mriguy

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

And they do have to replace the ones they killed with COVID…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I agree that there are much more reasonable existential reasons to lean on but like... if "Climate change will cause NVidia to drop 900%" gets finance bros on board with a solution then fucking well done.

This is probably the right take, although I’m sure some segment of the population will hear “So you’re saying keep going the way we’re going but short NVidia?”

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago

Oh no, absolutely they shouldn’t go! That would be so terrible for all of us progressives. Once they leave and take all their useful skills with them we absolutely will fail as a country and will cry tears of shame that we ever questioned them. That would show us so hard. We would be so owned!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Rich people know that laws don’t apply to them. Log Cabin Republicans probably figure that Republican policies will benefit them financially, and their wealth will insulate them from any practical inconvenience from the anti-LGBT policies. Sure, it will make life unbearable for millions of people, but those people aren’t them, so who cares? I don’t think it’s any more complicated than that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

You’d think they of all people would understand the concept of data leakage.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 6 days ago (3 children)

He’s planning on stealing the election anyway through his acolytes in congress and various state governments, so he sees no point in spending campaign funds that he can use on himself later.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Yes, absolutely. The Supreme Court that he appointed certainly won’t continue to give him immunity to get away with literally anything he does…

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

I cancelled my subscription a few weeks ago, because I got sick of paying for have them put not only their thumb, but their entire weight, on the scale to push Trump. I’m old enough to remember when they were a reputable newspaper.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago

To be fair, compared to Trump, nobody looks that problematic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

He can’t actually form sentences now… this will just make his aimless rambling cut off sooner. Which is still a good thing.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

34% is 155% of 22%, so an even bigger increase!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

The NSA has two jobs.

The first is to break into any computer or communications stream that they feel the need to for “national security needs”. A lot of leeway for bad behavior there, and yes, they’ve done, and almost certainly continue to do, bad things. Note that in theory that is only allowed for foreign targets, but they always seem to find ways around that.

The second, and less well known, job is to ensure that nobody but them can do that to US computers and communications streams. So if they say something will make your computer more secure, it’s probably true, with the important addition of “except from them”.

I won’t pretend I like any of this, but most people are much more likely to be targeted by scammers, bitcoin miners, and ransomware than they are by the NSA itself, so in that sense, following the NSA’s recommendation here is probably better than not.

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