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New comment by faefox in "Adults over 65 will outnumber children by 2029"

faefox — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:13:34 +0000

Or maybe societies could instead make the prospect of having children less onerous? It's not an uncommon story in America that a couple will choose to stay unmarried when having children so that the mother can qualify for benefits like childcare (which, if you haven't had children yourself, is staggeringly expensive when it's available at all).

To think that the solution here is to penalize women even more is insane.

New comment by faefox in "U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio reaches 123%"

faefox — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:58:46 +0000

AI industry profits have and will continue to be privatized while the enormous costs of job displacement (to name just one of many negative externalities) will be gleefully socialized. We've seen this film before.

New comment by faefox in "Advertise in ChatGPT"

faefox — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:07:27 +0000

Praying that this means the bubble is finally (inevitably) beginning to burst.

New comment by faefox in "Briar is in maintenance mode"

faefox — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:52:25 +0000

Give that a try and let us all know how it goes. :)

New comment by faefox in "TypeScript 7"

faefox — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:28:59 +0000

Fine, the Hank Green.

New comment by faefox in "Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS"

faefox — Sun, 17 May 2026 18:43:19 +0000

Tailwind is just CSS so there's no lock-in to speak of and no migration necessary. If you had a specific instance where Tailwind wasn't a good fit you can just hand-write as needed.

Sure, if you wanted to stop using Tailwind altogether you would have a lot of rewriting to do but I'm not sure how that's uniquely different or worse than, say, migrating a project from React to Angular.

New comment by faefox in "Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes"

faefox — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:54:37 +0000

The BeOS aesthetic has aged so well. I'll always wonder what might've been had they not been deliberately smothered in the crib (or at the very least if Apple had chosen to acquire them).

New comment by faefox in "US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war"

faefox — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:37:16 +0000

You can save a lot of time and just say you're voting for the current regime because that's exactly what "throwing your ballot in the trash" accomplishes.

New comment by faefox in "EFF is leaving X"

faefox — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:00:13 +0000

You can tell conservative opinions are censored and suppressed by the way they're constantly shoved down our throats every hour of every day.

New comment by faefox in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

faefox — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:28:16 +0000

Running with ANC headphones on is like driving with your eyes closed. Safety is a two-way street and it's everyone's responsibility to maintain a basic level of situational awareness.

New comment by faefox in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me"

faefox — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:57:00 +0000

Really starting to feel like I'll need to look for an offramp from this industry in the next couple of years if not sooner. I have nothing in common with the folks who would happily become (and are happily becoming) AI slop farmers.

New comment by faefox in "Bitcoin tumbles below $70k, wiping out gains since Trump 2024 win"

faefox — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 16:30:45 +0000

It's a speculative instrument useful for enabling criminal activity and not much else.

New comment by faefox in "Anthropic is Down"

faefox — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:23:09 +0000

No big deal for people who know how to do their job.

New comment by faefox in "Tesla Full Self Driving subscription to rise alongside its capabilities"

faefox — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 15:36:31 +0000

You just know Elon could announce that product, call it "GoldX" and sell millions overnight. He never seems to run out of greater fools.

New comment by faefox in "Tesla fined for repeatedly failing to help UK police over driving offences"

faefox — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 15:19:44 +0000

They're sort of damned if they do and damned if they don't, aren't they? If they make traffic stops for speeding people will moan about how they're just trying to meet quotas or ask why they aren't going after "real criminals."

People just want to drive irresponsibly and they will invent any reason to justify why they're the victim, actually.

New comment by faefox in "eBay explicitly bans AI "buy for me" agents in user agreement update"

faefox — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 15:10:37 +0000

Why not share your own thoughts rather than this LLM slop? Or maybe this is just a bot account. Either way, disappointing to see on HN.

New comment by faefox in "Scott Adams has died"

faefox — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:57:55 +0000

I wouldn't expect to hear back. GP is either a troll or a cultist or both.

New comment by faefox in "Scott Adams has died"

faefox — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:12:33 +0000

Maybe you could share some of his well-reasoned positions with us, then? :)

New comment by faefox in "Scott Adams has died"

faefox — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:11:59 +0000

Social media is a poison and Mr. Adams drank deep from the well. It's a shame.

New comment by faefox in "Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface"

faefox — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 16:18:54 +0000

God, I was so hopeful that you were joking but I guess I should know better by now.