It doesn't help that most Democrat politicians are happy to maintain status quo. Or they're completely feckless, like Chuck Schumer, who is the absolute King of bringing a strongly-worded letter to a gun fight.

People that are actually leftist don't vote because there's nobody that represents them. Most Democrat politicians are centrist.

And this is my point, sometimes you won't have the candidate you need/want. But you don't bury your head in some kind of moral sand and allow a monster to be voted in office. You bite the bullet and vote for what's best at the time.

Your comment carries some major "Oh you know the ones" vibes.

https://x.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1050391663552671744?lang...

Conservative: I have been censored for my conservative views

Me: Holy shit! You were censored for wanting lower taxes?

Con: LOL no...no not those views

Me: So....deregulation?

Con: Haha no not those views either

Me: Which views, exactly?

Con: Oh, you know the ones

What if I feel terrible for the children, but feel a smug delight over watching their parents mourn the loss that they could have easily prevented?

Then you are a psychopath. I truly feel sorry for you.

If you say so.

I have empathy, but that empathy ends when people are dealing with direct consequences of their actions.

I would argue that wherever you're getting your news from is lying by omission and you have no idea what's actually happening out there.

Alternatively, you're engaging in willful ignorance.

Yes, it's reasonable to want to enforce immigration laws, but ICE has been engaging in outright criminal behavior. Arresting and imprisoning US citizens, denying due process, then ignoring court orders to release them.

Meanwhile, ICE and DHS are lying constantly on their social media pages.

Allowing third parties to open copyright complaints on behalf of the copyright owner opens a massive can of worms and is incredibly ripe for abuse.

I don't even use a seedbox and I've been torrenting for years. The last time I got a letter from my ISP was I think 2012.

I use an invite-only tracker. I wonder if that's made the difference.

Yup, Gaben was 100% right. I haven't pirated a game or music album in ages. Having games that just work is great. An update came out? It's auto-installed. Don't have to wait for the cracker group to put out a new patched executable. For music, Spotify means I don't need to curate a collection and buy individual songs. Yes, I acknowledge that it means I don't own any of it, but that's fine. I'm still coming out ahead compared to paying for $1 for every individual song.

But movies and TV shows? All the studios fucked it up by all wanting a piece of the pie. It became a horribly fragmented market. I'd need, what, 8+ subscriptions to have access to it all? Netflix, Hulu, HBO, Disney+, Peacock, Paramount+, AppleTV, Amazon Prime Video... Other than sports-centric streaming that I don't care about, what am I missing?

It's utterly ridiculous. My pirating plummeted when Netflix streaming became a thing. It returned when studios revoked the licenses so they could put it on their own platform.

I agree with you. I even forgot I used to pirate music as a teenager! Nowadays, Spotify makes it so easy that most people would never bother pirating.

Netflix, on the other hand, was good when you could watch most of the things there. Now it's just Netflix Originals, and it's not worth the price.

Yeah, I feel like this is a case where we should be able to flag the flaggers.

Or at least show them a version of the site that hides political posts to save their techbro sensibilities.

I get why some politics is toxic, but this is so indefensible, it isn't likely to start a flamewar.

You can use the Active HN link it shows flagged stuff

I can, but it's a little backwards that a handful of antis can flag political posts upvoted by dozens of other HN users, with the rarest of interventions by mods.

It would make more sense to just allow users who don't like politics to not see politics. They get to keep their heads in the sand, we get to stay miserable, and the world will keep spinning.

Maybe there should be a limit how many items a user can flag?

By now it should be obvious that YC does not want anything critical of Drumpf on any of their front pages.

Reminds me of a Discord bot that was in a server for pentesters called "Hack Me If You Can".

It would respond to messages that began with "!shell" and would run whatever shell command you gave it. What I found quickly was that it was running inside a container that was extremely bare-bones and did not have egress to the Internet. It did have curl and Python, but not much else.

The containers were ephemeral as well. When you ran !shell, it would start a container that would just run whatever shell commands you gave it, the bot would tell you the output, and then the container was deleted.

I don't think anyone ever actually achieved persistence or a container escape.

> did not have egress to the Internet. It did have curl and Python, but not much else.

So trade exfiltration via curl with exfiltration via DNS lookup?

Exfiltrate what? It's an empty container.

There do exist container escaping exploits.

At that point, you'd be relying on a bug in curl / Python / sh, not the bot!

You do everything in a one-liner :)

> After school specials since the 80s have made pregnancy a horror to avoid instead of a joy to grasp.

I don't draw the same conclusion. I think they've made teen pregnancy a horror to avoid, which is totally fair.

The more complete version of this line of reasoning is (which I've seen more than once, but no links to hand, sorry) is:

After solidly internalizing the messaging of "teen pregnancy is the worst thing ever" & "sex leads to teen pregnancy", there's no "switch" to make those thought patterns disappear without a trace at the point at which it's "ok" (by whatever metric is relevant to the individual) to participate in sex, child-rearing, etc. So individuals find themselves dealing with long-term guilt at having sex and/or aversion to having children, neither of which is "rational" according to their values but which nonetheless is real and affects their behavior.