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New comment by krispyfi in "The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it (2021)"

krispyfi — Sun, 17 May 2026 06:16:37 +0000

2020 was famously a period where the pandemic and the opioid crisis were causing death and despair all over the country, but somehow that became the excuse for backpedaling on decriminalization in Oregon before there could have even been effects to study, not to mention before there was time to study those effects. They even recriminalized drugs that have never been associated with overdose or addiction, like psychedelics. Basically, they did the bare minimum necessary to be able to say "we tried it and it didn't work" with a straight face. Don't fall for it.

New comment by krispyfi in "Metal Gear Solid 2's source code has been leaked on 4chan"

krispyfi — Mon, 04 May 2026 01:29:19 +0000

You have it precisely backwards. Culture belonging to the people is the default, natural state, and copyright is an unnatural legal fiction that should only be tolerated insofar at it produces a net positive in terms of promotion of the arts and sciences. Unfortunately, the whole intellectual property concept has been co-opted by big business for rent-seeking. I don't think the Konami execs are at a board meeting saying, "we can't fund another Metal Gear sequel because it will just become public domain in 20 years."

New comment by krispyfi in "Japanese man sentenced to prison for posting spoilers"

krispyfi — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:35:49 +0000

In the US, it is the responsibility of copyright holders to protect their IP through tort litigation. Japan is so captured by industry that they will put people in prison for what should be a civil matter. I'm sure it's just a coincidence that it's mostly the IP of large corporations that is protected by criminal law. It's as if the police were to volunteer to be personal bodyguards for rich people. It's understandable, though: Japanese popular media is a core part of their "Cool Japan" soft power foreign policy strategy.

New comment by krispyfi in "Japan to require language proficiency proof for engineer, specialist visa"

krispyfi — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:44:42 +0000

Cyclist in Tokyo here. Maybe I wouldn't need to go on the sidewalk so much if they didn't let cars treat the bicycle lane like roadside parking. Enforce that before enforcing some stupid green ticket. We need dedicated bicycle lanes partitioned from the car lanes like I've seen in Australia.

New comment by krispyfi in "How to make a sliding, self-locking, and predator-proof chicken coop door (2020)"

krispyfi — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 05:36:31 +0000

Also blocked connecting from Japan. Fuck cloudflare.

New comment by krispyfi in "Show HN: Bonsplit – Tabs and splits for native macOS apps"

krispyfi — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 15:11:13 +0000

Yes, I assumed it was a macos equivalent to suckless-tabbed. https://tools.suckless.org/tabbed/

New comment by krispyfi in "Super Mario 64 for the PS1"

krispyfi — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 01:37:35 +0000

I had the opposite reaction. As someone who was on team PSX, the wobbly jank is pleasingly nostalgic. Didn't someone say that the limitations and artifacts of the obsolete media of the past become the sought-after aesthetics of the future?

New comment by krispyfi in "I wasted years of my life in crypto"

krispyfi — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:44:53 +0000

Yeah, it's more of a cherry on top than a primary goal.

New comment by krispyfi in "I wasted years of my life in crypto"

krispyfi — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 10:38:40 +0000

The war on drugs is a scam. Cocaine prohibition is a pretext to oppress indigenous peoples of the Andes. https://filtermag.org/world-health-organization-coca-prohibi...

New comment by krispyfi in "'Attention is all you need' coauthor says he's 'sick' of transformers"

krispyfi — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 05:13:27 +0000

Aside: "Hallucinate" was an unfortunate choice of words. It should have been "confabulate". And, yes, humans confabulate, too.

New comment by krispyfi in "Comcast Executives Warn Workers to Not Say the Wrong Thing About Charlie Kirk"

krispyfi — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 05:47:41 +0000

> The Terminids Icon Terminids, sometimes referred to as the Terminid Horde[1] or Terminid Swarm, and commonly called Bugs, are one of the enemy factions in the Second Galactic War. They have control over 21 planets. The Terminids have been identified as "Fascist"[2] by Super Earth Icon Super Earth, despite the individual Terminid clearly being incapable of comprehending the ideology.

https://helldivers.fandom.com/wiki/Terminids

But you're missing my point, which is that it's too early to speculate. Pundits were blaming trans people and leftists before the bullets were even found.

New comment by krispyfi in "Comcast Executives Warn Workers to Not Say the Wrong Thing About Charlie Kirk"

krispyfi — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 01:31:47 +0000

Calling the markings on the casings, "antifa" is premature, in my opinion. The arrows are a Helldivers II reference. "Bella Ciao" appears in Far Cry 6 and is featured on a Groyper Spotify playlist. (The suspect cosplayed as a Groyper meme, and Groypers hate Charlie Kirk, so it adds up.) UwU is a reference to furries.

My guess is he's a terminally-online gamer/channer/Groyper and he was trying to troll news organizations into broadcasting his spicy memes. But this is just my guess, and until we get more evidence, my guess is worth about as much as your "antifa" theory, i.e., zilch.

New comment by krispyfi in "The U.K. closed a tax loophole for the global rich, now they're fleeing"

krispyfi — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 11:24:29 +0000

There are other kinds of wealth, like the ability to have your enemies accidentally fall out of windows.

New comment by krispyfi in "Student discovers fungus predicted by Albert Hoffman"

krispyfi — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 23:39:17 +0000

Source? Their patent expired, and Wikipedia says they stopped making it on the 60s. Occasionally a sealed bottle of Delysid will surface somewhere, but I think that they are all vintage.

New comment by krispyfi in "The Rise of the Japanese Toilet"

krispyfi — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:22:22 +0000

Remind me to never toss your salad

New comment by krispyfi in "The world of Japan's PC-98 computer"

krispyfi — Sat, 24 May 2025 13:08:58 +0000

> Metal Gear creator / problematic gaming legend Hideo Kojima got his start on the platform with his classic potboiler “Policenauts”

That should be "Snatcher". Criminally overlooked game.

New comment by krispyfi in "Ruby 3.5 Feature: Namespace on read"

krispyfi — Tue, 13 May 2025 06:38:37 +0000

Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!

New comment by krispyfi in "The Acid King (2001)"

krispyfi — Tue, 13 May 2025 00:37:43 +0000

Do you have a source for that? Wikipedia says it's an urban legend. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_legends_about_drugs?se...

New comment by krispyfi in "The Cannae Problem"

krispyfi — Sat, 03 May 2025 00:31:34 +0000

And they are mischaracterizing the concept of "normalization of deviance".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_of_deviance

New comment by krispyfi in "Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale"

krispyfi — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 05:23:37 +0000

Also Albert Hofmann and Alexander Shulgin