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Re:SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites – fo... by ben_w on Saturday July 11, 2026 @11:08AM (#48872705)
> I have had cousins from the village send me a picture of a mermaid claiming she was caught in one of the rivers.

For what it's worth, this also happens with printed books.

I wasted the latter half of my teens taking New Age occultism and magical powers as a profound topic rather than a literature and culture topic, thanks to a combination of a bookstore chain near where I grew up and a mother who also took this all very seriously.

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Re:SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites – fo... by JKCalhoun on Saturday July 11, 2026 @11:38AM (#48872975)
I wasn't suggesting that books are some kind of paragon of "truth". But as I think most HN readers would agree, there's just something… tangible about them that seems to stimulate the brain in a way that ephemeral images on a screen don't.
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