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New comment by sirshmooey in "Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production"

sirshmooey — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 16:18:15 +0000

Congratulations, you've rewired the metaphor.

New comment by sirshmooey in "Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production"

sirshmooey — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 15:56:59 +0000

Probably a better question for Elon's harem of birth-mothers

New comment by sirshmooey in "Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production"

sirshmooey — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 15:40:35 +0000

Have fun driving a Scarlet Letter, bro.

New comment by sirshmooey in "Jason Arday, ex-Cambridge professor at centre of plagiarism row, found dead"

sirshmooey — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 03:49:25 +0000

Don't construct worldviews from internet comments

New comment by sirshmooey in "Trump announces 2028 presidential bid"

sirshmooey — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 18:08:48 +0000

Insane equivalency

New comment by sirshmooey in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

sirshmooey — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 16:02:58 +0000

Can you empirically say internet access improves wellbeing? Anecdotally, my answer is a resounding "no".

New comment by sirshmooey in "Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2026 [So Far]"

sirshmooey — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:50:58 +0000

If those guys are "comedians" then I'm Elvis Presley.

New comment by sirshmooey in "SpaceX: Flying High on Impunity"

sirshmooey — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:35:24 +0000

Try it out in front of your employer. Then prattle on about Great Replacement theory semi-regularly. See what happens.

New comment by sirshmooey in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

sirshmooey — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:38:02 +0000

Predictable, wind-up doll response from the siloed information consumption crowd.

New comment by sirshmooey in "Sam Altman's sister amends lawsuit accusing OpenAI CEO of sexual abuse"

sirshmooey — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:57:57 +0000

The film Magnolia dramatizes just such a character. Her father, the perpetrator, is a well-connected, well-respected TV game show host. She's an isolated, mentally unstable drug abuser. Not hard to imagine which person people are incentivized to believe. You're right, we'll probably never know.

New comment by sirshmooey in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

sirshmooey — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:47:46 +0000

Party balloons along the southern border beware.

New comment by sirshmooey in "A sitting US president launched two memecoins that wiped out $4.3B+"

sirshmooey — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 20:00:35 +0000

His stablecoin, USD1, is his primary instrument for laundering. It now constitutes roughly 1/3 of his entire net worth. Attached article gives a great breakdown.

https://archive.is/4ieKD

New comment by sirshmooey in "ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree"

sirshmooey — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 01:46:02 +0000

That would certainly explain the lack of publicized confrontation. If they were mostly deporting actual criminals / gang members, one would expect more stories akin to the events today.

New comment by sirshmooey in "Ask HN: Dark Mode for HN?"

sirshmooey — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 18:33:20 +0000

I use the Stylus Chrome extension with CSS:

html {background: #000;} body {filter: invert(.95) hue-rotate(12deg);}

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/stylus/clngdbkpkpee...

New comment by sirshmooey in "Secret Deals, Foreign Investments: The Rise of Trump’s Crypto Firm"

sirshmooey — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 14:25:56 +0000

What were their roles in the Biden Administration?

New comment by sirshmooey in "How did they make cars fall apart in old movies (2017)"

sirshmooey — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 05:56:54 +0000

Just don’t look up how they made the horses fall down.

New comment by sirshmooey in "Riven"

sirshmooey — Sun, 19 May 2024 08:50:50 +0000

There are some terrific point & click games on iOS (preferably iPadOS). The Room series, The House of Da Vinci series (superb Room knockoff), and The Eyes of Ara (personal fav) just to name a few.

New comment by sirshmooey in "Disney invented two colors (2022)"

sirshmooey — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 15:15:07 +0000

“Gilding the Mickey” would be an apt description of this article.

New comment by sirshmooey in "Dropped iPad implicated in fatal Rotak Chinook helicopter crash"

sirshmooey — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 15:37:38 +0000

Tangentially related, there’s Eastern Air Lines Flight 401. The flight crew unwittingly crashed the plane while preoccupied with a burnt out landing gear confirmation light.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_401

New comment by sirshmooey in "Titan sub vs. refugee trawler: how much is a human life worth?"

sirshmooey — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 17:07:30 +0000

Precisely, the story of the Titanic is nearly ubiquitous. A fair amount of Americans probably couldn’t even locate the Mediterranean on a map.