stock they hold or their retirement plans stained by this kind of shit hitting the fan. It's one thing to let some token CEO boogeyman catch some flak every now and then, and another thing to be made aware of your own complicity by holding MSFT or HPQ or whatever.

New comment by gxnxcxcx in "Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians"

gxnxcxcx — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 15:14:32 +0000

I shall amend my flawed recollection of the facts: it was a chuckle, not a smirk.

https://www.theverge.com/news/643777/microsoft-bill-gates-st...

New comment by gxnxcxcx in "Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians"

gxnxcxcx — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 12:40:59 +0000

Gates: [smirks] All right...

New comment by gxnxcxcx in "Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up"

gxnxcxcx — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 11:28:12 +0000

There's shady shenanigans from the moment you download the Firefox installer, before you even install it.

Each Firefox download has a unique identifier (2022): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30715163

New comment by gxnxcxcx in "All Roads Lead to DSLRs"

gxnxcxcx — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 11:11:00 +0000

> All Roads Lead to DSLRs

> Guy asked a chatbot and bought a mirrorless camera.

New comment by gxnxcxcx in "Google is intentionally throttling YouTube, slowing down users with ad blockers"

gxnxcxcx — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 01:53:11 +0000

Nah, you insist on building an empire, the onus in on you to git gud at keeping barbarians at bay _at scale_.

The thing got big because it was free. They bought it, society (d)evolved together with the thing, they turned it into what it now is. Monetization is their problem and no one else's.

New comment by gxnxcxcx in "Israel launches strikes against Iran, Defense Minister says"

gxnxcxcx — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 03:36:42 +0000

And why, pray tell, was Hamas the only organization wielding some semblance of power in Gaza in 2023?

New comment by gxnxcxcx in "Is America Headed for an Age of Dumb Phones?"

gxnxcxcx — Sun, 25 May 2025 06:59:53 +0000

Rage-farming is brainrot, too. The kind that tends to create an in-group fed up with "the degenerates" of an out-group.

New comment by gxnxcxcx in "Obsidian Bases"

gxnxcxcx — Thu, 22 May 2025 08:48:44 +0000

> Datacore is a work-in-progress re-imagining of Dataview with a focus on 2-10x better query and rendering performance, as well as fully interactable views.

https://github.com/blacksmithgu/datacore