Hacker News: eucryphia

New comment by eucryphia in "June heatwave may have killed around 20k people in Europe"

eucryphia — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 09:16:25 +0000

No, EU regulations banning Airconditioning killed around 20,000 people.

Some idiot in Germany posted a photo of emergency nurses wearing chill vests, presumably taken out of a hospital freezer, as an alternative to installing Airconditioners. Freezers ARE ‘aircondioners’!

Even Australia’s Marxist-Trotskyist PM wouldn’t tempt ‘Killing Granny For Climate” internet memes.

New comment by eucryphia in "Poll: Europeans are torn between America and China"

eucryphia — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 09:01:56 +0000

Yes, show the CCP all your IP, that will work.

New comment by eucryphia in "Why Europe doesn't have a Tesla"

eucryphia — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:20:48 +0000

The US Innovates The CCP confiscates The EU regulates

New comment by eucryphia in "Editorial: It's time to step up and have your say for science"

eucryphia — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:16:36 +0000

Excellent idea, stop funding science with taxpayer’s money!

If you want to support your favourite science, get your wallet out.

New comment by eucryphia in "U.S. officials believed Israel was plotting to kill Iranian negotiators"

eucryphia — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:13:38 +0000

While the IRGC works out how to eliminate Jews from the planet.

“First they come for the Saturday people”

New comment by eucryphia in "EU Commission HQ forced to shut down air-conditioning amid heatwave"

eucryphia — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 08:17:53 +0000

Not forced. It was inevitable consequence of EU Commission policy.

New comment by eucryphia in "Do links hurt news publishers on Twitter? Our analysis suggests yes"

eucryphia — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 08:26:01 +0000

Links to paywalled legacy media certainly does.

Like on HN; I don’t bother to click on NYTimes, Gruaniad, etc…

New comment by eucryphia in "There's Something Else We Should Be Worrying About"

eucryphia — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:47:55 +0000

The ‘singularity’, all HN poasts comprising paywalled legacy media agitprop.

New comment by eucryphia in "The 'Resting' Generation and South Korea's Youth Recession"

eucryphia — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:10:38 +0000

Yes, 50% of youth are competing in the employment market, not raising the next generation of children.

New comment by eucryphia in "The dead economy theory"

eucryphia — Sat, 30 May 2026 04:22:39 +0000

When cars got better people just drove faster.

Don’t be the last buggy whip maker.

AI can’t take payment in cash or barter.

New comment by eucryphia in "Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find"

eucryphia — Fri, 15 May 2026 08:16:35 +0000

Or you could buy services from an alternative competing service supplier?

New comment by eucryphia in "In the UK, EVs are cheaper than petrol cars, thanks to Chinese competition"

eucryphia — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:44:41 +0000

“Thanks to CCP money printing”

FIFY.

New comment by eucryphia in "IEA: Solar overtakes all energy sources in a major global first"

eucryphia — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:05:49 +0000

Should it be ‘solar leading energy subsidy growth’.

New comment by eucryphia in "Should capitalism be a choice?"

eucryphia — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 02:21:44 +0000

We had that, it was called ‘slavery’. The United Kingdom outlawed it back in 1834, it’s still practiced in Africa.

New comment by eucryphia in "Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers"

eucryphia — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:09:06 +0000

Can we bet on this yet?

New comment by eucryphia in "The brazen rightwing plan to conquer American schools"

eucryphia — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 03:21:58 +0000

“The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions.” - Friedrich Engels (The Principles of Communism)

“Give me four years to teach the children,” asserted Lenin, “and the seed I have sown shall never be uprooted.”

- Vladimir Lenin.

New comment by eucryphia in "Can a country get too rich?"

eucryphia — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:44:06 +0000

New comment by eucryphia in "The Workers Opting to Retire Instead of Taking on AI"

eucryphia — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:30:51 +0000

How do you ‘harm the world’ by producing something of value that someone else will voluntarily pay for with their own money?

New comment by eucryphia in "In Japan, the robot isn't coming for your job; it's filling the one nobody wants"

eucryphia — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:44:15 +0000

The job no one wants?

Grunting out 2.6 babies before you’re 35.

Who’s paying for your nursing home? Tax the robot’s income? Will your demographic replacements vote for that?

New comment by eucryphia in "Trading Bot"

eucryphia — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:37:22 +0000

Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.

Or build a direct replacement for the Ford Ranger interior rear view mirror with a continuous video display of the same view, when a full size service body is fitted on the back.