<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: workingdog</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=workingdog</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 09:59:42 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=workingdog" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by workingdog in "New Zealand Navy ship sank off Samoa because autopilot was left on, inquiry"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unless they fit the criteria, we're not supposed to talk about incompetent people in positions of power.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Nov 2024 15:32:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42274510</link><dc:creator>workingdog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42274510</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42274510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by workingdog in "How to raise children with grit (2019)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can prepare your kids for their natural pendulum swing. I told mine it's natural to rebel and do the opposite of what your parents do, make sure you understand, and don't unintentionally swing too far in the other direction.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Nov 2024 15:10:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42256669</link><dc:creator>workingdog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42256669</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42256669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by workingdog in "Tuberculosis is rising in the U.S. again. How did we get here?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>TB was basicallty gone from the US.<p>Until we accepted millions of unscreened people from outside the US where TB was more common.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 10 Nov 2024 17:41:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42101404</link><dc:creator>workingdog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42101404</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42101404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by workingdog in "When you ask ChatGPT "Tell me a story" it's always is about a girl named Elara"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why are we shocked?<p>Computers should generally give us the same output with the same input.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 09 Nov 2024 13:30:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42094309</link><dc:creator>workingdog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42094309</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42094309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by workingdog in "Illegal immigrants are a small % of total immigrant population in many countries"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We're not governed by poetry on statues. If we decide we're full, that's ok.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Nov 2024 15:08:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42042205</link><dc:creator>workingdog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42042205</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42042205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by workingdog in "Illegal immigrants are a small % of total immigrant population in many countries"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's still too high.<p>Illegal immigration often ruins the idea of immigration in the minds of the native population.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Nov 2024 14:47:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42041986</link><dc:creator>workingdog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42041986</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42041986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by workingdog in "Before you can have Smalltalk, you must first defeat capitalism?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The proletariat can rock that soviet tech, making some lips/forth/prolog insanity. Once they're done, I'll simulate it at 10,000 times native speed on one core of my Apple iThing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2024 05:00:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41979530</link><dc:creator>workingdog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41979530</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41979530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by workingdog in "The "child identifies as wolf" story was only ever about bullying"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>TLDR: Other than the child identifying as a wolf, the child doesn't identify as a wolf. And you're a bully for even noticing. Bully.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2024 14:40:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41904680</link><dc:creator>workingdog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41904680</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41904680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by workingdog in "America's Young Men Are Falling Even Further Behind"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>More awesome young men for my company to hire!<p>I used to try and make my team look like a Star Trek crew. Not anymore. Competence over anything.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2024 06:13:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41685286</link><dc:creator>workingdog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41685286</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41685286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by workingdog in "America's Young Men Are Falling Even Further Behind"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nowadays? It's so bad and cringeworthy that my young sons picked up on the STEM girlie nonsense and are actively rebelling against it and running with whatever they have. Leaving the coddled scrubs behind.</p>
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<p>I don't think you can understand the 1960s without seeing her glorious movie, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie<p>It captures the tension of social norms and rebellion and, if one pays attention, the natural consequences of unbridled enthusiasm.<p>Trailer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXA0N55c3iw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXA0N55c3iw</a></p>
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<p>How we treat family members is the most accurate indication of our decency. We chose our friends, so their company is easy. It's when we're forced to reckon with people we don't choose. That is the actual test of our grace.</p>
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<p>I want to reiterate the thanks as well. Updates work so much better than in the past.<p>Dealing with twenty files of this does get annoying.<p>>>>>>>><p>#Fobar Version 1.1<p>======<p>#Foobar Version 1.2<p><<<<<<<p>I'm sure I got the terms wrong. Fix this somehow. I wouldn't care if support was only two years, as otherwise, everything upgrading is seamless.<p>Thanks again for everything you've done!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jul 2024 10:08:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40935107</link><dc:creator>workingdog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40935107</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40935107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by workingdog in "'Money always wins': Inside Sydney's underground tree-killing industry"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You may think that, but I couldn't possibly comment.<p>I was trying to convey that laws should be carefully written, not to motivate people to do things that keep them inside the law yet are still damaging.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jul 2024 22:18:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40893778</link><dc:creator>workingdog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40893778</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40893778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by workingdog in "'Money always wins': Inside Sydney's underground tree-killing industry"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I love trees. I plant a lot of them.<p>I noticed one friendly neighbor remark that one of our oldest cedars was a fine specimen and that he wanted to register it.<p>It got girdled, and I cut it down as soon as possible. I planted three trees.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jul 2024 18:38:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40892260</link><dc:creator>workingdog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40892260</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40892260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by workingdog in "China Cracks Down on Extreme Nationalism and Hate-Speech After Suzhou Slaying"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not just a China problem. Twitter and Facebook seem drastically more polarising nowadays.<p>We're allowed to talk about things that were taboo until just recently: the 3rd world colonizing Western countries, Jewish and Arab struggles, and child grooming, for example.<p>However, many people can then can overgeneralize and it becomes another problem.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jul 2024 18:32:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40892215</link><dc:creator>workingdog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40892215</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40892215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by workingdog in "I would have shit in that alley, too"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The best thing about America is that we'll eventually colonize the moon, and we'll have Americans homeless there too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Jun 2024 15:10:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40837608</link><dc:creator>workingdog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40837608</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40837608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by workingdog in "I would have shit in that alley, too"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Your sunscreen and mylar blankets ideas are gold; I will swipe that idea for our church's packs.<p>We have two items that are not on your list that our church has:  a micro-sized rubber duck for frivolity (cost $.05) and a cheap wash rag (cost $.15)</p>
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<p>It's more of a modern problem:<p>Old-school homeless would shit in the toilet.<p>New school homeless on fentanyl sometimes leave drug paraphernalia. Hence, businesses won't let randos in their toilets. And, therefore, more shitting on the sidewalk.</p>
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<p>Giving people money isn't the same thing as welfare.<p>Ask any drug addict what they would do with more money. Most of them are truthful.</p>
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