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I used to be okay with generics, until I realized that I wouldn't buy food that I knew was made in India or China. Imagine buying Cinnamon Toast Crunch if it were made in India.

So why would I eat a prescription / OTC drug that's made there?

> He literally funded Trump.

You stop here as if to assume this is enough info to prove his productivity was undesirable, and that everyone will understand and degree, but that’s an incorrect assumption.

What specifically was undesirable? Most people remember spending $1.50/less per gallon, spending less on everything else thanks to low inflation, the lowest illegal border crossings in decades, lower taxes, finally fighting back against China after decades of politicians saying a lot but doing nothing, peace talks with NK, a well handled foreign policy, and Operation Warp Speed which brought the US a wonderful historic vaccine in record time, 3 Supreme Court justices that will help America weather the current progressive zeitgeist meme fad policies (and many others), and some mean tweets and a very deranged media that covered him.

Before you bring up his handling of COVID, do recall that there were far more deaths under Biden in the same time period compared to under Trump, and that Biden’s only true move was making sure everyone had access to Trump’s vax. (Joe certainly didn’t shut down COVID like he claimed he would.)

So sometimes productive is, in fact desirable.

Hopefully non-non-drowsy antihistamines aren’t considered “sleeping pills”?

I was worried about that too, but yes, there was a comment box asking to explain the reason for the cancellation, and I was careful to make it clear.

I canceled my premium subscription because of all of the Joe Rogan episodes they deleted.

YouTube reviews are typically not actual reviews. They are usually hype videos containing “influencers” talking excitedly about the product they received for free under the condition that they sugarcoat everything.

A minimum of 60 jump cuts per minute is typically mandatory as well.

It reads like the author really wanted to get that "privilege" line in there, and then came up with a lot of other words to put around it to hide that fact.

> You could utter this exact statement every day since 1995.

No you couldn't. Because back then, even 10-15 years after 1995, not everyone went to the same 3 websites, and there were more than 3 companies on the web that owned everything. Furthermore, there was no concept of upvotes and downvotes to literally encourage crafting your comments to appeal to the widest audience / lowest common denominator. (This concept is no longer specific to Reddit by the way; nearly every comment section on every website utilizes the same type of deal.)

Back then if you wanted to speak your mind or say something, you could just type it out and everyone would see it. Today, if you want to say something, you need to craft your comment in such a way to make it worth it: sure, you could say exactly what you want. But that might only get one upvote. Or, God forbid, it might get downvoted! Then nobody sees it; furthermore, the rating your receive could potentially work against you and make the hivemind turn further against your argument. Because lots of people downvoted it. Or not many people upvoted it. Which means it's bad / not good.

It's a perverse incentive. The result is... usually, milquetoast homogeneous repetition.

Is that why all YouTube comments are exactly the same now? It’s like the top of every major subreddit post’s comment section. It’s almost as if you’re witnessing 14 year olds discover the internet and humor, but over and over again on a daily basis.

The homogeneity of the internet is becoming so tiresome.

> I hate to admit it but this is the exact reason I stopped being vegan too. I'd just start feeling weirdly faint like I was about to pass out randomly. You know when you're in an elevator and there's a slight gravity shift when it stops at a floor? It was like that every now and then

I just posted my own anecdote about this before I saw your comment, but just to reiterate, my ex encountered the exact same symptoms while on a vegan diet.

My ex was vegan (most of the time; she would switch back and forth between vegan and vegetarian often) and she would go through times when she would experience extreme fatigue, nausea, faintness, etc.

Eventually I noticed this coincided in particular with the times she would be full vegan for a week or two at a time (though it still happened less frequently otherwise).

I did some research and discovered there are several key vitamins / minerals that you get from meat and dairy very easily but is almost (or totally?) impossible to get without supplementation if you’re vegan. So I bought her a multivitamin and the symptoms subsided substantially, though not ever completely.

Just going on gut instinct here but I personally refuse to undergo a diet that without external supplementation does not properly nourish the body with everything it needs. If our ancestors were vegan, I’m not sure we’d all be here today - and if we were I’m not sure we’d like the state we were in, especially if other societies moved away from the vegan diet.

(I’ve noticed most vegans tend to be… not very robust, shall we say. I think the world notices this too fortunately, which is why vegan will remain a fringe diet.)

Did you not see the interview?

It’s related in that it’s a humorous synopsis of those whose ideal society is that of the article title.

I wish that article focused solely on whether or not the technology actually works, rather than leaning heavily on the “problematic” aspect that forces people to maybe face facts that run counter to their dishonest or at least misleading narratives.

> that Trump gets boo-ed by his supporters

Clarification: some of his supporters.

> Yet snd still it’s rural America that’s subsidized by those “filthy cities” where all of the economic activity is taking place.

If you don't think rural America would trade those subsidies in the blink of an eye for the dissolution of those cities into their own separate union or something, you really don't know rural America.

> But why should the minority get to dictate policies if the majority?

Because a few pinprick-sized geographical locations overflowing with millions of people who think that's how everyone should live / does live (it's not) shouldn't get to dictate the policies of the entire rest of the country that is living in relative peace and comfort away from such overpopulated, crime-ridden areas with extremely high costs of living and an overall terrible QoL. Look at any US-wide election map, by county; see how few areas are truly blue. The homogeneous state of southern California should not get to decide how the rest of us live/suffer.

The founders knew what they were doing.

> Source?

Every single violent and property crime statistic ever.

> The entire federal system in the US is built to favor rural areas

That’s because those who choose not to live in filthy crime ridden cities shouldn’t have to suffer from the lowest common denominator laws and high taxes said cities “require” to not fall apart since people aren’t meant to live that close together.

You make a good point; another possibility is the COVID clingers all see the end on the horizon and are grasping at straws trying to take advantage of one last opportunity to admonish/control people.

I really hope Neil Young and Joni Mitchell (and any other artists of their ilk who think it should be basically illegal for people to hear anti-establishment opinions they don’t like) follow each other into removing their names from all news article headlines as well.

As a PA resident, it’s interesting how other large states are able to get by just fine with fewer taxes than PA takes out of our paychecks (and adds to our receipts). Call it less of an anti tax issue, and more of a “the state needs to reign in its spending” issue.

We know, otherwise about 3/4 of all tweets ever made on the platform wouldn't exist.

Probably most. And not even primarily because of inertia: for the average person, even the technically inclined person, there's really not much of a reason at all to move away from an iPhone. It just works, it almost always just works, it has the best build quality and fit/finish/polish, it's supported for many years, and you always know you're basically getting the best hardware.

And it's not Google.

What does comedy theater have to do with the real world?

> Think about what you’re saying: No open discussion can possibly contain misinformation.

That is not what I'm saying. I am opposed to the boiling down of a non-establishment discussion podcast to the singular word "misinformation. Just as I'm sure the commenter I replied to would object if I referred to any news source he cited - NYT, WaPo, WSJ, CDC, FDA, etc. - and defined it simply as "misinformation".

The word in and of itself is misinformation, typically meant to steer people away from reading, hearing, and seeing information they don't like. And it shouldn't be tolerated. We as a society need to start fostering open discussion of topics and viewpoints that the establishment and its followers doesn't like or approve of.

People having open discussions is misinformation?

Let's also not forget that cancel culture and throwing out incendiary labels like "conspiracy theorist" based on a particular set of personal views you and the establishment deem "incorrect" really belongs on Reddit and Twitter, not on HN.

For every two links you give for Brave, any random HNer can give 10x or more that amount for Google/Chrome or any other Big Tech company these days.

> this just seems like a completely uninteresting use of blockchain.

You don’t understand how blue checkmarks make their owners feel. To them they are changing the world one smarmy tweet at a time. Blue checkmarks validate everything they say since it is a privilege bestowed upon them by giant corporation Twitter themselves.

The new blue hex is just that, but in keeping with the times.

Is there a solution out there somewhere that hides all blue checkmark Twitter accounts, and without having to log in?

For just text I find Notepad2 far superior. The shame of it is (or not, because it’s excellent as-is) it’s not been updated in years.

But, maybe, also, that guy has a point that doesn’t involve citing a comic strip.