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I like the phrase "grim meathook future"

Apparently its origin is https://nullrefer.com/?https://www.jwz.org/blog/2005/09/the-... (which I didn't know). Edit: thanks to people in this thread for pointing out JWZ's anti-HN redirection and a workaround to hide the referer header.

...and with an earlier partial origin from Hunter S. Thompson, with "reality" predating "future":

http://www.whysanity.net/monos/fearandloathing.html

copy the link and open it in an incognito tab - apparently the web host really doesn't like Hacker News and redirects the link to a NSFW image.

https://nullrefer.com/?https://www.jwz.org/blog/2005/09/the-...

I tried presenting the bit.ly link as HTTPS to avoid making the link use HTTP.

I initially posted the bit.ly link thinking it would strip the referrer but then when I tested it I was still getting the imgur page so I looked for something else.

Regardless I almost don't want to give someone traffic who does obnoxious things based on http headers.

Thanks for the revised link; I've edited my comment to use it.

Edit: there's some irony in the way the post on that page criticizes someone for making the contents of a URL unstable ("because he doesn't know what the 'U' stands for") while the page itself displays deliberately different contents depending on how people found it.

It has a cyberpunk ring to it.

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