jtrek

joined 6 months ago
[–] jtrek@startrek.website 6 points 3 months ago

I routinely say to people around me "don't use the lie machine".

I need to change one of their search engines to be noai on duck duck go

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's like using a machine to lift weights at the gym for you.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Also include horrific externalized costs from cars.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 14 points 3 months ago

Technically correct, the best kind of correct.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 28 points 3 months ago

Republicans can fuck themselves off a cliff. They enable this. It tickles their stupid "in group good our group had" broken brains.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 78 points 3 months ago (8 children)

They really just say whatever in pursuit of their goals. Conservatives should not be taken seriously. They're dishonest, cognitive hazards.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 1 points 3 months ago

It's billions of dollars of tax "avoidance", cheating, and simply not paying. Unfortunately, the wealthy who are calling the shots don't really want to pay millions for IRS lawyers

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I'm pretty sure I read that auditing the wealthy is a huge profit center for the IRS, because they find people who aren't paying what's owed. Naturally conservatives (of any party) hate this and gut it whenever possible

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 5 points 3 months ago

I have wondered about that. What kind of range can you get DIY? I guess if you did fire something they could try to do physics to figure out where it came from, but you'd hopefully be long gone by then.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 17 points 3 months ago

Ooh a Unitarian. Don't even have to be Catholic. I used to hang with unitarians. Some good folks there.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 10 points 3 months ago

It's all projection. They can't square their self image with the reality so they project it onto other people to sooth the cognitive dissonance. They're garbage people. Like in a deep, fundamental, way. They are bad at existing in a complicated world.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 10 points 3 months ago

If the “geniuses” who run these tech firms spent less money lobbying politicians and instead offered to pay for the college tuition of every student who successfully graduated from the local high school, they would probably get a very different reaction from the public.

Yeah , they could do a lot with their wealth. Unfortunately they are stupid and selfish. They're playing a dangerous game and eventually they'll roll for guillotines.

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