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New comment by lookalike74 in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

lookalike74 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:48:33 +0000

Great share, thank you!

New comment by lookalike74 in "The men that take babies away from their mother"

lookalike74 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 22:05:00 +0000

Why point out the couple who paid for the surrogacy is a gay male couple? Seems like more of a dog-whistle than a valid point.

New comment by lookalike74 in "My Blood Pressure Monitor Gave Me Hypertension"

lookalike74 — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 14:02:00 +0000

Thank you for sharing this. I work in telehealth and in the U.S. at least, most patients using these devices have no idea what data they're sharing and who they're sharing the data with.

New comment by lookalike74 in "2600 Twitter Account Frozen over Doge Contact List"

lookalike74 — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 22:19:31 +0000

Also ambiguous would be sympathy for this but not for the many private citizens called out publicly on social media by platform owners and government officials for the express purpose of risking those citizens' safety, especially since most citizens don't have the secret service and endless taxpayer money to protect them.

New comment by lookalike74 in "What happened when REM went mainstream"

lookalike74 — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 06:33:18 +0000

Other than comparing the sales records of two bands, concert attendance, or other numerical measures, it's hard to imagine your comment makes any sense. The Stones and REM weren't contemporaries.

New comment by lookalike74 in "Facebook Is the 'Zombie Internet'"

lookalike74 — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 00:05:48 +0000

Is that really analogous to one of the world's largest social media sites, especially one with AI that knows exactly what ads to serve you and your friends but not that you're dead?

New comment by lookalike74 in "Missing windows discovered on U.S.-bound plane after departing London"

lookalike74 — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 01:22:27 +0000

I love you for this comment

New comment by lookalike74 in "Our Efforts to Bring Competition to TV Helped Create the Fox Disinfo Machine"

lookalike74 — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 22:51:48 +0000

Rupert Murdoch popularized tabloid news as we know it today and Fox News is a reflection of that. They were always concerned more with ratings than facts, and whoever wrote this article is full of shit because the Rupert-Fox-tabloid connection started in the 70s.

New comment by lookalike74 in "Most People with Addiction Simply Grow Out of It. Why Is This Widely Denied?"

lookalike74 — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 00:51:11 +0000

Happy for the author and some good points to consider as food for thought (however lacking in research on key points.) But reading between the lines, if the worst addiction did to him/her was dropping to 85lbs and getting kicked out of college for selling drugs, that pretty much indicates a pampered college kid who never truly worked for a habit and it gets SO much worse than that.

New comment by lookalike74 in "Blocking Kiwifarms"

lookalike74 — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 23:03:02 +0000

Thank you for this comment. The only possible negative here is "Kiwifarms itself will most likely find other infrastructure that allows them to come back online." Cloudflare supposedly being "concerned that our action may only fan the flames of this emergency" is disingenuous at best.

New comment by lookalike74 in "Profiles of people living in homeless encampments, rarely what you’d expect"

lookalike74 — Mon, 30 May 2022 22:20:33 +0000

It's also easy to dehumanize by assuming there are 'archetypes' that can be reasonably applied to people just because they're poor or living on the street.

New comment by lookalike74 in "Show HN: I made a website to search for half loaves of bread"

lookalike74 — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 09:39:40 +0000

Most food banks in the U.S. use tolerances that go months beyond the dates on packaged and canned foods and also take into account the integrity of the cans/packages. Fresh prepared foods like bakery items are repackaged for quick redistribution. Fruits/veggies (which are a very small portion of what food banks get) are distributed according to their condition but otherwise spoil the same there as anywhere else. And larger foodbank systems distribute things to the agencies - where people who need food actually go - using these guidelines and sometimes have the same food storage methods as grocery distribution centers might. Liability is a concern, but more in the sense of distributing healthy, useful food vs lawsuits.

New comment by lookalike74 in "Heresy"

lookalike74 — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 00:31:29 +0000

To disable heresy you'd need to disable personal or moral offense. But it's as unrealistic to think that could ever happen as it is to blame "the left" for reacting to the deliberate incitement and cultivation of prejudice that's so popular right now. People die because of "x-ism" and pretending "the left" are to blame is ludicrous in the worst possible way.

New comment by lookalike74 in "CDC warns of a steep decline in teen mental health"

lookalike74 — Sun, 03 Apr 2022 10:56:21 +0000

The influence of this cannot be overstated. George Carlin said it best... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u-ryuJDTpEc

New comment by lookalike74 in "Fake emergency search warrants draw scrutiny from Capitol Hill"

lookalike74 — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 11:14:38 +0000

There's also massive abuse by police of the tools and information provided to them for non-official purposes. Police personnel that will casually run license plate checks for friends and local businesses will abuse other tools as well.

New comment by lookalike74 in "Shadow credit score could decide whether you get an apartment"

lookalike74 — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 17:24:53 +0000

The yes/no in some cases could allow fixed-income people to be approved when they are short of the required income or credit history because they've never had a rental problem. A lot of fixed-income seniors pay a large portion of their income to rent but have done so reliably for decades, for example.

New comment by lookalike74 in "Google: We Reduced Irrelevant Search Results by 50%"

lookalike74 — Sat, 26 Mar 2022 09:58:22 +0000

...by showing 50% more advertisements and pretending what's relevant to Google ad clients must be relevant to users...

New comment by lookalike74 in "I became the world's most prolific DJ, using code"

lookalike74 — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 23:38:14 +0000

Great question, DJ's mix songs and this person mixed 'every possible 12 note melody combination' they could generate with code.

New comment by lookalike74 in "Microaddictions"

lookalike74 — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 09:47:23 +0000

>Should I add “…and any other enjoyable activity”?

No because most enjoyable activities don't cause you to die or want to die when you stop them. (Or idk... maybe the potato chip marketing the really gets to some people...)

New comment by lookalike74 in "Ask HN: How do you cope with realizing you mostly wasted your potential?"

lookalike74 — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 00:42:29 +0000

Learning to be more grateful for what you have will make selling yourself much easier.