arcterus
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- Comment on UPS mass layoffs as 48,000 jobs cut 3 days ago:
Yes, the economy is clearly doing well, thank you Orange Man.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Actually yes, given that Yarvin is a psychotic techno-feudalist and Wolf (the billionaire) seems to be a big Trump and Musk fan. IMO anyone who supports the current US govt is either a PoS or a fool.
FUTO also tried to redefine the established meaning of “open source” until they finally changed the term to “source first” since they didn’t want to call it “source available.” Perhaps this was in good faith, perhaps this was them trying to trick people into thinking their products are something they are not. There’s also recent claims that their claimed donations to open source projects have not been done in the official way and have basically been tiny one-offs to (potentially) singular developers. Everything around Wolf is just sketchy.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Don’t watch his content, but my main concern would be that he worked for FUTO (literally moving to Austin to work for them), which is funded by a right-wing billionaire with connections to Curtis Yarvin, and that he’s somewhat active on Kiwi Farms.
I also admittedly find it a bit sus when tech people move to Texas given all the people that go there because of their political views.
- Comment on Anon escapes from work 4 days ago:
That building is incredibly ugly.
- Comment on US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment 4 days ago:
Also the SPARTAN program was pretty fucked, so this just looks bad in every way IMO.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
It’s frankly mostly “Christians” who get yapped at by some rich “pastor” on TV or in one of those megachurches, and/or just use the religion as a way to justify their existing bigoted beliefs. Evangelicals are basically a plague at this point.
- Comment on Reducing power consumption of a desktop PC 1 week ago:
I would read this if I weren’t arbitrarily blocked for not installing Firefox on Android, but whatever. Wonder what happens if you use iOS lol…
Hard to imagine what I assume is a blog has any actual requirements preventing non-Gecko browsers unless it’s designed incredibly poorly.
- Comment on $96.5 million for Nadella | Microsoft's CEO receives record pay in a year that saw 15,000+ layoffs 1 week ago:
I like how this fuckwad claimed the layoffs were weighing him down or whatever a few months ago. Apparently he was being weighed down by the boost to his pay.
Achieved double digit revenue growth (15% year-over-year), affirming our success at developing products and services our customers value.
I’m sorry, why do you need to lay off so many workers with this sort of revenue growth? Tech companies have really been masks off with how little they care for their employees recently.
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 1 month ago:
It's more than just mental healthcare. American society is just broken in so many ways.
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 1 month ago:
I mean Japan's political situation is kind of weird. The LDP has basically been in power forever (with super brief interruptions). It lost power recently though so we'll see what happens I guess. IIUC tho anti-immigrant sentiment is rising (at least partly fueled by the massive waves of shitty tourists IMO), which prob isn't a great sign based on what's been happening in other countries.
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 1 month ago:
Relevant username
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 2 months ago:
Mm, sounds about what I'd expect of you.
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 2 months ago:
Just doing my part to provide as little empathy to you as you provide to others.
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 2 months ago:
Compared to other competitive swimmers, yes, he was. 500th ranked in just the USA college system means you're never getting anywhere close to being a professional swimmer competing at world championships or the olympics. Never. Not even close.
You really love ignoring everything other than the 500 free.
Since you brought up the Olympics, I wonder how many of her competitors (other than obviously Douglass) actually made it.
Incorrect.
Unless you're talking about pretty much worthless pool records, I am indeed correct. Since you love calling me incorrect, how about you actually provide some numbers other than an unsubstantiated ranking from a letter written by someone supposedly om behalf of anomymous teammates. She did not set NCAA records, USA records, etc., unlike someone else she competed against.
Grow up.
Right back at you, ma'am.
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 2 months ago:
Where?
I literally wrote in the parenthetical which term you used. Are you blind?
Went from a "bad" mens swimmer to the best womens swimmer while swimming basically the same times as pre-transition. There's nothing to say that even if Lia didn't "transition" that he would have improved his times.
I think I'm done. You're just repeating conservative talking points without actually thinking about what you're writing. Lia Thomas was never a bad swimmer. As mentioned, the improvement in her rankings was within normal bounds for three years. You've also curiously avoided noticing how the other rankings were below 1st despite her starting at a higher ranking in men's competitions. Likewise, none of her times have ever blown away the competition. She didn't set records. The 1st place finish isn't even in the top 50 all-time for NCAA.
I feel like I'm talking with my relatives who voted for Trump. Given that you don't even have the decency to use the correct pronouns, kindly go fuck yourself conservacuck.
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 2 months ago:
It's obvious you don't actually have a researched opinion since you just used the wrong term for a trans woman (they said trans men, in case they edit it).
You seem to, once again, be ignoring that on top of the decrease from transitioning, they are still a human being, and thus age and practice like any other human being. From sophomore year to their redshirt senior year, they grew, trained, etc. like any athlete. Expecting them to just drop 15% or whatever from their sophomore time and never improve from that is completely idiotic.
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 2 months ago:
The numbers you are using I've only seen from that letter made by people complaining about her, frequently posted everywhere by conservative sources. Also, it's fucking obvious she'd have slower times. That is the entire purpose of requiring trans atheletes to be on hormones for a couple years.
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 2 months ago:
She swam for the men's team 2019-2020 while undergoing hormone therapy. Then there was a year break because of COVID. Then she swam for the women's team 2021-2022. That's a two year break.
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 2 months ago:
It should also be noted that a college athlete's times and rankings would presumably improve every year. Freshmen competing against seniors are just less likely to win (in most sports at least). IIRC I saw an analysis of her rankings that indicated the improvement was within normal bounds for year-over-year improvement.
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 2 months ago:
I personally don't think that's really feasible unless they provide smartphones for every citizen themselves, and even then people like my grandparents would basically not be able to live given that they only barely know how to message me (and even that they do wrong sometimes, so...). They can certainly make it difficult without a smartphone, but they likely can't completely eliminate physical IDs until those issues are gone.
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 2 months ago:
While it'd be difficult, you can usually make do with a browser or visiting in-person (e.g. with a bank, they need to know who you are anyway, so visiting in-person is mostly just an inconvenience). Physical ID is likely still going to be a thing for the forseeable future since at minimum there are bunch of old people who basically don't know how to use smartphones (or at least use them well).
Messaging is more problematic. You could probably use a combination of something that functions on your computer and a dumb phone for urgent things (although since messages/calls wouldn't be E2EE, you'd have to assume the govt knows the contents of the convo).
IMO it's entirely feasible just quite inconvenient.
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 2 months ago:
If govts actually start making stuff like grapheneos illegal, maybe I'll just stop using smartphones. If they're gonna be that blatant about wanting to be a surveillance state, then I see little reason to help them.
- Comment on Anon witnesses excellent security 2 months ago:
Whenever I hear about shit like this I wonder if I should just start a company and package free software lol. Could like donate a bunch of the profit to the actual projects.