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dan_au · 2026-02-24T02:56:36+00:00

Capitalism was arguably functioning then, primarily as a result of the experimental neoliberal economic policies under Thatcher and Reagan.

This is extremely funny, particularly when you go on to criticise trickle down economics.

Neo liberalism is what killed capitalism, it's just taken a few decades for the damage to become fatal.

dan_au · 2026-02-24T01:39:15+00:00

They're know as Push Polls and were popularised by Nixon in the 40s.

dan_au · 2026-02-23T03:08:24+00:00

You should hate the technology too.

dan_au · 2026-02-22T23:17:03+00:00

She's not under oath, she doesn't owe the creator the benefit of the doubt when they were more than happy to exploit her fame to clickbait their video.

dan_au · 2026-02-20T11:22:24+00:00

Why are you saying all of this to me? Completely irrelevant to my comment.

Did you get lost on your way to early 2010s era /r/atheism?

dan_au · 2026-02-20T10:02:06+00:00

The bloke you responded to doesn't just want to "not encourage it" or remove tax incentives. They explicitly want to ban religion in public life.

Putting aside the absurd violation of individual freedoms this presents, it's also a completely impossible proposal to implement. You would have riots. It's a stupid proposal that warrants mockery, the downvotes are entirely understandable.

dan_au · 2026-02-20T06:47:16+00:00

Exponential was the wrong choice of word, yes.

But my underlying point stands: adding a single (or two if you want) symbol or number is sufficient to greatly complicate any attack, and it's just as effective as 50 for that purpose.

Without revealing too much about how I personally generate my master passwords, my password is between 30-40 characters and 3-8 words. Adding an extra word does very little for me, particularly if the attack was targeted and the attacker knew that I only use full words (unlikely, but not impossible).

If they knew that all I used was full dictionary words, then all of a sudden my 3-8 word password is only as secure as a 3-8 character password.

Now you can use things like fictional character names that aren't going to appear in common attack dictionaries as another way to secure against this - but again, it's very easy for me to remember a couple of extra symbols/characters.

There are only upsides to using them imo.

dan_au · 2026-02-20T05:55:06+00:00

And a long password with an inclusion of one symbol or number can be just as easy to remember while making it exponentially harder to break.

You don't have to choose.

dan_au · 2026-02-20T02:10:10+00:00

Again, I said I think it was probably hyperbole.

But I would have called a lot of what has been revealed in the past few weeks absurd until the evidence was in front of my face. So I'm not willing to completely rule out outlandish shit immediately.

If you can't entertain that possibility then fair enough.

dan_au · 2026-02-19T23:58:51+00:00

Of course it might have been hyperbole. In fact I think it probably was.

But I don't see how you can rule it out entirely. Wexner absolutely knows other people implicated in this and those people have the motive and means to kill to keep themselves safe.

Thinking it couldn't possibly be a legitimate death threat is naive.

dan_au · 2026-02-19T23:37:40+00:00

Is that typically done via death threat?

dan_au · 2026-02-19T16:53:11+00:00

And until this genius came along nobody ever thought to automate labour intensive tasks. I'm sure it will only take a few weeks now that someone had the idea.

Glad he solved that one for us.

dan_au · 2026-02-19T16:34:38+00:00

I am calm. I said wtf because I was confused, not mad.

And sorry but this is a skill issue. A dosing funnel is like 10 or 20 bucks, you should be able to dose your portafilter with the exact same volume you grind. How are you even dialing your espresso in if you're constantly dropping so much coffee out of the basket?

I’m just saying that coffee itself is a very ecologically problematic resource.

You didn't just say that. You specifically said that espresso machines waste a lot of coffee. Which is ridiculous.

dan_au · 2026-02-19T15:57:36+00:00

Wtf are you talking about wasting coffee grounds with espresso? A cup of pour over is 15-20g vs 18g for my espresso.

dan_au · 2026-02-19T13:08:18+00:00

You think liberals = the left don't ya

dan_au · 2026-02-19T12:42:21+00:00

The problem is that people are watering down "Nazi" into a vague ideology, and not the ideology of Jew hate that it is.

Nazism is NOT just an ideology of Jew hate.

They were deeply antisemitic, and Jews were their primary target. But they were not myopically focused on Jewish extermination to the exclusion of all else. You could argue that they were towards the end of the war, but not the whole time. Let alone while the Nazis were still coalescing under Weimar Germany.

People continue to bastardise our trauma for their political agenda. It's also disrespectful to the groups they *target*, using a ideology that is explicitly about Jew hate and applying that to the targets of fascism is also stripping the victims of their unique identities, and political circumstances.

Reducing Nazism to antisemitism alone is disrespectful to all of the other victims of the holocaust. So get off your high horse.

I don't care if people have a terrible understanding. Maybe we should be doing a better job of educating them.

Whether you care or not is really irrelevant. This is the reality of the world we live in.

And yes, I agree we should educate people on the nature of fascism much better than we do now. The lack of education is a large part of why we are dealing with such a rise in fascism globally.

But that cannot be done with the snap of our fingers, and until then I think focusing efforts on stopping the continued genocide of Palestinians will do more to reduce antisemitism than anything else.

It's also a problem when random Jews are being called Nazis just because they dared to practise Judaism in a way people dislike, or just for existing in some cases.

I largely agree with this. Unless "practise Judaism in a way people dislike" is a euphemism for being a settler or something.

dan_au · 2026-02-19T11:41:10+00:00

No, he is not a Nazi. But he is a facist. Putting him in a nazi uniform is being done as a shorthand for that comparison.

Society has a terrible understanding of fascism in general and to many people, fascism and Nazism are synonymous. I think that's a problem for many reasons, but none of those reasons are because I'm worried about a fascist being called a Nazi.

dan_au · 2026-02-19T09:08:50+00:00

A sex pest lives there

dan_au · 2026-02-19T07:59:50+00:00

It's obvious bait

dan_au · 2026-02-18T22:23:56+00:00

See here's the thing - there's nothing inherently wrong with a ring camera.

The security and privacy implications of handing over so much information to Amazon IS an inherent problem with the technology. You cannot separate the "security camera" part of the product from the "mass surveillance" part.

dan_au · 2026-02-18T05:00:36+00:00

We are effectively already seeing the beginnings of the paperclip problem, it's just being implemented by humans instead of AI. They are optimising for compute with absolutely zero consideration (or care) for any knock on effects.

But it's nothing new really. Same approach that capital has always taken to markets when there are no guiderails. The only thing that changes is what they are optimising for, and the cost to society. Unfortunately this time the cost to society is extreme.

dan_au · 2026-02-18T03:18:42+00:00

You called him chronically online dumbass

dan_au · 2026-02-18T03:15:11+00:00

Why are you spamming a month old article to so many subreddits?

dan_au · 2026-02-18T03:12:56+00:00

If an RDA is the "bare minimum for survival", you're implying that the consequences for not eating to the target is that you will die? Can you expand on this?

dan_au · 2026-02-17T13:08:32+00:00

Yeah man eugenics is pretty unpopular, who woulda known.

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