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birksherty··on Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with China in 2016
It's not about protecting human rights and no apple didn't do that. It's money they protected. This seems like whitewashing comment.
birksherty··on Sarco suicide capsule ‘passes legal review’ in Switzerland
Why choosing not to exist can't be clear mind? Many are suffering, struggling yet choose to continue that trauma. That's clear mind. But as soon as one does not want to continue the trauma, they are mental.

We are going to die in the end. Why not bring that closer so that the useless suffering stops? I think people who want to continue struggle, is the mentally ill. Having to do work 9-5 whole life and yet not being able to afford healthcare, acceptable living standard is somehow okay to continue. People are delusional and having too much copium.

Lots of here have good job life in a first world country and they think everyone is living like that. Someone says different, then it's "why you are enjoying life like me? you are just mentally ill".

These supposedly normal people also bring a kid without their consent to study, work, have disease, die horrible death by giving birth. All of these just to satisfy their own selfish wish to have a child with their gene, but not for the benefit of the kid.

birksherty··on Herbs and Spices Might Contain Arsenic, Cadmium, and Lead
You are wrong. Killing oneself need lot of courage and suffering. But then you guys will stop anyone who want right to death with nonsense.

Of you really want people to kill themself, make it easy. Otherwise you need to shut the fuck up.

birksherty··on Herbs and Spices Might Contain Arsenic, Cadmium, and Lead
Nope. Overall, the ecosystem collapsing. So human non existence more beneficial. Lot of people that I met also disagree unless they are high on copium and doesn't think honestly.
birksherty··on Herbs and Spices Might Contain Arsenic, Cadmium, and Lead
Best solution is to not having kids. This is if you think for the kids first. There is no reason to have kids that is for the benefit of the potential child.

But nobody likes that. People's selfish wish always comes first before the potential kid's benefit. So kids will have these toxins in their body in the end and any problem that comes with it.

birksherty··on Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
I make chrome only keep a few whitelisted cookies every time I close and disable 3rd party cookies. I think this system is close to temporary container in Firefox.

I use Edge btw, and it has few great features. There is a collection feature with a toolbar button. It can saves all the opened tabs for later use, no memory hogging and need to use 3rd party extension. Few other toolbar buttons which provides faster experience than chrome.

birksherty··on A concept that took hold in the ’70s haunted everything from seat belts to masks
How disclaimer is confusion? People will have to check anyway without that information available.

It is not outdated, just may be, you don't know. Better to have the information available than not. It's simpler than not having it.

birksherty··on A concept that took hold in the ’70s haunted everything from seat belts to masks
Disagree. Just make it available with a clearly visible note saying it might not be updated, so verify once before using it for emergencies.

People insist on making simple things too complicated.

birksherty··on Depression is more than low mood, it’s a change of consciousness
What gap exactly? Are you saying continuing misery is okay and opposite is illness? This is what copium is.
birksherty··on Depression is more than low mood, it’s a change of consciousness
I meant saying life is beautiful like non-depressed people.

Yeah may be different types of depression. I'm talking about the quote. Life is not all happy thing, some people know this and want out of this; which they are forced with to live until dying horribly, most time it's horrible sad death honestly. Acknowledging true nature of life and not wanting to continue the misery is not illness.

birksherty··on Firefox 94 has No Visible Border on unfocused tabs
That may be true. But the fact here is that UI always become more illegible and that's why people are hating this update. It needs much more load on brain nowadays to click a button as everything looks so flat. Just for the sake of new update and job security by designers.

We just get used to it later with the flatness and then they make it more flat. The cycle continues.

birksherty··on Firefox 94 has No Visible Border on unfocused tabs
Just looks better and now we are used to it. Functionality is not better. We now have to think more about before clicking buttons and more load on brain.
birksherty··on Depression is more than low mood, it’s a change of consciousness
> Fucking bullshit

No it's not. The quote is true. People who are not depressed treat it as a disease. But life truly is a trauma for most people, yet we are supposed to be optimistic disregarding the truth. It takes some medicine/chemical or copium that makes it look beautiful and everything is ok. Lots of people just never think too much and do whatever they are supposed to do, so not depressed.

birksherty··on Spiders are much smarter than you think
People don't like hearing truth they don't like, so they downvote.
birksherty··on Spiders are much smarter than you think
Exactly, they don't have empathy. We have conscience yet we all these. So who is lacking empathy emotion tell me. We do much worse than any animal can do. Again go watch the docu to see completely to know what we do before replying. Humans are worst thing in universe because we do all these having conscience.
birksherty··on Spiders are much smarter than you think
No species can come even close to humans in killing others without any hesitation. Have you even seen the documentary Earthlings?

http://www.nationearth.com/

birksherty··on Culture shock
> Disagree

I disagree with you. In India nobody respects walking people. They will honk multiple times, get angry if anyone walking blocks their road. Basically people in car feels they own the road in India and walking people are lower class obstacles. It made me hate walking in cities. Yes, there are footpaths where people walk all the time, but Indian people also ride motorcycles there in traffic jams. Multiple times they came close to hit me. It's total chaos in India.

birksherty··on Culture shock
It's not work out or time but diet that makes people obese. They probably eat fast food, sugary drinks, packaged food a lot everyday instead of unprocessed food like meat, veg, fruits, nuts.

Edit: Poor people in India are thin and rich are fat, quite opposite, again due to diet. Indian poor can't afford fast food in chain restaurants daily, must cook which is cheaper.

birksherty··on Reasons Truck Drivers Walk Out the Door [video]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29041607
birksherty··on Reasons Truck Drivers Walk Out the Door [video]
> back-breaking work of farming, transporting, building, cleaning, purifying, and cooking

Those hard working class are not the most respected or even earning. They are also just doing that for basic needs, minimum wage. This truck driver story itself is about them. Pandemic made it even more clear what society think about them.

Other hand people that are making personal data selling websites, playing stock market, destroying planet for greed are doing great. They can suck millions by unethical means, retire, buy yacht. But goddammit, as soon as someone from lower or middle class wants to slack off, they are told to be useless part of society, work hard, break health. Feels like some kind of capitalist propaganda.

birksherty··on Reasons Truck Drivers Walk Out the Door [video]
Society simply sucks as even to view someone as a human being, they have to be a valuable member (means work whole life). Not good enough, just work more. Basically be a cog in the economic system or die.
birksherty··on Brave and Firefox to intercept links that force-open in Microsoft Edge
> tons of half-baked extra features

Not sure about that. I find chrome way too annoying. To see history new tab needs to be opened, download bar below with no way to see all without new tab. Edge fixed these issues with toolbar buttons, some new flag options, web capture, read aloud, startup boost etc are quite helpful.

Block ntp.msn.com & assets.msn.com in hosts file to block start page completely if anyone don't like it, which I'm not sure if can be done with chrome without blocking google. This makes my experience better than chrome.

birksherty··on Firefighters say they’re swamped by calls for routine care from senior homes
> They took care of you when you were a helpless, shitting, crying, little ball of flesh.

This guilt tripping is so wide spread. What else they could do? Leave the baby outside after giving birth? Kids are brought to this world by parents in the first place. A baby is not asking please let me born to you.

Just stop breeding and spare the kids from the trauma that life actually is (and going through the same thing when they also get old), plus this will remove the trouble that taking care of the baby needs, saves money.

There might be many reasons to give birth, but none of it is for the benefit of the potential child.

birksherty··on Ransomware gangs are complaining that other crooks are stealing their ransoms
There are few. One is Cryptoprevent, the free version is what I've been using. It blocks rather than detect encryption which some other apps do.

https://www.d7xtech.com/cryptoprevent-anti-malware/

birksherty··on Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist
I really prefer that it shows only the top level comments by default, which can be expanded with a simple key. Overall fantastic experience.

I just have two suggestions. Add a dark theme and options to show only top 10/top 20/all just like hckrnews.com which helps to keep track of things and not miss important stories on busy days.

birksherty··on Using RSS to replace social media
Not sure about YT app which I don't use, but on desktop browser it does show all including live streams from subscribed channels, at least for me.
birksherty··on Ask HN: What can I do to actively fight climate change?
It's not about dating. It's truth that you didn't want to hear. Because accepting truth is difficult, so fight it, deny it instead.

Regarding lifestyle, I chose wrong word, not my first language. It's what and how you want your life that you don't want to compromise for climate crisis.

birksherty··on Young People Are Anxious About Climate Change, Say Governments Are Failing Them
Depends on your meaning of collapse. If you mean extinction of only humans, that's not gonna happen. Even in total nuclear fallout, few people will survive underground.

> economic stagnation, famine, war, widespread desertification, unliveable wet-bulb temperatures

For most people those are collapse and it's definitely going to happen and will come much sooner. The video shows it's going on the worst case scenario way.

birksherty··on Ask HN: What can I do to actively fight climate change?
"Stupid" comment (taking from your comment up).
birksherty··on Ask HN: What can I do to actively fight climate change?
Amount of carbon 1 person uses is more than what you can minimise, so it not NOTHING.

> totally different than having your own kid

Why? Why does one need one's genes to care for a child and to be a parent. Your comment is just complete character attack "stupid". If it's so big issue, than may be don't kid yourself about doing anything that will reduce actual climate crisis.

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