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New comment by ycombigator in "The Truth Matters and Secular Humanists Should Defend It"

ycombigator — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 21:06:33 +0000

This example doesn't mean what you think it means.

New comment by ycombigator in "A brief demonstration of my Titanium Cyborg Eye as a flashlight [video]"

ycombigator — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 13:53:06 +0000

Depends.

If you are trying to show a repeatable process, whether that's just DIY or microbiology, a video is dramatically better than an article.

New comment by ycombigator in "Liz Truss resigns as UK prime minister"

ycombigator — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 22:48:06 +0000

I always love it when people turn up to explain why we technically have a functioning democracy.

New comment by ycombigator in "Liz Truss resigns as UK prime minister"

ycombigator — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 22:44:30 +0000

Truss being an absolute moron didn't help.

New comment by ycombigator in "Liz Truss resigns as UK prime minister"

ycombigator — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 22:43:24 +0000

The problem isn't full support, it's active hostility of those who are "loyal" to Johnson.

New comment by ycombigator in "Liz Truss resigns as UK prime minister"

ycombigator — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 21:13:28 +0000

It wasn't all coal mining.

We lost over 2 million manufacturing jobs at the beginning of the 80s.

The hate of Thatcher, imo, was less about "the country" and more directly about the impact on people's communities and direct personal relationships.

But looking back, Thatcher tactics were at times borderline fascist.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/03/miners...

New comment by ycombigator in "Liz Truss resigns as UK prime minister"

ycombigator — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 15:25:02 +0000

Erm, no they don't.

New comment by ycombigator in "Liz Truss resigns as UK prime minister"

ycombigator — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 15:20:43 +0000

I grew up under Thatcher in 80s Britain (also 70's but too young to see it).

Britain's problem with labour unrest was rooted in other problems. Ironically, one being a problem we are seeing again now - massive inflation.

Yes, you can definitely 'solve' the problem of industry strikes by completely destroying the industry involved.

That's one option.

New comment by ycombigator in "Liz Truss resigns as UK prime minister"

ycombigator — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 15:07:41 +0000

Looking from the outside, I think US political discourse IS far more hostile.

Britain won't accept things like Politicians being harassed, or one politician calling for other politicians to be harassed (and that's before we even get to anything Trump related).

And the amount of references I see to "civil war" when wandering across anything relating to US politics (i.e. not zero) is disturbing.

New comment by ycombigator in "Liz Truss resigns as UK prime minister"

ycombigator — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 14:47:36 +0000

Looking at American politics from the outside, I feel like (in most cases), you're lucky if your elected representatives know how to spell the names of common vegetables and know that the US doesn't share a border with Afghanistan.

New comment by ycombigator in "Liz Truss resigns as UK prime minister"

ycombigator — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 14:40:49 +0000

I think you need to read more into Thatcher and what happened under her to understand why some sections of society reacted like this.

I don't know a huge amount about Regan, but I doubt you can really compare them.

Britain in the late 70s and early 80s had huge issues which Thatcher addressed, but in hugely contentious ways, in some cases destroying entire industries and their communities.

The structural impact of some choices she made are still present in British society even now, decades later.

New comment by ycombigator in "Welcome to 2030: I Own Nothing, Have No Privacy and Life Has Never Been Better"

ycombigator — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 23:21:08 +0000

Some people still own things, just not you.

New comment by ycombigator in "Does Valve support Russian aggression against Ukraine?"

ycombigator — Sun, 01 May 2022 11:13:21 +0000

There is a post on Reddit related to this with a load of examples of a worrying stance.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/ufvjmj/comment/i6w...

New comment by ycombigator in "Americans’ views on the war reveal a striking generational divide"

ycombigator — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 20:12:30 +0000

Russia has about 150M people. Ukraine has about 50M.

If Ukraine refuse to cooperate with Russia and fight a guerrilla war, there is absolutely no way they can hold the whole country.

New comment by ycombigator in "Avalanche Energy – Fusion power you can hold in your hands"

ycombigator — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 19:31:48 +0000

Press 'X' to doubt.

New comment by ycombigator in "Google cancels Google Play publisher account and ends family’s source of income"

ycombigator — Sun, 27 Mar 2022 23:43:12 +0000

Does it though...

New comment by ycombigator in "Lawmakers Drink Raw Milk to Celebrate Legality, Become Immediately Sick (2016)"

ycombigator — Sat, 26 Mar 2022 07:52:10 +0000

I've drunk fresh raw milk.

In my singular, ancedotal experience, nothing happened.

Onviously that means everything is fine, and we should all be drinking it, all day every day.

New comment by ycombigator in "Russian Ruble just lost ~30% of its value"

ycombigator — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 02:57:49 +0000

The US may not care about Ukraine, but I assure you that Europe does.

New comment by ycombigator in "U.S. says it will not send officials to Beijing Winter Olympics"

ycombigator — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 21:06:31 +0000

'We have had a second videocall with Peng Shuai' levels of corruption.

New comment by ycombigator in "Ex-Google workers sue company, saying it betrayed 'Don't Be Evil' motto"

ycombigator — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 23:24:16 +0000

We're here talking about it though.