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"self-evidently full of excrement their droppings" seemed both scornful and snarky to me. > a lot of postings here (or excerpts from them) are plainly BS In principle I agree because that's what human beings do, but I don't agree with your word "plainly". That implies that there exists an objective perspective that nearly everyone can easily agree on, as long as they're in good faith. But there's no such perspective—…
Thanks for writing this. Simple upvote is not enough, this was really great reminder how to navigate these messy topics.
Thanks for saying so! It's satisfying to get a positive response many days later.
In case it interests you, the above was a kind of variation on another mini-essay I wrote a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23308098.