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It's pretty akin to why anything critical of Elon Musk is fairly quickly flagged and hidden. Despite all the protestations otherwise by the denizens, hacker news is not a free-speech haven, but a PR forum for a highly influential venture capital firm.

In the little village of 2000 near me, the 4 cops dress in all black and have a black-on-black motif for their vehicles. Literally, it is black text on a black car with some grey and gold outlining. I'm pretty sure it makes them feel like badasses as they ticket drivers for tinted windows or missing the obscured 35 mph sign a quarter mile after the highlighted and lit 45 mph sign.

"Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women—two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians—have rendered the notion of ‘capitalist democracy’ into an oxymoron."

Holy crap! That article is full of low-level facistic quotes:

> “I was approached by a couple of citizens asking if there was anything we could do about certain people walking around at night riding their bicycles,”

"Certain people"

> “The curfew would more or less be at the officer’s discretion,”

Cool, so you're explicitly giving cops a legal reason to harass people if the cop thinks they looks suspicious. I can't see how any subconscious or overt bigotry could come into play here.

> “The chief noticed a big influx of bicycle traffic during the night and people walking around, [...] It’s not usually a good thing when that happens."

> "Louisiana is a stop-and-identify state, so that ordinance is not really to hurt anybody it’s just to stop these people walking that have no reason to be walking,”

Yup! Sure doesn't hurt you at all for your existence to be criminalized and your mere presence on the street to be probable cause for the cops to harass you.

> "There’s a fraction of people that believe that is infringing on people’s rights, but at the same time, I think people can sit back and put a little perspective on the situation and agree that the good simply has to pay for the bad right now,”

Something, something, possibly apocryphal quite about trading freedom for security and deserving neither.

> "that ordinance is not really to hurt anybody it’s just to stop these people walking that have no reason to be walking,”

Sir! Step back and lie on the ground! Your feet are a threat to the State of Louisiana! I'm going to need to confiscate them and you along with them.

Fuck these fascists and the spineless politicians who enable them.

If I asked 100 people what "ultimate driving experience" meant, I would get 43 different answers, 58 of them being people telling me it's bullshit nothingness.

If I asked 100 people what it meant for a car to be "full self-driving," 99 would say it means the car could fully drive itself. The final one is too busy sucking up to Elon.

Ahh, so the blocker is his companny lying to the feds about environmmental damanage and assessments. And I bet it will communicate with his "piece of shit"[0] solar shingles.

He is a charlatan piping away an entrancing tune to many gullible fools.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/26/22404639/elon-musk-tesla-...

The difference between saying your car is "the ultimate driving experience" and that your car has a "full self driving" mode is the difference between puffery and straight up fraud.

By describing the products in detail using their official trademarked and marketing names, this article is doing just as much advertising for Shell as Fortnite is.

The term "climate change" was literally created by conservative activist and Bush pollster Frank Luntz to confuse people about global warming and muddy the waters.

From his Wikipedia article:

> Although Luntz later tried to distance himself from the Bush administration policy, it was his idea that administration communications reframe global warming as climate change since "climate change" was thought to sound less severe.

Having access to a gun increases your chance of successfully completing suicide by almost an order of magnitude. This may not be exact numbers, but to first order, attempting suicide with methods other than guns have about a 10% success rate. Attempting suicide with a gun has a success rate closer to 90%.

We can council and support survivors of suicide attempts. We cannot bring a corpse back.

I know two guys who owned Volts for years and they both found them to be reliable and useful vehicles.

Whose anecdotes win here?

I've been writing HTML since the mid-90s and have been a professional web developer for a decade. I frequently reference the flexbox[0] and grid guides[1] from CSS Tricks. I have both of the summary sheets printed out and sitting on my desk. They are invaluable resources.

[0] https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/

[1] https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/complete-guide-grid/

From everything I could tell, one of the reasons Sen Feinstein was sticking around was that the GOP had indicated it would not allow Senate Democrats to replace her on the Judiciary committee. This would deadlock the committee, effectively stalling all judicial appointments and confirmations.

That was in the case of a retirement. This is a death and reappointment. I am unsure if the new Senator would assume Sen Feinstein's previous committee assignments, but all of my instincts around the Senate say no. So we are back in the position of relying on the GOP to allow the new Senator to fully serve and represent the 39 million citizens of California. If you know anything about the modern GOP and their despise for democracy, you know they will never let that happen.

Sorry, California, the 39 million of you only get 1.3 senators for the next 15 months. The 576 thousand people of Wyoming will still get their full 2.

It's been very obvious for years now on hacker news that anything critical of Musk, especially something showing how his companies abuse workers, gets immediately buried if it gets close to the top.

I'm not sure if it's a group of power users flagging these articles or if someone with more administrative control does it, but there is no question that someone or multiple people work to suppress anything that shines a negative light on Musk.

If a company is charging me a service or recovery fee that is a percentage of my bill, I am taking it out of the tip. If they want to use that money to pay the expense that is their employees, they can make it part of the cost of the food, just like everything else. It's not like I pay a separate lease fee or food inspection fee or menu printing fee or electrical hookup fee or whatever.

Paying your employees a decent wage is part of running a business. It's disgusting when bosses pull tricks like this to try to lay the blame on their employees.

Are Beanie Babies dead?

Are POGs dead?

Are S&Ls dead?

Are tulips dead?

The actual number is only 6 sentences into the article.

Elon Musk starred a fad. The other tech leaders had to get in on the fad or seem out-of-date. The thing about fads is you don't do them because they're useful or because you thought it out; you do it because everyone else is and you don't want to look stupid for being left behind.

Owners of tech companies aren't immune to the same foibles that drive all of us; they just have more money.

No

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About 0%. Looking at historical timelines, the rapid change we are seeing now is unprecedented. The forced heating lines up exactly with the additional C02 and methane we have pumped into the atmosphere.

We are causing this, full stop.

(No need to reply; you've already shown yourself to be a sarcastic asshole who sucks down a big glass oil company propaganda for breakfast. [Insert sarcastic winking emoji here])

Let's not beat around the bush. This is standard climate change denialism. It's the trope that there is nothing here to worry about because, who knows, the earth COULD have been warmer in the past and it still exists now. It's the same logic that would say that you've decelerated from 60 mph to 0 before without an issue, so you should be just fine after slamming your car into a brick wall.

They've been doing it for years. Everything you put on their servers is a source for them to train on. At FB Messenger in the mid to late teens, the suggestion and auto-reply models were trained on the entire corpus of unencrypted messages sent between users.

In other news, the local union of serial killers scrapped their plan to fund an independent homicide unit.

I see random right-wing gibberish has moved on from "Social Marxism."

A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The FSD confuses a firetruck for an empty lane and drive full-speed into the back of it. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we stop taking money for FSD? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the windfall we get for selling people something called "Full Self-Driving" that isn’t actually self-driving, we keep taking money for it.

> "There are no self-driving cars on the road today," the company said.

Says the company that makes a product literally called "Full Self-Driving." What a bunch of fucking lowlife charlatans. I surprised they didn't sign it with a smiling poop emoji.

> For Musk, its a prohibitive opportunity cost for him to have babies of his own vs enabling hundres of others doing the same.

The guy can almost field a basketball team with his kids from a string of different women. He obviously has no qualms having kids. Raising them on the other hand, seems to be too much of an opportunity cost to the self-proclaimed titan of industry.

I think it's really telling that every "pronatalist" in this piece is a man. It is quite easy to go around saying we need more babies when your contribution to the process is having sex, not actually growing the child and birthing it. Or, in Musk's case, leaving a string of them throughout the world whom you don't raise.

I don't know who you work for, but something tells me your boss didn't publicly fire a huge chunk of the engineering staff being like, "WTF are all these people good for? lol"