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And here I thought this was going to be about Operation Pigeon, the time the US military tried to design a pigeon-guided missile.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon

I know your comment is just internet puffery, but please know that the old adage is true: "A man who represents himself has a fool for a client."

There is a reason that judges will ask defendents multiple times if they're really, really, truely sure they want to represent themselves before allowing it.

As much as you wish it, a dictionary or common sense does little to nothing in a court of law. Mostly, you'll just annoy the judge who cares not about your dictionary, but the subtle details of copyright law, trademarks, uS code, registration timelines, dates of priority, common use, historical use, due diligence, and 50 other minute technical details I have never even thought about.

This is mostly true and is part of what helped soften the absolute disaster that the Trump administration was. In multiple instances, Trump and his ilk wanted to do absolutely illegal and unconstitutional things but we're thwarted by career civil servants.

However, they've learned. At the end of his term, Trump created a new classification of employment, Schedule F. Schedule F employees did not have civil-service protections and could be fired on a whim. Fortunately, he lost the election before he could use it. Biden removed it.

Now, Trump-aligned groups like the Heritage Foundation are running programs to recruit Trump loyalists whose main and almost sole qualifications is loyalty to Trump (see Project 2025). They don't want a repition of last time where federal employees had the gall to actually follow the law instead of the dictator.

YC doesn't need to be funding the weapons industry; they're already filthy rich. This shows their greed outweighs any moral quandries around building machines of death.

I don't see anything in YC's call saying they would only fund defensive capabilities (which is itself somewhat of a misnomer since it doesn't take much engineering to turn "defensive" tech into offensive weapons of war). YC looks like it is open to funding all forms of warfare.

Respectfully, I'm aware of all of the fancy words investment firms hide behind to make themselves sleep at night when they're really building killing machines. I'm sure plenty of them have patriotic stories they tell about protecting the nation they live in. That doesn't mean I need to buy into their narrative.

These war firms will appear whether or not YC funds them. YC chosing to explicitly call for more war firms shows they put the acquisition of even more extravagant wealth over human lives.

Today I learned that YC not only funds military companies, but encourages new startups to focus on killing machines and spying. And to point to the spy firm Palantir as an example of a model company shows how morally bankrupt YC truly is. Anything for a buck, right? All this while those same defense firms are currently making tens of billions of dollars supplying hardware to kill hundreds of civilians a day right this very instant.

Make bombs people want, I see.

Amazon should be held accountable for running a safe workplace. Even if she is not there, Amazon should not be allowed to operate an unsafe workhouse that puts its employees in danger. If Amazon has a culture of firing anyone who dares to speak up about unsafe working conditions, it will be allowed to abuse and endanger its employees for profit since no one would be willing to speak up for fear of losing the paycheck that puts a roof over their head and food on their plate.

You're watching a known liar interview a known liar. What are you going to do, learn their new lies?

Could you please give an example of a major politician agitating against white people? To be specific, I do not mean someone pointing out that our system has been built to privlidge white people at the behest of white people, but a politician specifically agitating against white people.

Because I can find endless pages of the head of the Republican party agitating against Mexicans (they're sending rapists), Latinos, Black people (shithole countries), Muslims (literally banned them after musing about how great it would be to kill them with bullets dipped in pig's blood), and Asians (Wuhan flu and China virus, over and over and over).

> so we are not "occupying" their land because there is no "them".

And that, right there, is a genocidal mindset.

A huge goal of genocide is destroying the identity of a people. This is going to the next step. This is denying they exist at all.

He campaigned on banning Muslims. He then tried three different times to ban a large amount of Muslims. He regularly denigrates Muslims and blames them for our problems. According to his own people, he wanted to ban Muslims and wanted a fig-leaf to do it legally [1].

This kinda comes down to a case of who are you going to believe, a notorious fraudster and conman or your own lying eyes?

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/01/29/tr...

I would argue there has been massive condemnation of Russia by much of the west. The west is lobbing missiles at Russia. It's giving missiles to Israel to lob at Gaza.

People who are unhoused are not necessarily homeless. Their home could be their vehicle, a tent, a warehouse, or some other place. A home is a place you can come back to, where you can feel some modicum of security, belonging, or safety. A house is a structure, designed to be a home, but not always effectively so.

So I would argue that being unhoused is a more accurate description of many people's experiences and feelings than being homeless.

I think Oklahoma is just trying to prove everything isn't bigger in Texas.

Please don't use dismissive language around the atrocities going on in Texas like "even if that's all true." It is true. The hell that Texas is forcing women like Kate Cox through is well documented. And Apple, a major tech player, is choosing to pressure women to move there.

This is the epitome of a relevant tech discussion. Choosing to moderate it away because it is too controversial is coming out on the side of the status quo that the state of Texas is enforcing on women's autonomy.

No, dang, this isn't a generic tangent. Apple is forcing women to relocate to a state that will premptively threaten doctors with jail sentences for giving these same women life-saving health care. If you don't know what I am referring to, please look up the case of Kate Cox and all of the deep reporting around it.

Apple is forcing women to move to a state that treats them like birthing vessels and second-class citizens. Calling it out is our duty. Keeping silent on it is agreeing with the State of Texas that a non-viable fetus is more important than the life of a mother of two.

Wow, that Jake Ward guy linked in the middle is an absolute douchenozzle. His entire business model seems to be generating low-quality AI spam to help websites steal traffic from their competitors. The internet would be a better place if people like him didn't exist.

It would be intesting to see how their payout compares to the payouts going to Reuters [1], the BBC [2], the Guardian [3], the ever-so-anticapitalist WSJ [4], and a few dozen other establishments reporting on it as well.

Makes sense that every journalistic establishment out there is being paid off; hedge funds do have deep pockets.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/spacex-illegally-fi...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/business-67878940.amp

[3] https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/03/spacex-em...

[4] https://www.wsj.com/business/labor-board-backs-fired-spacex-...

> And demanding "cease fire" ... is all 100% antisemitic.

Please, I encourage you to take a good long moment to think about what you just wrote. You are effectively saying that it is the Jewish position that Gazans should be killed. 1% of Gazans are already dead. Do you mean to say that Jews who call for a ceasefire, like many I know do, are antisemites?

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

--The other Frank Wilhoit

Except for denying women medical care and forcing them to carry nonviable, high risk pregnancies against their will. They absolutely love doing that.

Dang is aware since he has already commented in this thread. He is complicit in allowing this to be suppressed.

The did it for the same reason every megacorp does anything: money. Their stock price jumped over 5% when they showed this fake demo. It has since come back down a bit, but it is still up about 3.5%.

Not only was he a war criminal, but he was a major player on the Theranos board who brought in multiple investors and raked in over a half million a year between his board position and "consulting."

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/elizabeth-holmes-trial-ther...

I would suggest exercising caution in using that article as a guide post. The car the author is inspecting is literally the model Tesla chose to put on the showroom floor in front of customers and the general public. I'm sure they ensured it had no major flaws.

Ah yes, hours after the comment and much later than the moment the courts open.

This reads like a petulant press release and nor an actual legal document. It feels like they even stipulate that Media Matters was right and they did display ads next to Nazi propaganda, but Musk is getting huffy about the technique MM used to expose this flaw in their system.

Side note: how long did it take you to replay to just about every thread in this article with a link to Musk's temper tantrum?

CEO, owner, antisemite, "founder", call him whatever you want

He's an absolutist in his belief that he should be free to sue anyone whose speech about him he does not like.

What lawsuit? All I see is a scared CEO flapping his lips about using the legal system to chill the free speech of a group he does not like for calling out his Naziesque rhetoric. It is now well past "The split second court opens on Monday," and yet, no lawsuit. It's almost like he doesn't actually have a case.