Hacker News: sudden_dystopia

New comment by sudden_dystopia in "Pornhub prepares to block five more states rather than check IDs"

sudden_dystopia — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 11:55:38 +0000

Do you really think they give a damn about privacy? If they care so much about privacy, wouldn’t they also be proclaiming how their website doesn’t track you and gobble identifying data? Or is it they are just hiding behind that argument because it sounds noble and their real concern is a business one?

Also, how secure do you think the state systems are that provide those ID’s?

New comment by sudden_dystopia in "Are commercial "third places" a dying breed?"

sudden_dystopia — Wed, 22 May 2024 12:47:33 +0000

Those places cost a lot of money to facilitate. They need to be cleaned and maintained. They require larger bathroom facilities due to the lengths of stays which also need to be cleaned and maintained. They need to pay people to do that. I fully understand that most wages aren’t enough to live on, but this is a direct effect of minimum wage laws. We can have living wages or we can have nice things at the expense of others essentially. But we really can’t have both and I am getting sick and tired of all the gd whining.

New comment by sudden_dystopia in "Haunting photos of the bison extermination in 19th century America"

sudden_dystopia — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 18:27:32 +0000

Just imagine those bison’s carbon footprint.

New comment by sudden_dystopia in "Boeing's Dead Whistleblower Spoke the Truth"

sudden_dystopia — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:34:34 +0000

You act like nobody has ever conspired to do anything immoral before, like it’s some completely outlandish thing. History is rife with conspiracy. Maybe this guy did kill himself, but your attitude is quite unserious and ignorant.

New comment by sudden_dystopia in "Chicken Sexing and Knowing"

sudden_dystopia — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 12:39:50 +0000

I under that factory farming is absolutely ugly and there is a lot of low hanging fruit in how to improve it. But I never understand the extremist philosophy that no one should eat chickens or raise them in their back yard for eggs. Chickens simply don’t exist in the wild and are very far removed from the jungle fowl from which they came so long ago. If we stopped eating and raising them, they would go extinct. Is it better for a species to live in often poor conditions or to not exist entirely?

New comment by sudden_dystopia in "Chicken Sexing and Knowing"

sudden_dystopia — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 12:30:56 +0000

There are certain “sex linked” breeds of chickens that it is obvious whether a new born chick is male or female as they will be either color a or color b. We raise chickens for eggs and got stuck with a couple roosters before we decided to only purchase sex linked chicks going forward.

New comment by sudden_dystopia in "We've Been Treating Concussions All Wrong"

sudden_dystopia — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 19:26:29 +0000

I got smoked in the temple by a knee during jiu jitsu. I felt immediate pain that immediately subsided. No sypmtoms, so I kept rolling. When I got home, I realized that was pretty stupid and I started remembering hearing about people dying from minor blows to the temple. I stayed up late to make sure I was ok but still no headache or any symptoms. After several days of no symptoms, I eventually got a mild tension like headache that lasted for 3 weeks and felt generally run down, like I had just woken up all the time. And then I was fine. Long story short, head injuries are bizarre.

New comment by sudden_dystopia in "Class Action Against General Motors LLC, OnStar LLC, LexisNexis Risk Solutions [pdf]"

sudden_dystopia — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 15:13:24 +0000

Buried in the complaint is an interesting part about why he lost his original insurance carrier, they stopped writing policies in FL. The personal injury lawyers in Florida are out of control. There are also a ton of staged accident rings that nobody is doing anything about. I’m surprised any insurance carriers exist in that state anymore.

New comment by sudden_dystopia in "New York disbars infamous copyright troll"

sudden_dystopia — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 15:04:07 +0000

I try not to be hateful but dealing with attorneys every day will make you truly despise their profession. This brightened my day. Now if we could only disbar a couple million more.

New comment by sudden_dystopia in "Lawyers who voided Elon Musk's pay as excessive want $6B fee"

sudden_dystopia — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 18:08:37 +0000

I despise lawyers.

New comment by sudden_dystopia in "Why jalapeño peppers are less spicy (2023)"

sudden_dystopia — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 22:22:36 +0000

I don’t like more than a little spicy but I discovered that if you stand the jalapeño up and cut vertical panels leaving the core and seeds behind, they are essentially just sweet peppers with a little kick. It seems that almost all of the heat is in the seeds and the plith.

New comment by sudden_dystopia in "Vice website is shutting down"

sudden_dystopia — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 14:42:47 +0000

Good riddance

New comment by sudden_dystopia in "Nine US states are teaming up to accelerate the adoption of heat pumps"

sudden_dystopia — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 19:04:29 +0000

Pipes freeze and burst, whole house has to stay warm. It’s not just about comfort or safety.

New comment by sudden_dystopia in "Better Call GPT: Comparing large language models against lawyers [pdf]"

sudden_dystopia — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 16:19:49 +0000

Yea it’s their ability to manipulate language and people to bend the letter of the law to suit their specific cases regardless of any long term potential societal harm.

New comment by sudden_dystopia in "Car insurance in America is too cheap"

sudden_dystopia — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 18:21:57 +0000

No it is not. Insurance companies get a bad rap, some of it deserved. But you would be absolutely shocked at the amount of exaggerated injury claims and the amount of fraud encouraged by lawyers and doctors.

New comment by sudden_dystopia in "Never Retire"

sudden_dystopia — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 20:24:10 +0000

Less forceful but the real title sounds more like a desperate plea from Klaus Schwab.

New comment by sudden_dystopia in "Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth"

sudden_dystopia — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 20:17:11 +0000

The majority community clearly doesn’t will this. This sort of thing only happens via violent revolution. Good luck with that.

New comment by sudden_dystopia in "Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth"

sudden_dystopia — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 20:10:46 +0000

Nobody should even be a millionaire it says. A small house in California is a million dollars ffs.

The irony of charging 20 pounds for this is palpable.

New comment by sudden_dystopia in "U.S. Hiring Accelerated in January"

sudden_dystopia — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 15:17:58 +0000

The propaganda industry is booming.

New comment by sudden_dystopia in "How Will the Golden Age of "Making It Worse" End?"

sudden_dystopia — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 13:21:05 +0000

How can it be both a duopoly and a free market?