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New comment by green_wheel in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

green_wheel — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:15:36 +0000

No I mean land acknowledgement as in proclaiming "I'd like to acknowledge we're on the land of the..." before a meeting. No one's trying to give up any of their own land or property to anyone. It's always someone else's land somewhere else.

New comment by green_wheel in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

green_wheel — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:34:48 +0000

We're not talking about being completely isolated. We're talking about no limits on migration and permanent settlement. Of course cultures change and aren't static. But these no borders people are just as foolish as the no immigration people imo

New comment by green_wheel in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

green_wheel — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 04:03:08 +0000

> For the vast >95% of human history, if you could walk to somewhere and survive there, you could live there

For 95% of human history we were hunter gatherers living in extremely sparsely populated areas.

New comment by green_wheel in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

green_wheel — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 03:44:11 +0000

No one actually thinks this is hypocrisy. No one is giving up their houses to Native Americans. They do an land acknowledgement and call it even. Even the most liberal among us don't feel it's necessary to sacrifice any meaningful amount of their own comfort to right some past wrongs.

New comment by green_wheel in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

green_wheel — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 03:15:00 +0000

The US is too large to have one monolithic culture but it certainly contains many subcultures on the regional level. I won't dispute they're on the decline though.

New comment by green_wheel in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

green_wheel — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 02:37:59 +0000

Yes that is a great example. You certainly don't want what happened to them happening to you.

New comment by green_wheel in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

green_wheel — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 01:20:25 +0000

People aren't simply interchangeable units of economic output, and when they live together for long periods of time they develop unique and distinct cultures that are dear to them. Letting the entirety of the world into your country without stops is cultural suicide. If you put any a value in preserving culture you will find it ethical to put some limit on immigration. Assimilation is possible but there is a limit to the rate and amount of foreigners a place can absorb before changing significantly.

New comment by green_wheel in "Belgian car salesman becomes prince after DNA test proves royal parentage"

green_wheel — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 19:17:30 +0000

Yeah, people leave their things to their children. It's been happening for quite some time now. You should look into it.

New comment by green_wheel in "The Iran War Is a Whole New Level of Quagmire for the US"

green_wheel — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:00:39 +0000

I see what you're saying. But China wouldn't be just trying to control the strait, they'd presumably be trying to take the island over and willing to commit ground troops. Also I'm not sure if you're aware of the extent of the damage Iran did to US bases on the area but you can count on the same thing happening to any of ours in the region. I just don't see what we'd be able to do other than lob some missiles at them. And we're already low on those too now

New comment by green_wheel in "The Iran War Is a Whole New Level of Quagmire for the US"

green_wheel — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:45:21 +0000

Do you think any of those countries are going to try or see capable of stopping China from taking Taiwan?

New comment by green_wheel in "The Iran War Is a Whole New Level of Quagmire for the US"

green_wheel — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:43:33 +0000

How so?

"They obviously had no plan..."

How does that imply someone had realistic plansm

New comment by green_wheel in "The Iran War Is a Whole New Level of Quagmire for the US"

green_wheel — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 06:34:58 +0000

It's hard to overstate how poorly this whole thing was thought out and executed. They obviously had no plan for what we'd do when Iran seized the strait. This is going to go down as the definitive beginning of the decline leading to the eventual end of US global hegemony. To think anyone ever mentioned defending Taiwan from China lol

New comment by green_wheel in "Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength"

green_wheel — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:52:57 +0000

Yeah the ability to build bespoke apps in a reasonable amount of time is awesome. Cool stuff!

New comment by green_wheel in "Almost no skill required to cook a steak"

green_wheel — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:43:39 +0000

Damn these steak advertisements are getting sneaky

New comment by green_wheel in "A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands"

green_wheel — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:27:24 +0000

It's coming...

https://www.navigate.ai/

New comment by green_wheel in "Show HN: 18 Words"

green_wheel — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 05:44:14 +0000

Other stats you could show:

- average time to correct answer - correct percentage

I think you should leave it hard like this. Make people earn that perfect score. Maybe add a dedicated clear button. Others have mentioned shuffle but I think you should leave as is, it's more challenging. Awesome stuff I'm going to send this to my mom she will be addicted.

New comment by green_wheel in "What Do We Know About the Microplastics Inside Us?"

green_wheel — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:34:48 +0000

Why would those be nova 4? And it sounds like you're already avoiding some processed foods. Did you mean avoiding ALL processed foods?

New comment by green_wheel in "What Do We Know About the Microplastics Inside Us?"

green_wheel — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 03:30:33 +0000

You might want to rethink your position on avoiding ultra processed foods not having any positive health effects...

New comment by green_wheel in "We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code"

green_wheel — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:42:33 +0000

It's $3333/week

New comment by green_wheel in "China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes"

green_wheel — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:41:07 +0000

We need more of that here