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New comment by kelipso in "Russia's doping program is run by the same FSB team that poisoned Navalny"

kelipso — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:44:54 +0000

A “popular uprising” is basically just a coup with a public relations veil.

New comment by kelipso in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

kelipso — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:43:20 +0000

I don’t know what’s with tech people and their insistence that most people who use tech are mindless zombies.

New comment by kelipso in "Russia's doping program is run by the same FSB team that poisoned Navalny"

kelipso — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:46:38 +0000

After he fled the country fearing for his life… Nice try lol.

New comment by kelipso in "Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group"

kelipso — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:40:29 +0000

Isn’t Ukraine’s censorship dual purpose as well?

They are more likely to get funding from EU if they can make it look like they can win the war.

Which of these is the bigger motivation? Hard to say. But I gather most drones have cameras, so I imagine Russia has a pretty good idea of where their drones are striking.

New comment by kelipso in "Russia's doping program is run by the same FSB team that poisoned Navalny"

kelipso — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:35:32 +0000

Also will encourage athletes to give themselves long term health issues for short term performance gains.

New comment by kelipso in "College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work"

kelipso — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:25:57 +0000

Getting the feeling most education research papers are written by high school teachers lol.

New comment by kelipso in "Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack"

kelipso — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:52:37 +0000

This is obviously unworkable and delusional. Not sure what kind of worldview would produce this type of idea and see it as practical. Maybe more exposure to normal people is needed instead of being insulated in the AI filter bubble.

New comment by kelipso in "Internet outage in Iran reaches 1,008 hours"

kelipso — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:54:28 +0000

I think a lot of people can apply common sense and realize that no real person is rooting for their family getting bombed to bits. And hopefully realize that posters who make up such persons are spreading vile propaganda that dehumanizes them so that there won’t be too much opposition to the massacre of civilians.

New comment by kelipso in "Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack"

kelipso — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 02:30:51 +0000

Whether most of the population will or will not be for that is an open question.

New comment by kelipso in "Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack"

kelipso — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 02:26:30 +0000

It feels like there’s a flaw in your argument somewhere. Your thesis is historical determinism doesn’t work and therefore using it as an argument for political violence is flawed. …But the fact remains that political violence does work and we expect it to work. For a current example, see the bombing of Iran to effect regime change.

Back to the argument that historical determinism is flawed…

I think it’s very reasonable to say that it happened in the past, therefore it probably will happen in the future. That’s the basis for pretty much any kind of prediction.

If you want to argue against historical determinism, you have to make the specific argument for why the current state is different enough that we can’t use the past to predict the future.

New comment by kelipso in "Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack"

kelipso — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 02:17:12 +0000

When they’re saying that most people will be unemployable in a few years and there is no plan to fix that…in a country where you go hungry and homeless without a job, people will get a bit restless.

New comment by kelipso in "Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack"

kelipso — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 02:07:49 +0000

“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants” has been a popular quote in the US for a long time.

New comment by kelipso in "US – Iran negotiations end with no deal reached"

kelipso — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:02:31 +0000

More likely they chose Vance because he is one the few people at the top of the administration who doesn’t have very close ties with Israel.

New comment by kelipso in "EFF is leaving X"

kelipso — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:05:16 +0000

An organization aligning itself with progressives means they will only support a certain set of digital rights that align with progressive politics and not others.

I guess you can still call yourself a digital rights organization if you want by you won’t be seen as legitimate by both sides of the aisle.

New comment by kelipso in "Peptides: where to begin?"

kelipso — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 03:59:23 +0000

Untested is always relative. And the second, but what’s your point?

New comment by kelipso in "Lichess and Take Take Take Sign Cooperation Agreement"

kelipso — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:38:08 +0000

Thank you being a rare sensible voice on this topic. The fanboyism of chess fans is insane these days. I get that the average age of chess fans these days is very low, probably 14 or so, but it’s still pretty annoying.

New comment by kelipso in "Lichess and Take Take Take Sign Cooperation Agreement"

kelipso — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:35:22 +0000

I don’t. Everyone ends up affected by the whims of a celebrity in this case.

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

kelipso — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:09:54 +0000

What in the world?? Iraq was a million civilians killed by the US. Gaza was 100,000 civilians killed by Israel in the last 3 years. And that’s not including all of the other atrocities committed by the two countries.

And there is no proof of the 10s of thousands of protesters killed claiming. That was just propaganda to enable this recent war.

Countries can claim this and that about defense and brutal attacks, and depending on who you are you believe the propaganda or not, but in the end what matters is the destruction and killing they do. Which US and Israel and done more of by a long shot.

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

kelipso — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:15:46 +0000

Lots of people are taking the side of the US, which has attacked civilian infrastructure and killed civilians in Iran and threatened to completely destroy Iran. And you have lots of people taking the side of Israel, which is has been conduction a genocide openly. All the sides have blood in their hands but I would argue the IRGC has the least blood in their hands.

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

kelipso — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:44:50 +0000

Interesting. I have noticed that news about events in Iran has been markedly different within the US and outside the US for years.