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New comment by mbostleman in "Meta exposé author faces $50k fine per breach of non-disparagement agreement"

mbostleman — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 14:20:11 +0000

What’s likely is that she was offered more generous compensation in return for things this. This is pretty standard stuff. What “threats and consequences” are you suggesting?

New comment by mbostleman in "Try and"

mbostleman — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 16:50:32 +0000

Try and is one of my worst grammatical nightmares. It pains me every time I hear it.

New comment by mbostleman in "ICE's Supercharged Facial Recognition App of 200M Images"

mbostleman — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 01:13:52 +0000

> sweeping away due process for mass deportation…>

This is pretty off topic obviously but I see this due process claim a lot and I am assuming I’m missing some kind of fundamental legal concepts. And that wouldn’t be surprising because I have no legal background.

If a person is not a citizen, and they’ve overstayed whatever limit there is to staying while not being a citizen, and if the action taken is to remove the person from the country - what role does due process play?

Proof of citizenship seems like it should be a pretty cut and dried thing to determine. It shouldn’t require a court proceeding should it?

If the accusation was like theft or murder and/or the action taken was imprisonment or fines, that would be a different story.

But this is like being escorted out of a movie theater if you can’t present your ticket.

New comment by mbostleman in "Port of Los Angeles says shipping volume will plummet 35% next week"

mbostleman — Thu, 01 May 2025 01:53:08 +0000

It’s sad that these posts of relevant facts - that are only presented as such, with no judgement - are being downvoted, apparently because they don’t supportive a narrative. One of the things I’ve always loved about Hacker News was how the community was so curious about truth. I guess all good things come to an end at some point.

AT&T step-by-step switch

mbostleman — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 02:40:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZePwin92cI

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43649997

Points: 7

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New comment by mbostleman in "Forum with 2.6M posts being deleted due to UK Online Safety Act"

mbostleman — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 20:59:13 +0000

By Internet do you mean Western Civilization?

New comment by mbostleman in "Plane crashes, overturns during landing at Toronto airport"

mbostleman — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 01:03:24 +0000

I'm not sure what I would be called, but institutionalizing the perpetuation of a particular party using hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars through propaganda, favors, and kickbacks not only domestically but internationally is not my idea of good government.

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

mbostleman — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 19:53:39 +0000

In the 80s, college stations were all I listened to other than WXRT when I was visiting friends in Chicago.

New comment by mbostleman in "CDC: Unpublished manuscripts mentioning certain topics must be pulled or revised"

mbostleman — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 20:31:04 +0000

I don't see how this addresses my point. State rights is the ability of a state to act on their own - not have unfettered access to federal funds.

New comment by mbostleman in "CDC: Unpublished manuscripts mentioning certain topics must be pulled or revised"

mbostleman — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 17:54:21 +0000

Ok, then how does that work, exactly?

In 2021 a survey by the Pew Research Center found that about 4.5% of U.S. adults identify as gay, but when asked what percentage of the population they believe is gay, Americans on average estimated around 20%. Similarly, a study from Britain's NHS found that British youths were 50 times more likely to suffer from gender distress since 2011. To back that up, Reuters worked with Komodo Health recently and found a 3 times increase the diagnosis of gender dysphoria from 2017 - 2021.

So with this context as a backdrop, and knowing that fascists and their money were behind it, did they manipulate narratives to create an impression amongst Americans that there are 5 times as many gay people as there actually are? And did they also create a sudden surge in demand for gender affirming care?

Tactically, how did they go about that? Did they takeover Hollywood? The media? Was their plan to create a narrative that normalizes the fringe so as to ignite hatred towards that fringe? Sounds like a pretty clever chess game.

New comment by mbostleman in "CDC: Unpublished manuscripts mentioning certain topics must be pulled or revised"

mbostleman — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 16:09:45 +0000

>>What we’re witnessing is active malice>>

What do you think brought on this malice? What would cause 99.5% of the population to suddenly have malice against 0.5%? Was it spontaneous?

New comment by mbostleman in "CDC: Unpublished manuscripts mentioning certain topics must be pulled or revised"

mbostleman — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 15:57:03 +0000

I wonder how much of the success pseudo gender “science” had in undermining the scientific and medical communities was attributed to the centralization of science authority in the federal government. It makes me wonder if there shouldn’t be a separation of science and state.

New comment by mbostleman in "CDC: Unpublished manuscripts mentioning certain topics must be pulled or revised"

mbostleman — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 15:36:38 +0000

I don’t think states rights is defined by whether they receive money from the federal government.

New comment by mbostleman in "CDC: Unpublished manuscripts mentioning certain topics must be pulled or revised"

mbostleman — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 15:33:04 +0000

I don’t know about “parties” but political movements absolutely are divided by centralization (or not). Collectivism is literally the centralization of wealth.

New comment by mbostleman in "'No Problem' Word Processor Poses a Problem for Former President Carter (1981)"

mbostleman — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 02:24:39 +0000

“The operator works at an electronic keyboard that returns the carriage automatically…”

Interesting how the mechanical concept of a carriage carried on.

New comment by mbostleman in "Show HN: Map of YC Startups"

mbostleman — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:26:20 +0000

That’s why I’m here

New comment by mbostleman in "Facebook's Little Red Book"

mbostleman — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 03:15:42 +0000

I’m looking forward to when tech is not synonymous with screens.

New comment by mbostleman in "Prelude to McCarthyism: The Making of a Blacklist (2006)"

mbostleman — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 21:41:56 +0000

Yes and it was also an era in which government was willingly made very large and had broad support for doing so. First was the expansion in response to the Great Depression, then again not a decade later for WWII. The fed as a portion of GDP was at its highest levels in our history (at or near 50% I believe). So the line between American economic liberty and communism was not nearly as sharp as it is today. Also there tends to be a misunderstanding among today’s political right that the current size of government is not the historical high point. In fact it is some 20 points short of that.

New comment by mbostleman in "Prelude to McCarthyism: The Making of a Blacklist (2006)"

mbostleman — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 21:34:40 +0000

Completely honest observation, but I can’t tell if this comment was meant to be parody.

New comment by mbostleman in "Ozempic linked to lower Alzheimer's risk in people with Type 2 diabetes"

mbostleman — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 22:04:48 +0000

Absolutely, I'm sure there's all kinds of drugs that are totally safe. And I have no reason to think that this one isn't. But it does seem to follow a classic pattern - people get unhealthy because modern life and technology have removed them, in a period of decades, from the environment, incentives, and activities that have shaped their bodies for millennia. And rather than looking at the simpler solutions - in this case just being more active and eating better - some new technological solution is created to fix the problem that the earlier technologies accidentally created. Then the cycle continues and other non-intended consequences ensue. So that's all I'm saying - it's interesting to watch humanity progress. Hope it works out for everyone and it's a smashing success!