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New comment by nemo in "Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes"

nemo — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 02:07:54 +0000

Whatever that performance was, it certainly was not a debunking. The guy made a Nazi salute at CPAC, I saw it, there wasn't any ambiguity or question of intent. To me and everyone I know it was an obvious overt Nazi salute made in a context where it was clear that's what he was doing, esp. to me and my Jewish family members. The fact that the ADL stooped to what they did doesn't change reality, it just shows what a bunch of ghouls the ADL have become. Other Jewish orgs have been clear that this was a Nazi salute.

New comment by nemo in "I want to live like Costco people"

nemo — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:52:28 +0000

I got a Costco greenhouse a few years ago, sorry they're overpriced now - I enjoy mine more than I expected and I thought it'd be fun.

New comment by nemo in "I want to live like Costco people"

nemo — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:49:37 +0000

"I will never purchase Costco clothing"

Much of my wardrobe is from CostCo, effective suburban camouflage as well as being fine as clothes.

New comment by nemo in "The fun has been optimized out of the Internet"

nemo — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:08:18 +0000

I've taken up gardening, I hike more, I go birdwatching every weekend, I practice pen and pencil drawing and sketching on paper, and I read more paper books these days since there's not much that's very compelling about the current web for me - at this point I'd rather be weeding than surfing the current web, it's great.

New comment by nemo in "Ask.com has closed"

nemo — Sat, 02 May 2026 19:37:47 +0000

You might want to search for "alexander the great" again, and also, maybe use "Alexander IV" or "Alexander of Macedon". I'm an amateur Classicist I look up ancient figures all that time, obscure and well known to check wikipedia on things, and I've never seen it prioritize that film above the figure, though perhaps it did when that movie was recent. Pity about Thor and the MCU, though.

New comment by nemo in "Why Law Is Law-Shaped"

nemo — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:47:46 +0000

Having worked a large bureaucracy, when we'd sometimes get into some catch 22, I used to quote the line "I am only taking it to keep you from thinking you have omitted anything" sometimes to a friend who also knew the short story, and we'd laugh.

New comment by nemo in "Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch"

nemo — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:45:09 +0000

I live in Austin, we used to have huge butterfly migrations long ago, they were amazing to see, big swarms of Queen butterflies as well as Monarchs and other species. Last year's was heartbreaking to see, handfuls where there once were swarms, though I think that was driven by the drought. I have a pollinator garden and have been tracking butterflies in iNaturalist for a decade, last few years the numbers have been showing real decline. I think it's mostly habitat loss for my area.

New comment by nemo in "Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin"

nemo — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 03:49:38 +0000

Fairly sure it's just a coincidence, Sasanian refers to the dynasty started by Sasan, an ancient Persian king. Sassenach seems to have its roots in "Saxon".

New comment by nemo in "Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin"

nemo — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:14:59 +0000

It is more or less round. While modern milled coining created nice neatly rounded coins, throughout the history of hammered coins they were very rarely anything like a perfectly rounded coin. They were creating these things in a mass production environment where they made tens of thousands (or more the Romans), quality control was focused on weight over all else. For silver coins and gold some issuers did often try to hold to higher aesthetic standards, there's some Roman/Sassanian/etc coins that are fairly nicely rounded (though often still a bit ragged on the edges from being hammered) but for bronzes they did rarely focused on this (the Ptolemaics did, some others did, most didn't care).

New comment by nemo in "A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content"

nemo — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 19:49:48 +0000

As someone who is allergic to sesame, that is insanely annoying.

New comment by nemo in "Wisconsin communities signed secrecy deals for billion-dollar data centers"

nemo — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 13:45:02 +0000

You can tell them the truth, you could do public reach out, you could do a whole lot of things. Secret back-room deals deliberately hidden from the public who will (justifiably) assume maliciousness just creates even worse PR, less trust, and opens up avenues of corruption and abuse.

New comment by nemo in "AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage"

nemo — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 18:03:58 +0000

For me it would be a strong signal to skip the article and discussion, YMMV.

New comment by nemo in "Why I left iNaturalist"

nemo — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 04:10:16 +0000

Between iNaturalist and Wikipedia, for me iNaturalist is the more significant of the two. I use iNat every day, have many tens of thousands of observations, and using it I've learned to identify thousands of birds, plants, bugs, fungi, and other things out there. Now I can name trees, plants, birds, et al, but more than that I understand better how they fit together into ecosystems. Also I've learned a lot of taxonomy which actually helps inform my view of the world a lot. In the process I've connected a lot more to nature, and thanks to iNat (and eBird) I now spent a lot more time doing meaningful things exploring wild spaces and spend less time scrolling on web pages. Wikipedia's invaluable as well, and completely indispensable, but between the two it's been less significant for me actually directly learning about the natural world I live in.

New comment by nemo in "Memoir by Steve Jobs’ eldest daughter describes ways he was cruel to her (2018)"

nemo — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 23:53:01 +0000

So the kids died as a result of the action taken (withdrawing meds from impoverished children), but the person who took the meds away from the sick kids who then died as a result is innocent? I feel like you might want to look at that word "sophistry" long and hard, and do a bit of soul searching.

New comment by nemo in "Memoir by Steve Jobs’ eldest daughter describes ways he was cruel to her (2018)"

nemo — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 22:53:24 +0000

True, feel free to Google "deaths attributed to end of usaid", lots to read and learn about there. Have at it.

New comment by nemo in "Memoir by Steve Jobs’ eldest daughter describes ways he was cruel to her (2018)"

nemo — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 22:22:04 +0000

While the quantification isn't inherently reliable, the reality of many dead at the hands at Elon Mush is a simple fact that's not up for dispute. The only question is how many he's killed so far. He cut off life saving meds to sick kids and food aid to the areas with food shortages, the deaths are known and reliably reported.

New comment by nemo in "Texas A&M bans part of Plato's Symposium"

nemo — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 16:00:49 +0000

That is some impressively convoluted doublethink. Good luck straightening your head out someday.

New comment by nemo in "Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy (2016)"

nemo — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 05:38:40 +0000

He co-founded a payments company - he certainly wasn't an engineer. He was fired and given a golden parachute from Paypal for his incompetent insistence that they stop all software development at PayPal for a year so that they could move off Linux and move to fully hosting on Windows NT servers (!). He was a manager and money guy from the start, he never was a software engineer or any kind of engineer.

New comment by nemo in "Texas A&M bans part of Plato's Symposium"

nemo — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:29:18 +0000

Out of curiosity, what about calling someone a racist, a fascist, a Nazi, a bigot, etc.? Are those all fine too and better to just put out there so no one is, I guess, disempowered? Should we let everyone throw around racist and hateful slurs casually, and also label people using them with the traditional labels for those who engage in that kind of behavior?

New comment by nemo in "Texas A&M bans part of Plato's Symposium"

nemo — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:18:20 +0000

>it's not that hard to learn to just read Attic and Homeric Greek

I studied Attic, Koine, and Homeric, as well as a few other dialects for 10 years through college until I left my PhD program in Classics. Learning Greek was _very_ hard and even after that time I still had many gaps.