Hacker News: commiepatrol

New comment by commiepatrol in "Ask HN: What's the best way to raise our kids?"

commiepatrol — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:19:55 +0000

Holy shit, this is a great answer.

New comment by commiepatrol in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

commiepatrol — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:29:10 +0000

We were just in Sicily for vacation and got a new BYD for rent. At first I was excited, coming from US I never tried a Chinese car and wanted to check it out. Excitement was quickly replaced with annoyance, that thing would beep for every damn reason. "keep eyes on road", "you are tired, consider taking a break", etc. Then all the damn safety features that a couple of times almost caused me to slam into another car. After a couple of days, I blocked the camera monitoring me and then would spend the first minute after getting in the car turning off all these "helpers", luckily most of them I could still disable. Camera couldn't be disabled in settings but just covering it up worked well. I thought about getting scotch tape but never got around to it.

New comment by commiepatrol in ""Call A Republican" San Francisco public phone lets you call a Texas Republican"

commiepatrol — Wed, 13 May 2026 22:10:10 +0000

Last I looked, it was something like 60% of CA is Republican. However, places like SF it's more like 15-20%.

New comment by commiepatrol in "The Price of Marriage in Switzerland"

commiepatrol — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:11:37 +0000

https://archive.is/L9RC0

New comment by commiepatrol in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

commiepatrol — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:48:38 +0000

Came here to say this

New comment by commiepatrol in "Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents"

commiepatrol — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:51:53 +0000

Isn't democracy "for the people by the people". Majority = more people. I guess "bad" majority shouldn't get a say?

New comment by commiepatrol in "ICE and Palantir: US agents using health data to hunt illegal immigrants"

commiepatrol — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 01:16:07 +0000

Well, they are illegal so technically they shouldn't be getting medical aid here go back home and get medical help. Otherwise, totally fair game to use that data to catch em.

New comment by commiepatrol in "ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data"

commiepatrol — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:50:14 +0000

Even if nobody is telling them nothing is being done about them being here. They need to be arrested and thrown out. This isn't a free candy factory.

New comment by commiepatrol in "Eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland"

commiepatrol — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 16:11:07 +0000

Because most European countries are US vassals. They have US bases on their soil. What kind of a sovereign nation will allow another country's military on their ground??

That means at the end of the day they will bitch and moan but eventually they will do what US tells them to do. Otherwise they'll get the same medicine that Libya, Iraq, etc etc has received for disobedience.

New comment by commiepatrol in "Video filmed by ICE agent who shot Minneapolis woman emerges"

commiepatrol — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 19:03:18 +0000

They are federal police, they have authority, you must obey their orders.

New comment by commiepatrol in "Exercise can be nearly as effective as therapy for depression"

commiepatrol — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 20:33:09 +0000

I read the title as "Exorcise". I'll show myself out.

New comment by commiepatrol in "Unreal Tournament 2004 is back"

commiepatrol — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 23:53:23 +0000

If you want something wild and frenetic check out Chivalry 2. It's an FPSlasher

New comment by commiepatrol in "“Captain Gains” on Capitol Hill"

commiepatrol — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 14:28:47 +0000

Is there like a TL;DR of what I should do to also get 47% better? Happy to copy someone's profile

New comment by commiepatrol in "What you can get for the price of a Netflix subscription"

commiepatrol — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 15:51:45 +0000

I get why the general non-tech crowd pays for Netflix but why people who hang out on here do it is beyond me. Most shows/movies on Netflix are garbage, there are plenty of free services that you can stream anything you want from. Why the hell would I pay for Netflix or any other paid service?

New comment by commiepatrol in "Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux"

commiepatrol — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 15:14:10 +0000

But do they work well, that's the question. I don't really care about the subject much but from reading some posts in the past games play like shit on Linux and Mac because they're not optimized for it with ~90% of the market being Windows.

New comment by commiepatrol in "Microsoft memo advises H1B employees to return immediately if currently abroad"

commiepatrol — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 14:58:55 +0000

Amen, in fact to help the best and brightest even more I would encourage to enforce this for even existing visa holders. Let the world be a better place sooner!

New comment by commiepatrol in "Existing homes in America are now more expensive than new ones"

commiepatrol — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 00:06:41 +0000

Exactly what he said. Older houses usually come with a HUGE backyard and in a very nice neighborhood. New houses are essentially stamps with tiny backyards. Yea it's nice to be in a new house but if it comes with 1+ hour commute and feels like you live in a chicken coop(maybe even a HUGE chicken coop) it's not really that great.

New comment by commiepatrol in "YouTube steps up fight against ad blockers again"

commiepatrol — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 21:25:16 +0000

Wut?

New comment by commiepatrol in "Discussing politics at work: Don't, just don't"

commiepatrol — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 14:04:39 +0000

But how do you prove to people on the internet that they're wrong?

New comment by commiepatrol in "Dating Men in the Bay Area"

commiepatrol — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 14:32:57 +0000

That's one boring ass way to look at life