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New comment by noumenon1111 in "AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn"

noumenon1111 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:41:59 +0000

Hey, at least a bowl of burgoo tastes good, unlike some community slops.

New comment by noumenon1111 in ".self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting"

noumenon1111 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:30:49 +0000

I was a cool kid! I used FrontPage :D

New comment by noumenon1111 in "Claude Sonnet 5"

noumenon1111 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:14:08 +0000

Most of these are good points though with the right framing.

New comment by noumenon1111 in "Claude Sonnet 5"

noumenon1111 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:47:28 +0000

Oh, it done found like 50 of those

New comment by noumenon1111 in "Zero Lines Maze: What the 8-Bit Guy's One-Liner Can Still Teach Us"

noumenon1111 — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:13:48 +0000

I find it funny that being Texan == gun nut. But I'm from Oregon, lots of OreGUNians around here.

New comment by noumenon1111 in "Cartoon Network Flash Games"

noumenon1111 — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:44:05 +0000

QBasic Gorillas was poggers, but I'm more of a Nibbles guy myself

New comment by noumenon1111 in "Civilization Is Not the Default. Violence Is"

noumenon1111 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:59:14 +0000

Many native Iberians who were Muslim were either driven out or were paid an unexpected visit by the Spanish Inquisition.

New comment by noumenon1111 in "Civilization Is Not the Default. Violence Is"

noumenon1111 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:05:49 +0000

He glosses over Muslim history and al-Andalus with a "the Muslims were driven out of Spain" like Spain itself wasn't Muslim for almost 800 years. And then, the Enlightenment created the most peaceful time in human history, really? Seems like mutual assured destruction is what makes peace, not sound philosophy.

People are forgetful and argumentative, by nature. The sooner we realize that, the sooner we can have nice things.

New comment by noumenon1111 in "Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car"

noumenon1111 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:18:47 +0000

"Ethnic cleansing" is such a nice word. "Etničko čišćenje" is what the Serb paramilitaries called raping and murdering a population to make them leave. "Remove kebab" as the later meme culture would call it. It's so trite, and a little funny it seems. We should call it what it is: *genocide*; thereby robbing the perpetrators of any semblance of cleanliness or propriety.

Monsters are filthy. Let's call them the filthy monsters they are.

New comment by noumenon1111 in "Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car"

noumenon1111 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:54:16 +0000

No. Better technology is only making it more efficient. We need better humanity, better morals, better policing of criminals in power.

New comment by noumenon1111 in "US- and Greek-owned tankers ablaze after Iran claims 'underwater drone' strike"

noumenon1111 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:53:24 +0000

Captain Obvious? Is that you??

New comment by noumenon1111 in "US- and Greek-owned tankers ablaze after Iran claims 'underwater drone' strike"

noumenon1111 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:50:56 +0000

You don't know how lucky you are, boy...

New comment by noumenon1111 in "I built a pint-sized Macintosh"

noumenon1111 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:10:02 +0000

ZX Spectrum?

New comment by noumenon1111 in "Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge"

noumenon1111 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:17:11 +0000

That's hilarious, and very sweet.

Humans are, by nature, forgetful and argumentative. Fourteen hundred years ago, the Qur'an said this unequivocally (20:115, 18:54, 22:8, 18:73). Not to moralize here, I'm just saying if camel-herders could build a medieval superpower out of nothing, they knew something we don't.

Any state or system that insists good humans are always nice, smart, cogent, and/or aware is doomed to fail. A Washington or a Cincinnatus that can get out of his own way (and that of society) is rare indeed, a one-in-a-billion soul. We shouldn't sit around and wait for that, while your run-of-the-mill dictator in a funny hat (or a funny toupée for that one orange fellow) has his way with us.

New comment by noumenon1111 in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

noumenon1111 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:55:50 +0000

Coming soon... YOU!

New comment by noumenon1111 in "Suicide Linux (2009)"

noumenon1111 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 22:17:18 +0000

Maybe he does. Have you asked him?

New comment by noumenon1111 in "Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS"

noumenon1111 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 18:07:52 +0000

Me too. Honestly I was vibing on nostalgia for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynix_(software)

New comment by noumenon1111 in "Claude Opus 4.6"

noumenon1111 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 16:43:00 +0000

Imagine you ordered the new Claude Opus and instead you got Gemini telling you to glue the cheese on your pizza...

New comment by noumenon1111 in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

noumenon1111 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 21:11:52 +0000

If you're trying to remotely attest immutable OSs you are definitely not a home user, or if you are, you're definitely very keen at least and likely a raging self-masochist.

If you're NOT trying to remotely attest anything, you're fine. Just use your chosen OS, dawg.

New comment by noumenon1111 in "First, make me care"

noumenon1111 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:30:53 +0000

Hello! My name is Xandiloquence Bizarre the Ab3rd, and today I will make a hat entirely out of dried cucumber.