You misunderstand what it means to be poor

Re:You misunderstand what it means to be poor by ChrisMarshallNY on Sunday November 16, 2025 @05:36PM (#45949095)

> Unfortunately hackers made sure that the only reply below written by somebody who has actually been homeless was [flagged] and [dead].

I't been my experience* that HN folks don't like reality, practicum, and personal experience. They mostly like abstractions and theory.

*See what I did, there?

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Re:You misunderstand what it means to be poor by seba_dos1 on Sunday November 16, 2025 @07:58PM (#45949960)

If you'd be actually experienced, you would realize that there's an autokill filter on HN and the comment in question contains the forbidden M word. Apparently my vouch wasn't enough to resurrect it.

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Re:You misunderstand what it means to be poor by ChrisMarshallNY on Monday November 17, 2025 @06:08AM (#45952574)

Makes sense (I run showdead=no, so I never saw the original), but that doesn’t make my comment any less accurate. We all see this stuff happen on a regular basis.

A long discussion is going on, with people flinging poo, back and forth, and one comment appears, from someone actually in the industry/organization being discussed, or by someone with very relevant direct experience, and that comment gets immediately dogpiled; often by both sides. It’s happened to me, a couple of times. I’ve learned to just stay out of these shitfests, even if they are embarrassingly offbase.

With this kind of emotionally-charged, nontechnical topic, it’s even worse than things like OS or methodology dogma battles.

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