Happy New Year from SoCal! 2022 saw my net worth decrease by 90 percent as my newly ipo’d company's stock tumbled. Hoping the new year brings some better results!
Happy New Year from NorCal.
+1 for better results.
Tell HN: Happy New Year
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#132Happy new year from Ghana. I hope we find the wisdom, courage and strength to deal with the challenges of this year better than we did last year ♥♥
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#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
Peace is atrocities? and abhorrent? I read Orwell's 1984 in high school, and I never believed that we'd go there until now.
Your lack of being informed about the facts on the ground in the Russian occupied territories should not stop you from correcting that and reading up on it, then after you're done you can come back here and apologize to those in this thread that are under attack from Russian rockets as we write this . You can quote Orwell all day long but if you don't understand that one part of his view was that not standing up to t…
> you under then you
Apologies, insert 'is a mistake' between 'under then'.
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#136Happy New Year from Appalachia. My resolution is to be more diplomatic, and to actually use the domain I bought when I quit drinking 2+ years ago. (My issue was binging, not full blown alcoholism, but I tended to do that around stangers and it's bad to be drinking alone if for no other reason than calories -- same reason I don't keep chips in my house, heh, so why not keep the streak going I figure? But maybe should…
Strength to you, that is a tough one. My dad was a full-on alcoholic and could never kick the habit so I'm all for you managing that particular demon. Best of luck and I hope at the end of 2023 you can look back at a major accomplishment in that domain.
Sorry your dad went through that. I found out the other day someone I occasionally helped out during COVID died. He'd go in and out of detox, and beg for change in between -- I'd mistaken him for an homicide detective I knew of who fit his description, and decided to just play along with the ruse at first since there had been a murder nearby... then later found out it wasn't an act or a sting, he was just very down on his luck and would politely ask people for money so he could walk down to the state store and buy booze.
I found out he died when the guy who used to beat up the other homeless got back out of prison and showed up outside my PO box once again. I gave up on calling USPIS for that kind of thing long ago, and just handle things on my own, the police are absolutely useless unless there's a body lying on the street, and even then it better be a pretty white girl before anyone puts up a poster...
To swing it back to the drinking: it was more about anxiety to be honest. When I was young I'd eat a bunch of donuts at funeral luncheons or whatever, in a bar it was a bunch of Guiness -- I worry that stuff like AA gives people a license to go hog wild if they slip up a bit, I've met people with eating disorders who similarly freak out if they mess up some metric... it's not good to put people into all or nothing thinking, it makes them chase losses.
Anyways, my resolution was to be more diplomatic, and I'm already breaking that, so sorry -- I'm off to try and finish some writing. (Writing code just gets me into trouble, heh.)
Best wishes to you in 2023.
- Greg
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#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
A stop to weapons means capitulation by Ukraine, rewarding Russian imperialism and brutal aggression, and a repeat of the atrocities in 3-5 years. You are advocating for continuing atrocities, and it is abhorrent.
Peace is atrocities? and abhorrent? I read Orwell's 1984 in high school, and I never believed that we'd go there until now.
You're abusing the word "peace". Subjugation by a brutal dictator is not peace.
You're the one engaging in Orwellian doublespeak. Enslavement is negotiation. Tyranny is peace. Sacrificing another country from the comfort of your Australian home is peacemaking.
If Orwell were alive he'd throw his gin and tonic in your face and tell you never to utter his name again.
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#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
Peace is atrocities? and abhorrent? I read Orwell's 1984 in high school, and I never believed that we'd go there until now.
Your lack of being informed about the facts on the ground in the Russian occupied territories should not stop you from correcting that and reading up on it, then after you're done you can come back here and apologize to those in this thread that are under attack from Russian rockets as we write this . You can quote Orwell all day long but if you don't understand that one part of his view was that not standing up to t…
>Your lack of being informed about the facts on the ground in the Russian occupied territories
It is a bit hard to be well informed, since there are no "approved" journalists reporting from these territories. The only Western journalists there that I know of (Anne-Laure Bonnel, Anna Lipp and the rather hack-ish Patrick Lancaster) are not given much exposure on the mainstream channels. If you have not heard what they have to say, I suggest you correct that before warmongering any further.
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#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
Peace is atrocities? and abhorrent? I read Orwell's 1984 in high school, and I never believed that we'd go there until now.
You're abusing the word "peace". Subjugation by a brutal dictator is not peace. You're the one engaging in Orwellian doublespeak. Enslavement is negotiation. Tyranny is peace. Sacrificing another country from the comfort of your Australian home is peacemaking. If Orwell were alive he'd throw his gin and tonic in your face and tell you never to utter his name again.
No, Orwell would be shocked that his "war is peace" slogan took root in the West first.
Also, "ignorance is strength".
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#140Happy New Year from the Dominican Republic. My New Year's resolution is to drink less frequently, exercise more and learn to surf. How about yours?
I’m planning to smoke weed less frequently (daily -> weekly), get a job, exercise more, and learn to sail! Happy New Year!
My email is always open to any hacker news members with sailing ambitions.