dagnabbit

Everyone thinks they are not susceptible to advertising.

Advertising metrics continue to prove that they are wrong.

HN will continue to have "contrarians" who think they are smarter than everyone else, and who reflexively argue contrarian positions, like "privacy is bad, actually", not because those positions are smart, but because the speakers are addicted to being "clever" contrarians.

The paperwork for Breonna Taylor said she had no injuries.

She had been shot eight times while sleeping.

You're a white supremacist and you are arguing in bad faith. Get the fuck into the sea, you vile fucking bigot.

dang works hard to ensure that HN is a safe space for white nationalists and other bigots.

posts like that exist specifically because dang thinks they are more important than having a community that welcomes minorities.

> I think it's fair for there to be at least one place on the internet that isn't suffused with ideological copypasta.

Holy shit your arrogance is off the fucking _CHAINS_.

Not only have you failed miserably at that goal (this site is comically predictable with it's politics; and it's also trivially easy to game); but your head is so far up your ass that you think you did something that nobody else did.

Wow.

You are a much worse and much stupider person than I thought you were; and I already thought you were nothing but an absolute fucking useless sycophant who is hoping that moderating this site will eventually result in pg/sama giving you a role that has carry.

'my org', 'my team' or 'my reports' for all below; 'my direct reports' for those immediately below.

Sorry; I know that you work hard to ensure that HN remains a safe space for white supremacists, mysoginists, and other bigots. I hope I didn't undo your toil by briefly making one such person very slightly uncomfortable.

It is clearly important to PG, sama, and you that HN be a place where hateful people with power can leverage that power, spread disinformation, and make others feel unwanted, so long as they do so using a thin veil of polite language. You do excellent work in achieving that goal.

It's deeply sad that one party is now so devoted to disinformation and the destruction of democracy that they whine when somebody provides a small-print link to third party fact checkers.

Such pathetic little snowflakes.

The buyer is still responsible for paying a 'use tax' in that case (which is typically identical to the sales tax rate).

Retail stores charge manufacturers for shelf space. It's often called a slotting fee.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slotting_fee

A 1% chance of death that’s evenly distributed across 80 years is dramatically less impactful to one’s expected quantity of life than a 1% chance of death that happens immediately.

Additionally, I’d note that nearly all higher income individuals take steps to reduce their auto death risks including buying safer vehicles, living closer to work, and using professional drivers when drunk or otherwise impaired.

As for your final paragraph, it is wholly unreasonable to imply that covid (which is killing thousands of Americans per day despite a massive distancing effort) is less serious than the flu (which has persisted over a much longer period of time and which was not subject to special responses).