At least you can talk about it without being expelled by webhosts, communities, payment processors, etc
You even get invited to cool events with world leaders. Not a bad gig.
Imagine being one of those preoccupied with the collapse of white population worldwide and western civilization in general. Now, those guys really have a reason to be depressed, and if they look for mental health's help, most therapists would probably refer them to the police. If they talk about it, banks will ban them and so will web hosts and such stuff. They're marked and targeted, with harassment and violence, by the police and leftists thugs.
As long as you have a big community to support you, you can't complain that much, even if the world is gonna collapse. Because maybe humanity kinda deserves it.
Edit: it looks like you've been using HN primarily for ideological battle. That's not allowed, regardless of which brand you're loyal to, so we've banned the account. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.
You're gaslighting a legit concern. I'm a foreigner, but the amount of anti-white rhetoric the US media promotes is staggering. Declining white birthrates are openly celebrated. Saying "F%ck white people" is normal and might even help you get a job at, say, the New York Times. Think very hard if this would be even remotely acceptable in other countries. https://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/inline-images/... I dare you to pull off a Sarah Jeong in any non-Western state: let me know how the natives react to this treatment.
No dear, you're just trying to legitimize the 'White Genocide, protect our pure race' Nazi rhetoric by playing the victim. (Nice co-opting of the word "gaslighting" by the way. Very convincing!)
Calling out your bullshit is not shouting abuse at you, and it's definitely not condoning it. And, for the record, people shout "Fuck Muslims" and similar sentiments all the time. With much greater frequency. Often right to my face.
So, welcome to the club buddy!
Edit: Also, this gem: "shouting 'fuck white people!' might get you a job"? This isn't Stormfront, be coherent.
Perpetuating flamewars like this will get you banned on HN, regardless of what you're fighting for. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the spirit of this site more to heart, we'd appreciate it. The core idea is curiosity, and in discussion—respectful and kind co-exploration.
Open the market. Liberalize the selling and buying of healing goods and services. Abolish patents. You can even keep some certification of ability and quality, as long as they're on point (no 6 years training for stitches), specific, free and unlimited in number.
Put current psychopats behind the medical industry under death penalty as a warning for future generations. Seems harsh but they killed hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, and all for unjust profit. They deserve it.
80% cancers cured in max 20 years. No more threads on hacker news about people going around like dogs begging for a decent diagnosys. Stem cells for every need at costco, top quality. Problem solved.
It's humanity being painted in a corner, but it's very specific groups of people doing it.
Most humanity is also not evolutionary trained in fighting issues, but it's really good at fighting people.
Now, if only scientists could learn how to point fingers...
It's not libertarian. The US system is cronyism, statism at its finest, possibly illegal. Honestly, I think with current US laws and a willing political force, a lot of top players in the current US healthcare system could be punished, even with the death penalty (especially if reinstated at the federal level).
Dreams aside, in order to have a free market healthcare, which is what informed libertarians want, you need to abolish medical license, the FDA, patents and many other State's interventions. There is a reason why the healthcare system in the US is insane, and it's because the laws are made so that cronies have the monopoly on your health. Neocons are pathetic when they defend the current system.
Without the free market (the real one, not the scam you have in the US), healthcare will be a mess more than any other industry and at that point is better to have a single payer, universal system, because in the end they have the same problems of the current US system but at least you don't get ruined.
A functioning market is one where multiple market participants exist (both buyers and sellers) and both are able to make educated choices.
How can a market like this exist when the buyer is incapacitated, not to mention even when not incapacitated, the buyer is not sufficiently educated to understand what they are buying?
You could buy the services of an expert in medical decision-making who will negotiate for you when you're incapacitated.
Also, supposedly people aren't total dicks. At the moment the healthcare industry rewards a lot of psychos due to its incentives. Hopefully with a free market the dicks would be weeded out due to increased choices. Also having a free market means that there would be an incentive to make medicine more accessible, while still correct, because more people could be willing to become healers, maybe specialized healers. Who knows, what's certain is that we have not discovered the full potential of humans healing other humans and the current regulations are a big brake on new systems and innovations.
So, for now I'm ok with the whole single-payer/universal healthcare deal.
Or you can just not do free market on something that should be a human right given the capabilities of modern medicine. It shouldn't be left up to market forces to decide who gets help. That kind of makes sense for some things like TVs and laptops but not life and death when for the most expensive items your only choice is life and death.
The State seizes money from productive people and puts them into things that sounds good, like "tourism". This way they create a problem that then they also force themselves in chsrge of solving, seizing even more money and invading the lives of citizens and business
There is no debate about cashless honestly, it's like debating if raping children should be legal or not, except that without cash you easily get to a society where powerful people rule the world (see Epstein).
Those who argue against cash should be seen with suspicion and removed from their positions of power if they have any. I'd say even jail time should be considered when it comes to anti-cash lobbying, using the same penalty currently used by enslaved but multiplied by the total population.
Sounds absurd? Sounds like too much? It's the only way to keep those tyrannical maniacs in check.
When I want to understand something I don't read a book, I read multiple books about a topic. I did this and got quite informed about many useless topics (energy industry, austrian economics, history of science). Instead if I jump topics from one book to the next, I lose basically everything.
Also if you re-read books after some time, you get new insights.
As for programming (probably for anything you treat as a profession), I've noticed that you cannot beat practice, but if the topic is new to you, it's better to read the whole book first. It's much faster because you see what to expect and don't waste time when you practice on stuff that is easy and not as powerful as something else. Also you don't waste comfiguring tools only to discover that the tech doesn't really interest you anyway.
I really like youtube recs. I have different accounts for different interests and the recommendations are always on point. I don't understand why so many people from the media complain. I think they just don't like that youtube recommends non-mainstream channels too.
I agree, I've actually found some really interesting channels through recommendations. Perhaps the targeting is so accurate due to the years of data they have on my 2 accounts.
That said, I recently created a brand new account for my company and the default recommendations seem to be absolute mindless garbage. But perhaps my interests just don't align with what the vast majority of the YouTube-using public are watching.
I've found over the years as I get to be more and more of an irascible old man, that my viewpoints don't align with much as far as popularity goes. And that's okay. Frankly the power in YouTube for me was to look back at seminal events that resonated and transformed my life. It is wonderful for that. However, it's very poor at complex recommendations. If I watch a video about the polar ice caps melting, that doesn't mean I want to watch a climate change denier. I realize this is not an easy thing to solve and that's why it shouldn't be solved solely with algorithms. The same way that copyright claims should have a human touch and not just automatically remove revenue for people on the platform.
Yes, YouTube recs are very good. Scarily good. I don't know why no one wants to admit it. YouTube's loss function is minimized by you spending hours on there like a vegetable. It's essentially self-driving tier tech applied to making you an addict to media.
Imagine being one of those preoccupied with the collapse of white population worldwide and western civilization in general. Now, those guys really have a reason to be depressed, and if they look for mental health's help, most therapists would probably refer them to the police. If they talk about it, banks will ban them and so will web hosts and such stuff. They're marked and targeted, with harassment and violence, by the police and leftists thugs.
As long as you have a big community to support you, you can't complain that much, even if the world is gonna collapse. Because maybe humanity kinda deserves it.