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laserdancepony··on A Lecturer Showed a Painting of the Prophet Muhammad. She Lost Her Job
> This, however, is just straight up alt-right talking points.

I beg to differ, this is exactly my impression, too.

laserdancepony··on Ask HN: Since when is everything a scam?
Rural Germany, where until a few years ago no one except the indigenous would have wanted to live. Now foreign investment firms, mainly chinese, are buying up everything they can get a hold of. Prices for a single family home before the rush about 350k, now 1.5m.

Thanks globalization to make it possible for a chinese billionaire to own property in Schneizlreuth, BY.

laserdancepony··on Ask HN: What $500-2500 product improved your 2022
Smart radiator valves, hands down.
laserdancepony··on Canaries in coal mines (2018)
Site doesn't even load for me. The blogs are getting more bloated by the minute.
laserdancepony··on Tesla finally breaks and offers round steering wheel on Model S/X
I doubt India is of any concern to Tesla, except for cheap labor.
laserdancepony··on Having friends in HR is fine, but HR is not your friend
I disagree wholeheartedly. Calling one of the most foundational jobs in human civilization unethical is ridiculous.

We need people who enforce a standard set of rules onto every member of society, and yes, it will always corrupt some who wield that power. We are humans, after all. But does that make the whole idea "unethical"? I presume not.

I'd rather not live in anarchy.

laserdancepony··on Ask HN: How to report unsolicited sexual content on Reddit?
You got your answer: the content you reported doesn't violate their policies.

Now move on or you may be called a Karen.

laserdancepony··on Newsraft: feed reader with ncurses user interface
If you missed it, check it out: https://suckless.org/
laserdancepony··on Legal use of hallucinogenic mushrooms begins in Oregon
I knew, it had to come to this. Your kind is destroying everything it touches. I'll just find a new website without your kind when it get's unbearable.
laserdancepony··on Legal use of hallucinogenic mushrooms begins in Oregon
I am now 100% sure you mistake HN for some kind of revolutionary forum.
laserdancepony··on Legal use of hallucinogenic mushrooms begins in Oregon
I'm not your peer by visiting this website. I think you may conflate things.
laserdancepony··on Legal use of hallucinogenic mushrooms begins in Oregon
We've seen in Portland how society functions without policing. No thanks.
laserdancepony··on Legal use of hallucinogenic mushrooms begins in Oregon
Yes, and the world consists only of responsible sovereign individuals, who need no guidance at all.

I refer to the 18th century gin craze, here's an impressive print: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/William_...

laserdancepony··on Up to the 1990s, raw salmon sushi was not eaten in Japan
I can't confirm your findings, either personally or through other means. According to this poll [1] only 29% of men reported to not eat "Mett".

[1] https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/947071/umfrag...

laserdancepony··on Up to the 1990s, raw salmon sushi was not eaten in Japan
I would never eat a not fully cooked ground beef product from a random burger store. That's just common sense, ask your mother.
laserdancepony··on It's easier and faster to pirate an e-book, than it is to buy it
> the proceeds are distributed pro rata to authors based on the relative proportions of their content in all downloads?

That way we get the content farms we have already on Insta/YT/TikTok etc. Just flooding the platforms with random stuff with shit background music, shitty autocaptions and robot narrators until something sticks. Then produce more of the same.

laserdancepony··on Safari's date-picker is the cause of 1/3 of our customer support issues
Some commenters seem to forget what the MSIE monopoly was all about. About not keeping up with emerging web standards? That's a misconception. That was a result of Firefox interrupting the market.

MS deliberately added non-standard crap to get everyone off the rails when not using IE. That's why websites often showed "Best viewed in 1024x768 and 16M colors using Internet Explorer".

And that is a remark I see more often every day. And it's Chrome being recommended.

Remember why MS switched from EdgeHTML to Blink? Because Google would hamstring EdgeHTML at every corner on their services. Not completely break it, but make Gmail or Youtube a tad slower than in Chrome.

"Don't be evil" my ass.

laserdancepony··on Safari's date-picker is the cause of 1/3 of our customer support issues
Yes, we could just all use Chrome and stop competing. That would be far easier for everyone.
laserdancepony··on How Twitter moderated the Covid debate
So, in your book, the US is under a regime now? A junta?

I belive actual underlings of oppressive regimes around the world would beg to differ.

laserdancepony··on How Twitter moderated the Covid debate
And the causality of the myocarditis has been attributed to the vaccine by whom? WebMD?
laserdancepony··on Breakfast at Bäckerei Frank (2014)
We have something like this in our break room: https://www.hood.de/i/gastlando-brezel-schneideset-brezelsch...

Pretty easy to slice a Brezn in half with the proper tooling.

laserdancepony··on The Print Shop Club – Create Apple II Print Shop printouts on-line
Wow.
laserdancepony··on ‘Porch pirates’ stole an estimated 260M packages in 2021
Maybe because the USPS ist paying their employees a living wage and giving them a delivery schedule that is actually going to work out over the day?

You get what you pay for.

laserdancepony··on Spacekaren.sucks
"I support free speech, but not speech I don't like."
laserdancepony··on Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative
I feel violated by your embracement of thought policing.

This is not a "change in culture" or describing people voluntarily changing their views. This is fascism in new clothes - "Kauft nicht bei Juden!".

The reason for authoring documents like the discussed is not to better yourself, it's to ostracise those who do not abide. Get them fired from their jobs, burn down their homes and cars, slander them so they may never ever dare to call someone obviously male "Mister". This is getting completely out of hand, and it will end bloody I presume.

I rename every git main back to master in my projects, I use blacklists, I will not give one foot to the batshit insane.

laserdancepony··on Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative
> it’s kinda weird that we describe things with limited or reduced functionality as crippled.

You just typed out how that secondary meaning came into being.

laserdancepony··on Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative
"Pedal to the metal" comes to mind immediately.
laserdancepony··on Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative
That's exactly my impression. The lunatics driving this mad train of hate over fields they have no expertise in whatsoever are conflating things left and right that are denoting different concepts who aren't interchangeable.

Reminds me of that woman who forced the change of master branch into main at github while posing as a "programmer" or "security researcher". I looked into her profile, only PRs for typos in documentation or cruft like that. No serious contribution. Only hate.

laserdancepony··on Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative
I do not agree about the master/slave idiocy. These terms have been used for ages in the IT universe, and never once have I come across someone who insinuated racism. What about "server", does that not insinuate that there once were serfdom? Or "protocol", we are all on a spectrum now, that old fashioned way of thinking triggers me!

Not one step back, or they will rip us apart.

laserdancepony··on Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative
I would not want some snotty academics to devalue my trade school degree.
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