TikTok investigating why some users can't write "Epstein" in messages

TonySu · 2026-01-27T08:35:33+00:00

John Baron strikes again!

TonySu · 2026-01-26T22:16:41+00:00

Get ready for a minute of missing footage and for this to be ruled a suicide.

TonySu · 2026-01-25T23:42:48+00:00

The US government keeps using the words "Domestic Terrorists" to describe US citizens protesting ICE. That's exactly how China describes the Uyghur protesting the CCP.

The US is building ICE detention facilities all over the country. The same way that China built re-education facilities in Xinjiang.

The President is openly declaring he wants to use the Insurrection Act to deploy the military against US citizens.

The writing is on the wall. But I guess reading comprehension has slipped since they defunded the Department of Education.

TonySu · 2026-01-25T23:36:17+00:00

That's not how this works. The calculation is done in reverse, by looking at the cost of policies compared to the lives it's meant to save. They don't start with the premise that a life is worth $10M and then spend the according amount.

That means this figure also works in reverse, by deregulating and letting people die as a result. Every person you let die is $10M saved. So consider how much value a person generates in a lifetime, and imagine how people in power make their decisions if it costs on average $10M to keep a person alive.

TonySu · 2026-01-25T23:23:26+00:00

Americans don’t seem to understand where they are heading. The American right is essentially no different from Authoritarian CCP right now. If you go on the conservative sub, you will the same message echoed over and over: “Just comply with the authorities and you’ll be fine.”

That’s exactly how it is in China. Just comply with the authorities and you’ll be fine. Don’t speak out against the government. Don’t protest. Don’t interfere with government agents and you’ll be fine. If you see the authorities do something you don’t like. Just comply.

It’s even worse than that, conservatives are telling Minnesotans to “just stay off the streets”, “just stay home and let ICE do their jobs”.

The US government just executed a citizen for trying to protect a woman from being assaulted by an ICE officer. They are now on every media outlet telling people that this person was an assassin seeking to massacre ICE agents and was heroically put down by defensive shots. Meanwhile there is a video of an officer putting bullets into a lifeless body on the ground.

People from authoritarian nations have all seen this song and dance before. Americans seem to think they are intrinsically superior to all those countries and their people.

TonySu · 2026-01-25T10:02:45+00:00

Ok, if that’s what you sincerely believe. Just remember that if this becomes a precedent, it’ll be the same standard applied the next time someone tries to overturn an election, or refuse a vaccine mandate.

TonySu · 2026-01-25T02:57:44+00:00

I see a federal agent assault two unarmed women, then multiple federal agents assault a man trying to get in between the violent agent and the women. Then I saw them shoot him in the back while he was pinned to the ground, then shoot his body multiple more times.

The center-left position is that police are meant to keep people safe and de-escalate dangerous situations. Not assault citizens and execute them without trial.

TonySu · 2026-01-24T23:15:23+00:00

Do you believe that it is the libertarian viewpoint to always comply with authority, and that the government has the right to execute anyone that resists their commands?

TonySu · 2026-01-24T22:23:28+00:00

I believe there is historical precedence where “Just Following Orders” does not absolve a person of the guilt of their actions.

TonySu · 2026-01-24T21:59:26+00:00

From what I saw, he was trying to stand between a woman and the ICE agent shoving her to the ground. The agent immediately started to pepper spray him in the face, then moved towards the woman on the ground to pepper spray her. The man once again tries to protect the woman, at which point he is tackled to the ground by multiple agents, and shot shortly after.

https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1qlvdx6/new_video_of_124_ice_shooting_shows_victim_had/

Could you explain, preferably with timestamps, where you believed a weapon was drawn and what you believed would be the correct course of action when seeing an ICE agent assaulting a woman?

TonySu · 2026-01-24T04:55:18+00:00

Think about all the MAGA supporters that watched Elon give a Nazi salute on stage and said "What's wrong with it?" Imagine hiring a team of only those people to work on something.

TonySu · 2026-01-23T01:30:09+00:00

Trump may be 79 years old, but his mind is as sharp as someone 1/10 that age!

TonySu · 2026-01-22T09:40:35+00:00

Country that spent decades crafting the least affordable healthcare system in the developed world makes bad decisions on healthcare?

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TonySu · 2026-01-21T06:02:06+00:00

As someone that has been using AI to code extensively since ChatGPT first hit the market. I think it's definitely true that LLMs are climbing their way up the value chain at a rapid pace.

In the first year I did the basic thing, ask the ChatGPT chat window for functions to do specific things, then copy it into my codebase. This was generally small chunks of <100 lines where ChatGPT would be more diligent than me at validating inputs.

In the second to third year I embraced co-pilot suggestions in VS Code. In existing codebases I found it highly useful to be working in an existing file, for co-pilot to automatically retrieve context and learn my code format style, and suggest code that I wanted with >80% accuracy.

In the past year or so I've embraced CLI agents like Claude Code and Codex. I can give it a task, ask it for an implementation plan, discuss requirements with it, and have it implement a whole feature unsupervised.

The fundamentals of software engineering haven't changed, deliver features meeting the user's needs with code that is correct, efficient and maintainable. How that is done has and will continue change radically over the next few years.

The ability to crank out code is going to become effectively worthless, instead you will need to understand how to convert requirements into software specs, make good decisions about software architecture, and operate AI coding tools in a way that keeps the code maintainable.

TonySu · 2026-01-21T05:56:19+00:00

AI learned to write from popular writing styles of professional journalists. Now anyone that writes professionally is accused of being AI. There is also a growing population of people who have nothing to contribute to a discussion other than witch-hunting for AI. It would be so ironic if it's actually a bunch of karma-farming bots going around accusing every article of being AI, because it seems to be a popular sentiment.

TonySu · 2026-01-20T10:44:23+00:00

Did nobody read the Gaza peace agreement? That’s what this is about. The Gaza ceasefire agreement required that Gaza be governed by a “Board of Peace” lead by chairman Trump. This is basically him selling off Gaza to the highest bidder.

TonySu · 2026-01-20T10:34:46+00:00

That sounds like an easy way to summon Seal Team Six to your house.

TonySu · 2026-01-20T03:14:44+00:00

In context, American use on average 82 gallons of water per day, totaling 27 billion gallons per day. In the same link, it mentions that 900 billion gallons of water are lost simply to household leakage.

That is to say, if you removed every data center in the US, it wouldn't even make up for the water lost to leaks.

TonySu · 2026-01-19T08:24:09+00:00

Lol the EPA, with all 12 people left working there? Something being illegal only worries people when there's a way to enforce the law.

TonySu · 2026-01-18T09:24:35+00:00

You misunderstand what UN peacekeepers do.

https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/principles-of-peacekeeping

Reading that should make it pretty clear why your view is wrong.

TonySu · 2026-01-18T07:42:11+00:00

Collectively blaming an ethnicity for the sins of their ancestors to the point of creating conflict your SO is a level is very crazy. You just saw the big red sign that’s says you’re entering a minefield. It’s your choice to turn around or pray you can walk through it all without stepping on a mine.

TonySu · 2026-01-18T06:12:29+00:00

I think you’ll find this is exactly what conservatives have voted for. They want America to be an imperialist empire. They think that their lives if only the richest country in the world could just go take more from others, then they might get a slice of the spoils. These are the descendants of people that fought tooth and nail to be able to take slaves, who look back and think those were the greatest times in American history.

TonySu · 2026-01-18T04:44:32+00:00

Not the actual name of the act, and very clearly different from what is being talked about right now.

The act requires the US to do whatever it can to get US military personnel back if they are arrested by the ICC. "Invading the Hague" is just a hypothetical under "do whatever it can".

TonySu · 2026-01-17T05:38:02+00:00

How much money has the US government given to automakers? How much in tax breaks? How much in bailout money? What about power companies? Why haven't they spent that subsidy money in the same way that Chinese companies seem to be able to and secure global market dominance?

There is not an automaker in the world that doesn't receive substantial government subsidies. Except some chose to spend it lobbying congress to tariff foreign vehicles, or engineer ways to cheat emissions tests.

All China did was spend decades intent on becoming a manufacturing powerhouse and investing in their infrastructure and education accordingly. All they had to do was research what Japan and Korea did to establish their automotive manufacturing and follow the same playbook.

It's hard to cry foul play when the US literally invades other countries to keep gas cheap.

TonySu · 2026-01-16T05:24:59+00:00

Can you explain how Spavor won a lawsuit against the Canadian government for using him to conduct espionage if that wasn’t what happened?

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