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Do politics really belong on HN?

This is a dangerous equivocation of the guilty with the innocent, and throws away completely the notion of "Better X Guilty Persons Escape than that One Innocent Suffer."

Do schools or parents not teach philosophy or ethics to these FAANG employees?

The culture of the people who make up these companies don't want to let anyone know what happened or let them appeal it, because they "know better" and are "in agreement" with unspoken rules such that adjudication would be "a waste of time." It's all about arrogance and fascist behavior towards users in the name of expediency and risk management. Unless someone is a celebrity, they're squished like a cockroach if they stumble into the "light" of algorithms or human review.

That's absolutely, most definitely not Kafkaesque at all! ;)

Inverted totalitarian corporate plutocracy that most people accept ubiquitously and brush off as a "conspiracy theory" until it happens to them.

This is a specious, chicken-little argument. The marginal propensity to consume (MPC) of people on the edge is nearly 100%, and that consumption will inevitably lead to both corporate profits AND people getting what they think they absolutely need. Should we cut off our noses to spite our faces? Maybe stimulus checks should be extra conveniently issued in Nixon bucks that are only redeemable at actual hipster small businesses, that take 3 hours to make a cup of coffee, such that inner-city and food desert people can't practically use them?

Don't do this. Industrial argon isn't necessarily clean enough for food-grade purposes and may well contain unknown / poisonous substances. You should know better than to make hazardous recommendations.

"Last" varies depending on if it's contaminated with Acetobacter or not, which can turn it to vinegar.

Awwh. They should at least keep the tourist location in SF. Many moons ago, it was a decent shop.

Attend UC Davis, and you too can smell cow and hog dung whenever the winds shift just right. ;-)

Koch billionaire libertarian propaganda farm that released look-alike "IPCC" reports saying climate change was a hoax.

Leave the Valley, it's too expensive. I grew up there.

Only you know what career to pursue. No one else can answer that for you.

I would say "It's best to keep politics and any potential activism private, even if we happen to agree, out of a respect for professionalism."

Exactly. As an example, WASPs don't do that because they're too "nice," but will tell you about their prejudices if they trust you. They're fundamentally dishonest while wearing the lipstick of civility. (I'm mostly white, but I distrust and am embarrassed by many whites.)

The lemonade from the lemons is when people reveal themselves, it makes the self-selecting associations easier and saves you time, like you said.

More love, less hate. Namaste.

I know what it means, but it depends on section 230 staying alive. I meant manufacturers suing users like restaurants suing yelpers. With such chilling effects, no one would want to use it.

So vegetarianism, lots of b vitamins, folate, and blood tests?

Lawsuits from manufacturers seems like how this would die.

It's where the bodies are buried by people who actually use products, not the usual glowing, happy-clappy nonsense of new customers or fake reviews.

I wrote one in Pascal about 1994. It was slow, but it worked.

Thanks. She found an affordable new construction house, somewhat in the middle of nowhere though.

Yeah. If you don't have Prop 13, which was a one-time bandaid, or you're rich you're screwed.

Political persecution of public interest dissidents at its finest.

Not there. Zoning laws there are very specific. Tiny houses aren't allowed. Used prefabricated houses aren't allowed either. And try getting permits or insurance for anything unusual. I like underground blown concrete egg-shaped chambers, but there are few place where they are allowed in incorporated areas. Traditional building codes and removing fuel next to structures work. Also, the area has rising property, income, and sales taxes beside high homeowners insurance, failing local businesses, and a lack of critical population mass (taxes) to support essential services. In addition, they need another major exit road that they cannot afford. Also, the area is scarred and ugly from aggressively clearcutting large trees and awful, cheap manufactured homes that reduce property values. Many people left permanently as well rather than risk it again or go through the hassle of rebuilding. It's unsustainable.

Furthermore, she had to sell because my now ex-stepfather walked out on her suddenly because of her unexpected disability life event and forced them to sell. He's rich now after inheriting from his family and she gets a pittance less than Social Security when they planned to combine households and retire together permanently. Plus, there's nothing left around but a drug rehab halfway house, disgruntled, reclusive Trump supporters with guns, and some agro neighbors with psychosis. The odds of being robbed or violently attacked are pretty high, and there's black bear.

Pure FUD.

I might be wrong, but this sounds vaguely like Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). How strong is the evidence to support the claims in this article?

Seems working now.

I was there at my mom's house and evacuated that morning with the rest of the town 5 lanes out down Skyway. TBH, I wasn't scared because I've been through worse disasters, busy, and I had to get my semi-disabled mom out.

Her house was the only one left standing on either side of the street. She lost a large shed, fences, some trees, landscaping, a cord of wood, smoke damage, and charring of the roof. A wheelie bin melted and burned into the aggregate driveway. The cord of wood burned the aggregate concrete under it and changed the color of a retaining wall from gray/brown to red.

Many of her neighbors, good friends, decided not to rebuild and moved to Chico and out-of-state. Then the 2019 power outages (PSPSes) demanded buying a generator and 2020 wildfires smoke and more PSPSes. All of Camp Fire occurred because PG&E didn't want to spend the money to maintain crumbling 100-year-old bare wires in steep terrain.

Her homeowners insurance doubled My mom sold her house and moved to between San Antonio and Austin TX. I moved to Austin. Even though Texas has property taxes approaching 2%, overall, it's a better deal.

Furthermore, the newly-discovered risks of a repeat of the 1862 megafloods. And earthquakes.

Notice "witness" twice. Payoffs, cajoling?