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wallst07on Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil

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

I think you maybe believing that War would not have happened or there was some other approach without war, ever? I'm sorry but such beliefs are as wishful thinking as buying the world a coke.

wallst07on Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil

I'm an idiot, what have we lost exactly? Soft Power?

wallst07on Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight

It's an opinion just like all the others here... every morning before US wakes up there are a bunch of articles by EU readers for EU readers patting themselves on the back for getting something built without US influence.

Inevitably it turns into the same tired discussions that either:

A) Actually, it's not completely EU because it has x% of American parts

B) America Bad

Then, the one person who comes in to give a different opinion is met with your comment. I see it constantly.

wallst07on Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight

Who is "(Frace)" and what are you talking about?

You all need to watch actions more than what people say.

wallst07on AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems

Claude asks me all the time when it's stuck, what are your prompts?

I think some of these anti-claude comments have some face, then I get a peek into how people use them, and it seems all wrong.

The tooling is incredibly configurable, but comes out of the box with a big auto button, because thats what people want. Doesn't mean advanced users have to use it.

wallst07on AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems

It's funny you mention this, I've worked for financial type systems where they spend considerable time removing any floats the from the code base.

I'll leave it up to the reader to figure out why this may be important.

wallst07on Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems

Are you talking about this particular topic, or all of them? Are you able to say one positive change current administration has purposefully done?

"I agree that it adds little to the conversation"

Do you think those comments should be flagged and [deleted] or they add value here and should be kept around?

wallst07on Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems

"defending the current administration, at this state, does take a level of bad faith"

So every topic regarding current administration is a bad faith argument on the proponent side? Or just this one?

wallst07on Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems

It's clearly a nuanced topic that requires debate in good-faith, no?

So why is it flagged and not debated? If all counter points are flagged, then there is no discourse. The only discourse is all the people who agree with each other.

wallst07on Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems

It's a spectrum, so we'll just debate what the votes are for.

Do I want to see more of them, probably not. Does it deserved to be flagged, absolutely not.

wallst07on GPT-6 Astra

Does that key work for all VWAG cars? VW, Porsche, Audi..? Thank you!

wallst07on Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems

"Their job is whatever the government tells them it is"

Sounds like authoritarianism.

wallst07on Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems

So like spam mail, but much less volume?

wallst07on Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems

1 is flagged

2 Is a statement with a link. What is wrong with it? https://news.gallup.com/poll/652523/americans-endorse-early-...

Requiring all voters to provide photo identification at their voting place in order to vote Democrats: 67%

wallst07on Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems

You don't get it, or are not following through. The thread started with why a Conservative wouldn't post here. It's simple, it's not worth getting comments downvoted or flagged for having an unpopular opinion [not nationally but here].

You will say it's not a reasonable opinion, it's hate or fear and should be downvoted/flagged, but that is incorrect and exactly what leads to echo chambers. Which is ironic because HN is usually very pro-speech/thought... or used to be.

wallst07on Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems

The thread is about general echo chamber / liberal bias though, not specifically on USPS/voter fraud.

Any/Every discussion that makes the top page on HN about politics will flood out most of the conservative discussion, further most of the comments are echo chamber 'me too, Trump fascist' that adds very little to the conversation.

wallst07on Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems

"If you talk to Trump supporters in real life, they are not having nuanced discussions about the state of our country, they are completely tuned out to what is going on."

Really, where exactly? I'd say 100% polar opposite. I live in a county that has voted for a R president almost every election, and the conversations are very different. There is a lot of disagreement, but it's usually the disagreement on the HOW not the WHAT.

wallst07on True Rate of Unemployment

It holds up outside if costal urban areas, there are plenty of places where you can get a 2b/2ba home with garage with that salary.

You can't get it in high cost states like CA, NY etc...

wallst07on True Rate of Unemployment

"It's difficult in the US to really not have access to nutritious food."

You mean it is easy to get access to nutritious food?

wallst07on True Rate of Unemployment

You have a very negative biased tone in your wording that makes it difficult to refute your claims.

Further, you keep shifting the goal posts on the discussion from

Living->Surviving->Food insecure (claiming not enough to eat)>"affordable nutritious"

Opinion: 50k/yr (outside urban areas) is enough for a family of 4 to have necessities and eat healthy, America is still the land of opportunity.

wallst07on Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony

No, try reading it again.

"a legal "Research Chemical" with effects similar to MDMA (Methylone/bk-MDMA)"

Someone that is quick to assume without reading could easily make this mistake.. there are my research chemicals that are not technically categorized and not MDMA.

Read about Sasha to start https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Shulgin

wallst07on Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony

Survivorship bias... many people don't, the stories of the few that do are impressive and worthy of hearing.

wallst07on APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing original playback discs

"id pay to watch mkbhd" to "fuck that smartphone reviewer guy, dont give a shit about him and hope he gets hit by a bus"

That escalated quickly... Are you ok?

wallst07on Wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026

Absolute values matter more IMO. Any time people use % or per capita, it means they live in a city. I see this quite often, and it's just a way to skew rhetoric.

Just my opinion.

wallst07on Wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026

Texas produces more wind and solar than any other state, what are you talking about?

wallst07on Wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026

"Plenty"

Plenty of people stick things in their butt and go to the emergency room. So what.

wallst07on Wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026

You are the one using the term woke, it's no where in the article.

The only people using these terms with regards to solar is terminally online people or people who watch 24/7 news.

Texas has more solar capacity than California, does that make Texas woke?

wallst07on Wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026

Do you realize you are part of the global culture war by posting your comment?

Did you know Texas produces more solar energy than California? https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05032026/inside-clean-ene...

wallst07on The dead economy theory

FB finally got me with this. I refused to install any social media apps, but had to get messenger as I was missing important messages. So it's the only one I have.

wallst07on The dead economy theory

I think it's more like 7500 to 2800.