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FWIW, this comment was not made by me, the creator of this account.

Alright, I'm the creator of this user account and the one that made it public, and I'm going to claim it back now. Maybe I'm a dumb kid, but I think if any country can maintain a highly diverse population without internal "simmering war", it's the US. The greed of hospitals is not somehow explained by xenophobia. Generations of people born in perverse power structures, doing their best to strengthen and reinforce them, seems much more suitable of an explanation. Genetics will mix and people will evolve. Deal with it.

>I will never understand the general lack of goodwill towards one's fellow countrymen

Homogeneous populations are required for this. When the US was least diverse, during the 1930s-60s, the public was largely supportive of public social welfare. Despite right-wingers guffawing over European nations importing more "diversity" of late, the US is way ahead in diversifying the nation into islands of "diversity" with a rump "historic" American nation in the outlying surrounding areas. The "diverse" populations (and their "historic" allies) are inculcated with neo-Marxist propaganda that frames the people whose nation they are invading and whose largesse they are seeking to exploit as class enemies. The "historic" population has long sensed this animosity but cannot articulate it publicly and oppose it in a straightforward manner without their opponents, including the vast majority of major media, ostracizing them as dangerous lunatics. The "diverse" are deemed inherently virtuous while the "historic" inherently evil -- blood libel updated for the 21st century. What sane person who is a part of the "historic" American population would support having most of his money taken in tax to support a growing population of people who do not share his ancestry, culture, or values and who view him as inherently evil? Thus we see opposition to social welfare programs that disparately impact/benefit the "diverse" populations.

TL;DR: Most "Americans" are not "fellow countrymen" at all but distinct factions engaged in a simmering war with each other.

Scott Greenfield, a practicing defense attorney, wrote about this and previous attempts at using "science" to create/identify "indisputable" evidence: https://blog.simplejustice.us/2019/01/22/junk-science-is-dea...

Everyone has the right to end his life when he sees fit. Sharing knowledge of how to do so safely is the opposite of disgusting. To encounter someone who intends to end his life in a risky manner that could lead to lifelong disability and extraneous trauma for his loved ones and not share knowledge of a safer and more certain method is what would be disgusting.

Yes, the giant media corporations bleat about the importance of a "free and independent press" out of one side of their mouths whilst simultaneously shitting all over the mediums that are most accessible to the average person and allow him or her to amplify his voice.

It is not a "justice" system, it is a legal system.

Giant media corporations owned by billionaires, run by millionaires, and overwhelmingly staffed by members/partisans of a single political party pump out propaganda on all of their mediums 24/7 and totally dominate and saturate public opinion but we are supposed to understand that "bots" are a threat to democracy? As someone who has been deemed a "bot" by people who do not wish to hear information they do not like on more occasions than I can recall, I note an insidious aspect of this emphasis on "bots" is that it allows the ready dismissal of any individual expressing heterodoxy and glorifies/sanctifies the "official" media previously described. Yet we saw this past week that social media users were able to win a rare victory in bringing the "official" media to heel for their lies and manipulation in setting upon a group of innocent schoolchildren. The official media hates it when their marks push back and thus we get propaganda like this study.

> His policies and the people he surrounds himself with have made his disdain for legal immigrants clear.

Like the immigrants he married and fathered children with?

>Stephen Miller wants to reduce all immigration, not just the illegal kind.

Why is this problematic?

In what world do government services cost 400% of the land value per year? That isn't paying for services, it's paying for the right to exist, no less than being taxed to breathe.

Why should people have to enter into an exploitive financial agreement with a bank to pay a tax to stay in their homes that they putatively own during their aged years? How is that just?

Robert Putnam studied[0] the civic engagement and social trust of diverse/homogeneous societies and found that factor alone sufficient explanation. Fewer Americans live in places as sparsely populated as those our ancestors did.

[0]: http://archive.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/08/...

My retirement plan includes living somewhere where I can own the land and not be raped by property taxes. Many people, my in-laws included, have to flee their high property tax states upon retirement in order to be able to afford to do so. How does this help maintain stable communities? Shouldn't people be able to retire in place?

As body mass increases, the caloric intake required to maintain said mass increases. Likewise, as body mass decreases the caloric intake required to maintain said mass decreases. Fat people need to eat like the not-fat version of themselves in order to both lose weight and maintain their new mass. If "balance" is 2400 calories for their fat body, resuming eating 2400 calories will lead to them becoming fat again.

Honest? The premise is of the article is "Okay, maybe the Janissaries were taken as slaves as children but here's why that's a good thing."

If you are a 300 pound person and want to be a 150 pound person, you have to eat like a 150 pound person. Forever.

No 2015 MBP unfortunately. Thanks for the link though, wonderful site.

CICO is not debunked, stop spreading that myth. Studies such as the ones you linked only indicate that the counting is more complicated than measuring the heat generated by burning a food and slapping the result on a label.

Agreed, it's easy to tell there are only a few scenarios where it's actually used.

That is a lot of trust.

Something about the RPi seems to motivate new hobbyists in ways that hosted VMs just don't.

You’re welcome, it may be an interesting social experiment to watch

That's a nice display of trust in the community.

Nice, thanks!

Here's one more record to add: my HN password is my username. Feel free to use this account for anonymous well-intentioned posting.

There are different sections, "also bought" and "related". They both show up in the same formatting.

More effective: unsubscribe from any sources that report on the crap. Don't just say you're not interested in the story, say you're not interested in the source at all. After a few weeks of doing this daily, you should have mostly purged it.

Not a fan of LACNIC or AfriNIC?

Sorry, but

> Regional Regional Internet Registry

:P

Ah yeah, got it.