BillyTheMage

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by BillyTheMage 1y ago
Well I'm sure not listening to them
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by BillyTheMage 1y ago
They've known there's aliens for years, they just have to boil us like frogs so they don't lose their power when we "find out"
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by BillyTheMage 1y ago
Perhaps we could do it gradually enough where nobody has to starve, we get rid of the "REPRODUCE REPRODUCE REPRODUCE" propaganda, and we just naturally end up back near a natural population instead of overpopulating until we die o
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by BillyTheMage 1y ago
Thanks for the rabbit hole, the Perry Index is my new thing for the next few months I guess
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by BillyTheMage 1y ago
> oh geez oh no how can we possibly survive without poisoning everything we touch?
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by BillyTheMage 1y ago
Something something Epstein Files something something distraction
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by BillyTheMage 1y ago
I really don't like that phrase. It should be "reality has a progressive bias". Progressive is the opposite of conservative. "Liberal" is a specific ideology, and will end up in a position somewhere on the progressi
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by BillyTheMage 1y ago
Why are they saying "on our way" to something that's already here? We even have a name for it: the Anthropocene Extinction Event . Seems dishonest for them to ask that question and then fail to mention the name of it.
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by BillyTheMage 1y ago
there were bunnies, they were jumping on a trampoline...
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by BillyTheMage 1y ago
This seems to relate to my quest as a metamage "to identify and assemble the Epistemological Primes into the Knowledgecore and use it to defeat the Omnarch" . I'm taking a somewhat opposite approach to a PhD, embracing what
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by BillyTheMage 1y ago
This relies on false definitions of capitalism and communism, definitions which I believe are carefully crafted to preclude you from having certain thoughts. You seem to understand capitalism as "freedom" and communism as "go
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by BillyTheMage 1y ago
It's a totalitarian nightmare right now too, what rock are you living under? Why would one group of the same ideology be tyrants and not the other, just because they have a few different policy opinions? Democrats slap a rainbow on eve
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by BillyTheMage 1y ago
I think hitting your kid is okay only if they put themselves or others in danger. Kid putting a fork into the breaker box? Smack the stupid out of em. You need to associate mortal danger with not wanting pain. Like that time I ran out in fr
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by BillyTheMage 1y ago
> You can almost imagine it sobbing in between sentences, can't you? No, that's not the image I had in my head. My head canon is more like: "Oh wow, oh no, oh jeez (hands on head in fake flabbergastion) would you look at t
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by BillyTheMage 1y ago
Yes, it's certainly a successful distraction. I wonder what big evil thing the shadow people are doing while the coast is clear...
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by BillyTheMage 1y ago
While I am led to believe that all currently existing billionaires are members of the parasite class, an exact arbitrary amount of money isn't what makes someone a parasite. There are people who are ostensibly in the "lower class&
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by BillyTheMage 1y ago
It's the economic equivalent of a biological parasite. The class of people who get a free ride on the worker's backs. Those include, but are not limited to: non-worker shareholders, landlords, and all types of scam artist. Ya know
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by BillyTheMage 1y ago
AI will create more jobs because here in a few years we're all going to have to unfuck all this middle-manager-vibe-coded "software"
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by BillyTheMage 1y ago
Misnomers and simply choosing the wrong words are what caused it to fail. Everyone says "climate change" and "global warming", not "global poisoning" or "extinction event". Who cares about the exact n
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by BillyTheMage 1y ago
OP needs to read a bit about "Domain-specific Languages", maybe design a few of their own. If SQL is so bad, make a new one that's better. To some people that might sound like a big joke or sarcasm or something. Real develope
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by BillyTheMage 1y ago
What you are fundamentally arguing is that you should be able to do something without learning how to do it. You mentioned you simply want to slap stuff into a box and never think about what's really happening. This is the problem. Her
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by BillyTheMage 1y ago
Dig slightly deeper into all this realm of right-wing software stuff. The X11 thing led me down a rabbit hole. All sorts of nonsense. I found a CODE_OF_ETHICS that's full of Christian requirements, like you have to believe in god and d
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by BillyTheMage 1y ago
As a cat owner, the big red button is kinda scary. Maybe 2 big red buttons on opposite sides of the desk...
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by BillyTheMage 1y ago
I second this, and even as a person who doesn't have a phone, I feel that thing deep down sometimes that makes me feel like I need to be doing something. I think it ties both into the hyperstimulation epidemic and use of people as
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by BillyTheMage 1y ago
They sit on their ass all day and can afford yachts and vacations, meanwhile the people doing the real work can't afford basic life necessities if they miss more than 0.5 days of work per year. They provide negative value. Anyone can m
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by BillyTheMage 1y ago
I think the focus on [any]aires and certain amounts of money and redistribution causes people to gloss over the real issue. The existence of billionaires is only possible through exploitation. They make the world a horrible place for their
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by BillyTheMage 1y ago
Light mode users are the people who shined flashlights in their eyes in school to try to make people think they're cool. "No it actually feels good to me". Poor attention-seeking little dudes never could feel cool enough.
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by BillyTheMage 1y ago
I think the most unpopular opinion I've expressed here on HN was arguing against someone tracking down and entrapping their family member to prevent them from committing suicide. I believe everyone has that right even if they're &
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by BillyTheMage 1y ago
When I was in elementary school the police came and fingerprinted us all... you know, for education about the police system or some crap like that. I imagine in the future they'll come and take moulds of your kids vocal chords.
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by BillyTheMage 1y ago
Just another "AI is here so why bother" argument. Also, there's a lot more to good documentation than just explaining what the code does.

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