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Re:George Orwell’s 1940 Review of Mein Kampf on Sunday July 17, 2022 @01:52PM (#32129197)
What you describe is well documented in psychology. A lot people who are attracted by power, hierarchy and domination are sexually frustrated and more often man than women.

A quick search online yields many reliable publications on the topic.

The fact that your comment is being downvoted worries me.

Re:“User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction” on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @09:23AM (#26154100)
Looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radicalization I'm honestly surprised to see the world "radicalization" used as a net negative thing, rather than positive/negative/neutral depending on context.

E.g. Gandhi would have been called "radical" without implying any violent tendency.

> property’s going to be destroyed and people are going to die

It always strikes me how some people list financial loss before loss of life.

Re:Open Sustainable Technology on Thursday November 26, 2020 @07:09AM (#25219229)
Really? Walled gardens and monopolization of knowledge are good now?
Re:Open Sustainable Technology on Thursday November 26, 2020 @07:07AM (#25219217)
> What's the use in free knowledge

Wasn't this orange website supposed to be "Hackers" News?

> There's no movement or force that enforces cars on everyone to call it culture.

HAH! When entire cities in a country are designed to be car-accessible only?

Please learn about walkability and access to public transportation and how sprawls are downright hostile to people without a car.

Then go visit Tokyo.

> Electric vehicles can't come fast enough

They've been around for 120+ years and carried hundreds of billions passenger very safely and a high speed.

Look for a pair of rails.

> We desperately need a battery tech revolution

No, we desperately need to abandon the car culture.

> Room air is much more polluted than outside air

On the contrary, particulate "nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and oxides (NOx), ozone (O3)" is at its maximum around busy roads.

In a room it decades quickly if you block airflow.

I have a PM detector and I can see that every day.