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New comment by talon8635 in "Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil"

talon8635 — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 23:13:06 +0000

In this house we believe the first Neanderthal did not consent

New comment by talon8635 in "Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil"

talon8635 — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 23:10:44 +0000

For any unfamiliar with the history, Russia was a mass murdering machine in this era, vaporizing tens of millions of people, including Russians, in very short spans of time without even a second thought.

We all know Germans was. And some people would fling fecal allegations that “so was the US!”. No. German and Russian actions were categorically different than wartime casualties (even brutal, possibly criminal, wartime casualties like fire bombing heavily civilian enemy areas like Dresden)

New comment by talon8635 in "Wendell Berry has died"

talon8635 — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 23:05:45 +0000

The trendy buzzwords are not even necessary here. It’s just poor application (born from a combination of both greed, yes, and ignorance)

New comment by talon8635 in "Wendell Berry has died"

talon8635 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 22:06:50 +0000

Reading McCullough bio of Truman and Caro bio of LBJ lead me to the same conclusion. It was brutal, and most who saw any means of escape seized it

I’m compelled by the romantic nostalgia, but I know I personally couldn’t cut the mustard

New comment by talon8635 in "Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users"

talon8635 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:56:09 +0000

What??

New comment by talon8635 in "Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users"

talon8635 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:55:52 +0000

What? Buy a phone in cash and have it billed to what, your monero wallet? This isn’t possible in today’s world, in the west anyways. Phones are tied to people.

And “worried about anonymity in that way”… that’s the topic being discussed here.

New comment by talon8635 in "Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users"

talon8635 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:50:00 +0000

It’s undoubtedly tied to the phone with is tied to the owner

New comment by talon8635 in "Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users"

talon8635 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:48:19 +0000

Doesn’t Google make it very hard to create an account tied to nothing (no phone or alt email)?

New comment by talon8635 in "The world may have less time than it thinks on climate change"

talon8635 — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 22:06:55 +0000

Your both admitting you have no evidence and implying there is evidence woolly it were studied properly given your use of “interesting”

Of course, such a study could be entirely uninteresting if it turn up no effect at all

New comment by talon8635 in "The world may have less time than it thinks on climate change"

talon8635 — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 18:01:56 +0000

The earth has been both a molten glob of lava and a frozen ball of ice. Surely you jest.

New comment by talon8635 in "The world may have less time than it thinks on climate change"

talon8635 — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 21:19:46 +0000

Birth rates are in decline. The global population is estimated to peak in the 2080s. I suspect that could be later than reality as the endless doom (like this article) inspires more and more people to not have kids. Then as the population declines precipitously, nature takes back over and begins resolving the problem itself.

New comment by talon8635 in "The world may have less time than it thinks on climate change"

talon8635 — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 21:14:44 +0000

Here in America we love to blame the politicians (they do indeed suck). All the while voter turnout is a complete joke. Perhaps this is actually helpful, because we are rife with various subcultures that openly celebrate ignorance, so, yeah. Blame the shitty politicians, speak not of the ignorant and unbothered masses.

New comment by talon8635 in "The world may have less time than it thinks on climate change"

talon8635 — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 21:06:59 +0000

What did Luigi accomplish? If nothing, then why the comparison?

New comment by talon8635 in "US Government designates host of noblogs.org a "global terrorist""

talon8635 — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 02:44:35 +0000

Ahh yes, the invention of property rights in 1980. Dreadful year that was.

New comment by talon8635 in "US Government designates host of noblogs.org a "global terrorist""

talon8635 — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 02:42:44 +0000

Worse may not be part of the calculation. There are some people who are against violence and property destruction and antisocial activity full stop.

It’s also curious to me why people espousing freedom hand waive property destruction

New comment by talon8635 in "Trees for a Changing Climate and Resilient Urban Forest (2022)"

talon8635 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 22:40:37 +0000

I too would like to know what such a bold statement could mean

New comment by talon8635 in "The growing divide between AI hype and software engineering reality"

talon8635 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 22:36:43 +0000

Not being polite just further nourished our basest animal instincts, which the internet has already enflamed. I’ve watched people slide into severe impatience and antisocial knee jerks as a result of too much time online, including myself. Driving and synthetic (online/ai) social interaction make many of us a little more assholeish. And of course, there’s a negative feedback loop, as this further polarized online discussion angering people even more. It’s rather depressing, and it seems no online realm is safe (including HN)

New comment by talon8635 in "U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective"

talon8635 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 20:04:02 +0000

I’d feel comfortable categorizing the j6 rioters and the antifa people smashing shops and smashing people over the head with bike lock both as terrorist. Their entire mission is brute force and fear.

The were nonviolent people milling about or protesting in both groups. Leave them alone. But those smashing and threatening and being violent… they (from both sides) both deserve to be separated from normal society

New comment by talon8635 in "U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective"

talon8635 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 19:59:36 +0000

There are absolutely right of center people that smash shit up to. Did I say there weren’t?

Neither side is free of fools

New comment by talon8635 in "U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective"

talon8635 — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 22:02:58 +0000

Well the nazis called themselves socialist. I’m not saying this is that, but names are often chosen to mislead people

I don’t think antifa is an kind of organized anything

But I can say with certainty that people claiming that title smashes the shit out of property and people for a few years post Floyd where I’ve been in various areas of the west coast

Some are probably genuine do-gooders who oppose fascism. Others appear to be fascists themselves in that they demand you agree with them or carry out property destruction and physical violence if you dont

Here is one of many examples:

https://www.berkeleyside.org/2018/08/08/eric-clanton-takes-3...