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Now you're talking about something completely different than what you were talking about initially.

If something is worth doing it's worth doing. I'm glad for example the people trying to cure various diseases don't have the characteristic that you call humility but I reckon is s…

Your mother is so fat she can be both to your left and right side simultaneously.

"As a nudge in that direction, I've...downweighted the generic subthreads which were rising to the top like bloated balloons and crowding out more interesting discussion (as typica…

I'm surprised they didn't mention family. The last company I worked for, the daughters of one of the big-wigs were constantly getting promoted, even though they lacked any qualific…

I didn't realize that was an option - thanks for the hint.

It's strange to me how any censorship from Facebook is savaged on this site but I rarely see censorship on HackerNews criticized. This website habitually shadowbans people and cont…

It's extremely rad that you can trace your ancestry back 1000 years. I guess I don't have much else to add besides that, but I'm someone whose knowledge of their ancestry stops 2 g…

Modi reminds me a lot of Tayyip Erdogan. Erdogan famously said democracy is like a train in that you get off once you've arrived at your destination. I see similar impulses from Mo…

I certainly would have done the same, but there is a certain level of disdain I have toward these people with their faux outrage that is manufactured solely to maneuver themselves …

God forgive me for defending Facebook, but doesn't it seem like a government totally controlled by the Murdoch empire is essentially shaking down Facebook? If Facebook can't reach …

I feel like efforts like this is just a hamfisted example of preaching to the choir, a feel good bandaid for liberal worshippers at best. I don't see this affecting the minds of pe…

Because its the same thing as a person setting your house on fire then advising you not to breathe in the smoke. Advice like telling people we are drowning in plastic because we do…

I'd like to state I did not submit this to make any political statement. I simply had no idea this sort of ideology existed and found it interesting to say the least. The scenario …

Quite frankly I do not think people like Majorie Greene or Steve King being stripped of committee assignments sounds at all like a dictatorship. If anything I think that sentiment …

Am I alone in thinking the government reaction to this shows the complete ideological bankruptcy of supposed "free market" Republicans? When push comes to shove, they support gover…

That's pure speculation. We don't know what they would want, what they would do, how their society would be arranged. The only thing we know about a race of immortals is the fact t…

I would give so much to live in a society where people like Aubrey de Gray are heroes like Elon Musk is in ours. The fact that people die does not have to be immutable fate. We loo…

I wish this site would be less heavy handed when it comes to shadow banning. It seems like a significant number of comments ends up getting shadow banned and I find it both frustra…