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New comment by thefz in "Americans Are Spending More Money to Drive Worse Cars"

thefz — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 07:58:51 +0000

I am sure that your life is better now thanks to the spy device always in your pocket and not because of the advances in medicine, education, human rights...

New comment by thefz in "Americans Are Spending More Money to Drive Worse Cars"

thefz — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 07:56:16 +0000

> The device you're currently using is worse than the equivalent model was 10 years ago?

It is increasingly less and less mine at every iteration. I owned every bit of my dad's 386.

New comment by thefz in "Americans Are Spending More Money to Drive Worse Cars"

thefz — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 07:55:28 +0000

"goods people got in countries that didn't practice capitalism" are generally built to last.

> something has to mediate the resource allocation and effort of society towards providing that want/need at a certain quality/price

Yeah, exactly, not "squeezing every last bit of value out of a product to appease the shareholders", see "enshittification".

New comment by thefz in "Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly Report GLP-1 Signals of Slowed Biological Aging at ARDD"

thefz — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 06:23:56 +0000

With the difference that the diseases cured by antibiotics are not self inflicted, and totally preventable 90% of the time.

New comment by thefz in "Americans Are Spending More Money to Drive Worse Cars"

thefz — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 05:25:31 +0000

"X are spending more money to Y worse Z" is really the distillation of life under capitalism.

New comment by thefz in "The plight of the public potty"

thefz — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 17:00:18 +0000

Romans had public toilets and fountains 2000 years ago. No matter who you are, let your body function the way it was designed.

New comment by thefz in "macOS 15.8.2 Breaks OpenGL"

thefz — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 16:43:45 +0000

Brings back memories of when macOS broke samba, coincidentally the moment I decided to switch off the brand.

New comment by thefz in "Israeli settlers attack olive framers & Washington Post journalist in West Bank"

thefz — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 19:42:13 +0000

Whatever makes you happy bru

New comment by thefz in "Israeli settlers attack olive framers & Washington Post journalist in West Bank"

thefz — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 16:39:38 +0000

I support not decimating tens of thousands of innocents, raiding their homes, bombing their cities, et cetera.

I guess you are the kind of person that when someone says "I don't like the iphone" jumps up and says "well, Samsung sucks!", the all white or black kinda guy?

New comment by thefz in "Israeli settlers attack olive framers & Washington Post journalist in West Bank"

thefz — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 07:10:47 +0000

> their war crimes are being broadcast live

Always have been, it's all over media in Arab countries. It's just western media that is glossing over the genocide.

New comment by thefz in "Israeli settlers attack olive framers & Washington Post journalist in West Bank"

thefz — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 07:09:04 +0000

As I said, being sarcastic.

The amount of apologism, denial and support for the horrors Israel is perpetrating, in this forum, is unreal.

New comment by thefz in "Israeli settlers attack olive framers & Washington Post journalist in West Bank"

thefz — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 06:16:28 +0000

Yes I was being sarcastic.

New comment by thefz in "Israeli settlers attack olive framers & Washington Post journalist in West Bank"

thefz — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 06:10:53 +0000

Clearly defending themselves from Hamas.

New comment by thefz in "Why Sweden is abandoning its cashless society"

thefz — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 09:44:41 +0000

If you buy a coke can with cash who are you funding?

New comment by thefz in "Why Sweden is abandoning its cashless society"

thefz — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 09:43:56 +0000

Hey THE GUBMINT exists also to collect taxes. Why are you so defensive of evasion?

New comment by thefz in "AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware"

thefz — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:09:42 +0000

> My question is, why is Israel so good at this?

American money, tech and intel, plus they are vastly overstaffed for the size of territory they want to defend.

New comment by thefz in "AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware"

thefz — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 06:35:13 +0000

Dude, a lot of innocents were hurt or disfigured by the pagers.

New comment by thefz in "One in ten people are older than 65. Three in four live under a leader who is"

thefz — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 10:52:23 +0000

Not even that, IMO. In the past when the world was stable for centuries, it made sense to have seniors with a long experience to drive the public, see Roman senators as an example.

Nowadays the world changes so fast it does not make sense anymore.

My grandfather was born when radio was a luxury and died after living through another revolution, the TV. Internet was not so widespread. While after him I witnessed the rise of TV, the birth of Internet and whatever other media it spawned. It's like living through 4x the advancements of our previous generation.

We can't expect a 70-80 years old to understand the world of today.

New comment by thefz in "Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years"

thefz — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:58:15 +0000

I can not think of a society that hates itself more, so yeah.

New comment by thefz in "Why Sweden is abandoning its cashless society"

thefz — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 10:36:37 +0000

I live in a country with sky high tax evasion where cashless is conveniently out of order / broken most of the time. Despite the drawbacks you highlight, I really really really wish for a cashless society, so the evaders are forced to declare EVERYTHING. The net benefit would be incredible, for everyone.