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New comment by SirFatty in "A forgotten social media post may hold key clues to Covid-19's origin"

SirFatty — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:12:27 +0000

Look, that virus was ready to spread without any mutations. As if it was packaged to do so.

Not sure why there is pushback on this idea (remember the media buried this as a story), lab leaks are a common occurrence unfortunately.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12835948/

New comment by SirFatty in "A forgotten social media post may hold key clues to Covid-19's origin"

SirFatty — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:56:59 +0000

And I still think the lab leak is the most likely source.

New comment by SirFatty in "Reading the news is the new smoking"

SirFatty — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:40:55 +0000

It's not the news that's the problem, but the news providers. The way things are presented, the frequency which the news is presented are designed to mess with your emotions.

For me, removing myself from Facebook (2010) and Twitter (2023) was the best thing I have ever done for my mental health.

New comment by SirFatty in "Why Does Everyone Hate AI?"

SirFatty — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:39:03 +0000

Why does everyone exaggerate?

New comment by SirFatty in "Show HN: Make your game multiplayer in one prompt"

SirFatty — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:06:51 +0000

:-D

New comment by SirFatty in "Mark Zuckerberg directed Meta to create a prediction markets app"

SirFatty — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:02:03 +0000

no.

New comment by SirFatty in "Mark Zuckerberg directed Meta to create a prediction markets app"

SirFatty — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:00:32 +0000

Right after a nap...

New comment by SirFatty in "AI's Affordability Crisis"

SirFatty — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:36:57 +0000

"Crisis"

New comment by SirFatty in "DHL Set to Transport Goods on New Wind-Powered Cargo Ships"

SirFatty — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:48:41 +0000

Maybe they might not be restricted to Long Beach or Port Newark.

New comment by SirFatty in "LLMs do not merely reflect the bias of their training, they police it (2025)"

SirFatty — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:40:13 +0000

And you seem pretty upset about it. You should send him an email letting him know about your dissatisfaction!

New comment by SirFatty in "Britain's prime minister to step down, Burnham puts himself forward as successor"

SirFatty — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:38:22 +0000

"not dreaming or having internal thoughts."

Internal thoughts or internal voice?

New comment by SirFatty in "NSA director: 'Mythos "broke into almost all of our classified systems in hours""

SirFatty — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 12:21:29 +0000

Very insightful.

New comment by SirFatty in "Designing a backyard deck for my house"

SirFatty — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 10:45:36 +0000

Trees are planted way to close to the deck. Looks nice now, sure, it'll be a regret later.

New comment by SirFatty in "AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs"

SirFatty — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:51:19 +0000

I don't think you got it... it's a lazy way of writing headlines, and as someone else pointed out, it's an AI thing. Search news.google.com for silently or quietly and be amazed how many hits there are.

New comment by SirFatty in "AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs"

SirFatty — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:41:01 +0000

"silently"

Everything is done silently and quietly nowadays.

New comment by SirFatty in "Commodore Releases Flip Phone"

SirFatty — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:34:29 +0000

I guess you only saw whatsapp in my comment and missed the rest of it.

New comment by SirFatty in "Commodore Releases Flip Phone"

SirFatty — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:33:07 +0000

re-read my comment.. you're confused about what my response means apparently.

New comment by SirFatty in "Commodore Releases Flip Phone"

SirFatty — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 11:44:03 +0000

maps exist, you must have missed that... as for whatsapp, I have never used it once, and yet my phone provides "real use" (whatever that means).

New comment by SirFatty in "Fox to buy Roku"

SirFatty — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:02:34 +0000

"I never liked the idea of Roku since I always felt like they could "go away at any moment" since that is all they sold basically."

That's odd since they've been around for 23 years. I would understand that stance 20 years ago.

New comment by SirFatty in "Cheap Iranian drone downed $25M US Army helicopter–maybe by chance"

SirFatty — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:49:19 +0000

Unlike Iran and Ukraine, the US military weapons are not manufactured in someone's garage or basement.