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> It was always our intention to reveal this until Stella violated her confidentiality clause and revealed this before we were ready... As far as Stella is concerned, she was replaced by someone more talented and terminated for a variety of reasons a few months later.

Odd that they don't know who she is, but they know she wasn't talented.

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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49276111

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Yes, that's what "will" means.

(Nor have you demonstrated this, as you continue to act like doing business with a used car salesman is evidence of trusting said used car salesman.)

Keep winning that battle against unmade assertions, though. We believe in you!

> EDIT: for fun, I clicked on your link

Ah, so you're not engaging in good faith in an actual discussion. I do appreciate the confirmation.

I think I'll take my critiques from people who don't have shit like this in their comment history. Thanks!

Reminder: This thread started when you set the bar for America incredibly low; "well we didn't start it!".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49261093

I would suggest you take your own advice instead of dismissing very valid criticism as "narrative".

> Which is nonsensical, as proven by all your handy stats showing that many, many people, companies, and countries still trust the US.

Hurr durr, yes, it's not an instant process. You slayed the strawman, saving you from engaging with the points everyone's making!

The collapse of the USSR took decades, too. Were they trustworthy? Is the used car salesman trustworthy, or do people just need used cars still, for now?

Hell, you don't trust my links, yet you engage (well, sorta) with me here. Right?

2012, as long as I can bring some news articles with me, to convince people that https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/10/473709316... was, if anything, understating things.

Some of them to protect against us! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Arctic_Endurance (Which, for the record, is pretty new, at least for NATO.)

> they're visiting the US

Staggering dip in US tourism is a troubling sign for the future: https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/25/travel/analysis-tourism-fewer...

> they're sending their kids to school here

https://time.com/article/2026/05/12/us-university-higher-edu...

"Foreign student enrollment at U.S. universities for the 2026 spring semester fell by 20% from last spring, according to a new report by organizations including U.S.-based international education nonprofit NAFSA."

> they're buying real estate here

https://www.newsweek.com/foreign-buyers-flee-u-s-housing-but...

"Foreign buyers continue fleeing the U.S. housing market, with their activity falling 14 percent between April 2025 and March 2026 to the second-lowest level since the National Association of Realtors (NAR) started tracking purchases in 2009."

> Honestly, these discussions usually look more to me like what people wish was true…

Indeed! See above.

There's… substantially more than one chart on that page.

I'll still take "no longer a doctor" over "gets to set American health policy".

I like pancakes and waffles, in other words.

I'd love to see Wakefield go to jail for fraud, nor am I a fan of Charles even if he's on my passport. But Charles doesn't set UK health policy, or UK policy at all.

I think that's a question for the ecologists.

My guess, though, would be that part of the concern is people visiting the site on an ongoing basis as a tourist location, which won't happen with a buried power line.

They managed to get plenty of visibility long before computers.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-50713991

> There followed a 100-year battle between the authorities and an often sceptical, sometimes aggressive, public. In Britain, a succession of laws made vaccinations free, then compulsory - backed by fines and even imprisonment. While riots flared in some towns, there was also more restrained opposition in the form of anti-vaccination leagues. For an increasingly literate population, pamphlets were produced with titles like "Vaccination: its fallacies and evils", "Vaccination, a Curse" and the suitably Gothic "Horrors of Vaccination".

America made one of his adherents the Secretary of Health and Human Services.