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New comment by bitroughj in "What happens when US economic data becomes unreliable"

bitroughj — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 18:21:02 +0000

Thankfully, we can totally trust noneconomic data like the census. No biases, design artifacts or legislative meddling there.

Edit: noneconomic not none comic.

New comment by bitroughj in "Jürgen Habermas, influential German philosopher, dies at 96"

bitroughj — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:35:27 +0000

Is that the same as doubting the value of much modern social and political philosophy?

New comment by bitroughj in "US issues 30-day sanctions waiver for purchase of Russian oil at sea"

bitroughj — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:08:32 +0000

Hope we got Zelenskyy to fork over the drone interceptors first. What a mess.

New comment by bitroughj in "Iran tells world to get ready for oil at $200 a barrel"

bitroughj — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:04:45 +0000

Only someone entirely ignorant of history would embrace that reasoning.

New comment by bitroughj in "Willingness to look stupid"

bitroughj — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:59:51 +0000

Been out here lookin stupid since before I wasn’t and yet very few upvotes. Whst does that tell you?

New comment by bitroughj in "Iran tells world to get ready for oil at $200 a barrel"

bitroughj — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:58:58 +0000

That would be a foolish move for Iran, but they seem to be making a lot of foolish moves. Isn’t there a saying about never throwing away the moral high ground? As though they are trying to out-stupid Netanyahu’s man in the whitehouse.

New comment by bitroughj in "Why the global elite gave up on spelling and grammar"

bitroughj — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:50:45 +0000

Wong

New comment by bitroughj in "The Death of Coding Is Cancelled"

bitroughj — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:34:19 +0000

The death of medium.com is cancelled.

New comment by bitroughj in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"

bitroughj — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 22:18:43 +0000

The gym is a great way to be around other people without any expectation or commitment. Malls are good too. Grocery shopping. Working at a coffee shop here and there.

New comment by bitroughj in "Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting"

bitroughj — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 22:13:08 +0000

Same, but also for the opposite reason: a new account gives me a chance to do better. If I post lame comments, I accept the lameness of the posts attached to a particular user name and the hesitation I feel to post more lame comments decreases. With a fresh identity, I am more likely to avoid lame posting sort of like how you avoid going out in the mud in brand new sneakers. A sort of repentance; being born again in the digital realm.

New comment by bitroughj in "Lawmakers Want DoD Investigated for Biblical 'Armageddon' Claims"

bitroughj — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 18:54:22 +0000

Most Jews are not Zionists.

New comment by bitroughj in "Lawmakers Want DoD Investigated for Biblical 'Armageddon' Claims"

bitroughj — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 18:53:53 +0000

You’ve persuaded me, Mike Huckabee is not a good ambassador if your goal is not to escalate anti-American sentiment in the Middle East, especially amongst our non-Israeli allies.

New comment by bitroughj in "Oracle may slash up to 30k jobs to fund AI data-centers as US banks retreat"

bitroughj — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 18:47:00 +0000

But Jeevons paradox…

New comment by bitroughj in "Lawmakers Want DoD Investigated for Biblical 'Armageddon' Claims"

bitroughj — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 17:27:18 +0000

Yes, the ambassador to Israel is very philosemitic. Shocking? I suppose if you don’t know what an ambassador is. Ambassadors do not determine policy, they maintain friendly relationships.

Who is more powerful, Ted Cruz (another “powerful” “Christian” Zionist) or Donald Trump? Or Larry Ellison vs Pastor Hagee?

It’s great that people can learn stuff. It’s worth learning, for example, who got us into the Iraq war. Hint: it wasn’t “Christian” Zionists. There are very few Christian Zionists, and almost none in positions of power compared to (non-Christian) religious or ethno-nationalist Zionists.

New comment by bitroughj in "Lawmakers Want DoD Investigated for Biblical 'Armageddon' Claims"

bitroughj — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 15:14:43 +0000

The Zionist influence on our government, is not Christian Zionism. Focusing on that is totally ineffectual and that’s the whole point. Those who focus on that issue are doing it to further Zionist influence over policy, either intentionally or out of useful idiocy. Rubio is Catholic, as is Vance, 100% opposed to Christian Zionism. Kushner is not a Catholic, nor Witkoff, nor Epstein, nor Lutnick, nor Blinkin. Btw it’s possible to be a Zionist Christian who believes in Israel’s right to self defense, but Christia Zionism (the fringe theology) is not representative of the vast majority of Christian’s views. I mean, are Palestinian Christians Christian Zionists? How about Lebanese or Iranian or Assyrian Christians? How about the Pope or Archbishop of Canterbury? Don’t be an unwitting tool of the (non-Christian) Zionists deflection campaign; it’s a shell game.