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unselect5917 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:27:21 +0000

HN glazes anthropic every single time I see it come up. This is as obvious as HN's political bias.

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unselect5917 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 03:08:12 +0000

And they are obviously correct as the per capita statistics prove out over and over and over and over and over again.

New comment by unselect5917 in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

unselect5917 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:04:47 +0000

We're not talking about an American criticizing his country though. We're talking about a foreigner.

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unselect5917 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:03:20 +0000

>it’s a patriotic duty.

For Americans, not foreigners.

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unselect5917 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:02:58 +0000

>If what GP claims (I doubt it) is true

Here's a screenshot someone took of a TikTok search for "the uss liberty" https://x.com/hayasaka_aryan/status/1963236545231527957

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unselect5917 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:59:57 +0000

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gz7RO0jXkAAWsW5?format=jpg&name=...

New comment by unselect5917 in "Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI"

unselect5917 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:53:41 +0000

You literally made up something in your own head, put it in quotes, and then pretended I said it.

Textbook strawman fallacy. Twice.

New comment by unselect5917 in "EFF is leaving X"

unselect5917 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:26:01 +0000

It's 90% debate lol

It's the pvp of social media.

What are you talking about?

Hilariously absurd statement.

New comment by unselect5917 in "Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI"

unselect5917 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:25:28 +0000

Well google doesn't publish their ranking so we go with the data we have, not the data we want. Do you have secret unpublished play store rankings?

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unselect5917 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:23:21 +0000

You can tell someone is having a very emotional response when they respond with a strawman fallacy like "a couple of people in Japan tried ranch for the first time"

And that's when you stop engaging with the bad-faith actor:

>Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

New comment by unselect5917 in "Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI"

unselect5917 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:27:32 +0000

It completely took over twitter for like a week and it was endearing. I made this myself (with grok's help) to celebrate: https://i.imgur.com/MG9mUxW.jpeg

If you're rejecting X out of hate for Musk, you're simply missing out on some really cool stuff happening.

The BBQ thing a huge international thing. I learned that the Japanese have a term that translates as "food terrorism": pictures of mouthwatering food that you only get to look at, not eat.

It was a bigger deal than even I'm conveying and honestly heartwarming.

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unselect5917 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:52:04 +0000

This is exactly the reason I used to be almost exclusively an r/all browser back when reddit was worth using. I didn't want a curated feed tailored to my beliefs. I wanted to know what was going on. Then in ~2015 free speech was killed, and it seemed like every new feature added was one that increased censorship. Like post locking wasn't a thing the petty tyrants could do. Now they lock posts and sticky their midwit opinion at the top of the thread, and ban whole communities with racist biases. So I strived to be less of a redditor and quit completely when they killed Apollo & third party apps. No use for the site anymore.

/rant

New comment by unselect5917 in "Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI"

unselect5917 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:42:47 +0000

America and Japan have been discussing BBQ for about a week and. And the Japanese have just discovered ranch dressing. It's hilarious to watch.

Russians recently joined in and, they're fuckin' hilarious in a way that only Russians could be: https://imgur.com/GaTnQk7.jpg

The people who hate Musk/X always out themselves by flagrantly lying about it/him.

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unselect5917 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:21:43 +0000

>So should they make a Truth Social account too?

Yes! urgently! Why wouldn't they? That's where (I assume) the most opposing people are. That should be the most important outreach. If they can get one person (from what I assume) is their most distant idealogue, then who couldn't they convince?

Disclaimer: I've literally never once used truth social.

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unselect5917 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:22:54 +0000

It's the most popular news app in the world according to Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/iphone/charts/6009

Whatever irrational/ideological notions are convincing you everyone quit simply aren't founded in reality.

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unselect5917 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:15:55 +0000

It's a signal of lying, closed minded, authoritarian, sexist, and racist ideologues.

The truth and people telling it fear no debate. Debate isn't allowed on blusky.

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unselect5917 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:13:08 +0000

Because it's completely unfounded unhinged lunacy. Detailed why here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47714636

New comment by unselect5917 in "EFF is leaving X"

unselect5917 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:11:39 +0000

>There does seem to be evidence that X (formerly Twitter) is a dying platform,

Absurd statement.

Check the App Store's news app rankings: https://apps.apple.com/us/iphone/charts/6009

X/twitter is #1. reddit is #4, NYT is #11, Fox is #16, AP is #18, CNN is #21.

That's not a dying platform as much as you clearly wish that were true. The question is why are you so hellbent on convincing people something that is clearly not dying; is dying?

If X is dying, CNN, AP, Fox and NYT are stone cold corpses with reddit having its last gasp.

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unselect5917 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:04:44 +0000

Right now it's the #1 news app on the App Store.

reddit is #4, NYT is #11, Fox is #16, AP is #18, CNN is #21.

The rational question isn't "Why is anyone still using it?", it's "Why aren't you?"

The answer would appear to be emotional/ideological on your part, which is fine, but not very honest to express like this.

New comment by unselect5917 in "EFF is leaving X"

unselect5917 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:55:42 +0000

For something to be an ad hominem you simply need to address the speaker rather than what was said, which is exactly what that comment did.

You're deliberately overcomplicating things to obfuscate the obvious fallacy.