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New comment by outoftheabyss in "Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case"

outoftheabyss — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 20:43:21 +0000

I’m British. There are a fair few of my fellow citizens in prison for tweets that would disagree

New comment by outoftheabyss in "Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case"

outoftheabyss — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:29:16 +0000

Your quote references censorship specifically and while there are some creaks in the first amendment here and there, it is nothing compared to the censorship machine running in the UK and Europe.

New comment by outoftheabyss in "Tumbler Ridge shooter's ChatGPT use "more disturbing" than known: reporter"

outoftheabyss — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 21:24:19 +0000

Realism would involve using the correct pronouns. There has been a political/cultural impetus towards ignoring gender differences full stop. Men of course have a higher propensity towards violence, it is society’s/ parent’s role to ensure that is channeled for good, unfortunately, as in this case, a higher prevalence of mental illness makes this even more difficult

New comment by outoftheabyss in "Who Owns 4chan?"

outoftheabyss — Thu, 26 May 2022 23:28:32 +0000

> Website analytics firm Similarweb estimates that both 4chan and 4channel are still within the 1,000 most popular websites in the world.

Would never have guessed.

New comment by outoftheabyss in "FTC fines Twitter $150M for using 2FA phone numbers for ad targeting"

outoftheabyss — Wed, 25 May 2022 23:47:36 +0000

Did the same to me. Refused to give it, luckily I only used it for YouTube, lost the 100 odd channels I subscribed to and my playlists and that was about it. Use an RSS reader now to track my favourite channels

New comment by outoftheabyss in "Long-term benzodiazepine use causes synapse loss and cognitive deficits in mice"

outoftheabyss — Sun, 15 May 2022 00:02:27 +0000

Thanks but I've tried beta blockers and a couple of SSRIs and diazepam is the only thing that touches my anxiety. When I walk in public the vigilance to perceived threat is is what I would expect walking through 1980s Beirut, it's a primitive fear response that manifests through symptoms that are more mental than physical in nature - heart rate and sweating in particular are issues but seem to me to be at the bottom of the chain.

New comment by outoftheabyss in "Long-term benzodiazepine use causes synapse loss and cognitive deficits in mice"

outoftheabyss — Sat, 14 May 2022 23:25:35 +0000

Agreed, I have pretty bad social anxiety with hypervigilance. Taking on average 3 5mg (occasionally a 10mg dose) tablets a week when needed for presentations or meetings with more weight allows me to keep my job.

Even such a small dose I feel restores a sense of normality that I haven't experienced in over 10 years without them, I'm able to rationalise what I want to say, conversation flows, I feel in control. With all that said, I've been doing this for a while and have never come close to addiction and no noticeable side effects. I continue to work on the underlying causes but without them I would be much worse off.

New comment by outoftheabyss in "Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2022 Results"

outoftheabyss — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 21:05:37 +0000

and on safari using the Wipr extension from the Mac app store

New comment by outoftheabyss in "UK Government Officials Infected with Pegasus"

outoftheabyss — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 01:31:31 +0000

I watched the first 15 minutes of this and what shocked me is how unrevealing it was. If someone recorded me over the course of weeks or months, I would almost certainly say something that would land me in hot water in some sense. This piece of 'investigative journalism' I actually found embarrassing, all this editing to big it up as some major conspiracy when to me, in that 15 mins at least, was at worst run of the mill lobbying. Considering how unsavoury a character Corbyn was, I actually found the subjects incredibly restrained, perhaps part of the JD however.

New comment by outoftheabyss in "Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private"

outoftheabyss — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 19:31:19 +0000

Always a good barometer of the merits of an idea

New comment by outoftheabyss in "John von Neumann thought he had the answers"

outoftheabyss — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 13:19:58 +0000

This is silly. Not all 267k will be aware of their IQ being in the top 1/30k and fewer again will have any interest in joining.

New comment by outoftheabyss in "Leidenfrost Effect"

outoftheabyss — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 21:37:07 +0000

I assume this relates to the viral video on Reddit with the guy waving his hand across a stream of molten lava

New comment by outoftheabyss in "Apple Fitness+ introduces new workouts, trainers, and Time to Walk guest"

outoftheabyss — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 18:16:43 +0000

I would add routines to that list. Right now they are just isolated workouts that don’t belong to a wider programme

New comment by outoftheabyss in "Chrome Used 10x More RAM Than Safari on macOS Big Sur in Recent Test"

outoftheabyss — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 19:01:06 +0000

It’s not so much memory management, it’s battery that is a significant benefactor when using safari in my experience; of course only relevant using MacBook on the go. I do find chrome more sluggish on my 2015 5k iMac as well

New comment by outoftheabyss in "EU vaccine rollout severely lags behind"

outoftheabyss — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 22:04:54 +0000

You keep repeating the same claim in this thread, a claim that runs counter to citations you are provided with and here you are, yet to provide any reliable sources of your own

New comment by outoftheabyss in "2020 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Letter [pdf]"

outoftheabyss — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 15:06:42 +0000

Is Buffett really still the gold standard, Berkshire has been outdone by the s and p 10 year rolling average over the last evade and that was true before the pandemic.

I get that 20% annual returns aren’t sustainable as you get into managing hundreds of billions but it seems to me the make up of the market has changed dramatically over the 2010s and Buffett hasn’t adapted or evolved.

New comment by outoftheabyss in "EU says UK, U.S. have vaccine export bans, EU allows exports of Pfizer, Moderna"

outoftheabyss — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 20:45:58 +0000

> had systems in place that effectively blocked the export of COVID-19 vaccines

You mean contracts courted and signed months in advance of you pulling your finger out?

New comment by outoftheabyss in "Nocebo effect hampering Europe’s vaccine roll out"

outoftheabyss — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 01:27:22 +0000

https://archive.is/Cv3Pb

Nocebo effect hampering Europe’s vaccine roll out

outoftheabyss — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 01:06:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/02/21/costs-rising-exponentially-europes-disinformation-war-vaccine/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26219329

Points: 2

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New comment by outoftheabyss in "Gates Foundation behind effort to end white supremacy in math instruction"

outoftheabyss — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 18:24:04 +0000

> decries racist behaviors such as the “focus” on “getting the ‘right’ answer,” requiring students to “show their work,” and “independent practice” being valued over teamwork or collaboration.

Focusing on being correct is now a racist behaviour. God help us.