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Classic nonsense. You can also start with Colombus, but at the current time your government is not restricting your internet access so that you can express your opinions, and is not executing you for these opinions either.
every innocent death is a tragedy. you're just selecting which ones to advance your opinion.
Your "facts" proved my point.
Every emotional decision is a decision.
Fact1: Iran executed tens of thousands of citizens over political opposition since the start of this year, and is still executing others today.
Fact2: Iran has cut off its population from the internet.
Can you find equivalent facts from USA to justify the parallels you are drawing?
Propaganda based on selective use of facts
you get emotional over one specific type of propaganda
I'd ask the same question of you (except all the emotional stuff)
Saying Iran has a better international reputation than the United States is a massive stretch, but yes, this is emotional decision making.
His spokesperson said Londoners only wanted to see public money being paid to companies that “share the values of our city”.
I wander if they'd care to further elaborate on that.
Posted by
eruci on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @01:12PM
from the show-hn dept.
Posted by
eruci on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @06:59PM
from the show-hn dept.
The fact that certain people have such strong opinions about the recently released Grokipedia tells me the grok is actually on to something.
This is ridiculous:
They just posted:
Update
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Posted 2 minutes ago. Nov 18, 2025 - 14:34 UTC
but,..
I'm stuck at the captcha that does not work:
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dash.cloudflare.com needs to review the security of your connection before proceeding.
Searching for Cloudflare alternatives...
Posted by
eruci on Friday November 07, 2025 @04:34PM
from the scientificamerican.com dept.
Posted by
eruci on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @11:53AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://eruci.com/books/ding_dong_bell_song.html
My younger son Aleks started grade 1 this September. He is quite fond of learning how to read - yet he find a lot of early reader's books a bit boring and bland. So, me and Aleks teamed up to write our own intro to reading books - and this is the first result
We should have been given the choice to properly send him off in a general election.
with Poetry, the onus is still on the reader to get something out of it, even in the west.
I recently read "Pale Fire". (without the preface and Nabukov's commentary). I enjoyed it thoroughly, without understanding a lot, which is fine.
dx does not know what to rx based on the given symptoms
Posted by
eruci on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @09:08AM
from the ask-hn dept.
You can say the same thing about banning guns (although I just realized that's a bit of a stretch) If people acted responsibly we would not need to ban guns.
One thing caught my attention. Cost: £2,540 - £2,950 per m².
That's why geocoding is HARD. Try "3 Adne Edle Street, London" on Bing maps, Google Maps, Openstreetmap, Geocode.xyz - and more.
Or even better, try "Minus Two, Woodend Lane, Cam, Stroud"
No two geocoding services agree on the correct answer.
Prior art - Even Pythagoras didn't come up with Pythagoras's Theorem.
Marketing is a tax you pay when you are not good enough.