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tosstoyevskyon Indian government sites are serving revoked eMudhra certificates

Good point, your 4 Wikipedia links totally disprove the trend.

tosstoyevskyon Autism makes travel a challenge. Here’s how I learned to cope

How would you feel if you didn’t have breakfast today?

tosstoyevskyon Today Is One of the Biggest Surveillance Votes. Will the FBI Stop Spying?

Good point.

tosstoyevskyon Ask HN: What is one book you would recommend everyone to read?

For the Art of War? If you need a trigger warning for a book that’s been around for 2500 years you should stick to Golden Books.

tosstoyevskyon The coin that could avert a federal debt default

It would ‘avert’ the default like another bottle will ‘avert’ a hangover ie delay and make much worse.

tosstoyevskyon Facebook to buy $100M small business invoices owned by women and minorities

Until they buy your student loan debt.

tosstoyevskyon Australian gov to use facial recognition and GPS tracking to enforce quarantine

At what point do you kill those that dare live their lives? This happened a generation ago to my people, they said we carried typhus and needed to be cleansed for the public health. Never again, huh?

tosstoyevskyon Australian gov to use facial recognition and GPS tracking to enforce quarantine

The people aren’t to blame for an extreme government overreach.

tosstoyevskyon Facebook to buy $100M small business invoices owned by women and minorities

That’s a big PR spin to position becoming a debt collection agency into helping women and minorities.

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I'm sure they'll send them to quarantine camps for their own good.

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NIH must mean National Institute of Horses?

tosstoyevskyon Why do they burn a man at Burning Man?

They’ve been burning Zozobra in Santa Fe since the 20s. Not a music thing per se, but a symbolic burning. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zozobra

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Private platform for thee, but not for me!

tosstoyevskyon Is Your Oven Stuck on 350 Degrees? It’s Not Broken, It’s in Sabbath Mode

חה חה!

tosstoyevskyon Delta Air: Employees must be vaccinated or pay health insurance surcharge

It never ceases to amaze me that the little techno-fascists will instantly downvote something that goes against corporate or government narrative.

tosstoyevskyon Delta Air: Employees must be vaccinated or pay health insurance surcharge

And for those with high BMI? What about those who engage in risky sex? This seems to be more about punishment for noncompliance than any health cost offsets.

tosstoyevskyon Masking Emotions: Face masks impair how we read emotions

Do we require the same of people who are overweight and refuse to lose weight to achieve a healthy BMI? What about people who have risky sex? No health resources as they're dying of AIDS?

tosstoyevskyon NASA investigates renaming James Webb telescope after anti-LGBT+ claims

You can bet that even the “best people” held some unpopular view. I’m sure they used words that would be considered terrible by today’s standards.

It’s the same as going all the way back to the beginning of someone’s Twitter account to find a rap lyric quote to get them fired.

Even the most cautious careful views today may look terrible 100 years from now.