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pope_meaton Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?

My favorite part about your game is the A B testing with your mom liking it and not liking it.

Your mom liked the game I played with her too.

Got em.

pope_meaton Space Drugs Factory Denied Reentry to Earth

I mean, eventually I assume it will re-enter regardless of what the meatbags on the ground want.

pope_meaton Celsius Is Collapsing Here's Why

Its pretty clear that the poster of the parent comment isn't sentient, they're just regurgitating information they've been fed, they don't understand the deeper meaning of the things they say. The poster may be an AI, but they are not "alive", this debate is silly.

pope_meaton Show HN: The Bitcoin Note – Secure, Self-Custodial Bitcoin Wallets in Cash Form

I honestly thought this was satire at first.

pope_meaton Epic gives away the entire Bioshock series for free

A Chinese tech giant is burning money to gain a large customer base.

pope_meaton Adam Savage unboxes an insanely detailed fan-made AT-AT Walker model kit

I think lawyers would argue that by knowingly allowing some to violate your copyright you're left with less legal standing when others do the same.

Edit: I'm not pro or anti copyright, I think this is all madness.

pope_meaton Ask HN: If you could do anything what would it be?

I mean, blow up the universe, I guess.

Sorry everyone else, but its for the best.

pope_meaton Watch What It's Like to Be Hurled into Space by a Giant Centrifuge at 1k MPH

All we need to do is scale this to planet size, it could be like a tube belt around the earth, and you could probably accelerate less aggressively with that much runway.

pope_meaton ICE Is a Domestic Surveillance Agency

A trillion strong caravan of criminals is approaching the border, chanting "death to middle class white men". You must elect a authoritarian that will rob you clean while blaming a bunch of folks with nothing for all the ills of society, its the only solution.

pope_meaton Study: Immigrants in the U.S. are more likely to start firms, create jobs

No, you gotta bring in the riff raff from else where because the spoiled homegrown corn fed piggies aren't breeding fast enough to maintain the economic ponzi scheme of eternal economic growth that requires more people tomorrow to pay for the debts of today.

pope_meaton What Is “Doomscrolling”?

Doomscrolling to me is using my thumb to move the algorithmically delivered scary news around on the phone screen, slowly becoming more and more anxious as the result.

pope_meaton Marriott gives away guest’s stuff, fights compensation in court

Number 1 in prisoners per capita, I guess if that's the goal, mission accomplished.

What a garbage feature, I'd like word with the devs.

pope_meaton The Color of Infinite Temperature

The color blue hadn't been invented yet.

pope_meaton CDC updates Covid-19 isolation recommendations with guidance on testing

I took 4 at home tests, all said negative, but I was definitely sick, scheduled a PCR test, 6 days after my symptoms started was the soonest I could get an appointment for, and it finally confirmed that I had covid. 2 different brands of at home tests kept telling me I was negative.

So, I don't doubt the anecdotal stories of people getting false negatives with the at home. My coworker also took 4 and only 1 finally showed positive in the end.

pope_meaton Ask HN: What is your spiritual practice?

I knew if I scrolled enough I'd find a fellow pope!

pope_meaton We’re a Suburban Nation. We Need to Get Used to It

The suburbs are economically unsustainable. Nobody wants to pay to redo the roads and pipes, but everybody wants to live with a private backyard. Perhaps we should make it so that you have to make it self sustainable, dirt roads, septic tanks, wells, and producing your own electricity.

pope_meaton Amazon is rolling back Covid protocols in warehouses

This seems like the time to do it. Half the people at the company I work for have tested positive in the last few days.

pope_meaton San Francisco Mayor Declares State of Emergency to Fight City’s ‘Nasty Streets’

Seattle has 500 shootings a year. It just is what it is, so 4 over 23 days doesn't seem that extraordinary.

pope_meaton San Francisco Mayor Declares State of Emergency to Fight City’s ‘Nasty Streets’

I spent a fair amount of time at CHOP. I think folks are blowing things out of proportion freaking out about it. If that's what anarachy is like, it's honestly not that bad.

pope_meaton Stan Lee Fans Are Outraged over His Twitter Account Being Used to Sell NFTs

I think, as a society, we ought to make it a rule that a dead persons social media account shouldn't be used after they're dead. it's morbid, and weird.

pope_meaton Jeff Bezos’ Space Joyride Emitted a Lifetime’s Worth of Carbon Pollution

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/07/boeing-ceo-80-percent-of-peo...

"A lot of people" is a bit of a stretch.

pope_meaton Can you drill into a supervolcano to relieve pressure? (2016)

It's hard to drill in to hot things, bits melt.

pope_meaton Conspiracy theory says all birds are drones

Anytime you see a bird land on a power line, its recharging.

pope_meaton Ask HN: Why learn shell programming? Why not just use Python/Julia instead?

Everyone has their preferred method of cat skinning, and as long as the cat is separated from its skin in the end you've achieved your goal. Use the tool you're most familiar with unless your goal is to learn a new tool.

pope_meaton Bitcoin Price Tumbles After Wall Street Selloff

Its like a stock market crash, one day everything is fine, the next its the beginning of the great depression. Welcome to the world of speculation, I hope you enjoy your stay in the house of cards.

pope_meaton My Worry for America: General Michael Hayden

Ah yes, the FBI was in on it to help the DNC, that's why they nuked Hilary's chances days before the election, that's some 5D chess right there, how could I be so foolish.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-reopens-clinton-probe-a...

pope_meaton My Worry for America: General Michael Hayden

So, even the FBI is in on this conspiracy by the DNC, huh?

https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/cyber/russian-interference-in-201...

pope_meaton US rejects calls for regulating or banning ‘killer robots’

This is good, we wouldn't want to stifle the innovation in the killer robot industry.

pope_meaton DARPA’s Solution to the Military’s Plastic Trash Problem? Eat It

Given how much of the food tests positive for plastic contaminants, we're way ahead of you DARPA.

pope_meaton US labor board official orders Amazon to redo union vote at Alabama warehouse

A bunch of us out here don't even have boats, and these rising tides are just drowning us.