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ThenElection
1m ago
Silicon Valley has much deeper roots than FAANG. The semiconductor industry had the national security complex as a primary investor and a primary customer.
This seeded the regional expertise ecosystem--VC, academia, local talent--that enabled companies further up the value chain to develop and succeed.
Ioper
2m ago
And the equivalent to the pixel 9a in 2013 was the nexus 5 that cost 350$.
I can not get a phone that works similarly well today for 350$, regardless of what the system specs say, the software requirements for the same programs with the same functions are higher for no goddamn reason.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
2m ago
No it's not. The killing is being done by naive individuals who take Democrat talking points seriously and literally. They are sincere, not crazy. And neither are the people clapping and cheering in media, education, and government who spent the last 10 years saying "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest"
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
2m ago
So ummmm...I don't want to do too much Gribbling just yet, but is anyone finding it a little spooky that they don't have the shooter in custody yet? Are we adjusting our priors on what this looks like? The trans/antifa inscriptions are being walked back, which really confuses me because I don't understand how the detail could be wrong. Two different guys have been arrested and released. Now there's a picture of a person of interest, but that might not be the guy either?
There's of course conspiracy theories. This guy on Twitter said Charlie was worried about getting killed by Israel a month ago. Various leftists have called false flag, though that seems like macabre wishful thinking. There's been talk about internal rightist squabbling, but I don't put much stock in the idea that the Groypers have expert assassins on staff. Iran? But why would the IRGC hit Charlie Kirk and not claim responsibility for it?
It just feels odd in that my prior for the assassin was some kind of trans-something-or-other insane blue haired loser. I don't picture you they-them barista hitting a 200 yard shot and disappearing.
I suppose if the shooter gets caught in the next day or so, it'll all work out fine and I'll go back to sheepling. But it is definitely starting to feel weird, and if they don't have the shooter in custody this time next week...boy, I don't know.
guy
3m ago
It does seem notable that Democrat national politicians seem to be..almost blaming Kirk for being murdered.
Can you offer some links?
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
7m ago
Where does anti-Nazism in Russia come from? Is it the same flavor and degree at all?
pusher_robot
PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
9m ago
Grilled cheese sandwich with hot tomato soup
pigeonburger
9m ago
It doesn't stop the psychos, sure, but it puts the breaks on the acceleration by making sure it does not seem like an appealing way to achieve your goals to non-psychos. Which is what the real danger is, psychos are more or less a constant, a fact of life, but normalized political violence is the beginning of the end of a civilization.
Throwaway05
10m ago
I think people who live in Red areas and Blue area Blues do not realize how oppressed a lot of America feels.
Are we really? Maybe not, but the feeling is there.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
10m ago
Charlie Kirk believed it was part of God's perfect moral law that people who are my friends, my family, my coworkers should be stoned to death. He described Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown-Jackson (and other black women) as affirmative action hires who stole their spots from white people and who don't have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. This whole attempt to lionize Kirk after his death has been extremely black pulling, as a leftist. Basically none of the articles that try to do so can actually mention things Kirk said or believed because if they did their audience would not think he was worth lionizing! He didn't deserve to get killed for his views but this attempt to pretend Kirk was just the nicest kindest commentator we should all seek to emulate is insane.
edmund-nelson
Filthy Anime Memester
13m ago
I know this is going to sound strange but are you by any chance moderately rich?
A lot of the growth in the past few years in the USA has been driven by rising wages for the poorest people, so stuff like fast food has gotten way more expensive.
This means that while certain things got cheaper (TVS phones ect) and certain things got more expensive, the things that are more expensive tend to be the "upper middle class" purchases (ex restaurant food)
I mean "killing" them by eating the talent. They didn't disappear, the quality is just shockingly low.
DirtyWaterHotDog
18m ago
I have only seen unequivocal sympathy.
Some Republican public faces have jumped to blaming the left for this. The response by Dems has been silence or carefully phrased clap backs towards those public faces, but not towards Kirk himself.
Can you give me examples of national Democratic politicians blaming Kirk ? Especially in the 24 hour frenzy following his death.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
18m ago
What's your favorite comfort food when you have a cold? I have a cold.
ThenElection
25m ago
People overstate the cost of living aspect. Most costs, except for real estate, are a rounding error compared to the generous compensation. And even real estate just means you do have to plan and save a couple years for it like everyone else in the US; two people in tech can easily afford a detached single family home in a nice neighborhood in San Francisco. And when you hit whatever number you're aiming for, you can retire decades early.
That's all with minimal risk and a reasonable work life balance.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
28m ago
...and American dominance in software is downstream, among other things, from the huge national security state investment campaign obviously connected to tech industry right from the start in various ways
National security state tech has been around much longer than FAANG, is smaller, and has fairly little overlap with it. Aside from simply providing general support services like government clouds and Microsoft Windows/Office, the biggest overlap is likely Oracle. They are largely distinct sets of companies and employees. Google has tried to dabble in that and mostly failed.
07mk
29m ago
I didn't vote for Trump this last time in spite of interest in doing so because I was afraid that I'd be tired one day, lose my poker face and reveal who I voted for.
These were definitely strong motivators for me in voting for Biden in 2020 and Harris in 2024. I probably would've abstained - not because I disliked both candidates, but because I believe that the likelihood of the future changing due to my vote is so infinitesimally small that I don't see it as worth it (and the state in which I lived only made that even less likely) - but given how much the Blue Tribe sees insufficient applause as disapproval, I didn't want to take the risk of being in a situation where I'd have to lie that I voted for Biden or Harris. Which made the decision to vote and whom to vote for really really easy.
Throwaway05
29m ago
I saw Cenk's response which I thought was shockingly good. I don't really follow his community but I think he got in trouble with the left recently anyway for standard insufficient purity problems.
I heard something about Hasan being scheduled to debate Charlie soon which probably really really made it real in his mind.
He's a LARPer, realizing what he is saying is real life will shatter a lot of ego defenses.
functor
31m ago
There used to be rules of wars and strict protocol surrounding them. The republicans have firmly rejected this notion even saying that they would militarily attack the Hague if an American was tried for war crimes. The republicans and mainstream democrats have completely rejected the idea of the Geneva convention.
If your concept is "I can kill however I want because I am special and rules don't apply to me" you can't be shocked when someone else follows your line of reasoning. The view of Afghan villagers weren't taken into consideration when their weddings were blown up and this is fine according to Kirk with friends. But he and his world view has to be taken into consideration when he gets wacked.
Either we have rules of engagement that are enforced globally or we have personal preferences. He lived and died by the latter view.
Throwaway05
31m ago
Consider:
- Condemn the shooting because it is the wrong thing to do.
Or.
- Condemn the shooting because actually I'm for shooting those people. Wait this is America and the right has more guns. Umm. Don't shoot me? But I'd still be okay if you shot them.
Given for instance, Hasan's interests and platforms he seems entirely pro political shooting if the victim is "zionist" enough for him, but obviously he would not like to be on someone else's list.
Depending on if it is 1 or 2 you may get different private statements, different behaviors going forward, and different policy decisions about what to do on this.
I want people to condemn the shooting because political violence is bad, not because they could be the next victim.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
32m ago
Yes? And?
From one perspective, sure, it looks like the right are hypocrites. From another perspective, that's just how thoroughly the left won, that now the right has to play by their rules. Congratulations! You got "your rules applied fairly". You had a good run of "your rules applied unfairly", 4-6 years I'd guess. But now you are a victim of your own success I suppose.
I wouldn't take bets on how long "your rules applied unfairly" will apply to killing people for things they say. But I would expect to reach an equilibrium of "your rules applied fairly" at some point.
Corvos
34m ago
These links all describe incidents at the start of the 1950s. What people get annoyed about is pointing to genuinely nasty things that happened to some number of gay people in the 50s to justify giving them complete cultural dominance* in the 2000s and 2010s.
*Until they were superseded by trans in the late 2010s.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
34m ago
Inversely, it feels like the "tech industry" is eating American software and other areas of the economy are often left in sort of an software desert.
It's what are called "H-1B dependent companies" (eg. WiPro, Infosys) and directly hired H-1Bs who eat the lower end of American software -- the people writing boring bespoke business logic for companies in other industries. Big Tech isn't killing them; it did kill some of the IT support infrastructure for some of those companies (since you don't need it to rent machines on AWS/Azure; only "some" of those companies as others are not willing to give up physical control of their machines for various reasons)
oats_son
35m ago
He believes it because it already happened.
Man, this week is happening too fast.
Well, I spend some time trying to figure out how to handle mapping from Substack. It turns out that my previous approach was a bit goofy, as for Twitter I ended up introducing an intermediate layer that matches neither my, nor Tiwtter's data structure. I could have a data layer that matches each API, but the level of nesting in Twitter's data is something I do not want to deal with at all, so direct translation into my structure it is, and the same will apply to Substack. This means I've been slowly refactoring the import code, and I will be doing so for a while yet.
How have you been doing @Southkraut?
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