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I get it, but it's certainly a thing that is seen really only directed at the US.

I think you're right. Made worse by those piling on that are US citizens, enjoying the fruits of what this country has produced.

I used 2012 as an example because that's when I was in my first year of high school

I don't think this person has the experience required to make a qualifiable judgement on what the internet was.

There is a large block of (Internet) time missing from this analysis.

A sign of a degenerate society.

Palantir was founded—with initial venture capital investment from the CIA

This was obvious from the start. Not sure why people "are starting to wonder", which I don't believe either.

...to develop the powerful abstractions that then allow us to do much more, much more easily. Of course, the implicit wink here is that it takes a lot of work to be lazy

This lines up with YAGNI, but most people believe the opposite, often using YAGNI to justify NOT building the necessary abstractions.

"Luigi-Inspired" is the new dogwhistle?

Philidelphians burn down their own city whenever their NFL team wins or loses a Superbowl, so this shouldn't be surprising.

fair

hot take: this is how legislation should work

open comments, accepting pull requests, use AI tooling to weed out the ragebait and trolling for things that might actually be useful

Yet earnings estimates remain solid.

Great idea - M&A your way out of bad execution

http://www.textfiles.com/art/cow.txt

"Act as if someone else smarter than you is going to look at your code" - best advice I've ever gotten

You're right.

But society where the basis has a liberal perspective, individual sovereignty is held in the highest regard, private property is protected, and the nuclear family is the underpinning of it, I'm okay with. Judeo-Christian societies have this, and maybe aside from Sikhs and some Buddhist sects I don't know of any other religion that does this.

Is there an HN version of slash-dotted?

Ukraine seems like the obvious big miss.

Feels like the author is having some sort of existential crisis.

Seems like there are a lot of events missing

Only there would have never been an Enlightenment without Catholic rigor.

This statement is based on a surface level (if that) understanding of Christianity. Machiavelli and Dostoevsky aside, whose criticisms are somewhat deeper but still misguided, there are many thinkers who question the existence of God but acknowledge the benefits of a God-centered society.

more Silicon Valley/California xenophilia? </sarcasm>

You can tell a non-US-southerner wrote this because there's not a biscuit to be had here.

WHERE ARE THE BISCUITS???

502 Bad Gateway

Neat, but it really bothers me when projects don't use standard layouts.

Not a supporter of him, but fairly conservative, in a very red, very pro-Trump area. Really wouldn't even consider myself a Republican. But until someone decent on the Democrat side comes along I'll probably hold my nose and vote red, and I can honestly say I've never voted for Trump.

Trump appeals to a large swath of the disenfranchised. Mostly white (though quite a few black and latino - at least in my area), blue collar, conservative, Christian, mostly middle class. In the mid to late 00s the Democratic party had built a minority coalition with support from upper middle class white people. And it worked pretty well for about a decade. But they took it too far. I think Obama is largely to blame for this - his 2012 campaign was seen as being based entirely on denigrating middle class white people (not my words - the sense I've gotten talking to neighbors and from listening to talk radio). Then it compounded with Hillary's run in 2016. "A basket of deplorables" and so on. So all those middle class white people - they got fed up with constantly being called racist, sexist, transphobic, homophobic colonizers. They got angry. Trump was the response to all that.

The other thing you should know is that Trump is an insult comic - same beats, same tenor. You probably don't think he's funny but if you talk about him he's going to come back and insult you in the worst ways possible (which can be funny if you like insult comedy and aren't the target). Not presidential AT ALL, and most on the left don't know how to handle that. But the disenfranchised he's catering to - they are eating it up. Thus he's built an army of diehard supporters. He's saying the things they like to hear, making fun of the people who have made fun of them, coloring the landscape with the right things (a decent economy in his first term, highly patriotic themes like renaming DoD to DoW, hating on the left, etc). THEN you had the insanity of draconian and unscientific COVID responses, BLM riots, trans issues, safe spaces and micro-aggressions, and a Democrat president that was sadly and effectively a dementia patient. The response to the first Trump term by the left was not healthy. All they had to do was not go insane, but they did, and now you get him again.

All that to say that his base is going to back him up. If Trump says that there were fake electors his base is going to believe him. He could say (and has) just about anything and a large MAGA contingent will happily follow along. Not only do they feel represented by him but the left has acted so foolishly in response they feel justified in doubling down on that support.

The US makes up approximately 15% of NATO funding and I don't think the EU is in an economic position to make that up any time soon. NATO is arguably underfunded as is.

They are not in a position to do that successfully

Every post on Chomsky is so obviously trying to sound smarter than they really are and this post is no exception. What about that guy attracts such try-hards?

Also to call Chomsky a libertarian is such a gross exaggeration that only if you squint REALLY hard at a couple of lines you might be able to be convinced.

Not sure why you are getting downvoted - nothing you have said is incorrect. Given the parent comments my guess is that it's because you're speaking in purely economic terms and not grounded in political ideology.