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New comment by idontwantthis in "DOJ Top Antitrust Litigators Exit After Ticketmaster Accord"

idontwantthis — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:44:59 +0000

Next time someone says both sides are the same, remind them about this.

Democrats brought suit against an obvious monopoly over the most unifying and joyful aspect of human existence (Music), and Republicans scuttled it so brazenly, you have to assume that Trump was bribed.

New comment by idontwantthis in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

idontwantthis — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:18:39 +0000

I was just wondering the same thing.

New comment by idontwantthis in "When legal sports betting surges, so do Americans' financial problems"

idontwantthis — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 01:03:45 +0000

Not everywhere. Circa wants winners.

New comment by idontwantthis in "When legal sports betting surges, so do Americans' financial problems"

idontwantthis — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:13:41 +0000

You actually want to ban bet maximums. Regular people get destroyed making small stupid bets on nonsense like freethrows for benchwarmers. Apps only offer those because they put a low max bet so they have little risk on a wager that is impossible to price accurately. If they couldn’t set such a low max then they couldn’t offer those nonsense wagers.

New comment by idontwantthis in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

idontwantthis — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:05:22 +0000

But they put Gemini in google docs, they didn’t rename Docs to Gemini like Microsoft did.

New comment by idontwantthis in "Solar and batteries can power the world"

idontwantthis — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:53:01 +0000

It is happening. It takes time to build and it only became absurdly cheap in the past few years. But it keeps getting cheaper and better (batteries too for anyone who wants to bring that up).

New comment by idontwantthis in "Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)"

idontwantthis — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 01:41:13 +0000

Something interesting about my experience with the Iraq War was that, as a 9 year old living in DC at a wealthy, liberal private school, everyone knew from the beginning it was all a lie. I only learned fairly recently that a vast majority of the country thought invading Iraq was a good idea.

New comment by idontwantthis in "The road to electric in charts and data"

idontwantthis — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 03:11:31 +0000

I don’t get why someone would want to own an electric supercar. A Ferarri engine is beautiful even if it’s impractical. Electric motors aren’t special even if they are tremendously powerful and efficient.

New comment by idontwantthis in "Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right"

idontwantthis — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 18:51:59 +0000

The Cloud is a just a computer that you don’t own, located in Reston, Virginia.

New comment by idontwantthis in "The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner"

idontwantthis — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:28:00 +0000

The most unreal part is Karen calling him back. I never get called back by anyone in any office anymore.

New comment by idontwantthis in "Earthquake scientists reveal how overplowing weakens soil at experimental farm"

idontwantthis — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:17:50 +0000

If no till is better and tilling is work, why do farmers till? Why not do less work and have a better result?

New comment by idontwantthis in "US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects"

idontwantthis — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:39:41 +0000

You leftists think you hate free market capitalism, but no one hates it like Republicans.

New comment by idontwantthis in "Iran war energy crisis is a renewable energy wake-up call"

idontwantthis — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 23:14:40 +0000

They are growing all over the world at a phenomenal rate, but I think it just takes some amount of time. They have only been the cheapest option for a few years now.

And in the U.S., Republicans have done everything they can to hamstring the transition and destroy the billions of dollars invested by automakers into EVs prior to 2025. But even that can only postpone the transition.

New comment by idontwantthis in "How the Turner twins are mythbusting modern technical apparel"

idontwantthis — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:20:20 +0000

You could be on skis they might make it harder to control your parachute.

New comment by idontwantthis in "Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents"

idontwantthis — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 06:07:49 +0000

No not a Swede at all this is funny! That was my experience parking in the Washington, DC area last year.

New comment by idontwantthis in "Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents"

idontwantthis — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:57:31 +0000

Or develop 12 competing apps that each only work in different lots.

New comment by idontwantthis in "The Colorado River Does Not Reach 2030"

idontwantthis — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:05:49 +0000

The problem is that they don’t pay their fair share. Farms get insanely low rates and grow things like alfalfa that doesn’t even feed people but requires an insane amount of water.

Las Vegas recycles almost 100% of its indoor water usage and minimizes outdoor usage. They pay you to remove your lawn and almost all of them are gone.

New comment by idontwantthis in "The Colorado River Does Not Reach 2030"

idontwantthis — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:40:18 +0000

Humans consuming water are not the problem. It’s the insane agriculture happening across the west.

New comment by idontwantthis in "I'm a project manager, to the engineers: how replaceable do you think my job is?"

idontwantthis — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:02:09 +0000

I think a lot of people (especially people who like to post online) like to assume that jobs that aren't theirs are not complicated. I'm an engineer, and I don't know how to coordinate multiple groups of people to produce a product design. And, having worked with AI extensively, I would not trust an AI to handle all of that for me if any money were on the line.

New comment by idontwantthis in "I'm a project manager, to the engineers: how replaceable do you think my job is?"

idontwantthis — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:44:57 +0000

To me, that sounds like you can more efficiently do the boring parts and focus on the complex parts.

I don't see AI on track to manage politics in any way shape or form. It is far too easily manipulated.

Do you have this fear because of actual things you observe at your job, or because of online discourse? I read about this attitude online all the time, but it doesn't make any sense to me personally.