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Ephemeral is developing tattoo ink designed to disappear after a year

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Re: Ephemeral is developing tattoo ink designed to disappear after a year

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Post by solipsism »

antihero wrote: post #126
solipsism wrote: post #25

Oh good, even more barbed wire biceps, carp sleeves, black fore-arm stars, "tribal" patterns on white dudes, spiderwebs, hummingbirds, infinity symbols, and other ways for people to show how eager they are to express their "individuality"! Edit: Down-vote me if I offend your tattooed rebellious self-image, it's fine, but there's a real point to be made. This technology will lead to a lot more tattoos, and a lot more…

Alternatively, stop giving a fuck and let people do what they hell they want with their bodies. If you see yourself as above them because of it, that's your business.

I would never try to tell anyone what to do with his or her body. Would you try to tell someone what he should or shouldn't do with his mind?

Re: Ephemeral is developing tattoo ink designed to disappear after a year

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Post by CydeWeys »

pyre wrote: post #138
vacri wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wouldn't equate those two, no. But it's also worth mentioning that it's common in the natural world for prey to spend hours dying (and more rarely, days or even weeks). The idea that a 'natural predator' death means a quick death is a myth. Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't.

Using that as an excuse for (or in defence of) your own actions is akin to saying "he's doing it, so why can't I?" though.

The point is that you keep making leaps of logic in order to knock down strawmen, rather than addressing the actual substantive arguments at play.

My point is that a pig in captivity that is treated well and protected from predators, oh and that happens to get tattoo or two, is still doing better than a pig out in the wild, which is subject to much worse things happening to it. The pigs in captivity even get health care!

Re: Ephemeral is developing tattoo ink designed to disappear after a year

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Post by Chris2048 »

pyre wrote: post #139
Chris2048 wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's only specious if your interpretation is correct. > Getting a tattoo isn't even close to the worst thing that can happen Isn't the same as "it's ok"; or "anything up to" (the distance is mentioned, implying it might be relevant to context).

I'm not sure you would find anyone in agreement of a defence of the Iraq War that was along the lines of "It could be worse, just look at the Holocaust!" Pointing to something else and saying "it could be worse" isn't a defence of the actions in question. It's something along the lines of "passing the buck."

It sounds like you are reducing OP to a binary, with us or without us - on the attack or or the defense. This is the discourse of binary politics, and that's why there is no nuance to discussions of the Iraq war.

Re: Ephemeral is developing tattoo ink designed to disappear after a year

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Post by wpietri »

solipsism wrote: post #130
wpietri wrote: post #94

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No, that's not calling you names. (That would be "You are a dick.") It's describing your behavior. "Being a dick" is a term of art. For many years, Wikipedia had a useful page called "Don't be a dick": https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Don%27t_be_a_je... They've more recently renamed it "don't be a jerk", so if your delicate sensibilities can't handle my original comment, feel free to read it as "jerk". In…

Grow up, man. It's unbelievable you'd spend your time arguing that "don't be a dick" isn't name-calling. This is third-grade material. Imagine what the teacher would say to a student making this argument... and apply it to yourself. Maybe take a step back. Someone expressed an opinion you didn't like, but one that didn't attack anyone personally. You proceeded to immediately call that person a dick -- oh, sorry, you…

I like that you devote 3 paragraphs to my choice of 1 word, even though I already offered another, without ever touching on my point: your bad behavior. You are definitely a reasonable interlocutor whose opinions I take seriously.

Re: Ephemeral is developing tattoo ink designed to disappear after a year

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Post by wpietri »

dang wrote: post #136
solipsism wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Grow up, man. It's unbelievable you'd spend your time arguing that "don't be a dick" isn't name-calling. This is third-grade material. Imagine what the teacher would say to a student making this argument... and apply it to yourself. Maybe take a step back. Someone expressed an opinion you didn't like, but one that didn't attack anyone personally. You proceeded to immediately call that person a dick -- oh, sorry, you…

Your comments have been breaking the HN guidelines in quite a few ways. Please stop posting personal attacks, going on about downvoting, being snarkily dismissive, and posting comments with no substance in them. Yes, calling you the d-word was also against the "please don't call names" rule (at least arguably). https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

Noted. I'll be more circumspect in the future. Thanks for mentioning it.
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