Hacker News: lemon_zest

New comment by lemon_zest in "Pete Hegseth shared Yemen attack details in second Signal chat"

lemon_zest — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 03:25:25 +0000

Agreed, mine was more of a rhetorical question. The concession was that we allowed the Saudis to bomb them and further excarcerbate the civil war in Yemen. Now because they are blockading shipments in protest of the current onslaught in Gaza we are pummeling them for it. We sure do have a taste for war crimes in the region.

New comment by lemon_zest in "Pete Hegseth shared Yemen attack details in second Signal chat"

lemon_zest — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 03:03:40 +0000

It kinda gets buried under the utter incompetence of these clowns but why are we even bombing Yemen? How is it acceptable to brazenly destroying other countries’ civil infrastructure? It’s a US president’s pastime activity since Obama

New comment by lemon_zest in "University of Toronto Snags Yale Professors as Canada Raids American Brain Trust"

lemon_zest — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 03:24:23 +0000

But you are just proving WeylandYutani’s point. You can make good money outside the US (ex. Switzerland, Singapore, etc) but because your preconceived notion you don’t even look at the evidence. I won’t be arguing on the definition of ‘perfect’ which is highly subjective.

New comment by lemon_zest in "Federal Government Detains International Student at Tufts"

lemon_zest — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 02:07:44 +0000

It’s much more simple and depraved. They are taking tips from doxxing websites like this: https://canarymission.org/individual/Rumeysa_Ozturk

New comment by lemon_zest in "U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat"

lemon_zest — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 03:05:14 +0000

Yes, same Jeff who was an ex-IDF prison guard

New comment by lemon_zest in "U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat"

lemon_zest — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 02:53:14 +0000

There was a post about George Foreman in the front page the other day so why not this one?

New comment by lemon_zest in "U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat"

lemon_zest — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 02:47:41 +0000

They can impeach. That’s their only political tool. And have it on the record who votes against it. But they are useless

New comment by lemon_zest in "NASA employees advised to delay responses to Musk's "what did you do" email"

lemon_zest — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 17:52:20 +0000

I don’t think you have a solid understanding on how government works and are conflating many things here. Fiscal balance is not going to cause the USG to gonna blink out of existence (unlike a company). While there is certainly the need to increase efficiency and solidify government operations, you don’t fix democracy by unilaterally gutting the federal government and regulations and concentrating power on a handful of rich individuals. That’s going in the opposite direction of a democratic system. Try more reading a history book and less of Elon’s feed.

New comment by lemon_zest in "NASA employees advised to delay responses to Musk's "what did you do" email"

lemon_zest — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 03:55:16 +0000

How does this protect democracy?

New comment by lemon_zest in "CDC data are disappearing"

lemon_zest — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 21:27:30 +0000

What is the argument you are trying to make?

New comment by lemon_zest in "CDC data are disappearing"

lemon_zest — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 21:23:01 +0000

Wait, so they waited until yesterday to remove incriminating evidence? Just when Trump’s staff also came in to purge data? What a coincidence!

New comment by lemon_zest in "CDC data are disappearing"

lemon_zest — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 21:08:06 +0000

How is this relevant to OP’s point?

New comment by lemon_zest in "TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users"

lemon_zest — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 20:14:32 +0000

If it was solely data collection the CCP (and anyone else for that matter) would simply buy data from random data brokers. It is much easier, cheaper and legal too.

New comment by lemon_zest in "TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users"

lemon_zest — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 19:18:17 +0000

I generally agree given where we are right now but i would still argue that with the right Dem candidate and momentum there can be a chance to codify some bold leftist policies that truly improve people’s material conditions like more labor protections, cheaper healthcare/child care etc. These are popular policies across party lines. No one focused on them during this election cycle. In a way people voted for Trump because he kept repeating that Dems made you miserable and i will punish them. And Dems were offering to “save democracy” while leaning further right (see immigration bill). Unfortunately Trump is not helping solve any of those issues. And we are back to square one.

New comment by lemon_zest in "TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users"

lemon_zest — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 19:05:13 +0000

Many issues have bipartisan support, especially foreign policy. I suspect the other main reason they wanted to ban TT is that they wanted to control the narrative on certain issues, on the them being Gaza.

https://newrepublic.com/post/181327/mitt-romney-congress-ban...

New comment by lemon_zest in "RedNote Scrambles to Hire English-Speaking Content Moderators"

lemon_zest — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 03:46:37 +0000

Agreed but if you think about it if Russia managed to influence the US election with just some facebook ads the US has far more bigger problems. Then again, the app is in mandarin and clearly for Chinese users. I would be more worried about data brokers who can sell you data at any time.