Hacker News: Whoppertime

New comment by Whoppertime in "Lottocracy: Democracy Without Elections"

Whoppertime — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 19:50:47 +0000

This seems like an easy proposal, but I don't see many case studies of it being successfully implemented.

New comment by Whoppertime in "Trump Returns to Gasoline as Fuel of Choice for Cars"

Whoppertime — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 17:39:45 +0000

https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statement... When Biden increased the tariff on Chinese EVs from 25% to 100%, and doubled the rate of tariffs on Chinese solar cells it seemed clear to me what was going on. It's not about cheap electronic vehicles with these people. They don't want poor people to drive. Let them eat cake has become let them drive Tesla's. If the cheapest GM or Ford EV is $60,0000 and the cheapest Chinese EV is $30,000 well that 100% tariff solves that problem. It's coastal elites who want more prestige.

New comment by Whoppertime in "How Kit Kat Was Killed: Video Shows What a Robot Taxi Couldn’t See"

Whoppertime — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 17:33:54 +0000

Most people I know have jobs they do for money not for free.

New comment by Whoppertime in "How Kit Kat Was Killed: Video Shows What a Robot Taxi Couldn’t See"

Whoppertime — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 17:32:16 +0000

If we lowered the speed limit to 20 miles per hour country wide we would be a lot closer to zero deaths. But at what cost? We live in an imperfect world of trade offs, not perfect solutions. Even requiring people to wear seatbelts has a cost

New comment by Whoppertime in "The Married Scientists Torn Apart by a Covid Bioweapon Theory"

Whoppertime — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 17:27:21 +0000

The Wet Market theory seems to have some racist implications about Chinese people eating bats sold at wet markets. It completely ends one line of discussion by pushing another angle.

New comment by Whoppertime in "Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode"

Whoppertime — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 23:50:31 +0000

What happened to the local newspaper when most advertising went broadcast or digital? There are some local newspapers who clung onto life, but without ads local print news went the way of the dodo.

New comment by Whoppertime in "Rockstar employee shares account of the company's union-busting efforts"

Whoppertime — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 22:09:49 +0000

It's like being a first party for a Video Game Console. Gabe Newell having a billion in Yachts, Bill Gates might have a billion dollars tied up in Real Estate. It has less to say about the personal greed of Gabe Newell and more to say about the relative size of the market.

New comment by Whoppertime in "Rockstar employee shares account of the company's union-busting efforts"

Whoppertime — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 20:12:41 +0000

The only reason EpicGameStore was able to rise as a competitor to Steam was because of the Billions Fortnite was earning.

New comment by Whoppertime in "It's just a virus, the E.R. told him – days later, he was dead"

Whoppertime — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 02:44:04 +0000

And voters 4 years ago voted for an open border which filled emergency rooms and denied American Citizens from recieving treatment in American Hospitals. The emergency room wait times have been dropping since January of this year

New comment by Whoppertime in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

Whoppertime — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 01:27:48 +0000

Well I haven't heard stories about transgender people being lynched in bathrooms during the 1950s or 1960s. I haven't heard stories about Transgender athletes during that time breaking records either. It's a euphemism, people can read into it what they like. I would expect at some level he meant shaming and bullying

New comment by Whoppertime in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

Whoppertime — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 01:21:20 +0000

Isn't that what happened in 1994? We debated if what was happening in Rwanda was genocide. We debated if there was Genocide in Bosnia between 1992-1995. And then debate what to do about it if we do recognize it as genocide

New comment by Whoppertime in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

Whoppertime — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 01:11:50 +0000

The shooting was in a gun free zone. Passing more laws isn't going to accomplish anything if existing laws aren't enforced.

New comment by Whoppertime in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

Whoppertime — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 01:07:02 +0000

https://youtu.be/0r_xc09q9vo

New comment by Whoppertime in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

Whoppertime — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 00:29:12 +0000

Evil people are going to use whatever tools they can get their hands on to commit mass murders. Whether it is flying planes into the world trade center, a truck into a crowded market, or shooting up Charlie Hebdo for publishing cartoons of Mohammed. These barriers can be overcome by the ideologically motivated. Japan has very strict gun control and Shinzo Abe was still assassinated by a firearm, even if it was an improvised one

New comment by Whoppertime in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

Whoppertime — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 23:53:44 +0000

And if we got the horrific photos after the Nice truck attack or the Christmas Market attack in Germany we might realize that being killed by a truck is no less horrifying.

New comment by Whoppertime in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

Whoppertime — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 23:02:56 +0000

It wasn't just black people being lynched. The largest single mass lynching in American history was of Italians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1891_New_Orleans_lynchings

New comment by Whoppertime in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

Whoppertime — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 21:57:27 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Codes_(United_States) After the Civil War many Democrat dominated Southern state governments enacted Black Codes that regulated virtually every aspect of freed people’s lives. A common element was restricting possession and carrying of firearms by Black people (or by anyone without a license), often implemented through local ordinances, licensing requirements, or explicit prohibitions. The Black Codes precede the Mulford Act by a hundred years.

New comment by Whoppertime in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

Whoppertime — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 19:56:44 +0000

We rarely hear about motives. Paddock was responsible for the deadliest shooting in American history. We never got a motive. We got a bumpstock ban which was deemed unconstitutional

New comment by Whoppertime in "Postal traffic to US down by over 80% amid tariffs, UN says"

Whoppertime — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 16:50:41 +0000

The decline of international traffic to Las Vegas from places like Canada are more noticeable

New comment by Whoppertime in "Purikura: The Japanese Grandmother of the Selfie"

Whoppertime — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 16:46:23 +0000

I remember Sonny Onoo, Eric Bischoff's friend at WCW was taking credit for inventing the Selfie