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New comment by jvandreae in "The Disappearance of the Public Bench"

jvandreae — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:40:07 +0000

> It's amazing how much leftist discourse is just them pretending not to understand things, thus making discourse impossible. > https://x.com/MillennialWoes/status/1893134391322308918

Hyper-Novelty (2023)

jvandreae — Wed, 06 May 2026 17:42:31 +0000

Article URL: https://silasvanburen.substack.com/p/hyper-novelty

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039125

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New comment by jvandreae in "RAM prices are forcing companies to choose higher prices, worse specs, or both"

jvandreae — Wed, 06 May 2026 17:31:51 +0000

> they successfully export the social contradictions of mass production

Because the West used to have tons of manufacturing and unusually large amounts of social unrest? Shitholes are gonna shithole. No one is stopping them from being the next South Korea or Singapore (if they really wanted it, lol) except themselves.

New comment by jvandreae in "Pass-Through of Tariffs: Evidence from European Wine Imports"

jvandreae — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 22:41:28 +0000

> At most, they'll last until the end of Trump's presidency

Eh, you don't think Vance will keep them going when he wins in 28? I do agree that the uncertainty is an issue.

New comment by jvandreae in "Florida public universities to pause hiring new H-1B workers"

jvandreae — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 21:03:33 +0000

We don't want any more immigrants, and we don't care whether they contribute or not.

New comment by jvandreae in "The Pentagon is making a mistake by threatening Anthropic"

jvandreae — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 21:35:24 +0000

Ah, yes, the Orwellian newspeak that is the phrase "Department of Defense" is something worth protecting. What next, the Ministry of Truth?

I don't really give any weight to what a leftist considers a vice or a virtue.

New comment by jvandreae in "The normalization of corruption in organizations (2003) [pdf]"

jvandreae — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:21:58 +0000

I - and thankfully, it appears, the current administration - don't accept your definition of who is "my countrymen".

> losers and crybabies

Luckily, for now, at least, it appears to be your side that is losing and crying.

New comment by jvandreae in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

jvandreae — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:00:55 +0000

Ah, yes, just like he hates Japan and Italy for being run by women.

New comment by jvandreae in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

jvandreae — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:34:43 +0000

> American men feel entitled to women, as from birth they’re told that they are.

Outside of lower-class men (who tend to have more machismo/less to lose) and presumably unusually attractive men (who can get away with it), I have literally never heard anyone express this even once. Maybe lay off the smut?

> Women know this, and (rightly!) hate it, and thus some of them pull away from relationships with men — or with entitled men

You absolutely should not engage with "entitled" men, insofar as they aren't a figment of your imagination.

> Men are, by far, the more emotional / hysterical sex

Lol, you are projecting again.

New comment by jvandreae in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

jvandreae — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 23:58:41 +0000

IME, women are overwhelmingly more entitled (in a general sense) than men, sorry.

Sure, women having to deal with a few "entitled" "predators" sucks and we should do something about that but the vast majority of men have no such entitlement - although obviously this is different in the context of a marriage.

There have always been certain rights granted to and duties expected from men and women. Leftism and feminism have weakened the expectations placed on women (and to a lesser extent men) and now the scales are unbalanced.

New comment by jvandreae in "Privilege is bad grammar"

jvandreae — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 22:50:34 +0000

I believe this is touched upon in https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/22/right-is-the-new-left/

New comment by jvandreae in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

jvandreae — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:27:32 +0000

Female/leftist projection at its finest. There is no single group more entitled than the AWFL.

New comment by jvandreae in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

jvandreae — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:17:46 +0000

The simple fact is that values are partially heritable, and if you believe your values to be superior (you should!) then having children and encouraging people who share those values to have children is a good way to propagate those values. This works for ~any set of values.

New comment by jvandreae in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

jvandreae — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 23:43:05 +0000

The past is a foreign country. I do not believe "quality of life" in economic terms is a sufficient explanation. The simple Darwinian fact is that, if your culture did not value reproduction sufficiently, through whatever means, it would not have survived to the present. Remember, infanticide was widely practiced historically, and while not as convenient as birth control, provides a significant fraction of the same "benefit".

I do find it a bit ironic that "free child slave labor" is considered a better reason to have kids these days than, say, ancestor worship or nietzschean vitalism.

New comment by jvandreae in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

jvandreae — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 23:12:45 +0000

> unchecked climate change is going to mean for kids born today

No amount of climate change today could compare with the threat of war and famine in the past, and yet they still had kids.

Louise Perry even goes so far as to hypothesize that the distinct lack of threat contributes to low fertility, under the term "mortality salience": https://x.com/Louise_m_perry/status/2014296167262126192

New comment by jvandreae in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

jvandreae — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:57:38 +0000

> The good part is spawning another entity which has to slog through mindless work and consumption cycle, (experience the misery of aging, wither and die) - just so you can feel good about yourself?

The future belongs to those who show up. I do wonder what percentage of antinatalism is simply mate/fertility suppression. The rest being "mad at God for the crime of being", of course.

New comment by jvandreae in "Semaglutide improves knee osteoarthritis independant of weight loss"

jvandreae — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:37:30 +0000

That article seems a bit misleading. While some sweetener packets, such as equal and splenda contain some sugar, I don't believe this is necessarily true when they are used in other products. A quick google implies that, for example, Diet Coke (my beloved) does not contain any real sugar, only aspartame. So it seems disingenuous to compare the metabolic impact of a sugar/aspartame blend to pure aspartame.

New comment by jvandreae in "Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts"

jvandreae — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 21:17:51 +0000

The problem with docker is less the containerization and more the half-baked build system.

New comment by jvandreae in "The Origins of Wokeness"

jvandreae — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 00:37:23 +0000

"Progress for the tick is not progress for the dog."

> These are the same individuals who empower fascists—whether in the US, Germany, Argentina, or Italy

Correct, madame.

New comment by jvandreae in "The Origins of Wokeness"

jvandreae — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 23:30:16 +0000

Yep, just the age-old trick of creating a problem and then selling an ineffective solution. Unbounded profit!