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New comment by nearlyepic in "Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July"

nearlyepic — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:58:21 +0000

Aren’t people on this website supposed to be like, smart? If I wanted someone to tell me “if you don’t like it leave it” as if it’s an actual position worth arguing I could just go to the bar.

New comment by nearlyepic in "Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July"

nearlyepic — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:49:38 +0000

No it doesn’t. The reactionary people are the ones cheering on the people doing the rounding, as long as it’s against people they don’t like.

That’s the problem with the mindset - if it was genuinely anarchistic it would be better. Instead, it’s just privileged and focused on creating an out group.

New comment by nearlyepic in "Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July"

nearlyepic — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 07:24:58 +0000

> But this is none of your business.

The culture described extends far into things that are my business, like being able to walk around without being shot.

New comment by nearlyepic in "Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July"

nearlyepic — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 07:23:29 +0000

Nah, I’d rather beg for money than be run over by some dipshit driving a truck on swampers that’s 3 times as big as they’ll ever need. Oh, wait, in other countries you don’t have to beg and plead to receive healthcare.

New comment by nearlyepic in "Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July"

nearlyepic — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 07:11:45 +0000

> this reflects an aspect of American culture that you can’t just erase.

Yeah, and that’s the problem. A whole country full of people belligerent enough to say “fuck you” to anyone who tells them “hey you probably shouldn’t blow your hand off”. What a wonderful place.

New comment by nearlyepic in "AI fake news complaining about how AI fake news is the death of real news"

nearlyepic — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:40:15 +0000

You're telling me to refute nonsense and I'm telling you to get lost. I'm not "resorting" to anything.

New comment by nearlyepic in "AI fake news complaining about how AI fake news is the death of real news"

nearlyepic — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 23:41:08 +0000

So that is the argument you’re making?

Everything is driven by a stimulator, dumbass. LLMs have one purpose and it’s plagiarism. Downplaying that by saying “someone’s doing the plagiarism” doesn’t make the plagiarism machine okay. Are you this retarded about guns, too?

New comment by nearlyepic in "AI fake news complaining about how AI fake news is the death of real news"

nearlyepic — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:37:25 +0000

> This AI stuff is neither good or bad, it is a tool. The people using it are either good or bad.

You quite literally did??

New comment by nearlyepic in "AI fake news complaining about how AI fake news is the death of real news"

nearlyepic — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:30:32 +0000

> No, no that doesn't work. Nobody thinks that.

Yeah, obviously. It was a sarcastic reply to a nonsense argument of “there are no bad things only bad people”

New comment by nearlyepic in "AI fake news complaining about how AI fake news is the death of real news"

nearlyepic — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:21:51 +0000

“drunk driving kills a lot of people, but it also helps a lot of people get to work on time, so it’s impossible to say whether it’s bad or not”

New comment by nearlyepic in "Opening up 'Zero-Knowledge Proof' technology to promote privacy in age assurance"

nearlyepic — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 06:16:06 +0000

> That's where the mass shooters evidently come from.

I mean, quite a few have come from proto-manosphere circles, too. Elliot Rodger comes to mind.

New comment by nearlyepic in "Rocketlab acquires Iridium"

nearlyepic — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 03:24:20 +0000

> Ugh. People already trying to find ways to gate keep space by raising the financial barrier to entry before we've even been able to capitalize on cheap space flights.

This reads like a parody of libertarians.

New comment by nearlyepic in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

nearlyepic — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:49:48 +0000

???

New comment by nearlyepic in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

nearlyepic — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 15:40:57 +0000

You actually believe that lie?

New comment by nearlyepic in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

nearlyepic — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 22:18:10 +0000

This is a super reductive reading of the American revolution. The idea of the colonies self governing was popular as hell, for obvious reasons. Our current situation is nowhere near the same thing. The people that aren’t frothing-at-the-mouth fascists are still, overall, comfortable enough in their daily lives that they wouldn’t consider violence against the government for a second. We can’t even get 40% of them to go vote.

You want to fight 80% of the nation? Be my guest, but for a violent revolution to be anything but a suicide mission you need to flip those numbers, or have the military on your side. And if you think the US military will flip against capital because of some strongly-held belief of “liberty” I have a bridge to sell you.

The only thing we can do is try to convince other people that this shit does actually matter. We’re so far in the hole, though, that it’s going to take a long fucking time to dig ourselves out. It’s not going to be some glorious revolution.

New comment by nearlyepic in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

nearlyepic — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 20:19:50 +0000

Do what, exactly? Throw away our lives? 40% of the nation would rather die than vote for anyone other than a racist, and another 40% would tsk-tsk and say “that’s not how you’re supposed to do it”. There’s no revolution coming to save the day.

New comment by nearlyepic in "Steam Machine launches today"

nearlyepic — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 03:29:10 +0000

> Are you referring to the clip of the transsexual and the lesbian?

Certified “gamers when women” moment

New comment by nearlyepic in "Steam Machine launches today"

nearlyepic — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:42:40 +0000

First time seeing an ad? If you sampled 100 F-150 buyers they would look nothing like the people in the commercials.

New comment by nearlyepic in "FDA advisors unanimously vote to approve Moderna's mRNA after agency drama"

nearlyepic — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 04:09:48 +0000

This stupidity is home-grown. Blaming "enemy states" is deflection - the quicker we understand that the quicker we can get to fixing this mess.

New comment by nearlyepic in "Midjourney Medical"

nearlyepic — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 02:35:11 +0000

This shit is immune to parody, it’s the most California thing to ever exist. “We’ll fix your health problems with an AI spa”. A spa. Give me a break.