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At this point the YCombinator foundation should disclose what percentage of its funding comes from the mining lobby.

Twice in a day the dang chatbot has hijacked threads to support its fossil fuel agenda. Pro coal, pro oil.

And as I said yesterday, there is no intellectual curiosity in climate change denial. STOP EDITORIALISING. you are a degrading effect on the discussion.

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You're running into a common error affecting internet forum users: when you run into moderation you dislike, it always feels that the mods are biased against your view. By the same mechanism, the refs are biased against your team and the cops always let the other guy get away with speeding while you're the one pulled over. The problem is that you don't notice (or weight as strongly) the cases where the mods have made calls the other way. I guarantee you those are out there.

This are studies on this, FWIW: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_media_effect

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

There's more explanation at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22386811 and https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... if anyone wants it. Of course it doesn't follow that the moderators aren't biased, just that you can't conclude they are from spot observations.

You certainly shouldn't let it make you go on tilt and break the site guidelines as badly as here and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22714337. At some point we have to ban you if you keep doing that. Please stop and use HN as intended, instead: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

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