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WoodScientist

@ WoodScientist @sh.itjust.works

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  • "Flight risk criminals and terrorists had their accounts frozen!!!"

    Yes, those criminals, for example, LGBT people who conservatives believe are pornographic simply for existing. God forbid LGBT artists want to have a way of earning a living. Crypto is relied on by a lot of marginalized groups. It's used by artists who make perfectly legal art, but whose content conservatives object to. Crypto is used by many queer content creators as they face being cut off from payment processing systems, as again, conservatives consider queer people pornographic simply for existing. Crypto is used by sex workers, often people with few other employment options. Oh, and crypto is used by trans people to get access to healthcare that is quickly being criminalized.

    How insane do you have to be, in 2025 Trump's America, to fall back on the idea that anything criminal is bad. Republicans are trying to criminalize the existence of entire swathes of the population. And those people face being cut off from the banking system entirely, if folks like you, who blindly consider legality=morality, have their way.

  • AOC's campaign office vandalized with red paint in NYC

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  • Or better yet, and more to the point, if they're just defensive, why aren't we giving the Gazans and iron dome system to shoot down any Israeli aircraft that cross into their skies? The Gazans have just as much right to armed self defense as the Israelis do.

  • Professor's got it right

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  • It's called public accommodation, and it illegal to discriminate in public accommodations. Did you fall asleep in the part of history class where they talked about segregated lunch counters?

  • We all know grammar Nazis. What incorrect grammar are you completely in defence of?

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  • You must have hated Mark Twain.

  • Intel to boost gross margins – new products must deliver 50% gross profit

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  • I'm still for breaking them up anyway, and am willing to take this as flimsy enough evidence that they're effectively claiming a monopoly power. They're guilty by confession! :D

  • Intel to boost gross margins – new products must deliver 50% gross profit

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  • Issuing a press release like this should result in your company being immediately broken up. You clearly have far too much monopoly power if you can just decree profit margins like that.

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    Where does the light go when you turn off its source?

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  • It gets absorbed and reemitted by the walls of the room. Its reemitted as infrared light, due to the temperature of the walls. Eventually it just all ends up as heat.

    The answer to the question "where did the energy go?" is "heat" 99% of the time.

  • DHS: Filming Cops, ICE Officers Is a 'Violent Tactic'

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  • If you're going to interpret peaceful resistance as violence, then we'll just have to start shooting ICE agents instead.

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    RANT: MAGA is imploding. Stop turning defectors away.

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  • Well then they obviously don't give a shit about government policy and are just mindless fools following the breeze. They can vote Democrat if they want, and their votes are welcome. But "not turning them away" implies actually trying to adjust the party's positions to appeal to them. Sorry, but we don't need to for example, throw trans kids under the bus, just to appeal to a bunch of idiots that happily voted for a known rapist. These are fundamentally not good people.

  • What kind of climate do you prefer?

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  • A climate of mild paranoia.

  • I just spent four months in hospital in the UK. How screwed (financially) would I be in the US?

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  • And this is why Brian Thompson got what was coming to him.

  • They Be Roasting!

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  • Scene: design board meeting room, car manufacturer

    "What if instead of designing the ventilated seats to blow air, we reversed it? What if we used them as the air intake? Turns out if we consider how the ducts are plumbed, rough calculations indicate we could save $5/car!"

  • A truly advanced society

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  • That's true. I think they may use it for diplomatic gatherings. But for the actual officer meets there's usually never more than a half dozen there.

  • How many times did you and your partner break up before you figured things out? and are you happy now?

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  • Zero. Dated for three years, married for seven.

  • A truly advanced society

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  • Ever notice a meeting room in Star Trek that has more than a handful of seats? They know about meeting productivity.

  • Trump shares more details on his seemingly blatant plan to rig the 2026 elections

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  • Blue MAGA nonsense.

    I mean every single swing state? Why would it be surprising for all the swing states to swing in one direction? They don't swing randomly, they usually swing together.

    One county in NY with ZERO Kamala votes?

    Precinct, not a county. A precinct dominated by an orthodox Jewish community that all vote together. The congregation decided to vote for Trump.

    Something like 12% bullet ballots in blue counties only when the avg is 1%?

    Trump drives out low-propensity voters, and he's way more popular than Congressional Republicans generally.

    Voting machines connected to Starlink?

    Voting machines aren't connected to the internet.

    Don't be like Republicans. You're better than this.

  • I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good

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  • Unfortunately now Google is ChatGPT. It provides its own shitty AI answers, and its search results have been corrupted by an ocean of slop.

  • Office Productivity

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  • Skyscrapers and large office spaces are on paper horrible investments and have an awful time filling enough vacancies to offset their upkeep. The only thing that makes them a “safe” investment is that every company uses them as a way to bank equity. If those same companies pulled the rug from under themselves they would all lose that safe equity piggy bank.

    This is just the sunk cost fallacy though. You can inflate the paper value of assets by playing games like this, but the bill always comes due in the end. Yes, companies that do this can juice their books a bit in the short term, but they're harming themselves in the long term. They retain a bit higher book value for their real estate, but they make whatever goods or services they provide noncompetitive in the marketplace. They have competitors who aren't bogged down by past bad real estate decisions. Those competitors can outcompete them on price and can attract better talent. Meanwhile, they're stuck in their ways, fruitlessly trying to inflate their real estate holdings, all while their revenue is plummeting because they can't attract good people and have to charge higher for their services than their competitors.

    It's just the sunk cost fallacy. You could inflate the book value of real estate by doing all sorts of foolish things. You could create a subsidiary and have that company rent out some of your floor space for absurdly high rates. But you're ultimately just robbing Peter to pay Paul. Those commercial real estate properties have already lost their value. The value was lost the minute it was proven that work from home was a superior work model.

    These companies are going to go bankrupt at a mass scale when the next recession rolls around.

    Fuck, these companies might actually be violating the law. Deliberately choosing unproductive business practices just to cook your real estate books is something Enron would do.

  • Poll: Zohran Mamdani's policies are popular with Americans outside New York — even if Mamdani is not

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  • I like the idea of the transition happening slowly over several decades. Basically you found a company, and you'll be able to maintain majority control over it until you reach your retirement. You can have a vision and carry it through. You just can't create a multi generational empire that makes your children and grandchildren into newly minted aristocrats.