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New comment by armenarmen in "Goodbye to Sora"

armenarmen — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 05:25:25 +0000

I got rid of Instagram for 3 years, redownloaded and spent maybe 2 hours watching reels of Italian American family humor. It felt like a trance. I’ve since redeleted the app.

But yeah, scrolling short form is crack

New comment by armenarmen in "Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline"

armenarmen — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 06:21:46 +0000

Mormons?

New comment by armenarmen in "5,200 holes carved into a Peruvian mountain left by an ancient economy"

armenarmen — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 04:06:17 +0000

I always like seeing the desert reclamation stuff, but I always kind of think that the before pictures are taken in the dry season and after pictures are taken in the rainy season

New comment by armenarmen in "Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults"

armenarmen — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 19:20:07 +0000

I don't disagree. It can (thankfully) take quite a while to get around to every dissenter. I also don't disagree that we have to wait for a particular milestone to compare ourselves to China/Russia.

Where you lose me is: > I don't see much difference these days. Substitute wechat for X and that's the US for anyone non-white.

Again, I agree with you on most of your points. But I think you're doing yourself, and all freedom loving peoples a disservice by dividing the victims of this state action. Hence my sarcastic reply.

If there is to be any resistance to state over reach, telling the racial majority of the country that it doesn't happen to them or it's not a "white/euro american issue" is counterproductive at best.

New comment by armenarmen in "Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults"

armenarmen — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:58:42 +0000

I hear this point of view, that mass incarceration is slavery with extra steps. But a (very quick and not in depth) google search shows that the cost to keep a person in prison for a year is $60-100k. And as far as I can tell in the cases where prisoners are laboring, while for admittedly shit pay, its not in $50k/year let alone one where where a profit would be returned for the "owners/jailers"

Now, if you're saying that the slavery comparison is more in that prisoners are legit balance sheet items for private prisoners to collect tax money? Well there is an argument there to be sure. But this seems like a structural problem. The existence of private prisons at all.

None of that is arguing in favor of crazy sentences for non-violent crime, however directly comparing it to chattel slavery confuses the argument against mass incarceration.

New comment by armenarmen in "Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults"

armenarmen — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:50:06 +0000

I'm hallucinating whenever I see an election sign in non-white's yard I guess

New comment by armenarmen in "Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule"

armenarmen — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:21:28 +0000

Arab Bedouin proverb "I against my brother; I and my brother against my cousin; I and my brother and my cousin against the world”

New comment by armenarmen in "Pigeons and Planes Has a Website Again"

armenarmen — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:17:30 +0000

I’m not a musician, but I have referred several friends to SH! You’ve helped them a ton, thanks!

Re the roll of blogs, I’m guessing that to an extent at least Spotify and other recommendation algorithms/bots are taking into account the buzz online and what bloggers are saying?

New comment by armenarmen in "Indo-European Explorer: A 6k-Year Journey"

armenarmen — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:58:33 +0000

Very well done! Seems to miss the now widely accepted southern arc theory https://reich.hms.harvard.edu/sites/reich.hms.harvard.edu/fi...

New comment by armenarmen in "NIMBYs aren't just shutting down housing"

armenarmen — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 04:03:05 +0000

What if next door they put in a combination slaughter house and sewage treatment plant? What if they built a gigantic speaker pointed in your direction?

Or made a home for wayward youths who live yelling slurs?

New comment by armenarmen in "NIMBYs aren't just shutting down housing"

armenarmen — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 03:58:06 +0000

The aftermath of the regulatory capture involved in credentialing and licensing sandwich engineering would be funny

New comment by armenarmen in "NIMBYs aren't just shutting down housing"

armenarmen — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 03:49:49 +0000

I’m sorry, would you prefer lighter cars with fewer (heavy) safety features? I’m not opposed to that with informed consent from the customers, however I’m not sure what point you’re making

New comment by armenarmen in "A web server on a single floppy disk"

armenarmen — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 18:01:56 +0000

Watching the video now! Your stuff all rules btw

New comment by armenarmen in "Downtown Denver's office vacancy rate grows to 38.2%"

armenarmen — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 18:02:06 +0000

Downtown Denver also kind of just sucks. A couple good restaurants sure, but 16th street mall (recently rebranded as “16th St. The Denver Way”) is comparable to City Center in SF.

Whenever friends move here I say “don’t live downtown” and inevitably they do and they hate it.

New comment by armenarmen in "Congress wants to hand your parenting to big tech"

armenarmen — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 23:16:47 +0000

Sure, but is using the full force of the State, in the process tying all online activity to government IDs, really the best alternative to having a harder conversation with little Johnny and Sally?

New comment by armenarmen in "America could have $4 lunch bowls like Japan but for zoning laws"

armenarmen — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 15:56:03 +0000

https://cali-sandwich-pho.restaurants-world.net/menu

$7-9 for bun, and 3.25-5.50 for banh mi

New comment by armenarmen in "America could have $4 lunch bowls like Japan but for zoning laws"

armenarmen — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 15:53:13 +0000

You can get a banh mi for like $5 in Houston

Free Crowdsourced Collection of Cars Owner Manuals

armenarmen — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:13:06 +0000

Article URL: https://justgivemethedamnmanual.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46606225

Points: 2

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New comment by armenarmen in "Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy"

armenarmen — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:58:43 +0000

Anyone else notice the lack of crowds at their gym post new years?

New comment by armenarmen in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

armenarmen — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 03:28:12 +0000

one which concerns me is that the US cutting oil exports to Japan is the reason Pearl Harbor was bombed.