As if the endless deluge of AI, Meta Glasses and Flock camera articles are full of friendly banter.

If you have showdead=true, you will see way, way more flagged comments under anything that is political, or even has a Israel connection in it.

Well before 9/11, US troops were intervening in Somalia, Yugoslavia, Bosnia, Iraq, Haiti, Panama, Libya, Lebanon and Grenada.

Some of those were (limited) unilateral strikes but a lot of those were multinational endeavors done with the blessing of the international community.

2029? By then the pendulum would swing back to it being considered "deep state intervention" and a "waste of taxpayer funds" especially since "the national debt is higher than ever".

If anybody really cared about the national debt they would stop passing giant tax cuts.

GOP Voters don’t care when the ones they vote for are in power. Meanwhile the Dems reduce the debt and are pilloried for it

If a site has PayPal as a payment method, I'm using PayPal. It's a million times more convenient than punching my CC into yet another site.

I don't use mobile wallets. I've had a PP account since the time it was required to buy anything on Ebay.

The best feature it has is being able to cancel newspaper subscriptions without the hassle of calling and talking to a retention agent.

They've all had multi-billion bond issues in 2026 so I wouldn't exactly call it "their" money.

35 years ago, the enormously popular animated series Captain Planet taught kids about protecting the ozone layer, using biodegradable materials and renewable energy.

Absolutely none of that mattered in the long run because capital markets think environmental destruction is a small price to pay as long as some people get rich.

What kids learn about personal cooling tech and what not won't matter when the supply of the raw materials required to make them is reserved for some VC-funded trillion-dollar 'startup' trying to synthesize an undetectable chemical weapon to get past the bureaucratic red tape of international treaties.

> Where people are arbitrarily jailed if they voice an opinion against the government?

I take it this ambitious Canadian grad hasn't had the temerity to protect his privacy before entering the land of the free[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49386895

I hope after this case that it becomes common sense to not destroy evidence after it’s been asked for.

Considering that the buyer is Google, it's more likely to be a Gemini customer with a Google Cloud plan.

The US doesn't default on his interest payments. The US consumer on the other hand....

The US has defaulted on its interest payments several times.

> Sebastian Mandal, a San Francisco-based startup startup founder who describes himself on LinkedIn as a college dropout and a professional Minecraft player.

I see a Sequoia Capital funding round in his future.

A startup so nice, they said it twice!