Clever condescension, you'll go a long way with intellect like that, kid.
Nice job dropping 'given history' in there, you win! History shows that is a fantastic argument and adds significant value to your post.
Next time, though, try to use that big brain of yours to figure out how to address what I said instead of resorting to reddit level dialog and a straw man.
Did you genuinely believe that I was referring to every individual human? That's an awfully Machiavellian take on what I said.
Illustration counter to assertion (not an argument): "Of course humans have red hair, just google 'natural redhead'"
Society is, and this might be confusing if nobody's taught you this before, filled with people with disproportionate amounts of power, whether social, capital, political, corporate, legal, or other. This might be scary to your sensibilities, but predators are attracted to positions of power. I don't think anyone of consequence disagrees with this.
We obviously agree here, because you based your entire straw man on the fact that they don't represent every single human everywhere.
I would however like to understand how you think we beat 'natural law' and the predators with this mythical society when you also think that they are the richest and most powerful in said society.
Society "beat" predators? I think most people who have been victims of systemic or institutional oppression would disagree here. I know every police victim I have worked with sure would.
Or maybe I'm wrong and they are all just misunderstood when they beat, steal, lie, and kill the underclass while they destroy our planet and laugh about it.
>the whole point of society is that we don't need this ridiculous "natural" nonsense. We beat it. It can stay outside. We replaced it with society.
When the silent part is said out loud. "We" didn't beat anything, and "we" certainly aren't gods that managed to counter natural law, despite the current zeitgeist that likes to pretend it is so.
Humans are predators, and to pretend otherwise will be the folly of our species. One need not look any further than the political, corporate, or social elite to see what predators look like in so-called civilized society.
It's interesting to see you victim blaming instead of trying to bridge the gap with folks that could be sympathetic with your viewpoint.
Or did you change positions to at the same time they did? I've noticed a lot of the "big government" "anti police state" (used with maximum sarcasm) folks suddenly start praising the things they spent a decade railing against now that its domestic white religious conservatives instead of foreign brown religious conservatives that are the target.
It might shock you to find out that the lockdowns were a wakeup call to the reality of policing for many of those "quotes" you stereotype.
I have a couple of friends who were regularly arrested by the police, and kept over the weekend until they would drop charges. Naturally the more it happened the more they would tell the cops how they really feel, continuing the circle of life.
The food of the future is going to be 25% Teflon, 30% mealworm, 30% lab-grown meat concentrate, and 15% assorted insects as real food is regulated out of existence for us proles.
At least we can take solace in watching our betters jet around the world to dine on real food on TV or whatever social network is in vogue at the time.
I've left parties because they go to clubs that scan your ID and take your photo before you can enter on several occasions. Cryptographically verifiable identification is not a good idea, regardless of intentions.
Your post reads like a teenager yelling "you don't understand me" at parents who also were teenagers at one point. You really think that those are new and unique problems? Your bullet points are like a list of NixOS features. I just did all of that across half a dozen servers and a dozen virtual machines with `services.homelab.enable = true;` before I opened up HN while its deploying. I'm not surprised that you can't see us lowly peasants from your high horse but many of us have been doing everything you mentioned, probably far more reliably and reproducibly, for a long time.
Early on Fauci was telling everyone how useless masks were [1].
I have a couple people in my social circle that were banned
from fb for saying he was wrong early on about masks being ineffective. And several others were banned later for pointing out fauci's earlier stance and calling it all propaganda. You are not allowed to think for yourself. Pick up that can.
And my comment specifically referred to the chips act, which has passed [1]. I'm not really sure why you would be distracting from the point by bringing up other legislation that has not yet passed? Like all good corruption, exactly how much money is moving around is obfuscated. I've seen both "$10-$50 billion" and "$52 billion" as numbers for the CHIPS Act. If you have a more accurate number I'd be more than happy to update my post.
So the question is did they get billions from the chips act like the senator that wrote it thinks they did or not? If they did then you're quibbling over exactly how many billions they got, which isn't a good look. That they potentially have more coming in doesn't really change the substance of my comment in the context of the original article at all. So thanks for the heads up on the next few billions they will be getting I guess?
Of course it will happen, it was funded (directly or indirectly) with public money[1]. The only thing that surprises me is that I expected the ink to dry before they used my money to buy their competition.
Because static pages on a calculator likely to be more reliable and faster than whatever hipster stack is popular running on some VC funded pile of compute power across all of Amazon's datacenters.