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Denial/wishful thinking are extremely powerful. That said, body positivity shouldn't be thought of as having anything to say about objective physical health: there is zero reason a…

at the very least people would stop stealing catalytic converters, that's a win

Where does this strawman of art commentating come from? Loud people at parties? Have you ever read a good book on art theory or art history? By whom? Have you ever, as an artist, s…

I would ask if throwing out unfounded opinions normally works well for you in society, but I suspect it probably does. For the record, I reserve rude comments for the internet. I d…

Does it give you pause at all that this is, historically, a common way of thinking among authoritarians and fascists?

a slippery slope to significantly reduced gun deaths oh no

genuinely doing a bad job and sabotage look very similar

the only significant difference I've seen in brand-new devs from bootcamps vs CS programs is the devs from bootcamps are somewhat aware that they have a lot of learning to do

"Hell is my own code" still works in my case

FB/Google/etc. don't actually need to make correct inferences, they just need to provide infographics that say they are correct so that marketing departments can report to their su…

clearly this article is not meant for you

a big chunk of the people who read HN are the exact people responsible for the systems and algorithms that create (and perpetuate) the solipsistic hell-mirror described in the arti…

Discussions involve reading and considering and responding to people, not whatever it is you're doing

is there something wrong with that?

This is so much easier to read, thank you

that sounds very interesting; do you have any idea which book this was?

this is literalist, black and white thinking that is one of the foundations of fascism if there is a social conflict (and boy are there social conflicts), not talking about those s…

doubling down I see

your refusal to understand politics will not make politics go away

when you are part of a dominant social group this can indeed seem to be the case

using the word "woke" carries exactly zero weight with anyone other than people with the most basic primate-level understanding of social behavior or more simply: by using that wor…