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Comment · 1 month ago
> [...] like every other technology bad version 1.0 will give way to much improved version 2.0 [...]

Are you sure about that? We're talking about for-profit software here. Software tends to get worse and more user-adverserial as businesses think of new and insidious ways to ways to extract money from customers. There's no indication that any of the AI players have any greater aspiration that enshittifying the entire universe.

Comment · 1 month ago
My Harvest renewal was going to be a 1,400% increase. I just cancelled the service yesterday after 20 years. While I was clicking through the "Yes, I am sure" buttons, it got down to a mere 300% increase. I wouldn't pay that purely on principle.

I'll sort of miss Harvest, but I'm acclimating myself to the idea of just writing my own timesheet software.

Comment · 1 year ago
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Comment · 1 year ago
I thought it was 1-2 billion dollars.... Are we just sticking with 2 billion now?

Do I hear 3? Anybody?

Comment · 1 year ago
The road to authoritarianism is apparently paved with people telling me I'm overreacting.

This classification, just like every other action taken by this administration, is a means to inflict damage on their ever-expanding list of enemies. The great thing about vague nonsense like this Antifa EO is that they can control who is and isn’t defined as Antifa.

With regard to your political affiliation, I honestly do not care. If you want to gabble on about Antifa as if it's a real threat, you might as well just fly the Trump 2028 flag and drop the silly pretense.

Comment · 1 year ago
>I'm independent

That's great and I totally believe you. Thumbs up emoji and all that.

>I've seen what antifa militants do almost every time they protest,

Oh my gosh, you were serious. Can you point out the "Antifa militants" to me? How would someone go about training to join the Antifa Elite Guard?

I see there's a whole process to get into the Proud Boys and all sorts of other right wing extremist groups on Facebook, but I'm not quite seeing the path to membership for Antifa. Is it because they're so well organized and funded by billionaires?

Comment · 1 year ago
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Comment · 1 year ago
1-2 billion dollars? Over 2 weeks across 20 states? That's horrible.

January 6th damage was estimated at $2.7 billion dollars by the GAO. That riot (more of an attempted coup) actually was coordinated by actual, tangible right wing extremist groups rather than the shadowy "Antifa" fiction that hides underneath all of your beds.

https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-23-106625.pdf

>It is riots like those mentioned that I presume this executive order is targeting.

You presume? This administration has lost the benefit of any doubt. This is a cabal of shameless liars and they should be denounced at every turn.

This is yet another transparent attempt to circumvent basic American rights and you're defending it like I said something mean about your local sports team.

Comment · 1 year ago
I eagerly await more AI slop that references studies that have never existed. Or, as this administration calls it, "science."
Comment · 1 year ago
Rational arguments? You're relying on a cognitively impaired, narcissistic criminal to come to his senses?

Even if he does, there is damage here that will not be undone.

We need to stop treating this monster like a wayward child.

Comment · 1 year ago
What does "globalist" mean again? Please explain that to me so I can understand.
Comment · 1 year ago
Yeah. It would go to fund education. Sure. Funding education is totally on brand for modern conservatives.

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