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Re:A decade later, a decade lost
on Friday February 14, 2025 @08:48PM (#43055058)
Life pro-tip: In your day-to-day human encounters, if someone mentions the pain of losing a child, do not bring up your dead dog.
Re:California teacher dies from suspected rabid bat bite
on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @11:20PM (#42314471)
I've walked through swarms of bats without a care in the world. You came within ten feet of a sleeping bat and put your family through a medical grinder. Different strokes.
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency
on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @06:11PM (#42071022)
Ten million illegals allowed to enter in 3.5 years, plus God knows how many "asylum" seekers is more than about "cultural".
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency
on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @06:03PM (#42070937)
His supporters realize he is a blowhard and adjust accordingly. Shut down a TV network? Lock her up? It's BS. I don't like it much, but for him it's a rhetorical device.
By contrast when Biden calls me garbage, I'm pretty sure he means it.
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency
on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @03:53PM (#42069196)
Trump should direct the DOJ to prosecute that fucking coward on day one. "Protecting the vice president" from a tiny unarmed woman. How do you live with such rot in your head?
And he was a Capitol Cop. You got that wrong, too.
Re:It's not just obesity. Drugs like Ozempic will change the world
on Friday October 25, 2024 @02:00PM (#41947796)
If people were compelled to take Ozempic to keep their jobs, there would be "issues".
Re:Who died and left the US $7B?
on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @08:23PM (#41783254)
I always wondered if there was a way to effectively "burn" one's entire wealth, creating a small deflationary event that would increase the value of existing dollars. How could one do this? Donate to the Federal Reserve? Or would you literally have to cash everything out and burn it?
Re:Possible Cluster of Human Bird-Flu Infections Expands in Missouri
on Saturday September 28, 2024 @09:00PM (#41684001)
Like when Ebola was discovered near the Ebola River, it got the name "Ebola", which made everyone hate and loathe residents of the area around that river. Or Marburg, Germany, which became anathema after the Marburg Virus emerged. Or the "Hong Kong Flu" which nearly killed Lyndon Johnson (and did kill many others) and whose name resulted in the longstanding economic depression in Hong Kong. Even today people avoid Spain because of the dreaded Spanish Flu. I could go on.
Re:Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @01:11PM (#41570024)
Israel used letter bombs for a long time to assassinate and terrorize. People didn't stop using the mail because of that, but upgraded their opsec.
Re:USPS' long-awaited new mail truck makes its debut
on Saturday September 14, 2024 @08:54PM (#41544278)
Does anyone know how USPS/UPS/Fedex trucks can start and stop their engines over and over and over without running down the batteries? Do they have 400 amp/hour monsters installed and recharge them at the depot, or what?
Re:Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky
on Saturday August 31, 2024 @08:48PM (#41413233)
I learned that tweets by nobodies on topics such as Hunter Biden's laptop or Russiagate or Israel's behavior in Gaza have more credibility than the entire mainstream media. I fully understand the danger of lies (more than you ever will) and that is precisely why I support free speech for ordinary people.
Re:Fake Job Interviews Are Securities Fraud
on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @05:30PM (#41114337)
Umm, almost every media outlet does that.
By the way, this whole thing is like the "He" in the bible:
Re:Why don't they compose music like Bach any more?
on Friday July 19, 2024 @09:03AM (#41006079)
I believe students of composition will usually "cover" that era and intentionally write music like Bach, but it would be very strange if the teacher then said, "That's it. That's the pinnacle. Now, get working on your resumes."
Re:The Cutest Monopoly
on Monday July 01, 2024 @08:48PM (#40852481)
I await your Subaru Outback rant.
But really, imagine how made-in-Mexico Mexicans feel about Taco Bell. It's just marketing.
Re:The Migrants Spending $72,000 to Illegally Immigrate to the US
on Friday June 21, 2024 @09:15AM (#40749298)
I think he's referring to illegal aliens voting illegally (which does happen sometimes) or, once they become legal through whatever means, they will become reliable Democrats. Or, their children will do the same. One way or the other, replacement-Americans tend to support the left. Always have. It's proveable.
Also, these sorts of shenanigans:
https://www.npr.org/2021/12/15/1064385999/new-york-city-will...
Re:Why Canadians are angry with their biggest supermarket
on Thursday June 06, 2024 @11:18AM (#40598459)
Some variation of that in nearly every "Western" country. East Asian countries have similiar challenges with low birth rates, but aren't targeted for demographic replacement for totally mysterious reasons
Re:Poets' Odd Jobs
on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @09:26AM (#40584509)
So that's why his music is so salt-of-the-earth.
Re:Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment?
on Sunday June 02, 2024 @08:46PM (#40558326)
That's not bikeshedding, but the product of these types:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_astronaut
...bikeshedding is when you have that all-day, all-teams meeting where marketing and design and management argue about whether to put X content in the header or footer.
Re:Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years ago
on Saturday June 01, 2024 @06:36PM (#40549705)
Try that at a coffeeshop open mic night where they don't have a BMI license.
Re:Guys what is wrong with ACATS
on Saturday May 25, 2024 @10:04AM (#40475142)
What is this song that he mentions but never seems to name or link to?
Re:Confronting Another Axis? History, Humility, and Wishful Thinking
on Friday May 17, 2024 @12:48PM (#40391811)
A return to isolationism would be best. The next 1000 years belong to China, for demographic reasons--this or that sort of "Great Game"-style meddling won't fix anything.
It didn't need to be this way, of course.
Re:Woman Made Her Home Inside a Grocery Store's Rooftop Sign, Police Say
on Sunday May 12, 2024 @09:57AM (#40334525)
The US has had extraordinarily high mass immigration (both legal and illegal) for decades.
Re:DoL: Modernizing Schedule A to Include Consideration of Additional ...
on Friday May 10, 2024 @09:42AM (#40318881)
I wonder what it's like to live in a country full of people you hate, and want to destroy economically. It doesn't seem like a fulfilling life.
Re:Webb captures iconic Horsehead Nebula in unprecedented detail
on Monday April 29, 2024 @04:49PM (#40203957)
Does anyone know why wolframalpha is plotting this with cute little arrows?
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=plot+%28x%2Cy%29+%3D+%2...
Re:Don't bet on the joys of pokies (2011)
on Friday April 19, 2024 @05:27PM (#40092094)
just pushes it underground
Why is this an argument? So push it underground. As a rule, old folks aren't going to take their pensions to Fast Freddy's strip club backroom poker nights. People think that because a law doesn't work 100 percent, it shouldn't exist.
Re:All-cash offers, wealthy buyers push Southern California home price...
on Thursday April 18, 2024 @01:03PM (#40078362)
If it happens at the state level it will be YIYBY.
Re:All-cash offers, wealthy buyers push Southern California home price...
on Thursday April 18, 2024 @12:57PM (#40078289)
Ten years for a dual income to afford a down payment. Nuts. With ten years of savings I could buy two houses where I live, and I don't make that much. How people in CA stand it I don't know.
Re:Student debt is haunting Americans from graduation to retirement
on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @09:45AM (#40064495)
It's wild watching the Democratic party engage in brazen class warfare. "Did you go to work in a factory instead of going to college? Good news, you're paying for college anyway!"
Obviously, a levy on college endowments would be a better path, though still bad.
Re:Steven Levitt and John Donohue defend a finding made famous by "Fre...
on Tuesday April 09, 2024 @05:13PM (#39984316)
People who consistently use birth control tend to be less impulsive and more future-oriented than people who have to resort to abortion (a last-resort form of birth control). ie, the type of people who aren't your typical criminals. That would be the thinking, I suppose. For my part, I think mass incarceration is probably the main reason for crime going down.
Re:
on Monday April 01, 2024 @03:33PM (#39898166)
They're really going all-in with this 2+2=5 stuff, aren't they? And not just Scotland, but all over the place. Seems pretty coordinated.