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New comment by unfitted2545 in "Austerity Creates Fascism"

unfitted2545 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:13:33 +0000

Yes but economic stimulus where? Wealth inequality has risen so much because of huge government spending in the wrong areas that transfers wealth to the wealthy, it happened in 2008 and in COVID.

New comment by unfitted2545 in "Why AI Sucks at Front End"

unfitted2545 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:05:57 +0000

I mean I go to gigs of people I like, it's not hard to work out if someone is real if they're on stage/meeting up with fans afterwards

New comment by unfitted2545 in "Why AI Sucks at Front End"

unfitted2545 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:28:25 +0000

Rather than an existential threat, I could see it becoming it's own genre rather than infecting every other genre - when in the future people collectively realise it's kinda bad but has it's place as an almost retro aesthetic.

Our idea of nostalgia was not that long ago. Also it could be generated on open weight local copyright free models that are super efficient in the future :P

New comment by unfitted2545 in "One item purchased, ten emails"

unfitted2545 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:48:41 +0000

I love the combination of Posteo and Bitwarden. Any email I use has a "+random letters and numbers" generated for that entry to combat spam. If I need better privacy separation, I have my main email with my name, then an alias with random letters and numbers.

New comment by unfitted2545 in "OpenAI Acquires TBPN"

unfitted2545 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:34:57 +0000

That's true, and in the UK we've just removed jury duty trials for some crimes at the snap of a finger.

New comment by unfitted2545 in "OpenAI Acquires TBPN"

unfitted2545 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:40:23 +0000

Obviously this will never happen, but what do you think about a system where there's a "media" fund from the government that gets distributed to several independent media outlets?

The decision on who and how much to fund gets decided by a randomised group in the population, like jury duty, maybe every 2 years?

I don't know if this could potentially make the media companies worse at reporting facts as they would try and raise money by appealing to people, but with enough competition it should sort its self out as long as there's no outside funding?

New comment by unfitted2545 in "Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban"

unfitted2545 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:58:05 +0000

I also think this could be a symptom of an economically unequal society (which creates a higher range of x), and is a big reason why it's important to fix it, on top of the extra money to the state.

So thats essentially communism right? Is human nature incompatible with communism or is capitalism incompatible with human nature?

New comment by unfitted2545 in "Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right"

unfitted2545 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 20:27:15 +0000

They're our 2026 version of tea leaves

New comment by unfitted2545 in "Love of corporate bullshit is correlated with bad judgment"

unfitted2545 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:19:48 +0000

Yeah, it's just fun to find creative ways to say common things!

New comment by unfitted2545 in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

unfitted2545 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 13:09:58 +0000

You could kill a stray! Or is it better to have someone else handle that "natural" part, or would the animals have to be brought into life on a farm to be eligible for killing?

New comment by unfitted2545 in "Ask HN: Do You Enjoy Your Career in Tech Nowadays?"

unfitted2545 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 23:01:48 +0000

What does looking elsewhere mean? Like not software, or not computers?

New comment by unfitted2545 in "Foods destroying rainforests, in one simple chart"

unfitted2545 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 17:09:48 +0000

It's also worth keeping in mind whilst soy is the 3rd highest, 80% goes to livestock.

New comment by unfitted2545 in "Italy Railways Sabotaged"

unfitted2545 — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 23:11:32 +0000

I was coming out of Barcelona on a train to France on the 18th, and through the window spotted a blacked-out quadcopter just hovering quite high over the tracks. No incidents happened in that area of Spain though so I'm wondering why it was there, I suppose it could be civilian or police?

New comment by unfitted2545 in "430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found"

unfitted2545 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 22:52:12 +0000

I do believe in determinism.

I see what you mean by being able to consider the worth of harming something for your own gain. But doesn't this apply to all animals? If a bear was hungry I'm sure they would happily eat you, but they would probably think twice if they weren't. Same for early humans, it's just we have our technologies (which our intellectual nature has enabled) now to prop us up and not have to really think about survival.

The main thing I'm curious to hear your thoughts on is what are we if not animals? Gods? That's surely completely relative, like an anteater to an ant.

New comment by unfitted2545 in "430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found"

unfitted2545 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 18:46:08 +0000

That's kinda ridiculous to think we're not animals anymore, our nature is to use intellect for survival (and though we know we can reduce suffering further we choose not to).

New comment by unfitted2545 in "Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?"

unfitted2545 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 10:34:47 +0000

It's honestly very scary, and if people aren't on their phone, they have something masking the outside world and blasting noise into their ear.

New comment by unfitted2545 in "Iron Beam: Israel's first operational anti drone laser system"

unfitted2545 — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 15:55:42 +0000

The blood meridian quote that stuck with me for this:

"War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner."

New comment by unfitted2545 in "Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled"

unfitted2545 — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 10:23:15 +0000

You can go even further and remove the recommendations panel when you're watching a video using the eye dropper on uBlock Origin, it's so good.

New comment by unfitted2545 in "Cosmic Paradox Reveals the Awful Consequence of an Observer-Free Universe"

unfitted2545 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 08:20:34 +0000

I have come to believe that consciousness is the fundamental state of the universe, and the brain is simply a filtering mechanism to the "real world", lots of papers show that on psychedelics, where the observer is seeing/feeling larger than life, the brain activity in areas actually goes down.

Of course we don't really know how the brain works, and I do wonder if you were on psychedelics for a looong period of time it would become normal, maybe some MKUltra victims can help with that lol.

New comment by unfitted2545 in "Keep Android Open"

unfitted2545 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 11:27:19 +0000

Yep, slowly moving pieces of AOSP to closed source and now silence on putting out any AOSP releases, in the name of simplifying their development..