You don't need to fight armies - just make it suicide to command them. Decapitation strikes work.

"What if you had a time machine and could go back to kill Hitler?" Well yeah, no need to fight all of Germany.

Would the Ukraine war still be going without Putin at the helm?

The logical conclusion of drone war is take out whoever controls the drones.

DOW Chemical was producing Agent Orange, but was getting a ton of public pushback - so bad it decided to stop production, forcing the Pentagon to look for an alternative supplier.

That supplier? A German privately owned pharmaco called Boehringer-Ingelheim. It's Chairman at the time? Richard von Weizsäcker, future President of Germany.

The production site was in Hamburg, is contaminated for the next thousand years. Boehringer is legally forced to operate pumps to prevent the dioxins in that site from reaching the water table. If those did, it would wipe out the full population.

Oh those righteous Germans.

Disclosure - Boehringer denies the above: https://www.boehringer-ingelheim.com/boehringer-ingelheim-di...

Judge for yourself.

NIH on Exposure, AO and BI: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK230789/

Deeper dive on that BI Hamburg site: https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/consumer-health/diox...

Tried many times to explain this to women - cis straight men are not your blockers, especially fathers.

Men who legit see you as redundant are.

"Allies" has been such an DEI Orwellian term.

Same with "racism" - up is down, left is right. Discrimination between Asians? Totally fine, zero attention, can't be true.

Just bonkers how basic history is getting rewritten.

"The great satan USA" has been a slogan since the 1960s. The US dropped napalm and agent orange on Vietnamese civilians en masse - Lyndon B Johnson was what, a good guy?

What on earth are people learning about today?

Ahistorical BS, I am sorry. As if Trump is a radical departure of NORMS. Euros were chanting HO HO HO CHI MIN in 1968 in the streets of Berlin and Paris.

There is a long tradition of anti-American feelings outside the US, like with any hegemon.

The global left had to build walls to keep their people IN, crush them with tanks, from Prague to Berlin to Beijing. So there is that.

HN turning so left is weird to watch, I guess a reflection of PG's stances and moderation/group votes. Well, money does not give a fig.

It solved the long running problems of: a) keeping tabs on people across company moves b) a public, standardized CV

Its moat is the scale of its network. Very, very hard to replicate, massive cold start problem. It killed business cards!

Maybe some AI generated thingy can attack it, akin to Grokipedia vs Wikipedia, but man is that unproven. Zero incentive for users to switch.

HN should rejoice in the US gov using a font that is open and truly cross platform.

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...and man, did Haiti turn out to be a perfect example of Third-Worldism. Ethnocide, ecological disaster, full on regression into a post-civilizational nightmare.

A really cool one is "Camelogia Music Lab" on YT (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCukhXIInQsJrnQwwciw-zuQ), which posts full albums of "bands" that never existed in various eclectic styles like Algerian 70s funk jazz.

The future of music is WILD.

But you click on your profile icon, top right, and voila - extensions!

Can't live without adblock.

So what is it now? Best country or totally behind?

With that, good luck moving to China.

Of course not.

The walls of our echo chamber are made out of titanium.

Youtube will be disrupted by AI created, better content.

Who builds AITube? AITok?

"I opted to be fun in high school, now I get up at 4am in the morning" is fun meme that cuts at the heart of it. Instant vs. delayed gratification and its consequences.

Source: I grew up in social housing, served in the army. Plenty of poor people around.

Awesome.