agree. Plenty of places to talk about this. There is no tech or startup angle for this.

Here’s your angle: It’ll be harder to build your startup if we descend into the next world war

Not to mention that plenty of people (myself included) work in Europe for US startups and having a war break out between the US and Europe could threaten that arrangement.

>Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

I think evidence of a potential war escalation falls under the "unless". Are we really going to be starting WW3 and have people like you keep covering your ears because you need a cozy space?

I'd have thought there are many tech angles. For example, in a possible Greenland invasion, what are the implications of the US having control of dominant platforms such as Windows, Android and Apple? Not to mention all the dominant cloud platforms.

The implications of the ongoing ruptures to the global political and economic order are significant. Tech is both influencing and influenced by these changes.

>There is no tech or startup angle for this.

The devaluation of the US Dollar that is likely outcome of this will disrupt our supply chains leading to chaos. I expect 80% or worse.

Also, this will drive interest rates through the roof, drying up funding.

Even if you're not interested in politics, it's interested in you.

I wish I could tune out, but unfortunately these policies do affect tech and startups.

Ah, you conveniently left out the rest of the guidelines:

> If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

So you have no intellectual curiostity of the stakes here, at all?

Look for opportunities then?

The early days of Silicon Valley were literally the product of defense contracts and defense research spending. The whole consumer and business products thing (hardware or software) came much later. Even the early days business computing, the days of mainframes and minis, were largely driven by east coast companies.

I mean, it’s sort of a vector. The malware itself can only be executed if you click a suspicious .lnk file. The moral here isn’t that subtitles are a “vector”, but to not indiscriminately run scripts.

Subaru literally tells me they like that I take road trips with their cars, and offer me swag to share other swag with people while I travel around. “Subaru Ambassador” program.

Well, that's opt-in, right? I don't think it should be illegal for people to have relationships with vendors. I just prefer our current system where vendor relationships don't require anyone to care.

You're all over the thread actually arguing with people over things that don't relate to the article as well. Pot, kettle.

my comments were all on different topics making different points in different comment chains. the guy I was replying to here was essentially making the same point over and over in a single comment thread, daring someone to argue with him

Mortgage foreclosure is a legal process that takes a very long time and is very expensive.

It doesn't take years, and it's less expensive than writing off the mortgage.

In judicial foreclosure states, the process can take 12 to 24 months, and longer if contested or if other periods apply. In nonjudicial states, timelines are shorter but still typically 4 to 9 months from default to sale.

Lenders incur legal fees, court costs, property taxes, insurance, maintenance, HOA dues, servicing advances, and loss of interest during the process. Industry estimates often put foreclosure costs in the tens of thousands of dollars per loan, excluding the loss from selling the property below the outstanding balance.

“Writing off the mortgage” is not the realistic alternative. Lenders generally compare foreclosure against loan modification, repayment plans, short sales, or deeds-in-lieu, because charge-offs are accounting outcomes after losses are realized, not an operational substitute for foreclosure.

Banks are perfectly well equipped to foreclose on you. Ask anybody who was around in 2008.

You don't usually skate by on years of non-payments, so I'd sticker the original claim with [citation needed]

Don't know if this is what the OP is referring to, but: https://archive.is/2EObp

sounds like a very similar thing.

Here's another one on perpetual forbearances: https://www.wsj.com/opinion/covid-housing-relief-forever-rec...

This would seem to indicate that Covid forbearances are extending into 2026: https://www.hud.gov/sites/dfiles/SFH/documents/SFH_FHA_INFO_...

Yeah, those are some of the programs I was referring to. The 'loophole' aspect that was mentioned on the podcast is that when the FHA does the 'loss mitigation' (aka, refi's the loan), there is not any kind of qualification as to whether the buyer will ever be able to make a payment on the new loan. It's just approved anyway, and the cycle can happen unlimited times.

I think they're looking at adding a means test, but I'm unsure.

First, I think you're probably right that ice cream is priced too high compared to its inputs.

But maybe there are other factors? What about energy? One would assume that ice cream has a higher energy requirement than other "treat" style products? Are there specific tariff impacts on ice cream manufacturing equipment?

I'm not sure that's the /internet/'s fault, but the humanities inability to anticipate what we can do with the technology and our inability to regulate the technology to prevent harms.

> humanities inability to anticipate what we can do with the technology

I think it is more a problem of not caring (especially when not caring will result in social and/or economic reward) rather than not anticipating.

For any technology that is created you can and should anticipate that it will be, literally, weaponized since there are hundreds of thousands of years of precedent for this happening.

We - technologists - mocked the humanities for decades for being useless. Now look where we got without them.

> We - technologists - mocked the humanities for decades for being useless. Now look where we got without them.

A lot of programmers were very critical how in particular since the release of the iPhone people suddenly accepted the golden cage against which programmers before very aggressively fought.

So the issue is rather that people did not listen to these old-school programmers, (as usual) mocked these as nerds, and instead listened to "hipsters" and marketers.

One can discuss a lot how useful humanities are, but what brought us in the current situation is rather that the masses did not listen to the old-school programmers.

Ha ha - I meant "humanity's", not "the humanities". Stupid autocorrect! I blame the internet.

Back in ye olden days, HF was really high! What we'd consider today to be near useless due to limited bandwidth and insane antenna requirements were once the primary frequencies for communications.

I wondered if that was the case! 28 MHz must've seemed pretty high at the time. :)

What do you think amateur radio does? Why do you think that broadcasting your location, and that you're looking to get information from somewhere other than the approved sources will end up in anything other than tragedy? What information do you think could reliably be provided with amateur radio in a situation like this?

The OP wanted a way to bypass a internet shutdown, not a perfect solution.

And you know, I'm fairly sure being able to talk to the outside world makes it so that you can at least get information out to others.

Pray tell, what methods do YOU have to bypass a shutdown with privacy and no reliance on ISP and resistant to jamming?

There is no privacy in amateur radio. That is not a matter of preference, it is a regulatory and physical reality.

Amateur radio transmissions are public, unencrypted, and attributable. Callsigns are required, modes and frequencies are well known, and transmissions are trivially direction-findable. In a country like Iran, where RF spectrum is actively monitored and unauthorized communications are treated as a security issue, transmitting on amateur bands is effectively broadcasting your location and intent. Direction finding is routine, fast, and does not require exotic equipment. One transmission can be enough.

In the US and most other countries, amateur radio is tightly regulated. Encryption to obscure content is explicitly prohibited. Ignoring this can result in fines, seizure of equipment, and loss of license. Foreign operators encouraging or participating in such use are not insulated from consequences simply because the target country is authoritarian.

I did not claim to have a better solution. That's the point. When the threat model includes surveillance, attribution, and enforcement, there may be no safe civilian workaround. Suggesting amateur radio in this context is not “imperfect but helpful”, it reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of what amateur radio actually is and how it is regulated.

Amateur radio can't provide privacy, safety, or reliable information flow under an active crackdown. Pretending otherwise is irresponsible.

> so that you can at least get information out to others.

So they can do what with it? The people who can action it already have intensive satellite imagery of the area and domestic intelligence assets. The level of risk to reward for a citizen to do this is fairly low.

This is not about disliking “different opinions” or refusing to hear opposing views. It is about a documented pattern of statements in which Adams moved from commentary into explicit endorsement of collective punishment, racialized generalizations, and norm breaking prescriptions that reject basic liberal principles.

Being “aware of both sides” means engaging evidence and counterarguments in good faith. Repeatedly dismissing data and framing entire groups as inherently hostile is not that. Calling this out is not echo chamber behavior, it is a substantive judgment based on what was actually said, not on ideological disagreement.