GOD_Over_Djinn

What was DHH right about? Reference went over my head

This is big news. We all deserve to know who this person is and why he did what he did.

Surprised to see hn crowd advocating for censorship

I think it’s interesting that you choose to focus on this part of the situation. To me, it’s far more relevant that the general public has little, if any, recourse through legal means such as voting. This is what makes political violence inevitable, and some would say, fully justified.

No, they wouldn’t get cheaper. The profit margins in the healthcare industry would get bigger.

The legal system is owned from top to bottom by the ruling class. You will not be able to use it to loosen their death grip on society. They will not allow it.

We can’t vote our way towards a better future. The corrupt MAGA and DNC institutions strangle any nascent grassroots movement in the crib. And we cannot make them relinquish their death grip on our country with only bare hands.

Seriously shocked that this is the aspect of this moment in history that you choose to focus on, and not the absurd levels of violence perpetrated by the ruling classes against common people.

I always hear people say this, but it’s not clear to me what exactly is so difficult about using AI that otherwise-competent developers “can’t figure it out”

None of the things that you listed are stated goals of fediverse networks. In fact, they explicitly avoid them.

It’s crazy how the same people that are pro-labor union are also pro-immigration. How do they not realize that immigration is used as a weapon against labor organization? Workers movements of the 20th century were well aware of this obvious fact. But I guess in this hyper polarized culture, people are scared of being labeled a bigot for having a stance on immigration that divergent from the liberal orthodoxy

I don’t think that anyone has an issue with the block feature. The problem is when the platforms themselves decide to arbitrate which viewpoints are allowed. This was clearly visible during Covid, when divergent viewpoints were penalized aggressively.

You would see comments from random trolls under a whitelist model. You would only see stuff from your friends.

That implies that nonverbal people are unable to think, no?

I can’t tell if the commenter you replied to is being deliberately obtuse, or if they were literally born yesterday

> The unemployment rate just follows these smooth curves, covid was an exception, and it was due to jump again. Not very scientific I know.

Why did you feel the need to post this article? It totally lacks substance. The above quote says it all.

Truly the worst part about the h1b invasion is listening to them talk about how Americans are so stupid and lazy and how America would be nothing without them.

What’s wrong with that exactly?

When I was younger, I thought of dems as the party of logic and reason, and repubs as bible-thumpers. I don’t think this was entirely wrong, but the unthinking dogmatism of left-leaning people about lockdowns did a lot to disabuse me of that notion.

It’s not anti-social, it is pro-social. To stand for the right of people to live freely, for children to get an education and to socialize with their peers, for businesses to serve their communities and provide jobs for people to feed their families.

You are the anti-social one, who would condemn entire populations to house arrest based upon dubious-at-best ideas. In my city, even outdoor gatherings of more than five people were prohibited. It was so absurd as to be almost comical, if the consequences weren’t so tragic.

Are you truly blind to the damage wrought by shutting down the entire world at the flip of a switch? Children are in crisis, inflation skyrocketed, people cannot afford to live, buy homes, start a family, get an education… and you have the nerve to call me anti-social?

And what did it accomplish? Did it actually save lives? I think not, especially when compared to targeted protection and support of vulnerable populations (elderly, immune compromised) rather than a blanket shutdown of the entire country.

Once this issue became a red vs blue thing, everyone collectively turned their brains off. The above commenter is a prime example.

Some, including myself, were against lockdowns from day 1, and were viciously attacked for it.

Absolutely. I feel bad for young people growing up in this broken world. They will never even know what was taken from them.

I realize that I’m probably going to get dogpiled for saying it, but I think that the response to COVID (ie lockdowns) did far more damage than the disease itself.

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Interesting. Where can these old blog posts be found?

That’s not a conspiracy theory. Anyone who doesn’t realize at this point that online discourse is heavily engineered and manipulated is an unthinking rube.

I both agree and disagree. The issue is not independent thinking and research - it’s the low media literacy of the average person that makes them vulnerable to frauds, grifters, and crazies.

With that said, the first few search results for the query were from the journal Nature, the NIH, and Harvard university. Hardly the loony or malicious caricature that you attempt to paint.

One of the first search results for me was a paper published in Nature. Other top results were from respected institutions like the NIH and Harvard University. Hardly grifters or crazies.

The caveat you cite applies to basically any and all internet (or even media) consumption, and is therefore a non-argument.

This is totally unsurprising, given that, in some parts of the country, public schools teach controversial ideas about gender.

Also, I see a lot of people arguing that exposure to “bad” kids is a point in favor of public schools, which seems insane to me. Growing up with a friend group of good kids is probably the biggest predictor of what a child’s adult life will look like.

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> They approached me about migrating to Linux on the desktop.

What were the reasons they gave? I’m glad to hear this anecdote.

> For example, there is a housing crisis. Not enough trades persons, building supplies, capital to solve that problem.

That has pretty much nothing to do with available supply of materials or labor. It has everything to do with burdensome zoning and permitting processes.