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> since we are slamming on Reddit anyways without realizing how fucked HN is by the same petard

Same as it ever was.

> allowing users to hide their history from public view

Yeah it's become my default assumption that any user who does this is either a bot or a bad-faith troll.

Do you sincerely believe that that's how grey-area's comment was meant to be read?

> there is some new cooking sub where it's just women posting food pictures and complaining about their significant others

If you are referring to /r/girldinnerdiaries, that is not a cooking sub, nor is it intended to be. The whole point is pairing a photo of dinner with the situation and mood of the photographer.

It's right there in the name: Girl Dinner Diaries.

> The premeditated murder of one's superior officer in a military unit

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fragging

I can think of plenty of hypothetical benefits. But it's not worth it; the cure is worse than the disease.

> white people are likely a minority in corporate America.

Oh boy am I gonna need some actual data for this claim.

Instead, try commenting in good faith.

This is the point: in English, it is not a generic geographic term.

It is in Spanish, though, so I get where the confusion comes from (at least when that confusion is genuine and not just boring troll shit). In Spanish, "América" refers to what in English is "the Americas", because in English we use separate terms for North, South, and (sometimes) Central America.

It's not pushback. It's just dishonest ragebait bullshit.

Hey look judging from how this thread evolved in the last several hours, at least it turned out that the bait worked and a bunch of people were dumb enough to take it?

ha ha

In English, "America" means the USA specifically.

But you knew that already and decided to just post bait.

> Do we forcibly sterilize people? Lock them up if they have children?

Oh give me a break. Developed countries have had below-replacement fertility rates for decades.

If your goal is to reduce birth rates, we do the things that we already know do that naturally: comprehensive, fact-based sex ed; cheap and easy access to contraceptives; social safety nets and support; etc etc etc.

It's not a mystery and it's not even difficult. You don't need to jump to straight to abhorrent crimes against humanity.

> Bad apples…

As always, if you are going to use this expression, you should be required to complete it.

Remind me: what do bad apples do?

Christ. Here's a tip for your own mental health: do not pretend to be stupid.

Do not pretend that when - for whatever reason, be that laziness or brevity or typing-on-a-phone or character limits or whatever - people leave out something as trivial as an apostrophe especially in informal writing that you somehow suddenly became illiterate. You did not. And neither did they.

ffs this attitude is insufferable

> Having your cake and eating it too? NIMBYism?

Hypocrisy.

> I cannot get over the number of people using "cause" as a replacement for "because."

This is ... very old. I'm not sure why you would think it's not, honestly.

It's just a plain old contraction.

> I started a few text group chats to stay in touch.

This is the space that WhatsApp fills, for better or worse.

> surveillance capitalism of the evil kind.

Is...is there another kind?

HN's penchant for pedantic literalism will never cease to amaze (and dismay) me.

> likely can't just cancel the show

Because they already have?

And you're accusing us of jumping to conclusions without evidence? Get a grip here dude.

You aren't being nearly as clever here as you think you are.

I find this kind of funny, since you say your not signalling anything, and then in the second half of the sentence describe for us a very signal you claim you aren't sending:

> I'm not going to change for a role that doesn't require it.

Whether you like it or not, whether you meant to or not, you are communicating something here. You don't get to opt out.

This is a distinction without a difference; a signal was received, whether you meant to send it or not.

> at least [the US] doesn't toss you out a window when you cross Fearless Leader.

Well, not yet anyway:

> Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/dhs-anti-ice-s...

On the contrary, I think it's [pleasantly] surprising that YCombinator threads have finally stopped misunderstanding Palantir.

God knows it took long enough.

Thanks for fighting the good fight in this thread. You had more patience than I would have.

> It's like no one in the tech world actually understands any piece of fiction that they have ever consumed.

Of course they don't. Have you seen how common it is in tech circles to deride humanities education?

Read the article they linked to.

> it was by no means life-changing unless you've had a very boring life.

Why this shitty jab at the end? What a needlessly petty thing to say.