Show HN: Forty.News – Daily news, but on a 40-year delay

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Nov 23, 2025, 11:04 AM UTC

bodhi_mind wrote: post #96

komali2 wrote: post #93

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> chosen” historically means chosen for responsibility, not privilege. > moral responsibility Yes, this is identical to how it was stated by the three separate Israelis I had this conversation with that said it exactly this way. I ask genuinely if you understand this: Do you see how believing that a supreme being has granted "your people" a moral responsibility could easily lead to any actions "your people" do being…

You’re right that claims of being “chosen” can be misused, but in classical Judaism it means chosen for personal moral responsibility, not automatic virtue or supremacy. The phrase “light unto the nations” emphasizes modeling justice, compassion, and humility through your own actions. Anyone who interprets it as justification for harming others or claiming inherent superiority is a fringe distortion, not representati…

Post by lexoj » Sun, Nov 23, 2025, 11:31 AM UTC

Post by dmurray » Sun, Nov 23, 2025, 12:15 PM UTC

tptacek wrote: post #111

Aeolun wrote: post #89

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Ok, the big problem in this whole thing is assymetrical nature of the thing. The Israelli military is a military funded and shaped by the US one, and it’s a mammoth in all the ways that matter. Hamas, after years of being supressed, is a group of militants with handguns. The Isrealli response to those terrorist with guns killing and abducting some of their people, was to flatten and impose collective punishment on th…

Hamas was an aspiring near-peer military force with a conventional order of battle and a multilayered supply chain. It obviously was not "militants with handguns". (It hasn't been militarily meaningful for over 18 months; you could call it that today! If what you are, principally, is angry about war crimes in Gaza, you have ample evidence to muster without telling fairy tales about what the situation was in 2023.) Yo…

Post by tarsinge » Sun, Nov 23, 2025, 12:25 PM UTC

culi wrote: post #7

jonplackett wrote: post #3

> Secretary Rejects Emergency Antibiotics Ban in Animal Feed Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret M. Heckler on Wednesday refused to impose an emergency ban on the use of antibiotics in animal feed. Mrs. Heckler denied a petition filed by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), which had sought to shorten the process by asking the secretary to declare an 'imminent hazard' to public health. Declaring an…

It's funny that this site's tagline is "Exactly 40 years back, these felt huge. See how they landed with time." but so many of these stories are still just as alarming. If anything it often feels like we should've cared more. At the very least done more

Post by o_pax » Sun, Nov 23, 2025, 12:43 PM UTC

qnleigh wrote: post #39

I've always wanted a news source with a 4 week delay. This would filter out so much of the noise: rage bait articles about what a politician said, articles about what -may- happen that just promote doomscrolling... Wikipedia sort of does this, but you have to know which articles to look at (though on the upside, you get a lot more historical context). If something isn't worth knowing about one month later, it probabl…