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mynameishereon California teacher dies from suspected rabid bat bite

I've walked through swarms of bats without a care in the world. You came within ten feet of a sleeping bat and put your family through a medical grinder. Different strokes.

mynameishereon Trump wins presidency for second time

Ten million illegals allowed to enter in 3.5 years, plus God knows how many "asylum" seekers is more than about "cultural".

mynameishereon Trump wins presidency for second time

His supporters realize he is a blowhard and adjust accordingly. Shut down a TV network? Lock her up? It's BS. I don't like it much, but for him it's a rhetorical device.

By contrast when Biden calls me garbage, I'm pretty sure he means it.

mynameishereon It's not just obesity. Drugs like Ozempic will change the world

If people were compelled to take Ozempic to keep their jobs, there would be "issues".

mynameishereon Who died and left the US $7B?

I always wondered if there was a way to effectively "burn" one's entire wealth, creating a small deflationary event that would increase the value of existing dollars. How could one do this? Donate to the Federal Reserve? Or would you literally have to cash everything out and burn it?

mynameishereon Possible cluster of human bird-flu infections expands in Missouri

Like when Ebola was discovered near the Ebola River, it got the name "Ebola", which made everyone hate and loathe residents of the area around that river. Or Marburg, Germany, which became anathema after the Marburg Virus emerged. Or the "Hong Kong Flu" which nearly killed Lyndon Johnson (and did kill many others) and whose name resulted in the longstanding economic depression in Hong Kong. Even today people avoid Spain because of the dreaded Spanish Flu. I could go on.

mynameishereon Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon

Israel used letter bombs for a long time to assassinate and terrorize. People didn't stop using the mail because of that, but upgraded their opsec.

mynameishereon USPS' long-awaited new mail truck makes its debut to rave reviews from carriers

Does anyone know how USPS/UPS/Fedex trucks can start and stop their engines over and over and over without running down the batteries? Do they have 400 amp/hour monsters installed and recharge them at the depot, or what?

mynameishereon Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky

I learned that tweets by nobodies on topics such as Hunter Biden's laptop or Russiagate or Israel's behavior in Gaza have more credibility than the entire mainstream media. I fully understand the danger of lies (more than you ever will) and that is precisely why I support free speech for ordinary people.

mynameishereon Fake job interviews are securities fraud

Umm, almost every media outlet does that.

By the way, this whole thing is like the "He" in the bible:

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

mynameishereon Why don't they compose music like Bach any more?

I believe students of composition will usually "cover" that era and intentionally write music like Bach, but it would be very strange if the teacher then said, "That's it. That's the pinnacle. Now, get working on your resumes."

mynameishereon The cutest monopoly: Koala Kare

I await your Subaru Outback rant.

But really, imagine how made-in-Mexico Mexicans feel about Taco Bell. It's just marketing.

mynameishereon The Migrants Spending $72,000 to Illegally Immigrate to the US

I think he's referring to illegal aliens voting illegally (which does happen sometimes) or, once they become legal through whatever means, they will become reliable Democrats. Or, their children will do the same. One way or the other, replacement-Americans tend to support the left. Always have. It's proveable.

Also, these sorts of shenanigans:

https://www.npr.org/2021/12/15/1064385999/new-york-city-will...

mynameishereon Canadians are angry with their biggest supermarket

Some variation of that in nearly every "Western" country. East Asian countries have similiar challenges with low birth rates, but aren't targeted for demographic replacement for totally mysterious reasons

mynameishereon Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment?

That's not bikeshedding, but the product of these types:

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

...bikeshedding is when you have that all-day, all-teams meeting where marketing and design and management argue about whether to put X content in the header or footer.

mynameishereon Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years ago

Try that at a coffeeshop open mic night where they don't have a BMI license.

mynameishereon Guys what is wrong with ACATS

What is this song that he mentions but never seems to name or link to?

mynameishereon Confronting Another Axis? History, Humility, and Wishful Thinking

A return to isolationism would be best. The next 1000 years belong to China, for demographic reasons--this or that sort of "Great Game"-style meddling won't fix anything.

It didn't need to be this way, of course.

mynameishereon Woman Made Her Home Inside a Grocery Store's Rooftop Sign, Police Say

The US has had extraordinarily high mass immigration (both legal and illegal) for decades.

mynameishereon DoL: Modernizing Schedule A to Include Consideration of Additional Occupations

I wonder what it's like to live in a country full of people you hate, and want to destroy economically. It doesn't seem like a fulfilling life.

mynameishereon Webb captures iconic Horsehead Nebula in unprecedented detail

Does anyone know why wolframalpha is plotting this with cute little arrows?

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=plot+%28x%2Cy%29+%3D+%2...

mynameishereon Don't bet on the joys of pokies (2011)

just pushes it underground

Why is this an argument? So push it underground. As a rule, old folks aren't going to take their pensions to Fast Freddy's strip club backroom poker nights. People think that because a law doesn't work 100 percent, it shouldn't exist.

mynameishereon All-cash offers, wealthy buyers push Southern California home prices to a record

If it happens at the state level it will be YIYBY.

mynameishereon All-cash offers, wealthy buyers push Southern California home prices to a record

Ten years for a dual income to afford a down payment. Nuts. With ten years of savings I could buy two houses where I live, and I don't make that much. How people in CA stand it I don't know.

mynameishereon Student debt is haunting Americans from graduation to retirement

It's wild watching the Democratic party engage in brazen class warfare. "Did you go to work in a factory instead of going to college? Good news, you're paying for college anyway!"

Obviously, a levy on college endowments would be a better path, though still bad.

mynameishereon Steven Levitt and John Donohue defend the abortion-crime hypothesis

People who consistently use birth control tend to be less impulsive and more future-oriented than people who have to resort to abortion (a last-resort form of birth control). ie, the type of people who aren't your typical criminals. That would be the thinking, I suppose. For my part, I think mass incarceration is probably the main reason for crime going down.

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They're really going all-in with this 2+2=5 stuff, aren't they? And not just Scotland, but all over the place. Seems pretty coordinated.

mynameishereon Notes on El Salvador

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

All governments are basically mafioso. Consider the existence of national security laws of every government. These are a kind of legal Omertà.

mynameishereon House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner or ban the app

So much trash and they ban this trash because China controls it. I honestly can't think of one thing China has done to harm me. The people who control the US media, however...

mynameishereon Meta outage

The primaries are pretty well decided, so I suppose the conspiracy would be "trial run".