jpster

Wow, you seem to be so confident in defining exactly when and how any of the following “beliefs” are “anthitetical to American society”:

> hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family,

> hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on religion, and

> hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on morality.

You seem to be a paragon of discernment regarding extremely subjective, ill-defined areas. How impressive.

> They are going to define "best behavior" in a way that never threatens their feelings, let alone threatens their powers, if you let them.

You are painfully correct https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nspm-7-labels-commo...

> [Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent] said the Trump administration hoped to solidify what it sees as a rightward shift in Latin American countries, including potentially Colombia.

> “vote blue no matter who”

Say centrist Dems, unless it’s Zohran Mamdani. They have learnt nothing. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/16/zohran-mamda...

I don’t see how retaliation against Israelis on a personal level helps anything.

A majority of the American electorate voted for Trump, shall we treat all Americans as pariahs, too?

> The union also alleged that CBA was hiring for similar roles in India, Bloomberg noted, which made it appear that CBA had perhaps used the chatbot to cover up a shady pivot to outsource jobs.

IMO this used to be a problem. But I’ve found LLMs are really good at helping one fill in these knowledge gaps, well enough to get started.

I guess they feel threatened by content like this? https://archive.ph/HTNMO

Eric Schmidt and Selina Xu write that Silicon Valley is AGI-pilled. While China is instead focused on knitting AI deeply into its real economy.

IMO events like last weekend’s Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing are evidence in favor of their argument.

From a different NYT article [1]:

> The event was China’s latest high-profile robotics showcase. During China’s Lunar New Year’s Eve television gala, watched by hundreds of millions of people, humanoid robots performed folk dances. In April, the Beijing municipal government held a half-marathon for 12,000 runners and 20 humanoid robots.

> China is trying to make rapid advancements in robotics, propelled by government directives and massive investments. Robots powered by artificial intelligence have already revolutionized manufacturing in the country. That has brought down operating costs and in some cases helped companies withstand President Trump’s tariffs.

These type of contests and exhibitions are not only a way to incentivize development, but also PR to get society accustomed to living with robots.

1: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/world/asia/china-humanoid...

And what of the other 179 journalists killed?

Should journalists who are friendly towards Israel be killed for that reason? I personally do not think so, so I’m surprised that you seem to be introducing that as a justification.

From the article: “more than 180 Palestinian journalists were killed in 22 months of war, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.”

This seems awfully intentional.

> the US had a few decades of very racist housing policy….

The surprise on Bay Areans’ faces when I explain to them that this is why Blacks have such a low population presence and homeownership in the most wealth-producing region of the country.

Supposedly. But Pete was on CNBC today doing all kinds of tortured math to justify the GDP miss. They didn’t kick him far enough.

I mistakenly assumed Scott Bessent knew better and would do better, given his financial markets experience.

From Wikipedia: “He was hired by Soros Fund Management, eventually becoming the head of its London office. In this role, in September 1992, he was a leading member of the group that profited by $1 billion on Black Wednesday, the British Pound sterling crisis.”

What I don’t understand is why Scott Bessent is going along with these harebrained schemes. He supposedly was the big brain genius who devised the trading scheme that George Soros used to break the pound. Surely he anticipated the outcome of Trump’s plan.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday

I suspect it would be a good idea if the US abolished the presidency and moved to a parliamentary system. Turns out that concentrating so much power in a single position is a bad idea.

Incompetence on an epochal scale. But DEI!

What’s worrisome is, if they’re planning on things to suck until 2028, that is precisely when the next presidential election is supposed to happen. Suppose he feels like he must have 4 more years, to take credit for the V-shaped recovery, and not go out like a loser? Suppose he declines to step down?

What are Canada’s options for successfully resisting a US invasion? I imagine it could call on NATO and UK military support? Support from other commonwealth nations? It seems it would be outmatched by the US military might. I think its only real hope is that US military personnel would refuse to obey orders to attack our neighbors.

I really hope this doesn’t come to pass. Part of me has always expected the US to attempt this. I thought there could be a point in which climate change would become so bad and water and resources so scarce that the US would find it irresistible. I thought this scenario, if it happened, would be decades from now. It’s surreal to see it playing out. My SO is Canadian and if it happened, we would likely plan our own AmeriExit, for our family.

Thanks! You might like the In Our Time podcasts from the BBC.

This is a deep dive into the potential significance of the recent reporting that Microsoft has canceled some of its datacenter investments.

Starting to feel like Russia’s fire sale to oligarchs after the fall of the USSR.

Hacker News’ submission character limit does not accommodate the full title. “Borrowing from a tactic at X, Elon Musk says government workers must detail their workweek or lose their jobs”

This submission is on topic and should not be flagged, because this is relevant to Musk’s takeover of Twitter and the management changes he introduced there. Prior submissions about the Twitter takeover [1] and Musk’s management philosophy at X [2] have usually been permitted, unflagged, on Hacker News in the past.

So, it seems HN would permit this submission to remain unflagged. Snd if not, it would benefit the community for HN to explain the reasons why.

1: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=musk+twitter+takeover

2: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Ceding power is certainly a choice. Long excerpt:

Yet initially the two current leaders of the Democratic Party seemed determined to broadcast their own weakness. Minority leader Hakeem Jeffries spent last week at a donor retreat with billionaire tech leaders, only to emerge whining, ‘What leverage do we have? They control the House, the Senate, and the presidency.’… Jeffries’s conflation of “leverage” with “holding a majority in a chamber” is jaw-dropping. Power—the ability to change the behavior of another—comes from information, charisma, law, attention, procedure, expertise, and the ability to convene and organize. … What could they have done? Here are four suggestions: First, vigorous procedural delay….. Second, convene and spotlight. They should not see their power just through the lens of how it has traditionally been used. Congressional Democratic leadership should also make full use of their own convening power, holding hearings taking testimony from fired and pressured employees…. Congressional Democrats can also do more on basic legal protection of the institution. The people’s house is under attack, and they should be wielding law like swords to defend it. While Democratic state attorneys general have been filing lawsuit after lawsuit, congressional leadership—whose own power as the lawmaking arm of the American public is being decimated—should understand they also need to play a key role in making sure lawsuits are brought to block the destruction. Whatever their legal abilities, they are all astute fundraisers, and can play matchmaker between constituents, possible plaintiffs, lawyers, and donors to make sure that effective and well-resourced lawsuits are brought to stop the illegal power plays….. Finally, they can go on offense, forcing Trump and Republicans to either help Americans, or clearly demonstrate that they don’t want to. That means being willing to work with Republicans—if they can get laws passed that make people’s lives better, and not focus on Democratic Party branding.”

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-musk-democr...

The guidelines for what’s considered on topic:

> anything good hackers would find interesting

> anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosities

IMO this story qualifies on both counts

I’m observing that critical submissions about this news subject are being flagged, even when there is no editorializing of the headline.