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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by polotics on Sunday June 14, 2020 @06:57AM (#23516710)
Word! Frankly at this point I'm even starting to think that the whole weird "SJW" angle of this thread is also disingenuous and taking us away from the boiling frog death of the Internet, replaced by AMPed up centralized comoditization of users, with death to all liberty and openness.
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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by latexr on Sunday June 14, 2020 @01:39PM (#23519599)
> the boiling frog death

That metaphor is based on a false premise[1]:

> While some 19th-century experiments suggested that the underlying premise is true if the heating is sufficiently gradual, according to contemporary biologists the premise is false: a frog that is gradually heated will jump out. Indeed, thermoregulation by changing location is a fundamentally necessary survival strategy for frogs and other ectotherms.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog

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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by polotics on Sunday June 14, 2020 @10:55AM (#23518078)
In the meantime the post that used the term SJW has disappeared. Oh well.
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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by Lammy on Sunday June 14, 2020 @12:20PM (#23518917)
It and its 101 children are still there if you have `showdead` enabled in your HN settings
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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by biscotti on Sunday June 14, 2020 @09:15AM (#23517434)
I believe this too.

In fact, I think the evidence is not only overwhelming but the tech community is thoroughly comprimised, proven so on account of all the recent purges and attacks on wrong-think.

I no longer trust my software.

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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by biscotti on Sunday June 14, 2020 @09:31PM (#23522994)
I don't know why I get downvoted for this when I wrote it based on the reality of the situation.

I guess some people just feel guilty/ashamed!

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