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mystes posted:xyzzy21 11 minutes ago [–] conservatives are opposed to change which is why they don't want cuts to longstanding social programs
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Nomnom Cookie posted:conservatives are opposed to change which is why they don't want cuts to longstanding social programs
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them's the folks that tried to kill mah dad
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Tabular-Iceberg 40 minutes ago [–] It's a marshmallow test on a national scale. You're a public institution and the taxpayer gives you a marshmallow with the expectation of using it to create some public good. You can eat the whole marshmallow yourself and feel pretty good for a while, but after that you'll have nothing but a heap of dirt (and soon that heap will be washed into the sea). You can take a bite for yourself and get a dysfunctional society, but at least you and your countrymen get some kind of half decent jobs, food on the table, education and healthcare. You can just nibble a little on the edge, and you get western society. What happens if you save the whole marshmallow? Who knows. reply
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Ask HN: Cage around bed to survive building collapse? 2 points by matjazdrolc 6 days ago | flag | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments In lieu of the condo collapse in Miami and floods Germany I wonder how to protect oneself from being killed while sleeping. Is it feasible to have some kind of metal cage around the bed? The idea is that the cage would leave you with a pocket of air and also shield you from parts of ceiling crushing you. What other ideas do you have and what were your findings when doing further research?
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fritz posted:Tabular-Iceberg 40 minutes ago [–] 
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fritz posted:Ask HN: Cage around bed to survive building collapse? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXTSx0RvwEM
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I surrounded my bed with a fairly strong structure comprising 2x4s every 18 inches or so. my brownstone is a bit different than a huge skyscraper but I bet engineers could figure out how to take the same principals and scale up.
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fritz posted:Ask HN: Cage around bed to survive building collapse?
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if it comes down to the choice between crushing and drowning i'll take the crushing thanks
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fritz posted:Tabular-Iceberg 40 minutes ago [–] genuinely expected this to end with "but if you trade the marshmallow for bitcoin...."
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this thread is funny to me because tonally it's very Reddit (people making easy, lame jokes and dorky sci-fi references) yet it's in the service of a good opinion. Guess we've gotten to a point where hating on Zuckerberg is just the common sense position to take and even hn is onboard with that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27930791
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lmao I've never seen a more reddit/goony thread on hn and it's all aimed at owning Facebook and Zuck. Though I guess the news article itself is sci-fi, Zuckerberg wants to build his bastardized form of the metaverse from Snow Crash. radmuzom 1 minute ago [–] I'd rather have JC Denton usher in the new dark age than allow this raving lunatic control more of our lives.
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rryizgr8 4 hours ago [–] Even the phrase "company town" itself does not signify anything evil. In fact I'm wondering if such a place might be better than the usual government administered cities and towns.
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Jose Valasquez posted:rryizgr8 4 hours ago [–] It would be a lot better. For the company.
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we might only have one brand of toilet paper, the 1-ply scratchy kind, but its provided at discounted cost by the company, so the system isnt perfect but it's the best we have
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Jose Valasquez posted:rryizgr8 4 hours ago [–] tweaked this a bit
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Sniep posted:we might only have one brand of toilet paper, the 1-ply scratchy kind, but its provided at discounted cost by the company, so the system isnt perfect but it's the best we have not sure about that 'discounted' there
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'discounted' from what jeff would like to charge still exorbitantly expensive
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They buy in bulk to get a discount, and pass the savings on to ... the shareholders
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quote:kryogen1c 3 minutes ago [–]
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codetrotter 14 minutes ago [–] If I could choose one more thing (in addition to anything I’ve mentioned in the past) that I would wish to disappear forever, it would be metaphors. I have literally almost never come across any metaphor, save for a very very small number of them, that are at all helpful even. Most metaphors IMO only serve to obscure the reality of things and to draw false parallels between things, and to make it seem like knowledge is being imparted when it is not really. On top of that there are all of the times that the metaphors themselves may consist of comparing against something where what they are comparing against is not even correct, such as may be the case here. If I could legally change my middle name to “Enough With the Frickin’ Metaphors Already”, I would almost be inclined to do so, except I don’t want the word “Metaphor” to even be a part of my name because that’s how much I dislike the absolute majority of metaphors. reply
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metaphors are a cancer on our language
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Neon Noodle posted:metaphors are a cancer on our language
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yikes dogg
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Google announced they are mandating vaccines for RTO so expect a bounty of hn crazy during the next 24 hours peder 9 minutes ago [–] Tech companies won't move in lockstep on this. Battle for talent is too intense, not many companies can call shots like this like Google can. Some companies will be glad to differentiate to try and attract Googlers that do not want to return to the office, that do not want to be vaccinated (tho I think the number of tech workers that are not vax'd is small) halfjoking 8 minutes ago [–] All WHO approved vaccines? I'm thinking of leaving the country to try to get an inactive virus vaccine. I don't let anyone else run RNA code in my cells. The attack surface is too large. azangru 4 minutes ago [–] So if an employee develops one of the rare adverse events, will Google be liable for damages? reply sharken 4 minutes ago [–] I thought Google was better than this, guess not. reply
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dukeofdoom 0 minutes ago [–] I would trust google to know about their monster. "Google and the USAID-funded Wuhan scientist Peter Daszak’s virus experiments for over a decade" reply hereforphone 4 minutes ago [–] I am saying this as someone who has both shots and generally supports the vaccination. From what I understand Google is known as a company with a "liberal" culture. Is demanding employees accept one side of an argument and adhere to it (or face the consequences) contrary to the definition of "liberal"? That's the problem with Western politics. Liberal vs. conservative is no longer about how permissive we are with ideas and unpopular opinions. It's about what subset of ideas we accept. reply edit: benmw333 2 minutes ago [–] Government forces you to pay for the vaccine and then forces the company you work for to take it or lose your job. Liberty is long gone in America. Nothing chaps my rear end more than hearing and seeing the "vaccines are free" propaganda. Not to mention the billions government has spent in marketing and advertising on this vaccine. When was the last time government spent trillions to save 600,000 lives? mrmcd fucked around with this message at 18:50 on Jul 28, 2021 |
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grumblenum 2 days ago | parent | flag | favorite | on: Disinformation for hire, a shadow industry, is qui... In 2005 I was in a college dorm that provided the NYT in a common area. I picked up one and the first article I read was a column about Hurricane Katrina. The author interviewed a history professor who bewailed the failings of the president and the United States and how this was "worse than Antitem". In other words the esteemed Grey Lady interviewed an "expert" whose expertise has nothing to do with meteorology or disaster response to get a "Bush sucks, haha!" hot-take. Even as a know-nothing teenager (of strong anti-war sentiment at the time), I recognized that "area man says natural disaster proves Bush sucks" is just pablum. I put the paper down, and I have never picked up an NYT since. Thanks to the hero who provided an archive link, so that I could skim this. This article appears to be NYT heroically defending a corporate sponsor against the vile slander of other content marketers. Still speaking truth to power, I see.
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mrmcd posted:
this is my favorite genre of smart dumb guy posts, the “ooh so close!”
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kitten emergency posted:this is my favorite genre of smart dumb guy posts, the “ooh so close!” while i can tell this guy is awful by the fact that he calls it government without any article or adjective i will say that the argument of "when was the last time the american government did anything to help you" is a pretty compelling one
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mrmcd posted:halfjoking 8 minutes ago [–] lol
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hn thread: my attack surface is too large
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halfjoking 6 hours ago There are more types of RNA than just mRNA. https://www.livescience.com/25988-rna-versatile-molecules.ht... I'm not an expert so I'm not going to speculate which type might be used, but the risk that the government is using (soon to be mandatory) shots as a way to insert a biological backdoor into the masses far outweighs the risk of catching covid again. They want backdoors into all software systems... why wouldn't they want a backdoor into your biology? If not now, then what about when we're on our 5th booster? If I was dying on my bed from some crazy variant that the government was fearmongering, I would still think that my risk assessment was valid. I'd have no regrets. reply
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Jose Valasquez posted:halfjoking 6 hours ago I want whatever drugs this guy is (not) taking
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LastInLine posted:while i can tell this guy is awful by the fact that he calls it government without any article or adjective i will say that the argument of "when was the last time the american government did anything to help you" is a pretty compelling one yes, it's almost as if the last forty years have been a nearly-uninterrupted slide into ruin after the dominant party began an explicit policy of dismantling the ability of the federal government to do anything to help people, and the submissive party decided not to do anything to stop it but because i can't help myself, heres what came to mind first: 2011, when medicaid saved my son's life. shut the gently caress up Nomnom Cookie fucked around with this message at 04:45 on Jul 29, 2021 |
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just saying ‘trillions to save 600k’ mysteriously picks the number of lives the gov’t did not save
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alexandriao posted:I want whatever drugs this guy is (not) taking halfjoking 17 hours ago [–] Yeah I agree I'm worrying too much - it's basically ruining my life. I don't want to sign a lease for an apartment because I think I'm fleeing the country or losing my job. So I admit it. I am paranoid about the US government - but I have reason to given the Snowden leaks and how they treat Assange. So let's say they are pure evil, and wanted to do aerosols... well maybe they tried that already, but the chemtrails didn't work out. Maybe Chemtrails were too inefficient as a delivery mechanism. How would they ensure 100% coverage? When they are manufacturing billions of doses to deploy in planes, how would they justify the cost? How would they get it delivered to citizens of other countries? How would they hide what they're doing from everyone given the huge amount of manufacturing needed? The only way to insert a biological backdoor is to hide it in plain sight. To make it a vaccine that everyone, worldwide, including those already infected with the virus absolutely needs. reply
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jfc dude
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in retrospect I gotta wonder if the x files and stuff like its black oil mythology did way more to normalize batshit insane conspiratorial thinking than we thought
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kitten smoothie posted:in retrospect I gotta wonder if the x files and stuff like its black oil mythology did way more to normalize batshit insane conspiratorial thinking than we thought heres an observation: there is almost no such thing as a conspiracy presented in a work of fiction that doesnt end up being true, often verbatim, due to checkovs gun
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