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Razengan 15 hours ago | parent | context | flag | favorite | on: Neutral Swiss poised to freeze Russian assets – pr... > Had the initial plan of decapitating the government and installing a puppet who signs a peace agreement with Russia worked, I doubt we'd be seeing the same level of support as now. What rules out that Vladimir and Volodymyr aren’t in on this together to dupe other nations and later make up anyway? It’s a classic con since time immemorial: 2 partners, one who pretends to be the baddie and another who pretends to be against him to gain the support of a dupe, and later split the profits.
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Feb 28, 2022 21:57
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get a bunch of people killed, destroy billions worth of infrastructure, massively disrupt the economies of two countries and 180m people, ???, profit
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can't make an omelette without breaking eggs, ergo if this guy keeps tossing eggs at this wall his omelette is gonna be loving great how do i invest in that guy's omelette???
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putin is gonna sneak out the back door with all of russia's natural gas while everyone is fighting in ukraine. the heist of the century
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quote:>What a strangely beautiful bit of absurdism in a children’s book!
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Neon Noodle posted:the book? Goodnight Moon HN posters worst nightmare: A child with creative imprecise ideas. Kids playtime should be firmly based on logic and reason.
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Neon Noodle posted:the book? Goodnight Moon legitster 8 hours ago | prev | next [–] I'm sorry. I still don't get it. I was never read Goodnight Moon as a child, so I have no sense of nostalgia for the book. And despite the overwhelming pressure society places on me reading it to my toddler, neither of us have any meaningful connection to the book. In contrast, you had A.A. Milne, Dr. Suess, and Dorothy Kunhardt all publishing some amazing (and radical!) children's books over decade earlier! reply
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fortylove 4 hours ago | root | parent [–] Sure. As a child, I was very afraid of the dark. The last thing I want to think about before going to bed are unknown "noises everywhere", that'll make my ears perk up to listen for mysterious noises. Reading this book to my daughter brought back these vivid and mostly unpleasant memories. I understand it won't be like this for everyone, of course. And at the same time, I don't understand the appeal. So to me, it's not a great book all around. reply
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Neon Noodle posted:I doubt that very many in the book's audience have been able to appreciate it as such. Instead, it seems prone to plant in the listener the seed of imprecise logocentric thinking. The phrase reminds me of "The nothing itself nothings", a non-ironic statement, whose ilk I had thought we had left behind in a previous generation. fritz posted:Sure. As a child, I was very afraid of the dark. The last thing I want to think about before going to bed are unknown "noises everywhere", that'll make my ears perk up to listen for mysterious noises. Reading this book to my daughter brought back these vivid and mostly unpleasant memories.
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fritz posted:Razengan 15 hours ago | parent | context | flag | favorite | on: Neutral Swiss poised to freeze Russian assets – pr... i half thought they were going to say they were the same person and the media uses different spelling to confuse us, but by the end their theory was somehow dumber
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Jose Valasquez posted:nest0r 2 hours ago | parent | context | flag | favorite | on: Official Ukrainian BTC wallet has $2M and is growi... is the world ready for some terrible evangelical promise ring / smart contract you can buy on the GOD chain?
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true love hodls
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sakopov 9 hours ago | parent | context | flag | favorite | on: Tell HN: If You Are in Russia The reason Russia has elevated tyrants to power for centuries is deep-rooted in Russian soul to the point where it's not even a problem. It's something that is inexplicably difficult to understand unless you actually experience the culture for a good portion of your life. There is a lot of literature out there about the "Russian Soul" and I really recommend reading it to understand how this happens. In my opinion it's almost like a mass psychosis that everyone is aware of but have been "deprogrammed" to deal with and blaming people in Russia for atrocities of their regimes is like blaming a sick person for being sick. Most of the time they themselves were the victims while being told "it's just life, deal with it." With that said, people are slowly waking up and it's mostly young people who have the luxury of traveling the world and experiencing real democracies. Unfortunately, I think Russia will continue on its tyrannical path until the old generations die off and these younger folks take over.
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fritz posted:sakopov 9 hours ago | parent | context | flag | favorite | on: Tell HN: If You Are in Russia ftfy
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alexandriao posted:ftfy
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reasonable hackernewsing:quote:donatj 10 hours ago | parent | context | flag | favorite | on: Things you don't need JavaScript for and then dearfuckinggod: quote:1vuio0pswjnm7 5 hours ago | prev [–] Somebody employs this hackernews.
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paganel 42 minutes ago | parent | context | flag | on: ICANN's rejection of Ukraine's request to sever Ru... Which is why it really surprised me when I learned that Disney had decided to leave the Russian market a couple of days ago. For whomever lived East of the Well pre-1990 (I did grow up as a kid in Ceausescu's Romania) it is well known that things like Disney/Hollywood movies (that were still circulating in a sort of samizdat way) and mundane consumer products like Coca-Cola or Levi's did a lot more at bringing the Wall down than the entire US nuclear arsenal.
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fritz posted:paganel 42 minutes ago | parent | context | flag | on: ICANN's rejection of Ukraine's request to sever Ru... I feel really bad for this poster suffering from a rare brain disease that leaves him unable to learn any new facts since 1993.
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Doesn't seem to be all that rare.
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throwaway0a5e 1 minute ago | root | parent | next [–] >Unions are probably closer to insurance. I think this analogy is more apt than you realize. Internet commenters absolutely love to shove insurance down the throats of people who can afford to self-insure against the particular outcome in question.
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citilife 15 hours ago | parent | context | flag | favorite | on: The war on gifted education I'd argue this is why many kids are successful when home schooled. The idea that you should interact so much with your peers is kind of strange to be honest. Is it really healthy for kids to interact regularly with their peers? I'd argue it's much better for children to interact with adults. Historically, kids would learn to work on the farm, attend church, etc and they'd see other children, but most of the time they'd be learning from adults how to act and strive for.
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fritz posted:citilife 15 hours ago | parent | context | flag | favorite | on: The war on gifted education ah yeah, the classics talk about this, too. like when tom sawyer tricked the town's farmers into painting that fence, and when the children of narnia were all individually playing hide and seek from adults and found that wardrobe
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bloqs 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [–] The biggest problem is demonstrated here too. You have no experience of existing in a higher social category, so your anecdotes of what you imagine it to be like are purely bogeyman fiction traded between lower classes. reply
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Ntrails 1 hour ago | root | parent | next [–] > It is still primarily an on-site company. At some point I would like people to quit vilifying a completely legitimate business setup because it doesn't fit their world view. I want to be in the office, and I prefer it when my coworkers are there too. I respect that not everyone feels the same - but I do think it is up to the employer to decide. So I will be picking companies that suit my preferences. reply
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fritz posted:citilife 15 hours ago | parent | context | flag | favorite | on: The war on gifted education It's really one of those "half correct"/"half incorrect" things, huh.
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As an R. Kelly fan, this does not surprise me all. Once censorship begins it’s easier and easier to follow that well worn path. A lot of people like to mock the idea of cancel culture and pretend that it doesn’t exist - you know, the plainly disingenuous types who will say “they are a private company” out of one side of their mouth while demanding gay wedding cakes get baked out of the other. And sure there are ostensible shallow moral victories to be enjoyed by shutting your enemies up. But this impulse to control what’s said and what’s heard in the public sphere sure seems more dangerous when the stakes are higher, and increasingly it isn’t just normalized, but encouraged.
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Mar 6, 2022 11:00
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unfair limitations on free speech, like when a teenager isn't allowed to say "i do"
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fritz posted:Ntrails 1 hour ago | root | parent | next [–] “some people get off on getting punched in the balls, don’t kink shame”
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I bring you a rare good HN post: krapp 4 hours ago | parent | context | flag | favorite | on: Nosferatu: The monster who still terrifies, 100 ye... > An immortal bloodsucking monster? Of course it's terrifying 100 years on, especially if we have lost track of where it is now. He goes by Peter Thiel nowadays. reply (Of course it was downvoted...)
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another rare good hn post: AlexanderDhoore 5 hours ago | unvote | root | parent | next [–] "Let's forget about Haskell for a second. Look at this Prolog code." You people live in an ivory tower. reply the followups are amazing bollu 4 hours ago | root | parent | prev | next [–] And what's the problem with living in an ivory tower, as someone who also lives in one? A monad is a mathematical idea. It has some learning curve, some inherent complexity that you can't magically solve. The post you're mocking attempts to draw a helpful analogy. Maybe it helps the original author who said they couldn't find an explanation of monads that they liked. Maybe it doesn't help. I don't see how name calling such conversation as "ivory tower" helps anyone reply
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wherein we find out that not only are HN assholes about tipping, they're spineless about being assholes about tipping: jonhohle 47 minutes ago | prev | next [–] [The Zero Rupee Note is] cute, but has it really had the intended effect? I can’t imagine someone expecting a bribe to bat an eye at this. Edit: That said, I’d love something like this for tips in restaurants when there service is below par. It would provide a passive aggressive way to let the server know their service was poor without drawing attention to them or you. It would be easy to slip into the rest of the tip.
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Mar 7, 2022 05:22
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"needs help being passive aggressive" really does describe a lot of these posters.
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ultrafilter posted:"needs help being passive aggressive" really does describe a lot of these posters. help, nobody can tell my passive aggressive bullshit apart from my unintentionally off putting behavior
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BizarroLand 2 hours ago | root | parent | next [–] A relatively new to me concept I've been running into is that of "memetic virus", intentionally constructed by human hands, that, if implanted at opportune times in the right minds would cause a conflagration of an irrational thought to spread around the world. Richard Dawkins mentioned something alike this in his "viruses of the mind" essay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viruses_of_the_Mind but his discourse was limited to denigrating the religious and seemed to miss out on the bigger picture, that being, that if it were possible to ingrain a meme onto people's minds that one day, someone would use it as an instrument of mental war. I've read many anecdotes of people going off the deep end with political stuff over the last 6 years or so, people who refuse have a reasonable conversation about or seem to be unable to explain their convictions that bad thing was actually good thing even when shown evidence to the contrary. How did we go from relatively peaceful in the 90's to a maelstrom of insanity in less than 30 years? If it were one person or a certain group of people, it might make sense, but this memetic virus seems to have spread worldwide, infecting almost everyone, and since our frame of reference is also infected we can't see that we're infected with it. Is there a cure? I wouldn't know. Is there a defense against it? I don't know? Does it actually exist or is it a convenient cover story that I can blame all the woes of the world on? Once again, I don't know. I really don't know if this is true, but I suspect that if you brought a group of average people from 2000, 1990, 1980, & 1970, I feel like they would all agree that the world has gone mad and that there must be some reason for it. reply
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man in the eyeball hat posted:wherein we find out that not only are HN assholes about tipping, they're spineless about being assholes about tipping: This already exists, there are these fake $1 bills which unfold and it says something like "I'm giving you something much more valuable than money... the word of Jesus Christ!"
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hobbesmaster posted:memetic SCPs are overused otoh there is no antimemetics division is a decent book
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