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Re: No One Goes There Anymore

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Post by DoreenMichele »

cossray wrote: post #20
dang wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

DoreenMichele is a well-known HN user and many of her posts have appeared here. She often makes a new domain per blog topic, but I presume readers recognize her username. The upvotes seem organic, as far as I can tell. There's no issue. You've posted three dismissive comments to this thread. Could you please stop? If you don't like this reading material, there are 29 other articles on the front page, and don't miss t…

Dang, this is irrelevant to the topic but I needed to ask it. Are you an individual or several 'users/employees/maintainers' using the same username? Your omnipresent has always been intriguing to me

Like Doreen Traylor, Dan Gackle is a figment of your imagination. But he's very polite and well behaved, so he's a figment I enjoy being acquainted with via internet.

Re: No One Goes There Anymore

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Post by pmiller2 »

magicalhippo wrote: post #19
onemoresoop wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did I just get downvoted? What for?

FWIW that down arrow is dang close to the up arrow. I have miss-clicked more than once.

That's why there's an "undown" link now that's active for a limited period after you downvote. Similarly, there's an "unvote" link.

Re: No One Goes There Anymore

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Post by oars »

Does anyone know what this condition is? I may be living in a bubble but I have no idea what this is. Would love to do some more research myself to understand, and I'm glad my taxes are helping people like this out.

Re: No One Goes There Anymore

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Post by kulig »

magicalhippo wrote: post #30

When I see about half my paycheck going to taxes it feels a bit rough. But then I think of stories like this, and how easily it could have been me with an illness requiring expensive medical treatment and possibly preventing me from working regular jobs. And so I pay my tax with pleasure, knowing that if something were to happen to me or my fellow citizen, at least there wouldn't be millions of dollars in hospital bi…

I live in a country with plenty of socialized services, and when I see stories like this it seems to me like it's everyone for themselves in the USA. Seems kinda bleak.

Re: No One Goes There Anymore

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Post by code_duck »

"While homeless, my sons and I routinely tried to find out-of-the-way public tables. For purposes of germ control, we didn't want to eat in restaurants and homeless people aren't welcome in restaurants anyway. So we would get takeout and go find a table somewhere outdoors.

Much to our annoyance, this popularized some of our favorite out-of-the-way eating places."

I'm wondering what this means about how this happened. Did you write articles about these restaurants or review them online? How did getting takeout and eating at a table popularize these restaurants? Just because people saw you eating nearby?

Re: No One Goes There Anymore

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Post by code_duck »

magicalhippo wrote: post #30

When I see about half my paycheck going to taxes it feels a bit rough. But then I think of stories like this, and how easily it could have been me with an illness requiring expensive medical treatment and possibly preventing me from working regular jobs. And so I pay my tax with pleasure, knowing that if something were to happen to me or my fellow citizen, at least there wouldn't be millions of dollars in hospital bi…

As someone else with serious medical problems which have been paid for by public health systems, the financial difficulties of which are compounded by losing your ability to pay once ill, thanks! I would note though, for the purposes of fairness, it's a small percentage of your taxes that go to paying for such programs versus things like the military and interest on debt.

Re: No One Goes There Anymore

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Post by StavrosK »

oars wrote: post #33

Does anyone know what this condition is? I may be living in a bubble but I have no idea what this is. Would love to do some more research myself to understand, and I'm glad my taxes are helping people like this out.

Same here, I'm racking my brain to figure out what disease has these characteristics but I'm not coming up with anything.

Re: No One Goes There Anymore

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Post by thaunatos »

code_duck wrote: post #35

"While homeless, my sons and I routinely tried to find out-of-the-way public tables. For purposes of germ control, we didn't want to eat in restaurants and homeless people aren't welcome in restaurants anyway. So we would get takeout and go find a table somewhere outdoors. Much to our annoyance, this popularized some of our favorite out-of-the-way eating places." I'm wondering what this means about how this happened.…

I believe she meant that she popularized the tables/areas where he was eating, not the restaurants.

Re: No One Goes There Anymore

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Post by apta »

magicalhippo wrote: post #30

When I see about half my paycheck going to taxes it feels a bit rough. But then I think of stories like this, and how easily it could have been me with an illness requiring expensive medical treatment and possibly preventing me from working regular jobs. And so I pay my tax with pleasure, knowing that if something were to happen to me or my fellow citizen, at least there wouldn't be millions of dollars in hospital bi…

It's good and important to have a proper function healthcare system. However, we shouldn't fall into the false dichotomy fallacy. We don't have to pay 50% of our pay checks in taxes in order to provide good healthcare for all. It's just that some greedy people at the top will have to give up some of what they're making now.
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