FuglyDuck

FuglyDuck , 11 months ago to technology in Musk's new idea

Not really. Not by any stretch of the imagination. He’s more of a Carnegie type. except Carnegie managed to convince people he was actually a good person. (his philanthropy is responsible for a LOT of the libraries. But also, he came down hard when it came to union busting, and a lot of his dirty work was done by Henry Frick.)

In any case, the reality is, his prior ‘good’ reputation- including for all things you’re saying he’s going to be famous for doing- is more the result of having a good PR staff keep him looking … like that. he’s not a founder of Tesla. he’s not a brilliant engineer (or a brilliant anything else.) he’s just a rich guy tossing money around to make it grow.

FuglyDuck , 11 months ago to world in Crimea bridge is legitimate military target, Zelenskiy says

Of course it’s a military target- they’re using it to bring in military equipment and supplies and people.

If schools and entire civilian population centers are legitimate, a dumb bridge is.

FuglyDuck , 11 months ago to technology in Satellites Are Rife With Basic Security Flaws

They were dumb enough to share their firmware when asked.

Cyber security isn’t a concern they have. Either they’re just idiots, or they feel confident nobody is interested in exploiting things, and thought it might be “interesting” to see what they have to say.

I would assume the secret spy satellites and rods-from-god-dropper have better security….

FuglyDuck , 11 months ago to news in Florida's new Black history curriculum says "slaves developed skills" that could be used for "personal benefit"

Considering that’s what they mean when they say “make America great again”… they would pay themselves on the back with that take of yours. They’d make such nice slave-owning assholes, see

FuglyDuck , 11 months ago to news in ‘The KHP waged war’: Federal judge orders end of Kansas trooper ‘two-step’ maneuver

If any cop asks you if you’re doing something illegal… immediately ask for a lawyer. You’re not obligated to answer any questions or give them any information at all. this obligates them to either cease questioning you and let you go, or arrest you while they fetch a lawyer. they’re not going to do that over a traffic stop where they have nothing else.

Further, if they continue pressing or asking questions, or anything they learn (or “Learn”) from that questioning is tainted and inadmissible; and there’s a solid argument for “they didn’t have probable cause before asking questions, I asked for a lawyer and they said that gave them probable cause” will invalidate anything turned up from a search.

FuglyDuck , 11 months ago to technology in Computer chip with built-in human brain tissue gets military funding

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Okay.

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That shit’s getting freaky.

(sorry. lol. Thanks for the informative comment though.)

FuglyDuck , 11 months ago to news in ‘There’s nothing American about promoting violence’: country star Jason Aldean criticised for anti-protest song

office workers with trucks that never leave paved roads

Not true. They sometimes end up in the ditch after drunken driving.

FuglyDuck , 11 months ago to technology in The ‘90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president

20 hours… … …what were you doing?!

FuglyDuck , 11 months ago to world in Eating meat creates four times more greenhouse gases than being vegan, landmark study finds

fair enough. instead allow me to say all the vegans I’ve met. (or at least, know about.)

FuglyDuck , 11 months ago to world in Eating meat creates four times more greenhouse gases than being vegan, landmark study finds

even if it’s shoe leather, you can still tell a difference in steaks just by looking at it. As for the nuggets… I knew a guy whose job was doing chemical assays and stuffs. had a mass spectrometer and some other interesting equipment in his office. Because it was usually locked under NDA’s and stuff, he would instead go out to mcdonalds and buy whatever new thing came out on the menu and run that through. YOU DO NOT WANT TO KNOW.

FuglyDuck , 11 months ago to news in Alabama GOP refuses to draw second Black district, despite Supreme Court order

“Fine you don’t get to participate in the next election” seems like an appropriate response?

Naw, maybe not. But then that’s the kinda shot we go for here.

FuglyDuck , 11 months ago to news in Grassley releases full FBI memo with unverified claims about Hunter Biden's work in Ukraine

These guys are obsessed with his dick. They’re never gonna let this go.

FuglyDuck , 11 months ago to technology in Amazon saved children's voices recorded by Alexa even after parents asked for it to be deleted. Now it's paying a $25 million fine.

You don’t generally pay taxes paying a loan back.

What they do is take out more loans- specifically, on the increase of value their capital had.

You do pay taxes on the sale of the house when that comes, however, in proportion to the capital gains from its sale.

It wouldn’t be hard to carve out an exception for loans under a certain value (possibly, a net cap on total loans. Or some combination there of.) and then exclude mortgages under an appropriate limit, however

FuglyDuck , 11 months ago to technology in Netflix says people just kind of rolled over and accepted the password sharing crackdown

I really want to see your “nailed it” post for that learned-to-make-Netflix-in-a-day alternative.

If you could learn to build a 194-billion-market-cap company, or even just build such a company… you probably wouldn’t be here.

FuglyDuck , 11 months ago to aww in This golden shepherd mix

It’ll grow to fit those amusingly doofishly beautiful ears.