<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: intermerda</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=intermerda</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:44:05 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=intermerda" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by intermerda in "DOGE Track"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If the list of crimes and improprieties of this administration were ranked by their severity, this one will surely get a 5-digit rank.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:50:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47076697</link><dc:creator>intermerda</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47076697</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47076697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by intermerda in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I tried this through OpenRouter. GLM5, Gemini 3 Pro Preview, and Claude Opus 4.6 all correctly identified the problem and said Drive. Qwen 3 Max Thinking gave the Walk verdict citing environment.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 07:03:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47031774</link><dc:creator>intermerda</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47031774</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47031774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by intermerda in "FDA declines to review Moderna's mRNA flu shot"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The study was on people age 50+,<p>So?<p>> In the US for adults 65+ (a key high-risk group in the trial), the ACIP preferentially recommends higher-antigen or adjuvanted options like Sanofi, Seqirus adjuvanted, recombinant high-antigen Flublok, etc as the "best-available standard of care",<p>Did this recommendation come before or after RFK Jr. fired all members of the ACIP and replaced them with his hand-picked choices? I suspect you already know the answer.<p>> * The "standard flu shot" Moderna used is likely not one of the above, or they would have said so<p>They didn't have to. The FDA told them they could continue to use standard flu shot if they wanted to as long as some statements were included in consent forms.<p>> The idea here is to see if the new shot is meaningfully better than the best existing/approved option for the target demographic, not to see if it's better than a standard shot you give a healthy 20-year-old.<p>No that's not the idea at all.<p>> All-in-all feels like a nothingburger.<p>No, it's not a nothingburger. It's a systematic assault on science and medicine.</p>
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<p>What an incredibly shitty comment which is wrong on so many levels. You are the type of person who believes that Oskar Schindler should have been shot to death for breaking the "law" rather than being celebrated.</p>
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<p>"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."</p>
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<p>Yes, I did not want to copy paste the entire site. You did not post the full definition either and clipped a part of it as well.<p>> You clipped the first part while the definition was a lot longer including the above TSA can do anything they want escape hatch. Have a good day sir.<p>Your interpretation that TSA can "do anything they want to" just because the administrator can approve additional methods is grossly incorrect.<p>Have a good one.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:26:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46873987</link><dc:creator>intermerda</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46873987</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46873987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by intermerda in "The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You seem to be under the impression that the word "screening" means TSA can do whatever it wants. When in fact, if you click on the link under the word "Screening" in the own link you posted, there is a definition provided.<p>> (4) Screening defined .— In this subsection the term “screening” means a physical examination or non-intrusive methods of assessing whether cargo poses a threat to transportation security.<p>You should consider reading what you posted.</p>
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<p>David if you're going to advertise your blog on Hacker News, you might consider not putting the post behind a paywall, especially for an issue as important as this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:58:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46832131</link><dc:creator>intermerda</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46832131</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46832131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by intermerda in "Google DeepMind Staffers Ask Leaders to Keep Them 'Physically Safe' from ICE"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> What concentration camp?<p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will" rel="nofollow">https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-...</a><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-detentions-immigrant-kids-family-separations" rel="nofollow">https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-detentions-immigrant-...</a><p><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/27/us-witnessed-many-ice-related-deaths-in-2026-here-are-their-stories" rel="nofollow">https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/27/us-witnessed-many-i...</a><p><a href="https://refugeerights.org/news-resources/trump-administrations-third-country-removals-put-migrants-in-harms-way" rel="nofollow">https://refugeerights.org/news-resources/trump-administratio...</a><p>> They're sending people home.<p><a href="https://www.amnestyusa.org/blog/third-country-deportations-another-cruel-piece-of-president-trumps-anti-immigrant-agenda/" rel="nofollow">https://www.amnestyusa.org/blog/third-country-deportations-a...</a><p>> Do I have a right to just show up and stay indefinitely in any country on earth just because I don't like my home country?<p><a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/04/16/nx-s1-5366178/trump-deport-jail-u-s-citizens-homegrowns-el-salvador" rel="nofollow">https://www.npr.org/2025/04/16/nx-s1-5366178/trump-deport-ja...</a><p>> Obama supported deporting people all day long, especially criminals, but now believing the existence of borders supposedly makes one "MAGA."<p>Ignorance, wilful lying, no respect for due process, support for illegal state-sponsored terrorism, lack of empathy are some of the things that makes one MAGA. Not belief in the existence of borders.</p>
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<p>> Some innocent people get caught up in the messy parts.<p>What's the number of innocents you're willing to sacrifice to get the outcome you desire? Would you be okay if you or your loved ones are caught up in the messy parts?<p>Are you willing to spend 37 days in jail to solve violations of public order like this person did? <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/18/tennessee-charlie-kirk-meme-arrest-lawsuit" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/18/tennessee-ch...</a>. Would you be willing to go further and undergo torture and bodily harm?</p>
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<p>Blind is the 4chan of tech, so in some way you're right. I guess some kind of people might find that "fine". Not me.<p>Perhaps you're one of those pro-Gestapo people? It's a popular thing nowadays.</p>
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<p>The Blind community is one of the most toxic communities out there. It made me sick even before the tech industry had its mask off moment 1+ year ago. Since then they’ve only amped up the racism and hate. I wouldn’t expect to find any serious discussion there.</p>
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<p>Around 2016-17 I read on a well-known white supremacist site about how people like Trump and Tucker Carlson are going to be so much more effective at achieving their goals than someone like David Duke who state those goals explicitly. Not in their wildest imagination would they have expected this level of success.<p>Congratulations to you and those folks.</p>
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<p>I didn't realize it was important to be bored until I read/watched this: <a href="https://hbr.org/2025/08/you-need-to-be-bored-heres-why" rel="nofollow">https://hbr.org/2025/08/you-need-to-be-bored-heres-why</a>. There are some pointers in there that you might find helpful.<p>One thing that's helped me is solo hikes which I've done many times before. I still do them for workouts and use them as an opportunity to get bored.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 07:02:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46389869</link><dc:creator>intermerda</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46389869</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46389869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by intermerda in "How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://newrepublic.com/post/203519/elon-musk-ai-chatbot-grok-praise-pee-blowjobs" rel="nofollow">https://newrepublic.com/post/203519/elon-musk-ai-chatbot-gro...</a><p>> Musk’s AI Bot Says He’s the Best at Drinking Pee and Giving Blow Jobs<p>> Grok has gotten a little too enthusiastic about praising Elon Musk.</p>
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<p><a href="https://archive.ph/ZLqaZ" rel="nofollow">https://archive.ph/ZLqaZ</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 05:33:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46066025</link><dc:creator>intermerda</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46066025</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46066025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by intermerda in "Brexit reduced UK GDP by 6-8%, investments by 12-18% [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do you have a historical example when a decrease in GDP in a country was accompanied with generally accepted increase in quality of life?</p>
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<p>Example:<p>> Parents of Texas child who died of measles remain opposed to vaccine<p><a href="https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/health/parents-of-texas-child-who-died-of-measles-remain-opposed-to-vaccine/287-8230c16e-764f-4edd-9bf9-8e2e3ed37de5" rel="nofollow">https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/health/parents-of-texas-ch...</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fascism" rel="nofollow">https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fasci...</a><p>> 4. No syncretistic faith can withstand analytical criticism. The critical spirit makes distinctions, and to distinguish is a sign of modernism. In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge. For Ur-Fascism, disagreement is treason.<p>> 5. Besides, disagreement is a sign of diversity. Ur-Fascism grows up and seeks for consensus by exploiting and exacerbating the natural fear of difference. The first appeal of a fascist or prematurely fascist movement is an appeal against the intruders. Thus Ur-Fascism is racist by definition.</p>
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<p>And yet, the parent of one such child who died of measles because of being unvaccinated went on video for Children’s Health Defense (RFK's anti-vaccine group) to claim how vaccines are bad and measles are good.<p>The claim that these the religious fundamentalist groups have nothing to do with anti-vaccine propaganda inflicted by MAHA types is disingenuous or simply poorly informed.<p><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/anti-vaccine-influencers-weaponized-measles-death-texas-rcna196900" rel="nofollow">https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/anti-vaccine-infl...</a></p>
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