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Re:We're all just content for ICE on Monday January 12, 2026 @07:48PM (#46596078)
You’ve likely been shadowbanned for flagging because you’re using this site like Reddit and flagging contributions that are on-topic because you personally disagree with them, or have some weird vendetta against new accounts.

Orphaning and making new HN accounts every year to ensure anonymity is not against the rules.

Re:We're all just content for ICE on Monday January 12, 2026 @07:46PM (#46596057)
Define “this”. ICE being present in Minnesota, no. The value of an opinion piece from garbageday.email, whatever that is, absolutely. The fact that nobody can seem to find “facts” on these events aside from what a bipolar algorithmic echo chamber wants each side to see, absolutely.

I searched for 30 mins today and was unable to find a completely unedited video of the shooting of that woman. Major news networks were playing an edited version that cuts out her partner telling her to drive right before supposedly hitting the agent with her car. None of them show the actual shooting.

Reality no longer exists, most Americans exist in one of two divergent fictions. And I’m tired of the harassment of those who want to opt out of this rigged crap. We don’t need 3 ICE articles on Hacker News.

Re:Stop Calling Everything an AI Agent on Monday January 12, 2026 @07:39PM (#46596006)
Most things branded as “AI” nowadays would have been what we called an algorithm a few short years ago.
Re:We're all just content for ICE on Monday January 12, 2026 @07:37PM (#46595997)
You’re all just content for internet outrage bait.
> Why is it that people can't seem to grasp

I imagine the perceived gap here is that “those” people understand thermodynamics and the failure to grasp is entirely in your hands.

Why do we need to try anything? This comes down to individualism versus collectivism.

Besides, the logical consequence of the portion of my comment you highlighted is that the majority of GLP-1 patients will need to be on these drugs forever to maintain these benefits long-term. We have precisely one trial of 5+ years of patients taking liraglutide, and ~2 years for semaglutide. Some side effects and long-term consequences could be entirely unknown.

>It improves quality of life, health, reduces risk when surgery is needed,

And as pointed out elsewhere in this thread, needs to be taken forever as the vast majority of patients regain most or all of the weight they lose after taking GLP-1s.

>Why create a new account just to litigate how statistically relevant the grandparent comment's anecdote is?

Red herring. My account was not created today, I’ve participated in numerous other threads prior to this one, and it’s irrelevant to the content of my comment.

Which is no surprise to anybody with common sense, the data for discontinuing GLP-1s show exactly the intuitive outcome. Zero diet change, zero habit change for the vast majority of users. Weight loss is accomplished via biochemical tricks to eat less volume of calorie dense junk food, rather than diet substitution. When the artificial appetite suppression ends, volume of the same food increases again leading to weight yo-yo. Plus why start to exercise when you’ve got a magic weight loss drug?

Don’t get me wrong, there are some people using these drugs to get out of a pit of inertia with weight and sedentary lifestyles. But it’s small. GLP-1 drugs will have most users hooked for life because they don’t have the discipline and motivation to maintain the weight loss without it. Cha-Ching!

>How do citizens of the US tolerate this?

Tolerate what, stupid misleading advertising on frozen junk food? Normal people just don’t buy it.

>I also don't understand why everything, literally everything, is fried in oil.

Did you travel here and only go to fast food places or something?

>It's just such a reverse culture shock when you come back to the EU.

When I traveled to EU, I was surprised at the number of nasty people smoking cigarettes outside at cafes, walking down the street, everywhere. You’d sure think that a lot of younger people don’t care about their health in EU based on all the smoking.

>You have really great vegetables and fruits there because of having enough sun to grow them locally, yet it seems like nobody wants to eat them.

That’s a weird assumption because the produce section of my grocery store is pretty much the most crowded section.

Do you seriously think that you’re not in a minority of people taking GLP-1 drugs for IBS and not weight loss?
The pre-chopped coleslaw mix is like 3 bucks for a huge bag. 1 pound of pre-sliced frozen peppers I think is $2. Some of it depends on where you’re shopping, I’m sure this stuff would be 50-100% more at Whole Foods the next town over.
What is a “serious self hoster”? How many Docker containers do I need to be running on my Pi 5 to get into the club?
Yeah the complaints are fair. I stick to RPi OS for maximum compatibility. People have been crying for a Google Drive client for Linux for over a decade, but still have to set it up in rclone.

I build out my server in Docker and I’ve been surprised that every image I’ve ever wanted to download has an ARM image.

Maybe because I don’t do SWE for my job, but I have fun writing docker-compose files, troubleshooting them, and adding containers to my server. Then I understand how/why stuff works if it breaks, why would I want to hand that over to an AI?

Waiting for the follow-on article “Claude Code reformatted my NAS and I lost my entire media collection.”

Pi’s are incredible little basic home servers but they can’t handle transcoding. Great option for places with very expensive electricity too.
My work WiFi blocked traffic to port 51820, the default WireGuard port. I was wondering why my VPN started failing to handshake one day. I changed my ports to 51821 that night and back in business. I checked our technology policy and there’s no “thou shalt not use a VPN” clause so no clue why someone one day decided to drop WireGuard traffic on the network.
Re:Companies Have Made $1M as ICE Bounty Hunters on Sunday January 11, 2026 @09:02AM (#46575848)
You still didn’t explain what this has to do with “ICE bounty hunters”, how this is used to specifically identify illegal immigrants, or why I should even care that illegal immigrants who broke the law by virtue of their presence here are being deported.
Re:Companies Have Made $1M as ICE Bounty Hunters on Sunday January 11, 2026 @08:48AM (#46575743)
What’s your assertion, that the government is using images of people in public or various stores to target anybody black, brown, or other non-white humans?

The man pictured stopped by ICE in the article is black. Are you claiming that facial recognition is being collected on all 50 million black American citizens and used to target people? How would this work differently than stopping random non-white people in the street and asking for legal status (I’m not claiming this doesn’t happen, I’m asking how it differs from your techno-fantasy scenario and why the resources would be investigated the way you claim it works).

Major world governments, via the arm of the tech corpos. The intent is to make the internet as an "anonymous community square" for discussion and free speech essentially worthless.
Re:Companies Have Made $1M as ICE Bounty Hunters on Sunday January 11, 2026 @08:17AM (#46575487)
Another dishonest article using the generic "immigrant" to drum up false sympathy... anyone being targeted by facial recognition by definition has to be known to law enforcement already; these aren't legal citizens and they aren't illegal immigrants who work hard and keep their heads down.

Was glad to hear ICE in my area of Massachusetts the other week grabbed several sex pests (including ones convicted of crimes against minors in their home countries). At best, "criminal justice system refugees" is the most appropriate if the term "illegal immigrants" is passe. Or are they fleeing "gang violence" when the gang in question is their own government looking to inflict righteous justice upon them?

Re:AI is intensifying a 'collapse' of trust online, experts say on Saturday January 10, 2026 @09:26PM (#46572139)
All by design.
Re:How Big Tech Killed Literary Culture on Friday January 09, 2026 @04:32PM (#46559672)
I found in the subreddits related to my career and hobbies the discussions were pretty circular, there's a low level of basic knowledge but as soon as you rise above that and start dealing with nuance, the average user can't handle it. It was different 10-15 years ago, but the modern /r/[inserthobby] Redditor seems to have exclusively educated themselves via Reddit content.

X and Instagram are login-walled, I don't have accounts there and can't see any content. I don't really read comments on YouTube, I check like the top 3 to see if anybody has pointed out something major the video got wrong or glossed over. As soon as I see the teenager-level comments with some silly meme or typing out an event that happened in the video word-for-word I close the tab.

>Couldn't you just ... not log in?

Sure, I guess, but I like the ethereality of my approach.

Re:How Big Tech Killed Literary Culture on Friday January 09, 2026 @03:20PM (#46558781)
The technology-as-entertainment approach is poison. Reddit is the worst of it; even the tech addicts that see themselves as intellectuals mostly can’t be bothered to read. The (intentional) lack of reading comprehension in order to misconstrue comments and pick arguments would make an observer believe that most Redditors are functionally illiterate. I read a good criticism once that reading a single quality book on any topic, puts one far ahead of the knowledge base of the subreddit dedicated to that topic.

Even HN isn’t great anymore. I frequently change my password to gibberish and abandon my account to the ether, to spend several month stretches completely disconnected from the “social” internet.

>These types of discussions on HN get confused because people aren't always clear what they mean by the word "rooting".

Well it’s more the Dunning Krugerites who see the word “rooting” written by someone in a cyber context, lack that context entirely, and proceed to enter the discussion anyway based on their experience rooting their Android phone 3 years ago after clicking through a few UI buttons.

Normiefication. Normies do everything on their phones; it’s the companies meeting the masses where they are. I’ve seen people fight for their lives to do a spreadsheet on their phones when there’s a laptop they own gathering dust less than 50 feet away.
Why though? What are you doing on your Pixel that wouldn’t be more secure doing on an iPhone with a double hop or dual-encapsulated VPN?
Re:Snowflake announces intent to acquire Observe on Thursday January 08, 2026 @01:47PM (#46544827)
Slorp is now Bonto
Re:In reversal, U.S. loosens guidance on alcohol on Thursday January 08, 2026 @01:16PM (#46544424)
Faulty generalizations are the Redditor drug of choice.
Re:In reversal, U.S. loosens guidance on alcohol on Thursday January 08, 2026 @01:08PM (#46544320)
https://archive.ph/bHV1U

The article leaves out an important contextual quote from Oz: “In the best-case scenario, I don’t think you should drink alcohol, but it does allow people an excuse to bond and socialize, and there’s probably nothing healthier than having a good time with friends in a safe way.”

Actually seems more aligned with the WHO, who now advises that no amount of alcohol is safe.

Realistically, how many drinkers knew the USDA had a recommended “moderate drinking” guideline that flowed to the CDC anyway? People are going to do what they’re going to do. The alcohol cat is out of the bag and we’ve seen that it won’t go back in, at least at the hands of the government.

Re:How Did TVs Get So Cheap? on Thursday January 08, 2026 @09:23AM (#46541309)
You linked a macroeconomics paper. You’re asking for examples from microeconomics. Are you going to provide your example products or do you get off on disproportionately wasting other peoples’ time?

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