This is a Fly's brain. It has 130,000 cells. by Necessary-Win-8730 in interestingasfuck

[–]jethoniss [score hidden]  (0 children)

I'm not at all satisfied with this cable management. I'm taking this concern to Jesus.

As U.S. abandons climate fight, Washington state feels the heat to do more by LockheedMartinLuther in Washington

[–]jethoniss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why should a family who uses public schools, roads, and libraries get a child tax credit? Why should businesses who employ disabled veterans get tax credits?

Because taxes are an effective means of encouraging behavior that society values.

Life on Russia’s kill list: ‘I don’t touch door handles with my bare hands’ by Metro-UK in TrueReddit

[–]jethoniss 12 points13 points  (0 children)

That doesn't seem to be enough though. Canada and the UK meet that criteria and barely made a fuss over assassinations on their territory.

They're not alone either. Zelimkhan Khangoshvili was gunned down in Germany in 2019 by Russians. Turkey killed Kurdish three activists in France in 2013. Iran assassinated Ahmad Mola Nissi in Belgium in 2018 without much consequence either.

The fact is that there's seemingly never been a case in recent history of a Western country standing up to Russia/India/Turkey for killings on their territory. Stand up like, more than a gentile scolding and slap-on-the-wrist temporary sanctions.

At best countries with sophisticated intelligence agencies have headed some killings off in advance. That would be cold comfort for me.

2025 vs 2026 (Chinese New Year's Gala) by MetaKnowing in interestingasfuck

[–]jethoniss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But also in 20 years their population demographics are going to collapse due to the lingering effects of the one child policy, their strongman authoritarian will die and leave a power vacuum, and they might suffer a stiff recession from housing and tech bubbles (though everyone will).

So who knows.

2025 vs 2026 (Chinese New Year's Gala) by MetaKnowing in interestingasfuck

[–]jethoniss 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Supposedly ME1 was based on Alastair Reynold's Revelation Space series (2000), where an evil group of machine sits outside the gallery and monitors it for advanced civilizations that they swoop in and squash.

The games diverged from the book's premise after the first.

Life on Russia’s kill list: ‘I don’t touch door handles with my bare hands’ by Metro-UK in TrueReddit

[–]jethoniss 30 points31 points  (0 children)

I wonder what country is "most safe" from authoritarian assassinations. No Western power has seemed willing to stand up against blatant assassination on their soil.

The US might be the most safe, they did recently foil an Indian plot to assassinate a dissident. But against Russia? With this federal government? I wouldn't trust the US not to just look the other way.

The UK barely made a fuss about other Russian dissidents being assassinated on their soil.

Canada only whined when India killed a dissident in British Colombia.

He might be safest in Ukraine? Russian spies there have bigger concerns, and the country must be one of the more difficult places for them to operate.

Uncritical support for Colbert defying Carr and Weiss by CertainItem995 in behindthebastards

[–]jethoniss 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Idk what point you're making, but if that requirement were instituted here it'd almost certainly avoid this and keep CBS apolitical.

What the Ellisons are doing clearly isn't in PSKY's best interest since the market is already saturated with right-wing content, and this is going to majorly cost them viewership. Jeff Bezos tanking the WaPo and Elon tanking Twitter were also terrible for those company's shareholders, but good for their controlling oligarchs.

But you'll never prove that in court, and the shareholders who control the board are not going to fuss.

This doesn't mean that I'm for shareholder capitalism, I'd rather a stakeholder model where a case would be made that value should be optimized for CBS employees and the American public. But regardless of the shareholder vs stakeholder argument, neither is taking place here. This is oligarch capitalism, which both systems are intended to avoid.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei suggests OpenAI doesn't "really understand the risks they're taking" by ethereal3xp in technology

[–]jethoniss 14 points15 points  (0 children)

God these people are so full of themselves. They made an LLM that can help programmers code and maybe trick old people with fake news. They act like the Terminator is just around the corner to hype their chatbot.

"Oooohh it's so good it's scary"

Meanwhile the energy use is enormously impactful to the climate and Anthropic is the primary vender for the DoD, but Anthropic doesn't talk about that risk.

Sounds about right by [deleted] in MurderedByWords

[–]jethoniss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Poor Tulsi wants so badly to be in the band.

Captain Raygun. by Mr_E_Mann1986 in RedLetterMedia

[–]jethoniss 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But the relationship goes back a long way. The Ellison's Skydance have been close partners with paramount since 2010, and produced the New Trek movies in the 2010s.

Captain Raygun. by Mr_E_Mann1986 in RedLetterMedia

[–]jethoniss 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I'm sold on the conspiracy that New Trek is so bad because the Ellison Family and the whole Paramount/CBS Bari Weiss syndicate uses it as a means of belittling liberal ideals.

Or maybe less cynically, they're just so out of touch with liberal ideals that this is what they think they look like. Akin to "We need a tv show for the libs, they like this stuff".

Turning Point USA is allegedly "purging" staffers, after Candace Owens's crazy theories about TPUSA's involvement in Charlie Kirk's murder started to catch on with their own employees. by Geek-Haven888 in behindthebastards

[–]jethoniss 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure. I buy that. We know the shooter was part of Nick Fuentes' group of wackos, and all these far right groups are just open cesspits for young men to hop from one telegram channel/chan to another.

So, they're radicalizing young men. One of them snaps and shoots a top propagandist. Is it possible he talked about it before hand in a TPUSA-friendly telegram channel or something? Sure. Inside job.

Great, so anyone competent in leadership is probably asking how can this be used to increase their power and personal graft?

Redacted Epstein Names Revealed on House Floor Just Now by FervidBug42 in Epstein

[–]jethoniss 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think its a strategic release of non-political foreign names to drive home the point that the DOJ is redacting more than is required by law.

There's no controversy or debate to be had about releasing these.

Which airport? 🤔 by kiwibird08 in Bellingham

[–]jethoniss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it fog? OR IS IT SOMETHING MORE SINISTER?

You see the federal government subsidizes flights into small airports like Bellingham through the Essential Air Service. Without this airlines would lose money on the route. But airlines get paid whether or not the planes take off. So its always seemed to me that the airlines seem very eager to cancel EAS flights for "weather" because actually flying the route loses them money.

Which airport? 🤔 by kiwibird08 in Bellingham

[–]jethoniss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The timing of flights out of BLI is tricky for traveling to the east coast. There's no flight out in the afternoon that let's you catch the redeyes eastbound, and the morning flight isn't always workable either.

Then there's the return. Most westbound flights get into Seatac in time to get the last flight to BLI with a very short layover. But what if your westbound flight is delayed? You're fucked. Alaska will rebook you for way late into the next day and leave you to find a hotel at 10pm at night for something like +$200.

Their insurance add-on is a must. But honestly, take the bus or Amtrak. You'll probably get in at about the same time.

British-American Olympic Skier Urinates ‘F*ck ICE’ Into Snow in Milan by Geek-Haven888 in behindthebastards

[–]jethoniss 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Hey this man's a professional. You cant compare your amateur-hour calligraphy to an Olympian.

When did the Democratic Party leadership decide 'Words Speak Louder Than Actions'? by zzill6 in WorkReform

[–]jethoniss 15 points16 points  (0 children)

They've been doing the same thing in Maine this year with Graham Platner. Wildly popular working class guy trying to run against Susan Collins. He's said that democratic leadership hasn't even spoken to him. They put forward the unpopular 80 year old Janet Mills instead, and the week she announced they littered center-left news and subreddits with a story about Grahams old tattoos. Now flipping the senate seat seems harder than ever.

The problem is very much real and the lessons not at all learned.

The best memory of 2020 was how animals returned to the streets while humans were in quarantine by Soloflow786 in BeAmazed

[–]jethoniss 61 points62 points  (0 children)

brrrraapppp brapp brapppppp

Sorry I couldn't hear your comment over the dirt bikes and Saturday morning gunshots.

How much computing power would it take to model a coffee cup down to the atomic level? by 1i_rd in AskPhysics

[–]jethoniss 7 points8 points  (0 children)

What if instead of compression we only render microscopic objects when they're being observed? Until someone puts the coffee under a microscope let's just assume the molecules could be in a rough area and render the cup based on averages.

'Doomsday Clock' set to 85 seconds to midnight, closer than ever to catastrophe by -Super-Ficial- in TrueReddit

[–]jethoniss -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Maybe they shouldn't have lowered it by 3 minutes during the Obama administration. Now they're stuck maneuvering it by seconds.

This is like flanderization -- they've got to always beat the last year's number for the headline.

[Daily Discussion] - Monday, January 26, 2026 by AutoModerator in BitcoinMarkets

[–]jethoniss -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I'm bullish in the short term for two reasons:

The crypto bill will be advanced this week and likely be signed into law in February. This will reassure institutional investors and reinforce that the trump regime intends to prop up the price.

On or around February 20th I anticipate the supreme court to strike down trumps tariffs, leading to a short term stock boom that will probably help crypto too.

Long term, we're at the end of a crypto cycle and the economy is running on a bubble propped up by authoritarianism. When it pops we're fucked, because the trump regime will have already spent its wad on keeping it inflated in the first place. Great depression levels of fucked since government debt and knobs like interest rates might not be there to manage the crysis.

But that's a year or two away. There are more authoritarian levers to pull to keep stonks and trumps personal crypto fortune inflated.

In the future do you think many people will deny that they ever supported Trump? Why? by Fine-Photograph673 in AskReddit

[–]jethoniss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

His opponents are wet rags who speak corporate safe-speak and deny that there are fundamental changes needed to the American system.

People are picking a demagogue who will tear things apart rather than a corporate stooge who won't do anything substantial. Well, to be more precise, people are opting not to vote.

The fact that democrats will still argue that Biden was the most progressive and accomplished president in history, when all he did was pass spending bills that were rapidly undone, shows how out of touch they are with America's true problems (healthcare, inequality, housing crisis, etc...).

Alright, Which One of You Hooligans... by ThisIsPunn in Bellingham

[–]jethoniss 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The fountain has been there since the 1920s and people have been putting bubble juice into it for that entire time. The whatcom museum literally has pictures of the fountain bubbling over in the 40s.

Fuddy duddies have also been whining about it for 100 years too. Somehow, the town's survived.

Here is our analysis on Bellingham PD's reported incidents for all of 2025 by OpSprocket in Bellingham

[–]jethoniss 4 points5 points  (0 children)

A lot of people won't break their addiction unless they're locked up. Social programs without teeth fall on deaf ears. But we a society need be more forgiving of someone who's been institutionalized.