"You're mentioning somebody that was extremely controversial," Trump said, referring to Khashoggi. "A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen, but he knew nothing about it. And would you leave it at that? You don't have to embarrass our guest by asking a question."
Prop 13 is one of the worst pieces of legislation ever passed. Want to prevent the elderly from being forced to sell their homes over increasing property tax burdens? How about... don't kick them out of their homes because of unpaid property taxes.
Just keep the tally, and then when the house changes hands, mandate that the back taxes get paid out of the sale.
Same thing happened with the release of a certain programming language release a few weeks ago (that seemed fully vibecoded, which is fine - but was making multiple grandiose claims which attracted pushback). Multiple sock puppet accounts defending the poster religiously with attitude that is more reserved for reddit than HN.
It happens more around things related to vibecoding, it seems that influencer culture, empowered by this new tooling is starting to distort tech communities.
More and more of this will be happening. Before AI coding - the fact that something like photopea or pixelr existed, meant that somebody had to commit years of focused work to even reach to the same level of quality before starting to provide value and attract users. That alone made copying a losing proposition, or at least it raised the bar as it meant one had to be a truly exceptional and dedicated builder.
Nowadays it can happen in an evening, so everything successful will get copied and attacked and attempted to be displaced by noise and hype on certain internet circles alone. Like the cheap ridiculous clones of popular ios games and apps of the past, except now on an industrial scale!
I guess this is the new world we are entering, but can we at least keep the astroturfing and bad faith behavior away damnit?
The whole thing. I spend way too much time in the politics/political-philosophy rabbit hole, and it still whooshed right by me. I bet you got like a 2% hit rate on people understanding what you meant.
What on earth are you talking about? Trump invaded multiple American cities. He created an $85 billion federal goon force. He's kidnapped or killed TWO DIFFERENT heads of state. He's destroyed our trade relationships. He's taken inflation from frustrating to existential. He's bulldozing national parks. He's started a brand spanking new forever war. He's utterly corrupted the Supreme Court. He's multiplied the national deficit and debt. He's cut taxes for only the richest. He let Elon tear our institutions to shreds, costing infinitely more money than he "saved" in the process. Our entire federal science and research apparatus is gone. Effing measles is back and killing people. Screw worm is back. Air traffic is falling apart. Trump and his family have made tens of billions.
It is going to take literal decades, if it is even possible at all, to repair the damage Trump has done in 18 months.
> He let Elon tear our institutions to shreds, costing infinitely more money...
...and lives. Musk is now up there as one of the individuals with the highest kill counts in history - at least 500,000 to 700,000 so far. Analysis suggests that by 2030, this could reach as many as 14 million, including 4.5 million children under age 5. Musk is going to have to come up with his own salute, because he's no longer playing second fiddle to that other guy.
> So he will anoint a weakling and the base will fracture.
Prediction: he will never anoint anyone. He is pathologically incapable of stepping aside, sharing, or caring one iota of what happens to anyone after he dies. He may not even be capable of conceptualizing his own mortality.
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/18/nx-s1-5612504/trump-saudi-ara...
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