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distortionfield
·le mois dernier·discuss
> where the government doesn't just force harms on the public whenever it will make them more money and voter's concerns about health and environmental impacts are listened to.

This is exactly what just happened in Utah et. al. with the new Stratos data center under western liberal democracy, btw.
distortionfield
·le mois dernier·discuss
They already have a balanced budget, why would they need to cave to these corporations?
distortionfield
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
Isn't this a non-sequitur though? Artemis presumably doesn't have to actually load up humans on the rockets to flight test them.
distortionfield
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
Yup, absolutely I do.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/dhs-anti-ice-s...
distortionfield
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
It’s not a “maybe”. This administration was collecting lists of people who spoke negatively about ICE from social media like a week ago. you really think they’re going to send them gift baskets or something?
distortionfield
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
Disagree. I have seen people pay more for less. Especially in the case of something like a PR where their job performance could be tied to the result.
distortionfield
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
We already have agentic payment workflows, this won’t stop it either as people are already willing (and able) to give their agent AIs a small budget to work with.
distortionfield
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
It’s going to lead to balkanization, and it seems at this point to be basically intentional.
distortionfield
·il y a 6 mois·discuss
There is little reason to believe that low hiring will be improved in any significant amount by removal of the H1B pool.
distortionfield
·il y a 11 mois·discuss
I’m familiar with those applications of exploitation, too, but they also wouldn’t apply here. This wasn’t demeaning work and wasn’t predicated on necessity, past their disability.

And of course, all work is exploitation under capitalism (from a true lefty point of view) but I didn’t perceive the original comment as referring to that level of exploitation. Just saying that this isn’t the hill to die on if one wants a case for capitalist exploitation.

I do understand the dangers of others being exploited down the line but again, that wasn’t what OP was saying either.

Really, if this is exploitative it’s only an indictment of profit incentives in healthcare, which are abhorrent.
distortionfield
·il y a 11 mois·discuss
Exploiting? I’m lefty, but this dude volunteered for the procedure and was fully reimbursed. I’m having a really hard time seeing “exploited” on this one.
distortionfield
·il y a 2 ans·discuss
It’s trivial to add in a keypress that short circuits the animation. God, this website is full of the grumpiest people on the planet.
distortionfield
·il y a 2 ans·discuss
Deployment scripts are what come to mind for me. I wouldn’t mind a cool loading screen that highlighted problem nodes in the burning font or something when I deploy to dev / test / hell, maybe even prod.
distortionfield
·il y a 2 ans·discuss
Idk I wouldn’t mind one or two of these as loading screens or something.
distortionfield
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
When the VC money got tangled in the roots.
distortionfield
·il y a 4 ans·discuss
Are gruvbox[1] themes paying homage to these amber monitors? I've never seen these before but it immediately reminds me of Gruvbox colors.

[1] https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/67771985/119880097...