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Re:Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Bra... by Mountain_Skies on Friday November 15, 2024 @05:28PM (#42151949)
Hacker News' eventual death started the moment it joined the hysteria over the Lab Leak Theory. Since then it has trended more and more to be like Reddit, with ideological tribal concerns occupying an increasingly large mindshare. This drives away people who want to have earnest conversations in good faith, giving even more power to the ideologues. It will be a long death spiral but you can see it happening day by day.
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Re:Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Bra... by tim333 on Friday November 15, 2024 @05:42PM (#42152102)
I'm not sure what hysteria about lab leaks? I mean maybe it did, maybe it didn't.
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Re:Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Bra... by Wytwwww on Friday November 15, 2024 @05:40PM (#42152072)
The comment you are replying to has the highest concentration of ideological hysteria in this and all the sibling threads, though.

Basically it dismisses any rational arguments related to the topic out of hand because they are inherently biased and because supposedly "both sides" are equal/must be treated equally due to some undefined reasons.

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Re:Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Bra... by yarg on Friday November 15, 2024 @05:46PM (#42152141)
The idea that the novel coronavirus didn't escape from the local coronavirus R&D laboratory never had anywhere near enough evidence to be credible.

It was pretty much the WHO simply repeating the claims of the Chinese government, who had already tried to cover up the outbreak (with any warnings sent to the WHO coming from Taiwan instead).

It was about as believable as the completely baseless claims that the emergency use authorised vaccine was safe and effective.

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Re:Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Bra... by robertlagrant on Thursday November 21, 2024 @05:50PM (#42209509)
I've genuinely never seen "hysteria" from the people talking about the lab leak theory. The closest I've seen is from people who were extremely keen for no one to mention the theory. Not because of some cover-up, but I think just because that was what everyone was telling everyone else to do, hysteria-style.
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