Being disagreed with is not the same as being censored. Harden your heart, make a virtue of defiance, and speak your truth.
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(All I want is a 'delete account' button. Every other forum has one. Even Facebook has one. There is no excuse for HN to not have one. I've had less trouble cancelling my Comcast account and quitting vi than I've had leaving this site.)
Here's what you should do if you're serious about free speech online: Start your own website. Run it under a pseudonym. Host it on Nearly Free Speech. Ignore all SEO advice, and disallow all crawlers in robots.txt. You might not get any human readers, but you aren't likely to get censored.
Otherwise, posting on 4chan is an option if you don't mind having racial or homophobic slurs hurled at you by poorly socialized adolescents who think too highly of themselves. And there's always Substack; if they can tolerate avowed neo-Nazis like Richard Spencer and white supremacists like Richard Hanania, they can probably tolerate you.
Just remember that if you frequent a Nazi bar like Substack or X, people will assume that you're a Nazi.
The hell he doesn't.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Jesse_Singal
Who should I believe? A wiki that links to sources to back its opinions, or some rando on HN?
Oh, and did you create this account just to reply to little old me? I'm flattered.
> He wrote some thoughtful and well-researched articles on medical malpractice
https://glaad.org/gap/jesse-singal/ suggests that his articles were biased, and used rare cases of trans kids who changed their minds while ignoring the vast majority of trans folk who did not regret transitioning.
> this mob descended on him with death threats and other abusive and violent vitriol
You mean the sort of abuse that many people online heap upon trans and autistic folks for fun? You'll have to pardon my lack of sympathy for somebody who, to my knowledge, has yet to have their door kicked down at zero dark thirty by a SWAT team at the behest of a transgender person's false report.
> Then again, then someone's entire world view rests on what is fundamentally a lie, perhaps it's not surprising to see such excessive reactions when reality is exposed. Not that this is any excuse of course.
As far as I'm concerned, this is basically anybody who believes in God, or that biological sex and gender are the same thing.
He's some kind of journalist, but from what I've read of him he seems like the sort of man who lives in unreasoning and unrelenting terror that the guy in the stall next to his might have a vagina instead of a penis. He's a minor hero to right-wingers because he feeds into their prejudices concerning transgender people.
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/substack-announcement-bari-we...
Bluesky will be old and busted, monetized and enshittified.
Then all of the "interesting" people will pioneer some new proprietary platform instead of building their own websites and DMing each other on Signal, though some might try the Fediverse again, only to abandon it because (like Lance Ulanoff) they couldn't find William Shatner there.
I'd love to be wrong about this, but we'll see.
I think you're assuming that Republicans are still capable of bipartisan compromise. You'll have to pardon my cynicism given recent history.
Sandy Hook is just one reason why I don't own a AR-15 or other semiautomatic firearms. I'm of the opinion that no civilian (police included) needs a semiautomatic.
But I've got a .30 lever-action rifle. I usually only load it at the range. I usually only fire it at the range. I've never even aimed my weapon at another human being, despite occasionally being tempted.
I see no reason why I should allow my rights to be abridged because other people abuse theirs. The needs of the many might outweigh the needs of the few, but I do not accept that they can outweigh the rights of the individual.
Seriously, though, reducing work hours globally might also help with those low birthrates with which Elon Musk, JD Vance, and other rich white dudes and their bootlickers are obsessed.
People don't have time or energy to fuck, let alone raise kids, if they're working 40+ hours/week while also commuting and possibly doing a side hustle since their main job doesn't pay enough.
It stands to reason that guns and ammo should not need a "Keep out of reach of children" label, yet they plainly do since parents are obviously leaving loaded firearms where their kids can get at them.
Nice.
Have you considered HIPAA compliance, as well?
> I am too busy and unfortunately health conditions of my son required multiple appointments every week since he was born.
That's rough, man. I had to be my wife's main caregiver when she had breast cancer, and making sure she got the care she needed wasn't easy.
How does anybody know you won't sell this information or "share" it with "partners"?
Will you say "Judicial warrant or GTFO" if Uncle Sam shows up with a subpoena or a national security letter and demands records?
If my wife and I were in our twenties or thirties, we wouldn't want to use something like this to make appointments with her OB/GYN lest the information be used to police her over healthcare in which neither the state or God Himself has any legitimate interest.
I know that sounds paranoid. I'd agree if the US wasn't looking at another Trump administration and at least two years of Republican control of Congress.
This app is inherently untrustworthy given the political climate.
Likewise election results that incumbent parties didn't see coming, but might have if their reason was not clouded by complacency and groupthink.
I'm hoping the same doesn't happen to MDN Web Docs. I've always got it open when doing webdev at my day job. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/
Of course, if you're not into Frank Zappa you won't get the bit about dental floss; it's in a song called "Montana".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs0CGOwWmCI
No bombs, of course, because while a bullet can have your name on it, AOE damage is addressed "to whom it may concern" and I don't want to hurt some poor schmuck who didn't have it coming. Though if a Republican annoys me I might mail them some Anthrax albums. See what they make of Persistence of Time or Among the Living.
Though, frankly, if all of your income is W2 and you haven't fucked up your W4, you shouldn't have to file at all. If you're a W2 wageslave, the government knows how much you get paid, how much you pay in taxes, and whether you owe extra or have a refund due. Having to file a tax return in situations like that is just bureaucratic bullshit.
Or, rather, I can, but just slowly and half-assed.
It sounds like you need at least a weekend where you do absolutely nothing, like post-hypnotic Peter Gibbons in Mike Judge's 1999 accidental documentary Office Space. Just sleep. It sounds like you're worn the hell out.
It also sounds like you're killing yourself to live.
It sounds like you're thoroughly sick of your work, but can't or won't consciously admit it even to yourself, so your body is staging a wildcat strike.
I've been developing software for over twenty years, and when this happens to me I get the hell away from computers for a bit.
Good luck.
How did Elon Musk sire so many children when he, like most CEOs who play this game, plainly has no balls?
Buttondown charges a flat fee based on subscriber count and they aren’t a Nazi bar backed by venture capital.