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New comment by mapotofu in "Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed"

mapotofu — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 17:46:07 +0000

Would love to see the same attitude extended to everyone, e.g. “respect all people”, but I guess if we don’t put the pussy on a pedestal we’re all authoritarians. If you keep pushing that narrative, you will be disappointed in what happens.

New comment by mapotofu in "Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed"

mapotofu — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:45:57 +0000

Her source of trust was instagram. The cop’s instagram led her to travel to Arizona and be with him. She was convinced by his instagram that she agreed to do all of this. That’s really dumb and it’s what you get playing stupid games with strangers on the internet.

New comment by mapotofu in "Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says"

mapotofu — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 10:54:38 +0000

And flagged 36 minutes after submission right around 104

New comment by mapotofu in "Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says"

mapotofu — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 10:52:08 +0000

It’s still pretty surprising that a country so armed to the teeth with ground troops and missile defense systems would have let Oct 7 happen for as long as it did, and with so many people dying. I agree that it was wrong of Israel to do that.

New comment by mapotofu in "Social Security funds could run short by 2032, program's Trustees warn"

mapotofu — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:39:38 +0000

I think retirees need to pay the price, finally accept sacrifice, and pull themselves up by their bootstraps. They can earn $500/month easily working at the many places I see hiring for low skill labor. They aren’t contributing economic value otherwise, and it’s more important that we prepare future generations than to lose even more to the one on the way out.

New comment by mapotofu in "US tobacco firms applied tobacco strategies to globalize ultra-processed foods"

mapotofu — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:55:08 +0000

You could make your own bread so you know what is in it, and how much should be in it, and that way you’d know the difference, and probably be better off knowing you don’t have to forage twigs and berries, or be so dramatic…

New comment by mapotofu in "Ultra-processed foods in the global food system: The role of tobacco companies"

mapotofu — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:26:22 +0000

No it isn’t. The advice on nutrition is abundantly clear and has been for a long time: eat food, mostly plants, not too much.

That science has pushed GRAS as “food” is abysmal. Lots of you have just been punked.

New comment by mapotofu in "'Point of no return': New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level"

mapotofu — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:37:53 +0000

I imagine this type of system is not designed for large, sudden and prolonged inundation of water, something New Orleans faces from seasonal hurricanes and their storm surges. Or maybe it is and it’s just a question of magnitude?

New comment by mapotofu in "American Dads Became the Parents Their Fathers Never Were"

mapotofu — Fri, 01 May 2026 17:16:09 +0000

> But I do wonder why is it that if you spend any time on parenting websites you find lots of mothers complaining about deadbeat husbands, and so few fathers complaining about deadbeat wives.

My ex wife does this. I take my issues with her to a therapist (instead of online forums). FWIW I have always been more present than her in our child’s life and certainly pay a lot more too. One data point, but it’s in the population you’re referring to.

Some people want sympathy at the expense of their partner’s reputation.

New comment by mapotofu in "Microsoft tackles quality control issues. Just kidding"

mapotofu — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:25:15 +0000

> The problem with voluntary buyouts is that they tend to target experienced employees, and these are the workers that Microsoft desperately needs if it wants to deal with the quality issues in its software.

… this is a multi-decade issue so while I’m all for the snark on MSFT maybe this is the right move.

New comment by mapotofu in "Women are getting most of the new jobs. What's going on with men?"

mapotofu — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:23:22 +0000

My agenda is against the obviously discriminatory stance that “men should stop being toxic”. It seems like a lot of people “deliberately” misinterpreted you, so maybe the problem is actually you.

New comment by mapotofu in "Original GrapheneOS responses to WIRED fact checker"

mapotofu — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 03:59:24 +0000

It seems very plausible to me that there is a vested interest in seeding drama and chaos into the reputation of GOS. Why wouldn’t there be? Especially when it seems there’s an easy way to trigger Micay, and there are cottage industries online specializing in exactly this sort of thing.

I get the sense a lot of people care about this project and care about defending it but good luck against the propaganda and bullshit like this that comes along with it.

I really enjoy GOS and used it as a daily driver for ~3 years

New comment by mapotofu in "Women are getting most of the new jobs. What's going on with men?"

mapotofu — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:48:54 +0000

So male nurses should put up with toxic behavior so they can learn “empathy” and adjust their behavior. Sounds sociopathic, don't you think?

New comment by mapotofu in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

mapotofu — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:56:09 +0000

I keep seeing people mention NIMBY. Maine is NOT California. For Mainers, Maine IS the backyard. They also have explicit laws saying you can break into someone’s cabin if they aren’t there and your life depends on it, and laws against billboards. They live life differently than you and the parallels are not there.

Most people there seriously don’t give a shit about AI. They care about maintaining the peace, quiet, and purity of their land. Because they enjoy it.

Many of you miss the perspective because you’ve never been there.

New comment by mapotofu in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

mapotofu — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:43:21 +0000

By size there should be more. That’s why they feel that way. Maine is significantly more beautiful than Texas. The ugliest part of Maine probably still looks better than most of Texas. I can’t even think of an example of “ugly Maine”.

New comment by mapotofu in "The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador with the Avignon Papacy"

mapotofu — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:27:02 +0000

I wouldn’t say it’s a difference in views. It sounds quixotic in the face of embarrassing defeats of US military in the last few decades. One can read a lot of books and still be an idiot.

New comment by mapotofu in "The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador with the Avignon Papacy"

mapotofu — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:00:10 +0000

> the same person who could reference that

Let’s not give that same person more credit than they deserve. I’m sure they came preprepared with some LLM derived threats for when they didn’t get what they wanted from the Vatican.

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

mapotofu — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:52:36 +0000

Raw milk is on the fringes of the same argument that whole foods play a more beneficial role in healthy gut microbiota and digestion, and that our current models focusing on nutrient composition are incomplete. It says that our measurements are off, and that there’s more to nutrition than composition alone. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11901572/

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

mapotofu — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:31:21 +0000

There is reason to think the differences are biotic vs. abiotic, between the two. Our digestive system is dependent on healthy microbiota. Pasteurization would be the difference here.

New comment by mapotofu in "Bernie Sanders: "AI Is a Threat to Everything the American People Hold Dear""

mapotofu — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:15:12 +0000

For those of us who watched FB play the “move fast and break things” card, and are now watching the predicted effects of that play out, we think people like YOU are dangerous, and we respect people like Bernie for trying to pump the brakes (knowing the last 10 years have been downhill).