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For the past 30 years, cars have been "good enough". This idea that one manufacturer is "vastly" better than another is nonsense. All care manufacturers are vastly better today tha…

So weird. RFK is now in charge of this stuff for humans, and is anti-vax, but apparently our gov't thinks vaccines are fine for chickens.

On the one hand, I disagree with her, because I believe that 99.99% of people with purse string control are dumb a/f, and that "real work" will happen in the cloud of VC/Politician…

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Probably Proud Boys, Patriot Prayer, or some other new fascist militia.

I would make fun of this as a PE event, but when I graduated high-school (US) we were still wearing parachute pants and break dancing to the Fat Boys. So I'll refrain from throwing…

When I was at Intel in the late 90's, early 2000's, one CPU project decided it was going to use it exclusively. It was agonizing: slow, terrible UI, buggy, missing a lot of feature…

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I tried blogging in the mid-2000's about drones. I was documenting my experience building drone flight controllers (mind you I was using Cortex-M3 cores and early 3-axis IMUs) and …

Sorry, I was refering to Hacker News, not all social media. My question was unclear. 1. HN is centralized, but not for-profit. 2. HN does not drive engagement, AFAIK 3. HN is not s…

Ah, thanks. That's a good answer. I was coming at it from the discussion angle only. However, both Usenet and HN don't allow you to friend people, like other social media. I see I …

I really would like to know what exactly you consider a "clear difference" between how Usenet and differ conceptually (e.g., ignoring the GUI, the # of users, and mechanics, [e.g.,…

We're literally socializing right now. We're a special interest group meeting to communicate about special interests. The opposite of socialization is isolation. If you hadn't post…

Isn't this something that marginalized groups have had to deal with since their existence? I mean, there's a reason why in the US black men die at higher rates from heart disease a…

Why do you exclude HN from your list? It is literally social media, but with the dial turned down a little. Yet, you don't have to dig to deeply to see flamewars, outrage, and trol…

Comparing dragons to 3d internet chat rooms is kinda funny. Arthurian dragons have largely been the same beasts for, oh, 1000 years. 3d internet chat rooms in Snow Crash have been …

the "weirdos" had no problem humiliating anyone who tried to skate with them that they deemed a "poser". please actually read my comment next time.

"Skaters skate not gatekeep people" That's the overstatement of the century. In group / out group always has gatekeepers by definition. Not sure where you grew up, but I sold skate…

Hanes 3 packs at Target. $17.99.

Let's look at the reply: "It's not just commodification. If you were a punk in the 80s with a green mohawk, you might find it cute to put one on your kid in the 2000s. I have long …

Yes! That's my one good use! :) Seriously, that's all I got.

Here's one good use: I looked into leaving the US to become a citizen elsewhere. I have about $15MM in my retirement. I would have to pay a penalty on my taxes for early withdrawal…

Selling a speculative investment for a necessity screams: "I don't understand personal finance."