'Surveillance capitalism for me, but not for thee.' The asymmetry of capital/labor relations gets more stark with every advance. The rich have a new wall they can build.

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The IRS announced today that it is seeking to double or more the number of audits of individuals with more than $10 million, and corporations with more than $250 million.

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Uncrewed Underwater Drones, coming to a war zone near you. Expendable, portable, and componentized, with different pluggable payload bays for different mission profiles.

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Pretty bog-standard Christianity, really. The existence of mental illness invalidates the fundamental Christian theology of free will. Seeking medical help for depression, trauma, and so on betrays a faithlessness in your ability to communicate with God.

He always hires just the best people.

Ever notice that people who have 'We can disagree and still be friends' in their profile always want to disagree about whether or not 'women deserve rights,' 'trans is real,' or 'minorities are as morally worthy as whites.'

Like college kids who've been arrested. You wouldn't look great after a harrowing night being mugged by cops.

The hatred these people have towards young people figuring themselves out, towards letting young people figure themselves out, is tragic.

Once more, this week we celebrate Confederate Marksmanship Week. First up ...
May 2, 1863: Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson is shot ... by his own men.

It's been 12 years since the Sandy Hook school massacre. The average college student is 22.5 years old. The protests are what happens when young people between the ages of 9 and 15 grow up hearing their entire 'adult' culture tell them: your lives are not worth saving.

I feel unsafe because my country's policies towards Israel are fueled by a tiny religious sect's need to have enough Jews around for the human sacrifice component of their Jesus summoning ritual.

I don’t feel unsafe because I am Jewish.

I feel unsafe because my country won’t let us protest against genocide.

The trends are:
1) Stop using the fucking cloud.
2) Island architecture. Let the server do what it does best, but...
3) SSR is way too fucking complicated. Just do single-page apps.

Agree with all of them.

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The economists' claim has always been that racism is a stupid inefficiency since all money is green.

When the Biden says it, though, since white people have the bulk of the capital, any taxes that apply to capital must be anti-white, right?

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99% of right wing complaints about women come down to, 'It's a shame women don't enjoy being enslaved as much as we would enjoy enslaving them.'

Even IF they had said “death to America,” it’s protected political speech under the First Amendment.

'Jennifer Government' was a dystopia.