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The article handwaves working patterns away with one sentence: "Many of them were farmers or laborers, of course, but plenty of people in 1900 had cushy desk jobs, and those people weren’t obese either."

I can't find good numbers on it, but 3-5% had a desk job in the year 1900, seems like there was an entire article's worth of points here but the author wasn't interested which is a shame. At the very least there's definitely more to debate there than with the altitude example.

I think the problem is actually 100% the reverse of what you've come up with, the ultra-rich are stealing from the poor essentially all the time. It never stops, there's never really that much pushback and it leads to in the millions of deaths a year. Look up the DOGE cuts for a really obvious, simple, not really arguable example of this.

This is why societies across the world but particularly hyper-capitalist societies are all suffering a similar set of ills.

I feel that modern society has grown just about enough to mostly stop blaming the impoverished for their own poverty, but the zeitgeist in the US has still not grown that much beyond the red scare. None of the possible solutions to the US's relentless financial punishment regime will be accepted fast enough for the people suffering now to benefit from them.

I think for 99% of working age adults you can source some amount of their health woes to the working pattern they're glued to. It is obvious for those on the night shift because it's so standout, but every person becomes a slightly more haggard version of themselves when they're doing 40 hours a week and it's only noticeable to those around them and only when they've spent some time out of work.

Very strong attempt to both-sides a visibly one sided issue.

Am I missing something, or is the only way to get the actual URL to any website out of this to put it in your saves and then look for it in there? That kinda sucks.

The share button giving an opaque URL that tells you nothing about the site you're actually going to see combined with there being no one click obvious place to get the actual URL makes this really cumbersome to use.

> It uses statistical correlation to indicate causation.

Up front, it doesn't. It's a meta study, the authors actually go out of their way at one point to note it's not causative, this is unfair on your part.

>As a person with severe ADHD, who has never taken any medication, I find this study troubling. [...] People on ADHD medicine are also going through mental health treatments and get special care and privileges in society. At the same time, the effects of ADHD medication numb their responses and emotions to what seems outwardly stable and normal but deep inside it is an inhibitor of development.

You've never taken the medication but you're suddenly an expert on what it does and how it feels? Right. Why not be honest and just say you don't buy the conclusions of the study due to your emotional response to the topic?

If I fall down the stairs and my broken leg heals fine, can I say those are my best years?

It looks like you've done exactly what the other commenter did, googled some keywords and then posted links you didn't read. I don't really follow the nitpicking here.

That report for 2025-2026 is evidence for the claim that the coral reefs have had their best 5 years ever?

I can't tell if this is sarcastic, or you're just lying?

> The planet is greener, even the Sahara is shrinking

The UK was baked brown in the heat and it was so bad it was visible by satellite, we had uncharacteristic wildfires all summer. Google has literally no idea what you're talking about by claiming the Sahara is shrinking, the best I can find is "maybe the expansion is slowing?"

> The Great Coral Reef has just had its best 5 years ever.

Apparently it had its most devastating coral bleaching event just 2 years ago, so I'm not sure this is true?

> On average, crops produce more due to higher CO2 levels.

I mean, yeah if you are into the average crop? People tend to like stuff like corn and coffee which are threatened by raised heat levels. With current heat levels we're projected to lose upwards of 1/5th the corn harvest by 2030.

> Pacific islands failed to sink.

I mean some of them did, like a decade ago, just none of the ones you care about.

> Hurricanes failed to become more frequent

Same frequency but wind force increases by water temperature, so a cat 1 hurricane like Rafael ends up a cat 3 hurricane due to climate change. I am seeing a pattern with your selective presentation of the facts.

> Fewer people died due to cold temperatures

Is that not because a large share of the world's old were taken out by COVID within the last 6 years? That is the group most likely to die to cold.

"The sites that are there for ad impressions" are the websites, there's no invision powerboards in 2026, the alternatives have been gutted and eaten by the sites there for ad impressions. HN is an exceptionally poor replacement but it's the closest thing I've found. I don't enjoy that has the exact same dynamics as reddit but the ads are on pages I click through to instead of directly on the site, it sucks that I still don't recognise any usernames here.

By next week this thread might not have existed at all. The usership of the site likely won't remember it. If I was posting half the content on this site and then stopped and was replaced by another username, would anyone notice? It seems like there is no real community to be found, we've destroyed our own habitat.

I would love if it could be a false dichotomy, but given conservative estimates pin about 30% of online posts to AI it seems like there may be a third outcome: we patch the visible holes of humans posting less and less from disinterest by making the bots post more and more.

The end result is that comment sections aren't enticing to join in on, just read. Which is perfect for ad impressions.

> Are they interesting, well thought out, well articulated, and insightful?

The average AI post is likely a carbon copied reddit comment from 2011, that is to say, "no".

I stopped using reddit entirely because it's bots talking to other bots on threads posted by bots, I stopped making posts at the start of this year because I no longer know if a human being is ever reading them. I then deleted the account.

I am increasingly feeling that way about HN, too. If this is all the equivalent of a videogame conversation with an AI, why am I bothering to put the effort in?

"Hey I'm a complete nobody and I'm also really rude, please answer my questions" is not a winning play, nor is the rest of this dumb bait you're trying.

What motivates someone to make a new account just for this kind of mundane and inappropriately rude comment? Why should anyone answer you?

Wow, a throwaway account posting propaganda gibberish. Groundbreaking. Do you have any more interesting lies or just the same generic ones?

That is the prepared attack line the Govt have armed you with yes, but if you scroll the document and compare them to every other proscribed group it's sort of clear they're not terrorists, and the UK populace seem to similarly feel this is silly politicking.

> damage to property considered to be Jewish-owned

I could not possibly take you less seriously after this, you are mixing your narratives up into something no one will swallow.

The justification isn't that good, it's "damage to property" repeatedly which yeah criminal but not terrorism. The UK's proscription of Palestine Action is hanging on by threadbare credibility, it's political.

> The BBC proper doesn't receive anything from advertising, in fact. But that's because what most people think of as 'the BBC' actually isn't the BBC proper.

Not only did I make this distinction in the comment you're replying to, but you're also just wrong -- the BBC takes about £5b a year from BBC Worldwide and part of that money is ad impressions. The point is that it doesn't cover the cost to supply the service.

It is an example of the trope that women can't drive when when a woman who has learned to drive is shown to demonstrate poor driving skills.

A woman learning to drive because she literally does not know how is not an example of that trope, that is being a human.

Ok? You originally said you'd never seen evidence of poor webp compability so you dismissed complaints out of hand. Now you've seen evidence, so you've immediately moved on to a different argument so you can dismiss complaints out of hand.

You have now seen evidence of poor webp compatibility. It exists. The people you said were making it up to bait you into commenting were probably being sincere. That's the entire point of the comment. The end.

There was a multiple year timespan where webp was being used on websites, but local software (especially image viewers/phone gallery apps) wouldn't render webp. The format's poor reputation is sadly earned.

> I deemed this "I hate WebP" just a comment bait argument in social networks.

Go try adding a webp image to a Google doc and then reconsider your position.

Annoying but you'd probably do the same, you categorically cannot be funding the media you're consuming when you're visiting the BBC on a non-UK IP. The ad impressions don't cover it, and BBC Worldwide take a cut before the BBC proper receives anything anyway.

> This is not how it works in most parts of the Western world anymore. The child who is being bullied reports the bully and the authorities (usually a teacher or other faculty) address the issue with various forms of remediation. I feel sorry for you if this was your experience at school. It sounds awful.

It's very hard to take your opinions as sincere and earnest when you're in one comment selectively pruning hundreds of years of history to make your point and then pretending that bullying is a solved problem to make your point in another. Just a reminder that we're living in the realm of rising teenage suicide rates, much of that rooted in the trauma caused by bullying.

If nothing else I'd call on you to be kinder to the people you're responding to, who put in the effort when you're clearly not doing the same.

If their take was shallow yours is revisionist to the point it's ahistorical.

Choosing to focus on the "centuries-long process of cultural and educational and social progress beginning in the Enlightenment in 1650" but then ignoring that the suffragettes were bombing buildings within the decade they got the vote, do you not think you're laying your own narrative on a little too thick?

> I asked a model to evaluate your comment history and it found loads of patterns such as

> “I’m not sure…” / “I don’t…” hedges before disagreement Negation followed by correction/reframing is a recurring structure: essentially “It’s not X, it’s Y”.

I did a manual human dig through GP's profile and I don't see any evidence supporting this. The literal strings "I'm not sure" and "I don't" do appear a lot (also in replies, which I'm hoping your LLM was intelligent enough to exclude?), and they are used to hedge before making a statement, but not a single one of them even approaches the "It's not X, it's Y" thing your LLM has claimed they do.

Your LLM did not find dozens of examples, it told you it did and you didn't even bother to check.

The slugs in your soil carry a parasite which can cause lifelong paralysis if it enters your body, a lot of the worms do too. Those decomposing leaves carry tetanus. Your perspective is not aligned with reality.

What do you think soil is made of? Where do you think it comes from?

The keybindings (and lack of documentation for them) in Finder sucks, having to google how to show hidden files in a save dialogue every time I have to do it sucks, having to search through the UI every time for the non-obvious way to get to a specific path sucks. Do I need to mention .DS_Store?

There are loads of different file managers for many different operating systems, they look and act the way they do from years of refining UX in response to the way users actually interact with them. This is why the file manager on my android phone is so similar to the one on my windows machine, and my linux install. All of them are different to Finder which appeared to lock some UX decisions in circa 1990 and then refuse to budge, this is why Finder sucks.

It's the one OS where file and folder manipulation via the terminal is actually sometimes faster for me, no need to go digging for the specific ritual Finder uses in opposition to every other file manager to do the task.