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Anticipating all the Texas hate comments, just gonna plant a flag and say I love living in Austin. This city rules.

Yep. It's a great city though I wouldn't live there due to the summers.

Honestly, the reflexive hate both Texas and California get on HN is ridiculous and a great way to filter out accounts to ignore.

There are valid criticisms to make for both, but if someone only criticizes and cannot point out or conceed positive attributes as well, it's best to just treat that account as a lost cause.

I have a mirror feeling about Chicago: very good city, but I wouldn’t want to live there due to the winters.

Geographic negative polarization has become far too entrenched in online discourse.

Yep. And it's absolutely being exacerbated to further entrench divisions.

Honestly, I wish the HN/YC moderation team could be explicit in showing how it has taken down certain bot rings as a trust building exercise, because there absolutely are nation state bot rings on HN as well.

They're not that bad :)

(Or I'm just built for Siberia and fit right in idk)

Rural Washington, Oregon, and California actually are what these leftists think Texas is. Let’s not forget which state Cliven and Ammon Bundy staged their standoff in.

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