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How do you learn to cope so well? Did you attend the Dugin College of psychotic delusion or something?

My understanding of why Europeans think the americas were pristine and barely touched by human existence is because smallpox was ahead of European explorers and by the time Europeans set foot on many places on the continent, they saw ecosystems that had recovered from human intervention after the local population had collapsed.

The US has the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act and I'm sure you can find similar laws elsewhere.

The problem is a law can be repealed any time. Might take some heavy lobbying to get there but nothing is impossible.

We want theories to be backed by more rigorous data precisely because "having run into this many times in their own lives" is not reliable. People's own perception is incredibly biased. We can see a bias at play in your very own closing sentence — "your study is bad if it doesn’t not confirm my existing belief" is plainly not science.

And who gives the oligarchs power if not a populace that prefers cheap goods to expensive ones, no matter the real cost?

All this talk about evil corporations selling out the west reminds me of the leftists "50 companies do all the pollution" bullshit. Who buys products from those companies? Who rewards lowering price at all costs?

Bad analogy. A phone book tells you nothing about who you are talking to or what you are talking about over the phone. Most free countries don't let law enforcement read letters without a warrant. And even in authoritarian states the police couldn't wiretap everyone or read every letter. The volume was simply too massive for any manual operation.

Digitalization and now AI technology changes this drastically because it makes it drastically cheaper to record and flag human communications.

I am not accusing you personally of advocating for eugenics. But whether or not you personally would do has little bearing on what society as a whole will do if given the ability.

It's like someone saying "but I would personally not gamble myself into bankruptcy" when his pro sports gambling legalization stance is challenged. Or like saying it's safe to keep a loaded gun in a house where his mentally unstable cousin lives just because he personally is responsible with firearms.

This article is just a rehash of the following source.

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/north-ame...

I don't know what their methodology is but it's hard to take their findings seriously when it shows windows dropping over five percentage points between may and June, or when Linux almost doubled during the same time period, or when it shows an "OS X" spike in October 2025, or when it has OS X and macOS on the same graph…

> Howdy, My ability to upvote comments was, for reasons unspecified, suspended. After a brief interaction with dang, it was temporarily restored. Then, again for unknown reasons, was suspended once again. So don't expect an upvote from me. I simply can't.

> Bravo, you spineless worm, salmon shill bastards.

And he wonders why.

I don't see how your point contradicts GP's. There is no reason why you can't have a reliable machine that sells a reliable daily or weekly pass with a nice design. The rest of your comment about Ubers seems to be just a massive straw man.

Tap to pay may work if you actually use your phone as your wallet. From what I see around me, most people don't. And on this website in particular you have surely seen people advocating for cash over privacy concerns. Nor would I be confident that my card will work flawlessly in another city half a planet away before I get there. I will buy a weekly pass from a machine, though, especially if it looks cute enough that I can bring it home as souvenir.

The idea that children should be the ones to receive "treatment" for their parents' disorder is the more ghoulish thing I have heard in a while. Not only that, but to take away the children's ability to decide too.

If a religious parent becomes sad and divorced because his child came out as gay, should conversion therapy be prescribed just so the parent can stay happily married?

> because nobody is forcing you to take the cure

History about autistic people or mentally ill people in general says otherwise.

Wouldn't be a substack article without some waddling around to make sure subscribers feel they get their money's worth.

Do you think 12yos have a right to stab each other to death? Why don't you support a knife ban if you don't want this to happen?

It's japan, baby.

Comparing price tags across Japan and the west is kind of meaningless now considering how much the yen devalued. I don't think the prices would look that good for a Japanese person paid in yen.

I mean, you are not just paying for food. You are paying for someone's time to make your food.

The eating out price shock since 2020 is IMO mostly a result of wage gains in the bottom earners outpacing those earning more.

I would prefer us to do it in a way that does not benefit zero effort marketing rags like this.

This website is obviously AI generated down to the "Number Noun, Number Noun" section headers, "authored" by someone with a questionable background. I don't know why HN keeps upvoting articles from it.

Apple to oranges. The problem with Flint was lead in municipal pipes, and it has been fixed since forever ago. The majority of US water usage is agricultural and that is only really an issue west of the Mississippi. They are completely separate concerns supported by completely separate infrastructures.

This has been a standard feature for nearly all non trivial search engines for at least two decades. I remember this being a feature when I first used google over two decades ago.

I'd like to live in a world where people only make art to serve a higher purpose. But we don't live in that world and never did. Before we had slop we had pulp — formulaic, low effort writing full of cliches of romance, lust, crime and adventure broke college students could churn out en masse to make a living.

I'd also recommend having a look at the books published by this article's author. I will admit that I have never read nor heard of any of them. But come on, just look at the books published covers and the way the author introduced them and tell me that they are not industrial products engineered for mass commercial appeal.

There has never been a time when open source isn't full of flame wars of one flavor or the other. Are we going to diagnose people with syetemd psychosis or X11 psychosis next?

There is nothing far fetched about this. GNU is an ideological organization and their ideology is "free software." Free software exists because of the copyright system. Now imagine if someone can just fork your GPL licensed software and distribute it under an incompatible license, and when you go to court, the judge tells you to punch sand because your codebase is all AI generated and therefore not copyrighted.

I am not saying this is not what will happen — the actual law seems to be still up in the air. But if it does happen it will be an existential threat to the GNU and the whole free software ecosystem.

"Use tax money to build us a new stadium, or we will relocate to Vegas. Do you want to be known by the voters as the governor who gave up our beloved sportsball team? No? Then better pay up."

I don't get the taxpayer line. It's a democracy. The taxpayers are the ones deciding what kind of policing we get.

If they don't want to foot the bills for police misconduct, maybe the taxpayers should elect someone who actually holds the police accountable and doesn't just blindly approve any policing budget and look the other way when the police wrongfully harms someone?

You can disable Internet access for millions instantly. You can't arrest millions.

Just tell the anti mask types the TV sticks come with CCP hacking software preinstalled.

> it does seem like a Too Good To Be True situation

It's difficult to judge the price of media products. We have legal music streaming services that charges you an album's worth of money a month and lets you listen to millions of songs. You can pick up old AAA games for less than ten bucks. I'd say when people say that price tag, they don't think they get scammed into being a part of a botnet. They think the device manufacturer cut a good deal with the media rights holders.

This is true for patreon but not substack. I personally know people who blog on substack not because they care about monetization — I mean, they hardly get any readers who are not a friend already — but because it is "the place" to put long form writing. I can't see the exact subscription number of substack, but if Pareto principle holds, I'd suspect most substack blogs don't have a monetization problem to solve because no one pay for them.