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Re:4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google on Friday April 23, 2021 @04:30PM (#26918845)
Why couldn't he breathe in the back of the car?
You speak on the virus as if you have expertise, or have studied the subject. Yet I suspect you, and so many posters here, are mere podcast listeners. The arrogance is almost a virus in spirit.
Have you poured over the literature? Where are you getting this information? Do you think China is open and transparent and wouldn't cook their books?
The way HN comes down so hard against the lab leak hypothesis is spooky. Opinion about this is thrown around so heavily. Credentials: NPR listener AKA elite understander of things? The tide of understanding the origin of this virus is turning as Chinese propaganda wears thin. Many of you may recieve your comeuppance and I hope you're embarassed by your sheepishness.
I wonder if Antifa is one such organization, just a dystopian one, a confederacy of angst.
Re:One pollster’s explanation for why the polls got it wrong on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @03:14AM (#25056470)
>That's more recent, to be honest. When I started reading HN, it was very very libertarian (but mostly non-political).

Interesting. I came here a bit late.

Re:One pollster’s explanation for why the polls got it wrong on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @01:48AM (#25056092)
There has never been such a thing as a politically neutral HN. It's just that there wasn't until recently a userbase to counteract the liberal tech groupthink.
Re:The First Best Seller: Samuel Richardson’s Pamela on Sunday July 26, 2020 @03:30PM (#23959515)
As for myself, I found it a totally boring read. I understand its place in classrooms though. And I'm glad the society depicted is dead and gone.
Re:2020 Pulitzer Prize Winners on Monday May 04, 2020 @08:13PM (#23074896)
The 1619 Project was such an awful bit of journalism. Totally not surprised it won a Pulitzer.
Re:2020 Pulitzer Prize Winners on Monday May 04, 2020 @08:09PM (#23074870)
What outlets come to your mind as good, unbiased? I'm assuming already that you think that reality just has a liberal bias.
Re:2020 Pulitzer Prize Winners on Monday May 04, 2020 @08:07PM (#23074856)
"Sources say..."

Bye!

Re:Education Without Truth in Postmodern Perspectivism on Thursday April 09, 2020 @09:29PM (#22829010)
I mean, did the post-modernists who read his paper know what post-modernism was?
Re:Education Without Truth in Postmodern Perspectivism on Thursday April 09, 2020 @04:20PM (#22826772)
Are you one of those who thought Sokal made good points in his submitted paper.
Re:Education Without Truth in Postmodern Perspectivism on Thursday April 09, 2020 @01:43PM (#22825175)
John Searle makes sense when wiriting on the mind. Jacques Derrida, who I have read, does not. The post-modernists are obscurantist charlatans who en masse form an institution that demands attention rather than the quick dismissal like one would give a rambling bum on the street. Similar to religious apologists they have created an enormous enterprise of bullshit. You are confusing its nebulousness for profundity.
Re:Education Without Truth in Postmodern Perspectivism on Thursday April 09, 2020 @01:33PM (#22825053)
Are you saying I should refrain from atheism until I have read Summa Theologica?
Re:Education Without Truth in Postmodern Perspectivism on Thursday April 09, 2020 @12:55PM (#22824558)
Don't sweat it. Derrida doesn't even understand Derrida.
Re:Education Without Truth in Postmodern Perspectivism on Thursday April 09, 2020 @12:42PM (#22824384)
The pomo people telling the anti-pomo they just haven't the understanding is reminiscent of religious apologists/theologians telling atheist debaters they just haven't ground to stand on because they haven't adequately digested a sufficient body of obscure tomes to dismiss X religion. Or "You just haven't read the Koran in classical Arabic! Understanding Islam is beyond you."
Re:Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days on Friday March 20, 2020 @03:16AM (#22635680)
When I have connectivity issues during a pandemic I make sure at LEAST 6 techs come to make sure I have perfect connectivity to Netflix and chill.
Ironic story, coming from Buzzfeed.