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This is an old pattern going back a good decade at least in conservative circles.

Everybody ingests at least some of their worldview and opinions from external voices. That's a reality of humans trying to navigate a complicated messy world. But it was really shocking seeing family members hold reasonable view "A", until the local talk radio station sprays out "A bad, B good", and then bam, instant complete retroactive reversal like they never thought "A".

If I'm reading the user right, and I'm not positive I am, they're more framing the people who support the administration's (reprehensible) agenda as being on a revenge kick for losing a small amount of their original privileged status.

I think it's a fine argument to make, and I'd even agree -- it's just put really obliquely.

The finding here is that they're not enfringing, though

Sure, but I don't think I've called for aesthetics at all costs anywhere here.

This is exactly it: I know people who, whenever they see something funded through taxes that is anything beyond the absolute bare minimum, start grousing about money regardless of any actual underlying costs.

People wildly overestimate the costs of making things nice; penny-wise pound-foolish stuff.

I moved from a place that puts at least some effort into beautification to a place that slaps everything as cheaply and minimally together as possible. Both with significant freeze-thaw cycles.

I'm pretty pragmatic in general. I get the argument in the abstract. But having been on both sides, I know which is better.

But more to the point, the parent used a very bad example to make their point.

Minnesota native here. There's plenty of outdoor infrastructure decoration that does just fine in Minneapolis.

Kindly don't incorrectly use my home as justification for your beef with beauty.

I realize this makes me very unusual and this is probably not a good business idea, but I'd be happy to fly pod-hostel style. I don't mind being stacked as long as I get to lie down.

I still think it's possible we'll have free elections still, assuming the SAVE act fails.

If it passes, as a democracy we're probably failed beyond repair in my lifetime.

This is deeply detached from reality.

I assure you, private R&D is voraciously reading published publicly funded papers.

It's a significant PR issue that this misconception about how R&D works gets propagated ad nauseum.

Compounding the misfortune, it seems people are easily talked into choosing to not have to choose anymore

Consumer Reports is great. I love them. They inherently have a limited testing capacity, and are not even able to look at a quarter of current products in the categories I'm usually looking at.

They're just no substitute for things like Energy Star

Oh yeah, I got to meet Stallman at a book signing when I was like 17, and like an idiot happened to wear a "Linux" shirt.

I genuinely hadn't thought of this point of contention beforehand, but oof he did not care for that.

Anecdotally, playing Oblivion Remaster made me nostalgic for Creation. I have a beefy card and ample RAM, but it just runs like crap and I don't think it looks that much better than e.g. Starfield or Fallout 76

Not the parent, but I've spent enough time in the GRUB recovery shell trying to recover inexplicably corrupted GRUB installs even as recently as last year.

GRUB is shockingly fragile and painful to debug, though the recent movement on BLS hopefully will help with this.

At least for the 2024 election, I find it difficult to believe one could come to any other conclusion with all the rampant sane-washing that NYT, WaPo, etc. engaged in

The Monk & Robot books[1] are my personal favorites in the whole genre.

[1]: https://us.macmillan.com/series/monkrobot

VW and Audi MEB vehicles have an interesting difference: the ID.4 is limited to 100mph, while the Audi version with the same motors and platform is not limited to said speed.

The biggest change for me I've noticed is I'm vastly less likely to speed with a digital speedometer than with a dial spedometer. Adaptive cruise control also helps a lot

(I was never particularly a speed demon in the first place though)

> FB actually has a friend's feed which gets relatively little usage

I've never seen this, despite frequently being irritated with Facebook mainly showing me random shit I don't care about.

Companies always squirrel away the "works correctly" button and then are like whelp nobody is using the thing we hid! Nothing we can do!

My mom when I was growing up found any expression of same sex relationships to be outright pornographic.

I find it is best to be deeply deeply skeptical of anybody defending book censorship because frankly the most common pro-censorship movements in the present US use words like "sexualization" to mean things like "gay couples and trans people exist".

Normal people wouldn't agree with that definition, but they'll nod along with "kids shouldn't have access to sexual material", so that's the code word that pro-censorship camps used.

People only caring about immediate financial impacts is so deeply disheartening

"Fighting fascism is a full time job!"

— Lieutenant Shaxs

Bay leaves that aren't dessicated and crumbled to dust in the sad little spice jar are kind of magical

I don't know if this is a Poe's Law situation or not, so apologies if this is a satirical bit, but I'm horrified by the idea that you may be serious.

You joined in 2011.

Let me assure you: the trash can bully vibes were default here far before you were.

HN is fine for what it is, but it's never ever been good.

Been here since '09.

There are worse places on the internet, but HN's role first and foremost is to serve as advertising and a job board for YC. There's a structural bent away from anything that might be seen as harmful to that core purpose.

It's unfortunate.

The EO was signed in 2009.

The 2009-2011 Congress was Democratically controlled.

Obama did sign EO 13492 requiring Guantanamo to be closed, in fairness, with a deadline and everything.

He could have and should have done more, but the blame for that one mostly falls on Congress (at the time firmly controlled by Democrats) blocking said EO

Not to be blunt, but isn't this the end of habeas corpus, if the federal government can black bag anybody they want to without a trial, and then maintain they have no ability to obey judicial orders to return them?