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GetTheFacts··on Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society?
Reading comprehension not your strong suit?

I said:

>The above is satire and quite disgusting

about my statement. And I followed it up with:

>The sad part is all of you (and you know who you are) who nodded along with the above paragraph and thought, "Finally! someone is making sense and telling the truth!"

Do you fit into that category? If not, then my bile wasn't directed at you. Or did you miss that part?

GetTheFacts··on Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society?
>You just end up with society either paying for them being in prison, subsidizing them (because uneducated and unmotivated labor is close to worthless) or paying to literally clean up their shit because you basically routed them into a "careeer" as homeless person.

That's letting things go way too far. If an incorrigible can be identified, whether that be via their bad behavior, phrenology and/or an excess of melanin, we can weed them out by age nine or ten, sterilize them to make sure they don't pollute our society even more, separate them from the decent, hardworking folks and, if they won't work for the benefit of the society that's footing the bill for their palatial accommodations, summary execution would certainly be warranted.

The above is satire and quite disgusting. The sad part is all of you (and you know who you are) who nodded along with the above paragraph and thought, "Finally! someone is making sense and telling the truth!" are far too many and far too pleased with your hatred and disdain for your fellow humans. Have you no vestige of humanity within you? Shame on you!

GetTheFacts··on Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society?
>"and then what" is the common retort to when people suggest removing the problem students, it's practically a cliche now. Then what is the students are held accountable now and won't be able to harm the education of their classmates and continue to harass their teachers. Then what is we don't have to pad grades as much and lie so that we can meet a fake metric. Then what is we stop doubling down on an approach that doesn't work.

And when do we actually make the determination that a particular student is a "problem" and remove them from the company of schools and other students? First grade? Fourth? Seventh?

And once we do identify these incorrigibles at age six or ten or thirteen, what do we do with them?

Some form of incarceration? Put them in a "labor pool" so they can pay for their accommodations and not burden the rest of us? Summary execution?

Please do elucidate.

GetTheFacts··on Unknown number of Texas voter registrations went unprocessed due to DPS error
>The Democrat Party, as an organization

It's the Democratic Party.

By purposely misnaming it, you are making it clear that your take is a dismissive and biased one.

But you don't need me to tell you that -- it's your whole point.

GetTheFacts··on U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
>When we hire at the university, we ignore creative, tenacious people and instead select mediocre people with a nice woke story that meets the woke requirements.

Which university? Name some "creative, tenacious people" who were rejected by said university.

There's nothing in your HN profile to out you to anyone, so have at it. If you are unwilling to do so, I call bullshit on your anecdote. Or as they say, "pix, or it didn't happen."

GetTheFacts··on U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war
USA people, do you all really love killing other human?

   And I went up there, I said, "Shrink, I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I wanna 
   kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and guts and
   veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, kill, kill, kill." And 
   I started jumpin' up and down yelling, "Kill! Kill!" and he started jumpin' up 
   and down with me and we was both jumping up and down yelling, "Kill! Kill!" 
   And the Sargent came over, pinned a medal on me, sent me down the hall, said, 
   "You're our boy."[0]

Does that validate your fantasy about Americans?

>you have no control of your democratically elected government at all?

Yes. We do[1].

[0] https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/arloguthrie/alicesrestaurant...

[1] https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/full-text

GetTheFacts··on The Egg Bandits Made a Thousand Times the Fine They Just Paid for Price Fixing
>(I'm beginning to think some people missed the sarcasm in my earlier posts.)

Yep. Given the forum and that you've been around here at least ten years, why would you think folks wouldn't take you at your word?

Be aware of Poe's Law[0]. Especially since there are way too many folks (I can think of at least a dozen or so off the top of my head) who would say the same thing unironically.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law

GetTheFacts··on The Egg Bandits Made a Thousand Times the Fine They Just Paid for Price Fixing
>all I heard was Biden-flation (or whatever they called it) was why we needed a new President.

From whom did you only hear that? Newsmax? The Drudge Report?

GetTheFacts··on Supreme Court upholds broad conception of birthright citizenship
>Which is is fine, you can change the constitution, but thats for parliament to do.

To which Constitution are you referring? And which "parliament"?

The US Constitution can only be changed by votes by both supermajorities in both houses (House of Representatives and Senate) of Congress and the legislatures of 3/4 of the several states. We don't have a "parliament."

Are you referring to Canada's Constitution? Australia's? AFAIK, the UK has no Constitution and changes to Ireland's Constitution requires a national referendum.

Please do elucidate. Thanks!

GetTheFacts··on Meta deletes popular 1M follower account after Kuwaiti request
>>You can be protected by safe harbour provisions, or you can editorialise your content. I don't think you should have both.

>Personal opinion, not legal opinion.

Fair enough. But not very charitable (or helpful/useful to freedom of speech) to anyone who doesn't have billions in cash on hand to fight the hundreds/thousands of lawsuits anyone who doesn't like what the thoughts of others that you (or I) choose to host on our platforms, whether they be web sites, mailing lists or video comment sections.

Section 230 protects the little guy much more than it does Meta, Alphabet, Musk, etc. As they have the deep pockets to fight those lawsuits. Do you? I don't.

GetTheFacts··on Meta deletes popular 1M follower account after Kuwaiti request
>You can be protected by safe harbour provisions, or you can editorialise your content. I don't think you should have both.

Hi. You seem to be confused or uninformed. Check out this link[0]. IT should help.

[0] https://www.techdirt.com/2020/06/23/hello-youve-been-referre...

GetTheFacts··on Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense
>Again, if you read the TFA, the entire thesis is that the insider trading is extra bad beyond corruption. The corruption itself only gets a passing mention.

I did and that's not at all what TFA argues. It argues that it's the corruption that's the problem, which is exacerbated by the lack of legal enforcement by the current administration -- mostly because many in that administration are either actively involved in said corruption, or happy to cover it up/pooh pooh it.

I suppose you might think that some folks who haven't read TFA might buy your analysis, even though it's pretty much the opposite of what Krugman argues.

You go, girlfriend!

GetTheFacts··on If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?
>So, yeah. "Must earn their worth" may sound "Christian", but it's not Christianity.

Blasphemer! That's the primary tenet of the "Prosperity Gospel"[0], the primary form of Christianity in the US.

For shame! You will burn in hell for that. Unless you donate $100,000.00 to Creflo Dollar[1] right now!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_theology

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creflo_Dollar

GetTheFacts··on If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?
>While I recognize the community value of religion and the comfort it brings people, it comes at a huge cost that far outweighs the benefits. IMHO, organized religion is a cancer on modern society. I think there's other ways to get the good parts from it but that's a team effort.

   Those who abandon the Path are evil.

   Those who reject the path to enlightenment must be destroyed!
Hallowed are the Ori!
GetTheFacts··on Where did my taxes go?
Way to non-sequitur! You go, girlfriend!
GetTheFacts··on Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data
>I don't think anyone in 1776, or even in the Pilgrim days, was thinking a foreigner should have the right to vote for instance.

Nor does anyone in 2026. Your point?

GetTheFacts··on Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data
>Policing is a dangerous job, just not for everyone all the time on the whole

Actually, it doesn't even make the top 25[0]. So no, not really all that dangerous. Being around police, especially with a high melanin content is definitely more dangerous than being police.

To channel George Carlin: "It's not that I don't like the police, I just feel better when they're not around."

[0] https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2023/03/02/most-dangero...

GetTheFacts··on Where did my taxes go?
>each taxpayer could adjust little sliders on each category to allocate where they personally would like their taxes to go.

If that were the case, I'd go all in on hookers and blow.

GetTheFacts··on DIY Soft Drinks
If you can get it where you are, have you considered trying malta[0][1]?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta_(soft_drink)

[1] https://www.findmeabrewery.com/blog/malta/

GetTheFacts··on Ask HN: Why have we not stepped back on the moon again?
See the (relatively short ~3 minutes) discussion here[0].

That should remove your confusion.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4J9uvhJQM0

GetTheFacts··on Help Keep Thunderbird Alive
>I have donated ... multiple times. I wish there was a way to keep the "Please Donate" from popping up if we have donated within the last N days, weeks, months, etc.

Just to be clear, you're asking for Thunderbird to track all of its users and link them to the dates of payment, payment amounts and payment methods of all of its donors on all of their platforms so that you don't see a pop up once or twice a year? Is that correct?

I'm not being snarky here, but AFAICT you really didn't think that through.

How about a local option being able to opt out of fundraising popups instead? No tracking required. Perhaps you might file a feature request for either of the above?

GetTheFacts··on I'm OK being left behind, thanks
>If these are really revolutionary tools that vastly optimize work, why bother forcing people to "try new models and best practices"?

"If the colleges were better, if they really had it, you would need to get the police at the gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude. See in college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving the natural method of teaching what each wishes to learn, and insisting that you shall learn what you have no taste or capacity for. The college, which should be a place of delightful labor, is made odious and unhealthy, and the young men are tempted to frivolous amusements to rally their jaded spirits. I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

GetTheFacts··on Ryugu asteroid samples contain all DNA and RNA building blocks
It's okay. I appreciate the cover, but it's important to let this oppressed, hunted, hated and endangered group have their say.

There is, after all, a war on Christmas, Christians and Christianity.

Christian enclaves are being attacked and Christians are being murdered in the thousands every week, just for being Christian.

Hundreds of decent, god-fearing Christian women are being raped daily by strong, manly Muslim men. Their strong muscles rippling under their tight clothes, stirring up strong, lustful feelings among the faithful Christian men.

It's no wonder that folks are kind of touchy. If you risked being shot, blown up, cuckolded or otherwise made dead or humiliated every time you went to a church, made the sign of the cross or put a "Jesus is my Co-pilot" bumper sticker on your vehicle, you'd be concerned wouldn't you?

And that happens every day because people hate them for their knowledge of the truth. It's all there in the literal word of god that's in the Holy Bible. Anything else is heresy. And we know what to do with heretics, don't we?

GetTheFacts··on Ryugu asteroid samples contain all DNA and RNA building blocks
>pray tell, where do we learn this simple truth?

Praying[0] is a good start! That, coupled with large amounts of suspension of disbelief[1] helps too.

I suggest drinking (or whatever your preferred brain-fogger might be) heavily. That helps you ignore the details -- because the "devil is in the details" and we mustn't have that, right?

[0] Also known as "begging an imaginary sky daddy for help"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension_of_disbelief

GetTheFacts··on Trump fires Kristi Noem as DHS secretary
She was definitely the inspiration for this song[0] [NSFW]

Please note that the link below is NSFW.

[0] https://youtu.be/34q4ymt28dc

GetTheFacts··on Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction
I'd also add that I said:

Colloquially, "Congress" usually refers to the House of Representatives.

Colloquial (adjective):[0]

1a: used in or characteristic of familiar and informal conversation

Did you just not know the meaning of that word or did you intentionally decide to ignore it?

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/colloquial

GetTheFacts··on Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction
Who is your congressperson?

I needn't say any more, do I?

GetTheFacts··on The whole thing was a scam
>Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

GetTheFacts··on What does " 2>&1 " mean?
>It's muscle-memory for me. And so is it for LLMs.

LLMs have neither muscles nor memories. They're token combinators based on statistical correlation, no more, no less.

That's not to say LLMs can't be useful when they string together tokens. Quite the contrary, in fact. But let's not pretend LLMs are something they're not.

GetTheFacts··on DOGE Track
You brought it up, not me:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47081814

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