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307 points MBCook | 4 comments | 15 Nov 24 20:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.442s | source
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Koala_ice ◴[15 Nov 24 20:56 UTC] No.42150928[source]▶
I thoroughyl expect the Deparment of Government Efficiency to recommend U.S. Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) be shut down to save previous taxpayer dollars.
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notyourwork ◴[15 Nov 24 21:33 UTC] No.42151375[source]▶
Am I the only one that is not excited about the next four years being constant banter of this nature? I loathe it. Nothing personal against your comment but the new administration hasn't even gone into office and I cannot get away from this.
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hagbard_c ◴[15 Nov 24 22:06 UTC] No.42151735[source]▶
You are not alone in this sentiment. It is beyond the pale that the denizens of a 'hacker forum' are often so narrow-minded when it comes to engaging those who think outside of the personal zone of ideological preference. The same people who have been yammering about the importance of 'diversity' are dead set against diversity of opinion. Grow up, folks, get outside your comfort zone and engage some of those deplorables, irredeemables, garbage, rednecks, hillbillies and bible thumpers instead of howling along with the masses. Go ahead and try, you may find they are more like you than you've been told by the chattering classes. Sure you'll have disagreements over certain things but that does not make them the evil monsters your moral mentors have been claiming they are. Just... grow up.
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1. Mountain_Skies ◴[15 Nov 24 22:28 UTC] No.42151949[source]▶
Hacker News' eventual death started the moment it joined the hysteria over the Lab Leak Theory. Since then it has trended more and more to be like Reddit, with ideological tribal concerns occupying an increasingly large mindshare. This drives away people who want to have earnest conversations in good faith, giving even more power to the ideologues. It will be a long death spiral but you can see it happening day by day.
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2. tim333 ◴[15 Nov 24 22:42 UTC] No.42152102[source]▶
I'm not sure what hysteria about lab leaks? I mean maybe it did, maybe it didn't.
3. yarg ◴[15 Nov 24 22:46 UTC] No.42152141[source]▶
The idea that the novel coronavirus didn't escape from the local coronavirus R&D laboratory never had anywhere near enough evidence to be credible.

It was pretty much the WHO simply repeating the claims of the Chinese government, who had already tried to cover up the outbreak (with any warnings sent to the WHO coming from Taiwan instead).

It was about as believable as the completely baseless claims that the emergency use authorised vaccine was safe and effective.

4. robertlagrant ◴[21 Nov 24 22:50 UTC] No.42209509[source]▶
I've genuinely never seen "hysteria" from the people talking about the lab leak theory. The closest I've seen is from people who were extremely keen for no one to mention the theory. Not because of some cover-up, but I think just because that was what everyone was telling everyone else to do, hysteria-style.