GPS Glitched Across US by as Much as 33 Feet. Scientists Have Never Seen Before

Re:GPS Glitched Across US by as Much as 33 Feet. Scientists ... by saaaaaam on Thursday September 03, 2026 @08:11PM (#49558839)

As a neutral participant I think “the hostility” is probably because of your condescending tone when you said “hopefully it helps your confusion”. Your initial article really didn’t say anything about people being re-incarcerated for these sorts of errors. I really want to say “maybe you got CONFUSED and posted the wrong one!” but that would be snotty and condescending too.

But maybe you posted the wrong one to begin with.

Let’s all be friends and nice to each other.

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Re:GPS Glitched Across US by as Much as 33 Feet. Scientists ... by chaps on Thursday September 03, 2026 @08:19PM (#49558907)

That's totally fair, I shouldn't have said it like that!

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Re:GPS Glitched Across US by as Much as 33 Feet. Scientists ... by hypfer on Friday September 04, 2026 @05:09AM (#49562247)

You seem to care a lot about these issues, and probably have real face-to-face experience with the victims of that.

Problem is though that this feeling type of empathy makes you not the best advocate for them - as you can see here, where (on a platform with worse rules than HN) a flamewar would've broken out over not everyone being as emotionally involved.

We definitely need people like you, but we also need people like you to not be everywhere and scare/annoy people into not caring. Though, I also agree that scaring/annoying _into_ caring is also often required.

Idk. Activism is weird and hard and all.

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